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RTL

French radio station

Entityradio station online newspaperQ1351173

Instance of: radio station
, online newspaper
Country: France
Located in: Paris
Founded: 1933
Website: rtl.fr
, rtl.fr
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1.Stated in Muck Rackmuckrack.com/media-outlet/rtl-frRetrieved 2020-11-12
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RTL is a French commercial radio network owned by the RTL Group through Groupe M6. Founded in 1933 as Radio Luxembourg, it broadcast from outside of France until 1981 because only public stations had been allowed until then. It is a general-interest, news, talk and music station, broadcasting nationally in France, Francophone Belgium, and Luxembourg. Until 2022, RTL was also broadcast on long wave frequency 234 kHz from Beidweiler which could be picked up in large parts of the continent. It has a sister station called Bel RTL tailored for the French Community of Belgium. As of 2018, RTL is France's most popular radio station with an average of 6.4 million daily listeners that year.

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Licensed to broadcast to: Paris
Headquarters: Neuilly-sur-Seine
Owned by: RTL Group
Social media followers: 1,144,511(February 6, 2023) x (twitter) numeric user id: 34294667
1,045,164(February 25, 2022) x (twitter) numeric user id: 34294667
959,480(January 8, 2021) x (twitter) numeric user id: 34294667
Replaces: Radio Luxembourg
Language used: French
Main Wikidata property: RTL topic ID

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