How we checked RTL Gold
Everything published about this station was read from the station's own website or its own stream, and every fact below names the page it came from and the year it was read. Nothing needed correcting. We also found 4 things we could have published and decided not to.
What we publish, and where each part came from
| What we say | Read from | When |
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Description
RTL Gold is one of the webradio channels RTL Lëtzebuerg runs alongside its main radio service. RTL's own words for it, carried on the channel's page, are "RTL Gold, eng musikalesch Zäitrees an déi gëllen Zäiten. Non Stop Hits aus de 50s, 60s, 70s an 80s. RTL Gold, de Radio fir Retro Fans." The page strapline is "De Radio fir Retro Fans". RTL's own explainer article "Radio lauschteren - Ouni Radio! Wéi geet dat?" lists seven RTL webradios (the main RTL programme, RTL Gold, RTL LX, RTL Today Radio, RTL +rock, RTL +80er, RTL +90er) and gives RTL Gold's own direct stream addresses, which is how RTL itself distinguishes this channel from its siblings.
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RTL Play (RTL Lëtzebuerg) | 2026 |
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Artists
From the channel's own "Last played songs" list read live on its page: Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Stevie Wonder, Jefferson Airplane, Michael Jackson, Queen, Yves Montand, Michel Fugain & Le Big Bazar, The Beach Boys, Milk And Honey, Culture Club.
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RTL Play (RTL Lëtzebuerg) | 2026 |
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Contact route
The channel page carries no contact of its own. What exists is RTL's house feedback page, reachable from the footer of the RTL Gold page itself, which offers a subject selector with a "Radio" category, plus the three RTL Lëtzebuerg social accounts linked in the same footer (Facebook, X, Instagram). No email address, phone number, request line or WhatsApp number is published for this channel or for RTL radio generally on these pages.
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RTL Play (RTL Lëtzebuerg) | 2026 |
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Contact page
https://www.rtl.lu/feedback
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RTL Play (RTL Lëtzebuerg) | 2026 |
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Era
1950s to 1980s as RTL states it. The songs actually logged carry RTL's own year tags running 1948 to 1986.
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RTL Play (RTL Lëtzebuerg) | 2026 |
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Music
Oldies and classic hits, non-stop music, no talk format evidenced.
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RTL Play (RTL Lëtzebuerg) | 2026 |
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Language
Undetermined, deliberately. Everything RTL publishes about the channel is in Luxembourgish (the title, the strapline, the description quoted above), but nothing I could read establishes that anything is spoken on air: the format is described by RTL as "Non Stop Hits" and the channel's own last-played log runs songs back to back at three to five minute intervals with no gap long enough for a bulletin. The music itself is mostly English with French titles in the mix. I have not proposed a language code for that reason.
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RTL Play (RTL Lëtzebuerg) | 2026 |
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Kind
Automated non-stop playout. The channel's own song log shows continuous back-to-back tracks with no presenter links or news breaks, and RTL's own description of it is "Non Stop Hits".
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RTL Play (RTL Lëtzebuerg) | 2026 |
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Worth knowing
RTL publishes the channel's own stream addresses in plain text in its listening guide (sc.rtl.lu/rtlgold and two stream.rtl.lu HLS paths), and states in the same article that it cannot list its radios on TuneIn because that platform stopped accepting new programmes in 2018.
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RTL Play (RTL Lëtzebuerg) | 2026 |
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Where
Luxembourg. RTL Lëtzebuerg is at rtl.lu and the channel is carried inside RTL Play. No frequency: RTL's own listening guide offers only the RTL Play.lu app, the play.rtl.lu site, and direct stream addresses for wifi radios, and gives no FM or DAB frequency for RTL Gold.
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RTL Play (RTL Lëtzebuerg) | 2026 |
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On air
none. No name appears against this channel on its page, on the RTL Play live page, or in RTL's own webradio article. I looked at all three.
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RTL Play (RTL Lëtzebuerg) | 2026 |
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Programmes
none. There is no schedule for this channel anywhere on RTL's site. The programme grid shown on play.rtl.lu/live and the show pages under rtl.lu/radio (Wousst der schonn, Fokus op, 1 Minutt mat, Living, E gudde Rot, Inside News) belong to RTL Radio Lëtzebuerg and to RTL Télé, not to RTL Gold, and I have kept them off this entry.
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RTL Play (RTL Lëtzebuerg) | 2026 |
What we corrected
Nothing. This station's entry matched what its own site says, which is worth recording: a clean check is a result, not an absence of one.
What we found and did not publish
Material that would have made this page fuller, and was refused. A page with five named presenters looks better than a page with none even when the five are a website theme's demonstration content, and the difference is invisible to a reader. So it is recorded here instead.
| What we could have said | Why we did not |
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| A separate homepage for the channel | I looked for one and there is none. rtl.lu/radio is the parent channel's page, rtl.lu's own site search does not filter by query, and the only page RTL publishes for this channel is the player page we already hold. I have not invented a tidier URL and have not proposed a homepage change.
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| A language code of lb | The channel's own wording is Luxembourgish throughout, and it would have been easy to write lb. But the brief asked what is actually spoken on air, and a non-stop music channel with a gapless song log gives me no evidence of speech. Leaving the field unset is the honest state.
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| A news-and-reports claim | A Luxembourg business news site says the channel also carries national and international news and reports. That is not the station's own material and RTL's own description of the channel says only "Non Stop Hits", so I did not take it.
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| The 1948 track against the stated era | RTL's own description says 50s to 80s, but its own last-played log includes Yves Montand "C'est Si Bon (1948)". The station's two statements disagree by a decade at the bottom end; I have recorded both rather than smoothing it, and note that the year tag on The Beach Boys "California Dreamin'" is given as 1986, which is a cover date, so the year tags are release-of-that-recording tags and not composition dates.
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If you think something here is wrong
Tell us which fact and what you found instead. Everything above names its source and its date, so a disagreement can be settled by looking rather than argued. Where another site disagrees with us, it is usually because it is repeating a radio directory, and occasionally because we got it wrong. We would like to know which.
Read from the station's own material; this page is generated from the
catalogue as it stands now, so it changes when the research does. Research
current as at 2026.
This entry began as: RTL Gold — listed via Radio Browser · https://play.rtl.lu/live/rtl-gold