Author: Fabio Spirinelli

The inhabitants of Grevenmacher are upset: since the relay station in their village has been decommissioned, the TV reception worsened. Indeed, the installation was built more than ten years ago and now, in 1979, the CLT puts it out of service. With the construction of a tower in Dudelange and the improvement of overall reception, the site is not needed anymore.

Complaints about bad reception are as old as television itself and even the parliament debated about such issues. However, they are also linked to financial questions: for the CLT, the “minor blind spots” in Grevenmacher did not justify further investments. Yet, though the CLT denied any legal binding to assuring a good reception, it worked together with the government to improve the situation.

Between 1963 and 1968, the CLT and the government tried to reduce the blind spots in the televisual reception. Hence the construction of seven relay stations throughout the country…of which no one wasn’t used anymore after 1979. Though in the 1970s, the reception had greatly improved, some “blind spots” continued to exist in Grund, Pfaffenthal, Neudorf and Clausen, only removed with the creation of a collective antenna.

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