Radio Luxembourg - last words - 30.12.1992

The satellite and shortwave service continued until midnight on 30 December 1992. The closedown night was relayed on various stations, including the old 208 wavelength. The Van Morrison song was the next-to-last record that night, followed by Marion Montgomery's "Maybe the morning".

[@davidfowler384]

Bring it back. I need something good in this world again, and Luxembourg was one of them

[@eddiepetersen5113]

Probably the saddest words that were said on Radio Luxembourg by Mike Hollies himself 30.12.1992, where Radio Luxembourg switched off after 70 years of broadcasting starting from 1933 - and ending in 30 - 12 - 1992, for me Radio Luxembourg still lives and forever, I listening to all the material I have from all time from start to finish every day , Thank for the time , Love forever , ❤ ❤ ❤

[@kensweeney8798]

I used to listen to a horrible reception on my radio until 3am . It was great comfort to fall asleep to.

[@jordanefremov1242]

What a sad moment !!! Radio Luxembourg, that was the most beautiful time of my life. The nights spent with Bob Stewart, with Tony Prince, with Dave Christian , with Kid Jensen , Peter Powell , Stuart Henry and Mark Wesley, with Mike Hollis and Benny Brown, those were some of the most beautiful moments of my youth in R. of Macedonia, as part of Yugoslavia. Radio Luxembourg will live in my heart forever.

[@CorkRef]

Rob Jones takes you home tonight on radio Luxembourg........POWERRRRPLAYYYYYYYYYYYY

[@Lampshade51]

Classy goodbye from one of the most important radio stations in the history of broadcasting and one of the most influential rock and roll stations in all of Europe, with a night signal so powerful it blanketed the UK and got behind the Iron Curtain.

[@seamsgood2me]

Radio Luxembourg was part of growing up as a teenager in the 70s.Tuning in & listening to the station fade in and out, continually tweaking the dial on my transistor radio..The cheesy adverts for to name but a few..Peter Stuyvesant ciggies,Aqua Manda perfume. Sunsilk shampoo..Sass sasperella...Barry alddis being my favourite (Whether at home or on the highway..thanks for tuning my way)...Stuart Henry "ma friends"...Long gone....but never forgotten...RIP.."Ma friends"

[@Agnethatheredhairkid]

+seamsgood2me I remember lovely Stuart with his 'ma friends'. Great presenter, great station.

[@CorkRef]

Rob Jones takes you home tonight....... On Radio Luxembourg .....

[@uptheboro6146]

I recorded the whole last night of Radio Luxembourg on TDK D90 cassettes (remember them). As a child Radio Luxembourg fascinated me because of where it came from. Everyone in Europe could be listening, not just in Britain! Sadly though UK commercial radio played Radio Luxembourg at its own game and with FM reception and stable Medium Wave with NO fading it was only a matter of time before people listened to UK ILR instead and also BBC Radio 1 which had started moving over from Medium Wave to FM a few years previous. The final nail in Radio Luxembourg's coffin was the previous year to this recording when the station dropped its night time Medium Wave service to concentrate on Satellite and Short Wave, not everyone had satellite TV and so the station lost a lot of its hardcore audience. Its sister station Atlantic 252 only lasted another 9 years before closing down too. Had the internet been then (in December 1992) what it is today then maybe Radio Luxembourg would have survived because there are stations that broadcast exclusively online, so it is commercially viable for online only radio. I think though that the closure of daily Medium Wave broadcasts the year before not only lost the station the bulk of its audience but took the magic, the heart, spirit, uniqueness, that certain something that Radio Luxembourg had with its listeners away and it became just another pop station but one you HAD to put the telly on for instead of turning on your radio and listening to your local ILR FM pop station. Luxembourg will always have a place in my heart as it is fondly remembered but it is in the past and for its memory it should remain their. RIP and thanks for making me happy as a kid Radio Luxembourg. I felt part of a special club and as Mike Hollis says, you will ALWAYS live on in my fondest memories.

[@Tripp1993]

+Up The BORO I agree not only what you said about internet radio, but also with the beauty of Radio Luxembourg. It was a great station, but until today, I didn't know about how historic it was. May Radio Luxembourg not only live on forever in your fondest memories, but also forever in all the hearts of the expatriates from the United Kingdom, and away from home, and forever in your heart.

[@MartinTheSmoggyUTB]

Up The BORO I recorded the last night on cassettes too. All 5 hrs of it on 208 complete with fades. I still miss Radio Luxembourg. Also Totally agree. Yes indeed UP THE BORO. UTB.

[@None12445]

Thank you for that, somehow my tapes from that day is gone😭 ........remember that you can hear Tony Prince and a lot of the old guys on www.uniteddj.com/

[@mariajosealemany2415]

Just like mein 80'

[@ewanrenton8846]

@@None12445 UDJ is the finest replacement of Luxembourg....Very sad to hear today that it also will cease broadcasting after the weekend. They gave it their best shot but.......The Great British public are a tad dumb to their radio taste it seems...And so we have to listen to the dreadful dreary sounds of Smooth, Magic, Heart etc with the same 60 songs.... .Now where are my old Luxembourg tapes?🤔

[@guntherwinkel3239]

I did not realize that this radio station is no more. I listened to it in the war year 1944 after Luxemburg was liberated by the US Army. This was of course at a great risk for our lives in germany. I remember one night we listened to it and the power went out. I turned it off and went to bed. well during the night the power came back and a loud voice announced "This is Radio free Luxemburg a voice of the free world... I jumped out of the bed - so did my mom - and raced to he kitchen pulling the the power off. Then we waited with our hearts beating to hesr if any one else in our apartment house might have heard it. If any body had heard and reported it to the Nazi officials we would have been arrested and who knows what else. But it seemed that no one heard or at least didn't say any thing ... until about a month later we had an Official come in and walked to radio and put a red notice on the radio reminding us that listening to a foreign station was forbidden and jail or even death could be the consequences. We thought that perhaps everyone had gotten this warning but later realized that we had been the only one. I am no 90 years old but will never forget this experience.

[@11carbuff19572011]

Radio Luxembourg was the soundtrack to my life growing up in the 1970s. Great DJs and great music, many of the records literally ignored by other stations. Loved some of those adverts as well, Barclays Bank, Peter Stuyvesant cigarettes, Goya AquaManda by Christopher Collins, John Temple menswear, Pepsi, Propa PH, many of them turned up in Fabulous 208 Magazine. As Barry Alldis said, whether at home or on the highway, thanks for tuning my way. I've even got hold of some of the many albums that were featured as the 208 Album of the Week, including 20 United Stars of America & 208 Atlantic Black Gold, thanks to a great friend I have named Claire who runs a local retro record centre. It truly was the Great 208.

[@johnmacleod4481]

We've had good times,too close to tears

[@cyclewithpride]

Bring back Radio Luxembourg.

[@MartinTheSmoggyUTB]

cyclewithpride Absolutely. I second that. And nowadays with every ILR networking and Smooth Heart and Capital just about everywhere churning out the same music day in day out Radio Luxembourg on 1440 at night would be a breath of fresh air. It could also utilise the internet too for those fussy ppl who don't like AM

[@Tripp1993]

And that could REALLY help keep unity between the UK and Europe following the Brexit.

[@gazyounglive]

With EU green laws limiting MW transmitters to 10kw in some places, but 5kw in most zone 1 & 2 states, and the 1440 transmitter site disassembled... there's no chance of an english RTL now. Try the MW dial tonight after dark... compared with 30 years ago it's practically dead.

[@anthonyperkins7556]

Astra satellite delivered Luxy on the Astra 2 European beam via Sky / Freesat EPG in stereo 24h a day would get millions of listeners in the UK and over Europe.

[@riceymartin2203]

The next day, an oldies radio station broadcast on the 208 frequency. The first song, as heard at the end of the video, was the Creedence Clearwater Revival song "Bad Moon Rising"

[@MrKenber]

How Nice to listen to good old memories.i really miss this.

[@ptyb6195]

I loved Radio Luxembourg. As a child in the early sixties I remember hearing " I wanna hold your hand" by The Beatles which got me hooked on that great band. I enjoyed listening to Rob Jones in the 80's and a jingle that went " Radio Luxembourg, Great Britain. Great times.

[@67lionsoflisbon37]

Absolutely Mike, 100% fondest memories. From 80 til Luxy 208 closed I listened every evening and the great nights til Bob Stewart signed off. Loved it. Thanks to everyone involved.

[@paulevans7849]

What great sadness that this station isn't on our air waves today, they should bring it back, it was the best radio station out in those days . It's got childhood memories for me in the 1980's era , my dad always had it on when we was in he's ford Granada , always remember that old radio with the orange line in it , he'd keep turning the tuning dial till he found it.

[@whiff1962]

I lived just outside of Frankfurt, Germany, when I listened to the last transmission of Radio Luxembourg. Bitter sweet, as I used to listen to the nightly program, while in the Air Force, in my Security Police cruiser, playing it low, so as to not miss calls on my walkie.

[@rnman99]

We used to listen to Benny Brown at Hahn back in the 80s on mids, everyone had radios in their war bags "no radios on post"

[@martf9875]

Great Radio Station, great tunes ,great memories, remember this closedown song ,along with ,Aretha Franklin's I'm in love , 😪😪😪😪

[@johnmacleod4481]

i was honoured and very glad to hear the final words of radio luxembourg,it was more than a legend and the dj's were all friends especially the late stuart henry who to the station was the epitome of first class broadcasting.

[@rolij.3315]

John Macleod thank you very much for this fond contribution Fantastic

[@williamdickinson4049]

What memory's of this channel --When we heard this haunting tune --it was time to go home !!!

[@joeoconnor5400]

Mike Hollies a BRMB Radio legend.

[@runeeggen9536]

I listened to Radio Lux from 1972 to its end. This record bring tears to my eyes. I really miss Radio Lux and I hope it will be brought back soon!

[@novatiberium]

Rune Eggen Radio Luxembourg can't be brought back. At the near end of this video, it turned into a German RTL Radio and you can hear them say German Words.

[@SolarRadioFM]

It will never come back ! What a shame !

[@melanieestrada6356]

How old are you? If you don't mind me asking?

[@runeeggen9536]

@@melanieestrada6356 I am 63.

[@melanieestrada6356]

@@runeeggen9536 Wow, you're still so young! It's awesome that you lived through such cool parts of history. Thank you for sharing.

[@hfranke07]

I still remember the screaming silence..... I lobed Big 208

[@TheMariome1]

While station in Germany I used to listen to Radio Lux, this brought back memories, missed listing to this radio station it gave me a little bit of home being station away from family Radio Lux was my family away from home.

[@antonellosantoru1525]

How to forget those undulant evening's medium waves, what a sadness when they missed. From that moment there was a gap in my radio's display and in my youth memories.......... " May be in the morning ". A nostalgic CIAO from Sardinia Island.

[@johnmacleod4481]

Poignant reglective and very sincee words from mike hollis this song xonjures up everything that radio luxembourg was is and will always be

[@johnmacleod4481]

I had a lovely dognef postcard from mike hollis signed on the back im moke hollis youre not and a smiley face,Thank you Mike for radio luxembourg

[@supressorgrid]

All the flame throwers are gone. WRNO, KYOI, RTL, WWCR.... Thanks for having been there.

[@bernardkelar6089]

I used up ten cassette tapes recording the last Radio Luxemburg show and the reception was quite good.

[@john111257]

Another classic historical radio station died

[@pacemakerspain9561]

Fue una emisora de referencia para los amantes de la musica de los 60's. Cuantas noches pase escuchando y cuantas horas de buenos momentos. Muchas gracias Radio luxemburgo.

[@babounia1]

de los 70's y 80's tambien...

[@MathRaven1910]

Llegava en España y Portugal??

[@rachel.mcgowan]

Remember listening to this live on 208 all those years ago, many thanks to the uploader for this

[@anthonyperkins7556]

I cried when this played at the closedown, how could the CLT get rid of the world's, the UK's and Europe's favourite commercial radio station with a pedigree a quality and a level of service that no other station could deliver match or even come close to? Astra satellite coverage reaches millions of listeners across Europe with direct to home Astra satellite systems and those in the UK with Sky Television subscriptions in perfect stereo sound quality and with constant fade free reception and if CLT pulled their finger out, they could have got more cable TV networks across Europe and in the UK to carry Radio Luxembourg in stereo on their FM programme service from the Astra 1A satellite, perhaps this would have helped? I would have advertised Radio Luxembourg on RTL's television services and undertook a big UK TV advertising campaign on ITV here that would have also raised the profile of Radio Luxembourg massively and this would have easily have got it more noticed in the UK and Europe.

[@ladsin1]

Škoda, že to skončilo. Je to naše mládí...... Fantastický....

[@sunnysunday1]

I remember this, maybe i still have a cassette with it....listener from Poland :-)

[@TheDane_BurnAllCopies]

I cried… loved it, and had big hope for UNITED DJs but that was not to be😢

[@cheshirecat1595]

this was a sad day........used to listen on the old mw freq 1440 as a child......spent big money on a sat system just to get luxy.......then they killed it off........not the same on the internet now.......

[@mariajosealemany2415]

😢😢😢💔💔💔💔My life around RLAlways

[@lucluc9541]

My 70ies FAB radio !( fan from France )

[@johnmacleod4481]

Im mike hollis youre not wqshis wordson qsl cards and hisclosing word on a radio station which will indeed live on in our fondest memories im choking back tears with the lyrics if the song

[@rainertiefel1532]

What a sad day !

[@RobertThomas-yn8cq]

I had a few tapes with small bits of radio luxenburg that I played when I returned from Germany. They were a great change from AND all day long. I have been looking for a streaming broad cast for a few days and found this disappointment tonight . So sad.

[@richardmcdowell2199]

Great memories in my teens listening to this station

[@TheXtrim]

Still waiting ❤❤❤

[@deppo_zweifler9029]

The day radio died. Radio has lost its magic. There are no more radio DJs. Unfortunately, a radio like 208 would no longer be successful today. The listeners have changed; they don't expect an exciting program, but only an accompanying background noise that can be heard with one ear

[@ketrin-fz8be]

If this was done live, I'm guessing he must have rehearsed it a dozen times to get the timing so precise. Professional to the very end.

[@anthonyperkins7556]

Radio Luxembourg : 208 metres / 1440 kHz MW ; 1/4 wave omnidirectional antenna with passive reflector mast beaming 324 degrees west-north-west toward the UK- with a power of 600 kW / 1200 kW. 19.50 metres / 15350 kHz Shortwave ; directional antenna beamed towards Quebec in Canada at a power of 50 kW. 49.26 metres / 6090 kHz Shortwave ; four mast array omnidrectional antenna beaming out at 360 degrees across Europe and worldwide using 500 kW.

[@wastl700]

Thank you for technical data how Radio Luxemburg got to my ears via my small transistor radio!!

[@snrdmnd]

I grew up with radio Luxembourg as a kid with a radio my sister bought me for Christmas. There was a song played at the end of broadcast by one of the DJ's when he finished that someone had written and recorded about him. I'm pretty sure it was Start Henry. I can remember all the lyrics and the tune and can sing it like it was but never got a recording. I'd love to hear the original again if possible. Maybe someone here remembers it and knows who wrote and performed it and if it's available anywhere? Who said it's a long and lonely road we travel on Don't know where we're going or where we're coming from. My life's been a journey you've helped me see it through Nothing seems a problem just being next to you Another day is breaking so we can laugh in time There's something there between us words can not define Holding onto something i never want to lose You'd always be that something i would choose... I think i know myself by now I'd say that i know you care I give you love and some rock'n'roll To all of you out there, To all of you out there.......

[@johnmaquil9790]

Good old days :-( it was a nice period!

[@williamdickinson4049]

SUPER MEMORIES- XXXXXXX

[@victorytv5307]

I believe this radio would be a sucsess again, if it started up..wonderful wonderful radio

[@wsrq]

Who remembers The Radio Luxembourg "Power Plays". They chose a new release every week and really plugged it.

[@Kokacoma]

I am

[@josephtisdale5262]

I used to enjoy this station in 1984vwhen no programs were on BBC and WRNO.

[@gilyazovrustam5920]

Слушал эту станцию в 1981-1982 годах во время службы в Советской Армии.В близи города Великий Новгород,аэродром Военно транспортной авиации "Кречевицы". На средних волнахНа приемник Кварц-402.

[@zacheryalderton8910]

thanks for the memories

[@01adhdave]

R.I.P. Bob Stewart

[@steve61098]

Anyone else listen to the 208 chart show in the early 1970’s and remember that great ‘Trumpet Fanfare’ Intro..... 😎

[@nathanielcatherwood9295]

Bring back Luxembourg Radio not same with out it

[@napejack]

Bring it back!

[@gjhazard]

Sad sad day. Got me through my time in Germany!

[@joeoconnor5400]

Rob Jones still going on Boom Radio. Alas Kid Jensen has not been well of late.

[@anthonyperkins7556]

It was a shame but a satellite and shortwave delivered Radio Luxembourg was losing money, and the problem with medium wave 208 metres / 1440 kHz was the night-time fade problem, and that platform cost a lot to run : half a million UK pounds transmitter hire and a colossal power bill to run that massive 1200 kW 1440 kHz AM powerhouse at Marnarch, Northern Luxembourg.

[@anthonyperkins7556]

I hate the Compagniè Luxembourgeois Dè Tèlèdiffusionè (CLT) who got rid of Radio Luxembourg. They could've explored other avenues i.e. hiring out airtime to outside bodies on 15350 kHz SW, broadcasting 24:7 on 49.26 metres Shortwave as well as the Astra 1A satellite, broadcasting paid-for programmes that bring in extra revenue for the station such as religion, selling Pan-European advertising to European countries within Astra 1A's footprint at very attractive rates and having European language adverts in addition to English adverts for the UK, less Music Jam and pre-recorded music segments with more live shows and a return of sponsored programmes Maxell, TDK, Panasonic, Sony, Bang & Olufsen, All Clear Shampoo, Mars Chocolate etc. I'd also would've marketed the station better to cable tv systems, satellite rebroadcasters, partner FM stations, in reach of the Astra 1A Satellite with information packs and a 30 minute HiFi Stereo VHS cassette about Radio Luxembourg, it's rich history, and showing what you need to receive Radio Luxembourg English Service on satellite and details on tuning it in too.

[@brucel10315]

😢

[@stighenningjohansen]

In the late Seventies, at 0400 or something in the morning, they before shutdown, transmitted a classical piece of music, followed by: Wherever you are, may God be with you, and good night.Something like that. Then they shut down the transmiiters, and your boombox went 'shhhhh' And, you knew it was time to head home for some sleep :)

[@djkeithcostello5200]

Please bring back radio Luxembourg please

[@anthonyperkins7556]

Sorry. The Compagnie Luxembourgeois de Telediffusione (CLT) who owns the name will never let it return.

[@anthonyperkins7556]

@roger darthwell problem is CLT are a bunch of bankers and business people whose interests aren't in broadcasting but are shareholders and owners of RTL's radio services and they moved in replacing RTL management turning the spotlight on the radio stations to see how much money and profits they were making and they saw Radio Luxembourg English Service on the Astra 1A satellite across the UK and Europe and via North American Shortwave on 15350 kHz as unviable and made the decision September 1992 to close it. They had no idea how many people were listening to the stereo service via Astra 1A in the UK and across Europe and they had no idea how many were listening to the service via CATV networks across continental Europe and in the UK and that's what they were questioning. If I was station manager I would have better promoted the Radio Luxembourg English service via a series of TV ads on Astra's TV channels and on UK TV services ie itv and channel 4 and made a better effort of marketing the station to CATV operators in Europe and the UK with an explanatory 15 minute hifi stereo VHS cassette about Radio Luxembourg and how to carry it on cable TV from the Astra Satellite giving frequency, polarisation and audio subcarrier details and promotional bumph to encourage them to carry the service That would have been far better to me than a lonely solitary ad and reply coupon in a broadcast trade magazine plus the TV ads would get Radio Luxembourg far more noticed visually and inform the satellite TV viewers on Astra and in the UK of its presence on satellite.

[@maxtosno2875]

славное время было

[@makosm1]

Słuchałem regularnie od 1960 do końca...

[@jurgensickinger7098]

Dieses Programm kann man jetzt wieder auf Kurzwelle 6160 zu empfangen

[@Agnethatheredhairkid]

Can anyone upload the Duncan McKenzie track 'All Of You Out There'? which was also played at close of broadcasting?

[@janisglaudans482]

😥

[@john111257]

Awesome radio, many a battery hissing in the morning..Flat

[@christopherhulse8385]

I have the last night on tape too, but it fades unlike your copy.

[@terryrogers7619]

Great recording BUT not quite as I remember it? As I kept listening after the final closedown approx. a minute later the DJs came back and Tony Prince was joking that they were now a real pirate station as the finish time had expired just past 3am. I remember this clearly but have long since lost the tape of it. Anyone else recall this? :)

[@untied1000]

i have an off-air recording of this broadcast with the final words sadly expressed by mike hollis who wrote on a postcard to me in the late 80's,i'm mike hollis,you're not in fun from john macleod.

[@maxtosno2875]

я слушал на радиоприемнике альпениисл на св диапазоне в санкт питербурге в далёких девяностых но это было радио из будущего это чтото не вероятное даже сейчас с этим радио нет конкурентов!!!!!!!

[@jurgensickinger7098]

Jetzt läuft das Programm 24 Stunden auf Goldratio London auf 1548 khz

[@johnrobertson8263]

the fading added to the experience, cds are too clean, vinyl is far better

[@paulevans7849]

Let's protest and get it put back on stuff radio 1 rubbish let's bring back luxy. It's still can be done after 26 years things can come back if there's Inuff public demand.

[@anthonyperkins7556]

Will never happen sadly. Time has passed it by, many ex 208 presenters are either dead retired or in other broadcasting careers, also nameholder and holding company CLT (Compagnie Luxembougeois de Telediffusione) will NOT let Luxy EVER RETURN IN ANY FORM. They feel it's best we live on memories and remember the station for the success it was.

[@domwigley62]

@@anthonyperkins7556 get new presenters, PLENTY of untapped broadcasting talent

[@anthonyperkins7556]

@@domwigley62 CLT won't let Radio Luxembourg ever return

[@domwigley62]

why?

[@anthonyperkins7556]

@@domwigley62 a) it doesn't make money for them, b) if it did come back then what format should it be, and c) what broadcast platform should it use? Time has passed it by too, when it closed on the Astra 1A satellite in Wegener 🐼 1 stereo, 15350 kHz Shortwave plus 1440 kHz MW 30th December 1992, I along with millions of people in the UK and all across Europe were gutted at the death of Radio Luxembourg but equally the station was losing money, and if a radio station is losing money, it doesn't make sense to continue, also, how many people were ACTUALLY listening to Radio Luxembourg on their Astra Satellite dish systems? That take up couldn't really be measured, so although satellite distribution direct to hone via individual Astra satellite dishes was good, the listening figures sadly weren't really enough to make it viable. If CLT had stuck it out thru 1993 and upped the awareness with TV ads on free to air Astra satellite channels and pay TV Astra satellite subscription services, then perhaps more people would know it is there and available and would probably tune in but CLT wouldn't surmount such a campaign to promote Luxy.

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

"It was a travesty for CLT to closedown the Radio Luxembourg English Service end of 1992. Whats wrong with astra satellite delivery? It reaches millions of european satellite homes in perfect stereo quality and serves some cable homes on cableoperators offering to take it and transmit it subscribers." They certainly weren't losing money there I'm sure. It does come off a tad shortsightedness.

[@andrewswift8139]

+Christopher Sobieniak They should have stuck it out another year. They would have increased their audience via Astra satellite in the UK with large numbers of people subscribing to SKY, mainly for Premier League football

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

Andrew Swift Certainly enough avenues to explore.

[@anthonyperkins7556]

Radio Luxembourg on satellite was a good quality platform and it reached millions of Astra satellite dish owners across the European continent as well as the UK. If CLT had stuck it out through 1993 and continued, it would have become more noticed indeed as more and more people were purchasing Astra Satellite Systems and Sky Sports subscriptions in the UK for Premiere League Football which would have increased listenership.

[@yell50]

With the last song played on radio Luxemburg they should have had a vote from the listeners to choose their all time classic pop song instead Luxembourg went off the air waves with a pathetic wimp of a song what a disappointing end to an iconic radio station.

[@jurgensickinger7098]

Das englische Programm hast gold ratio london 1548 khz zuhören

[@ASgfjyhgyi]

Das scmuciga germans destroy the R.L.

[@yuriisyvko768]

Old crap!