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RTL Télé Lëtzebuerg is the main television channel in Luxembourg, broadcasting in Luxembourgish.
The small television market in Luxembourg led to a unique system in Europe: Luxembourg was and is the only country to run television stations in both the PAL and SECAM. The original television stations in Luxembourg, RTL-TVI (PAL, on channel 27) and RTL Television (SECAM, on channel 21) were this way targeting Belgium and France respectively.
Since laws for operating commercial television stations have loosened up in Europe in the mid-80s, RTL-TVI moved entirely to Brussels, while interest in RTL Television was somewhat abolished due to the success of M6. RTL Television was renamed RTL 9 and, even though its original terrestrial frequency in Luxembourg remains, is now primarily a cable station for France.
In 1984, German language RTL Plus (now RTL Television was added on channel 7.
All these stations carried a program in Luxembourgish, called "Hei Elei, Kuck Elei". The main purpose was to show these stations were essentially broadcasters from Luxembourg and not aiming to be commercial stations in Belgium, France and Germany. When the stations were licensed in their intended broadcasting regions, this program was dropped.
RTL Tele Letzebuerg carries programming from Super RTL in German and magazine and news in Luxembourgish.
The station's main competitor is TANGO TV, operated by Tele 2.
External link
- RTL Télé Lëtzebuerg (http://www.rtl.lu/)Template:Broadcasting-stub