Radio Luxemburg may return to the airwaves in the UK thanks to a new kind of digital radio. Digital radio stations currently broadcast via a network of local transmitters. But a new version of digital radio called Digital Radio Mondiale (DRM) can broadcast much longer distances, meaning Radio Luxembourg could broadcast into the UK from mainland Europe via digital.
RTL, the media group that grew up out of Radio Luxembourg, are planning to start such broadcasts, mainly to encourage manufacturers to make and market digital radio sets that can pick up DRM signals. As part of that programme Radio Luxembourg, the station that launched the careers of the likes of Noel Edmonds, Peter Powell and David Jensen, may return to British airwaves.
A spokesman for RTL told reporters: "We are considering relaunching a UK station from outside of the UK. It could be from Luxembourg, France, Germany, Finland - it depends where we can get a capacity of transmitter sites. Whether it will be the 208 Radio Luxembourg formula, who knows? But it is something we're thinking about."