RTL9 - Broadcast

Broadcast

RTL9 is shown on the terrestrial UHF SECAM channel 21 from the Dudelange Radio Tower in the south of Luxembourg and the Lorraine region. It is the only Luxembourgeoise channel still shown on analogue. No information regarding its change to digital yet exists, and BCE have not announced their eventual calendar. However in the 2007 report from the government of Luxembourg published in March 2008, they stated that programmes shown in Lorraine would switch to digital no later than the moment of the end of analogue television in Lorraine.

RTL TV was shown on Télécom 2B satellite from 1992 until the end of 1994, but encrypted. A payment of 120 French francs was necessary to decrypt the information via a decoder, costing 690 francs. At the end of December 1996, the new satellite package TPS launched the analogue signal, shown by the Télécom 2B satellite, to be shown via the Hot Bird satellite at 13° east until the start of 1998, when they would begin to broadcast in digital quality. On 26 December 2001, TPS gave the exclusive rights for the satellite broadcast to RTL9 and the channel was then shown on CanalSat. AB Groupe, which has operated since April 1998, include it in their AB Sat satellite package.

In 2005, AB Groupe proposed to the CSA that the channel could be shown for free on Télévision Numérique Terrestre (TNT). It would have meant making the channel dedicated to "French fiction" and no longer showing films on Wednesday, Friday or Saturday nights, as the showing of films on these evenings is still banned in France. The project did not go forward.

Due to the fusion of TPS and CanalSat in April 2007, RTL9 is still shown on the Nouveau Canalsat and AB Sat satellite packages, on Luxembourg's cable, French (Numericable) and Swiss (Cablecom, Naxoo and City TV), and on television ADSL packages.