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The MOVE Fire

This is a personal recollection on the Move fire on May 13, 1985 Philadelphia police fired thousands of rounds at the MOVE house, city officials approved dropping an explosive device on the roof, the resulting fire was allowed to burn, 11 people—including five children—died, and 61 homes were destroyed. Philadelphia City Council later called it a “brutal attack carried out by the City of Philadelphia on its own citizens” and acknowledged that no individual faced criminal consequences for the bombing. One timeline correction worth preserving for the BHP record: the major previous MOVE-police confrontation was August 8, 1978, about seven years before the bombing, not a year or two earlier. Officer James Ramp was killed, other police and firefighters were wounded, nine MOVE members were later convicted, and television cameras recorded police beating Delbert Africa during his arrest. The 1985 MOVE Commission later specifically criticized city planners for failing to adequately use lessons from that 1978 confrontation. And that actually strengthens the point you’re making: 1985 did not happen without precedent or institutional memory. There had already been a deadly confrontation with MOVE, years of conflict, negotiations and police involvement before Osage Avenue.

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Katherine Johnson — Mathematics to the Moon

Katherine Johnson’s mathematical calculations helped guide some of America’s most important early space missions while she confronted the racial and gender barriers faced by Black women in twentieth-century America.

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RTL Radio

49°38′13.23″N 6°09′50.15″E / 49.6370083°N 6.1639306°E / 49.6370083; 6.1639306

RTL Radio
Feel Good Music von den 80ern bis heute
  • Germany
Broadcast area
Germany
Luxembourg
FrequenciesFM:
97.0 MHz (Northern Luxembourg)
DAB+:
Various (Germany and Luxembourg)
Astra:
12,604 GHz
RDSRTLRADIO
Programming
LanguageGerman
FormatHot adult contemporary (since 1 July 2015)
Ownership
OwnerRTL Group
89.0 RTL
104.6 RTL[1]
Toggo Radio
History
First air date
15 July 1957; 69 years ago (1957-07-15)
Former names
Radio Luxemburg (1957–1988)
RTL Hörfunk (1988–1990)
RTL – Der Oldiesender (1992–1996)
Former frequencies
AM:
1439/1440 kHz (until 31 December 2015)
Shortwave:
6090 kHz
Links
WebsiteListen live

RTL Radio Germany is the biggest commerical Radio-Industrie group in Germany, Luxemburg, Portugal, France and Belgium. It is based in Berlin and part of the RTL Group.

RTL Radio Deutschland has stakes in almost 29 stations in Germany, including 104.6 RTL in Berlin, Antenne Niedersachsen and Radio Hamburg.[2]

The largest station of the network is RTL Radio, which originated as the German language service of Radio Luxembourg, which began broadcasting after World War II from Luxembourg. It broadcasts adult contemporary music nationally via cable, DAB+, satellite, internet and regionally via FM in Luxembourg, Rheinland-Pfalz, Saarland, eastern German-speaking Belgium, and Lorraine.

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Location of Luxembourg (circled)

RTL Radio began broadcasting as the German service of Radio Luxembourg on 15 July 1957. Along with the Saarland-based pirate radio Europe 1, Luxembourg interfered with the non-commercial monopoly imposed by the German states since broadcasting first started in the country. Apart from advertising reaching German radios for the first time, RTL also introduced Germans from both East and West to rock-and-roll, bebop/cool jazz and other types of American popular music which contrasted to the classical repertoire that had dominated mainland services.

In 1988, Radio Luxembourg was renamed RTL Hörfunk. On 1 July 2015 RTL Radio branded itself RTL Radio – Deutschlands Hit-Radio and moved its studios from the City of Luxembourg to Berlin.

In June 2026 the radiostation changed name and format into RTL Radio and now Broadcast feel good music.

RTL Radio has slots on analog and digital cable, and transmits digital signals via the Astra 1L satellites.

Radio stations of RTL Group

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Owned and operated by RTL Group

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Stations with shares by RTL Radio

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  • Antenne Bayern (16 %), statewide FM station in Bavaria
  • Antenne Niedersachsen (50 %), statewide FM station in Lower Saxony
  • Antenne Thüringen (15 %), statewide FM station Thuringa
  • Antenne Sylt, via Radio 21
  • Best Rock FM, FM station in Lisbon, Portugal (33 %)
  • Eldoradio, FM station in Luxemburg (74,8 %)
  • Mint, FM-station in Bruesel, Belgium (49 %)
  • Cidade FM, FM-station in Lisbon, Portugal (33 %)
  • Hitradio RTL Sachsen (30,5 %), FM station in Saxony, Germany
  • Oldie Antenne Hamburg (Hamburg, 4,78 %), FM station in Hamburg
  • Radio 21 (17,3 %), FM station for Lower Saxony, Germany
  • Radio Brocken (53,5 %), FM station for Saxony-Anhalt, Germany
  • Rádio Clube (33 %), FM station for Lisbon, Portugal
  • Rádio Comercial (33 %), FM station for Lissabon, Portugal
  • Radio Hamburg (29,17 %), traditional FM station for Hamburg, Germany
  • Radio NRW (16,96 %), statewide FM station in NRW, Germany
  • Radio Ton (2 %), FM station for Baden-Württemberg, Germany
  • Rock Antenne via Antenne Bayern
  • Rock Antenne Hamburg via Rock Antenne

References

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  1. ^ Merskin, Debra L. (12 November 2019). The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Mass Media and Society. SAGE Publications. ISBN 978-1-4833-7554-0. Retrieved 10 August 2026.
  2. ^ "Die verflochtene Welt des deutschen Radios | Media Ownership Monitor Germany". germany.mom-gmr.org (in German). Retrieved 11 October 2026.
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RTL Radio

RTL Radio Germany is the biggest commerical Radio-Industrie group in Germany, Luxemburg, Portugal, France and Belgium. It is based in Berlin and part of the RTL Group. RTL Radio Deutschland has stakes in almost 29 stations in Germany, including 104.6 RTL in Berlin, Antenne Niedersachsen and Radio Hamburg. The largest station of the network is RTL Radio, which originated as the German language service of Radio Luxembourg, which began broadcasting after World War II from Luxembourg. It broadcasts adult contemporary music nationally via cable, DAB+, satellite, internet and regionally via FM in Luxembourg, Rheinland-Pfalz, Saarland, eastern German-speaking Belgium, and Lorraine.

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RTL Club

RTL Club is a French-language Belgian television channel based in Brussels and owned by DPG Media and Groupe Rossel, it was originally owned by RTL Group until 31 March 2022. The channel is transmitted in Belgium and Luxembourg. The channel is targeted to young audiences in the morning and to adults in primetime. Its programming consists of cartoons and children’s series and cartoons in the morning and sports and American series in the evening. Until 28 March 2023, the channel was known as Club RTL. On 1 February 2016, the channel ceased airing its main animated series The Simpsons due to low ratings (2% share), whose French dub has been airing on the series for twenty years. The show moved to RTL Plug. At the time, RTL Belgium renegotiated with the production company every year to broadcast at least 150 old episodes. RTL Belgium was acquired by DPG Media and Groupe Rossel on 31 March 2022, ending the 30 years ownership by RTL Group. RTL Belgium channels ended their Luxembourgish status in March 2023 to become fully Belgian, and thus lost their terrestrial licence in Luxembourg and ceased their transmission from the Dudelange transmitter on 29 February 2024. The Belgian RTL channels were also transmitted in the Flemish pay DTT through the Antenne TV service from TV Vlaanderen, from December 2017 until 1 September 2024.

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RTL (German TV channel)

RTL (from French: Radio Télévision Luxembourg), formerly RTL plus and RTL Television, is a German-language free-to-air television channel owned by RTL Deutschland, headquartered in Cologne. Founded as an offshoot of the German-language radio programme Radio Luxemburg, RTL is considered a full-service broadcaster under the Medienstaatsvertrag ('Interstate Media Treaty') and is the largest private television network in Germany. As of August 2010, RTL employs some 500 permanent staff, having outsourced its news and technical departments. In September 2021, Mediengruppe RTL Deutschland ('RTL Germany Media Group') was renamed RTL Deutschland. As part of the rebrand, both the group and the channel received new logos and branding.

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Super RTL

Super RTL is a German free-to-air television network owned by SUPER RTL Fernsehen GmbH, a fully owned subsidiary of RTL Deutschland. The channel originally launched in 1995 as a joint venture between RTL Group predecessor company CLT-UFA and Disney's Buena Vista International Television Investments (later Disney International Operations) division, with the venture then-known as RTL Disney Fernsehen GmbH & Co. KG. The channel airs daily from 5:00am-12:00am under two different programming slots; Toggo (5:00am-8:00pm), which is aimed at children, and RTL Super (8:00pm-12:00am), which is aimed at families and young adults.

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TOPIC OF THE DAY

Greenwood / Black Wall Street

Before the 1921 destruction of Tulsa’s Greenwood District, Black residents had created a remarkable center of business and community life. The district included stores, professional offices, entertainment venues and homes owned by Black citizens. Understanding Greenwood means learning what was built—not only what was burned.

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TRIVIA QUESTION OF THE DAY

Which Black woman became the first elected to the United States Congress?

Shirley Chisholm, elected in 1968.