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From a mono- to a multlingual TV-Landscape in Luxembourg
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Author: Laura Hilbert
“Télé Luxembourg”, the first Luxemburgish TV-channel in French, was inaugurated on the 14th May 1955, after experimental broadcasts had already started in January of that year. In 1956 its studio moved to the Villa Louvigny.
In 1968/69 the linguistic TV-world in Luxembourg changed with the creation of a program in Luxemburgish, namely the „Hei Elei, Kuck Elei“. This channel focused on Luxemburgish policy, society and culture. Between 1980 and 1995 before the radiation of this channel a program in Italian, “Buona Domenica” (Good Sunday), was showed.
In the eighties the TV-situation in Luxembourg modified again.That means that on the channel 21 a program in French, RTL-Télévision, was showed and on the channel 27 another program in French, RTL-TVi. In addition the frequency 7 was used to broadcast a channel in German, RTLplus.
Selective bibliography:
– DOMINGUEZ MULLER, David, La télévision s’invite chez vous. De Télé Luxembourg à RTL, in: ons stad Nr. 106 (2014), S. 32-33.
– JAGER, Roland, La télévision au Luxembourg. Le système luxembourgeois: une combinaison inédite du modèle de service public avec les conditions de financement d’une exploitation privée, in: Ministère des affaires culturelles (Hg.), Le cinéma et la télévision au Luxembourg. Luxembourg 1988, S. 39-43.