93.3 FM

From May 5, you can hear RTL Today Radio on 93.3 FM in Luxembourg. This is more significant than it sounds.

The station launched in 2022 as an online-only service, then expanded to DAB+ five months ago, and now FM. That is fast for radio. FM still matters because cars have it. Kitchens have it. Old radios in garages have it. Not everything needs an app.

Why it matters here

Luxembourg has more than 180 nationalities. 80% of residents aged 16 and over speak English. But until recently, if you wanted English-language radio, you were listening to BBC Radio 4 through a phone speaker while cooking, or streaming something from another country entirely.

A local English-language station on FM is infrastructure. It means turning the dial and hearing someone talk about your city, your weather, your parliament. It means local artists getting airtime. It means news about tripartite talks and border controls and healthcare disputes, delivered in the language most people here share, not just the ones who happened to learn Luxembourgish or French or German.

The programming

The schedule is surprisingly good. Recent hits mixed with deep cuts. Limited repetition. Local artist support. And then there is the evening programming: Lounder for rock and metal, In Tune for classical and world music in collaboration with the Philharmonie, New Noise for emerging artists. The Lisa Burke Show for interviews. Mom Life in Luxembourg for the expat parent experience. Office Hours for business. Letz Talk Sport for, well, sport.

This is not a format designed by algorithm. It is a schedule that reflects what a community actually does: work, parent, argue about politics, go to concerts, cook dinner. The fact that it exists at all, in a country this small, is worth noting.

Radio is not dead

Everyone said radio was over. Podcasts killed it. Streaming killed it. Spotify killed it. And yet here is a station, in a country of 660,000 people, expanding from online to DAB+ to FM in under four years. Because the thing about a frequency is that it is just there. No subscription, no login, no buffering. You turn it on and it is playing.

93.3 FM. May 5. Set a preset.