{"id":40839,"date":"2019-12-23T08:01:59","date_gmt":"2019-12-23T12:01:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=40839"},"modified":"2019-11-28T08:03:44","modified_gmt":"2019-11-28T12:03:44","slug":"reminder-christmas-on-air-event-to-honor-radio-luxembourg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/reminder-christmas-on-air-event-to-honor-radio-luxembourg\/","title":{"rendered":"Reminder: Christmas on-air event to honor Radio Luxembourg"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Alexander (DL4NO), who writes:<\/p>\n

For a very long time Radio Luxembourg was *the* pop music radio in Europe, especially in Germany and GB. At a time when Germany only had its public radio system, the Radio Luxembourg was the one and only. But this is history.<\/p>\n

At Christmas, several German shortwave broadcasters, organized by Radio DARC, will transmit on 6070 kHz in memoriam of Radio Luxembourg from Vienna. See the attached flyer [above].<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Excellent! Thank you for the heads-up, Alexander!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Alexander (DL4NO), who writes: For a very long time Radio Luxembourg was *the* pop music radio in Europe, especially in Germany and GB. At a time when Germany only had its public radio system, the Radio Luxembourg was the one and only. But this is history. At Christmas, several […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,43],"tags":[2267,1560,8164],"class_list":["post-40839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-shortwave-radio","tag-alexander-von-obert","tag-christmas","tag-radio-luxembourg"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-aCH","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":40834,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/mark-your-calendars-christmas-on-air-event-to-honor-radio-luxembourg\/","url_meta":{"origin":40839,"position":0},"title":"Mark your calendars! 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