Thank you for the domain, Bob Christy!

September 13, 2023

Dominique Santana shows Bob Christy the website that now features the name of his former domain.

Thank you for giving us the radio.lu domain name!

We would like to express our heartfelt gratitude to Bob Christy for entrusting us with the domain name we needed for our project, a domain he had owned since 1991. His generous gesture enables us to move forward, reach the various Radio Luxembourg communities online and make radio.lu the central hub of our project.

Bob Christy in the Villa Louvigny studio.

What is your personal connection with Radio Luxembourg?

My personal connection with Radio Luxembourg is that I worked for several years as a Disc Jockey on Radio Luxembourg Community Radio (RTL Community) It was in late 70’s early 80’s and I believe the frequency was returned to the Luxembourg service 5 years later around 1985. RTL Community broadcasted on 92.5 FM from its studios in the Villa de Louvigny. It was the only RTL FM frequency that was used by the English service. It had a strong powerful signal and covered large areas of Germany, Belgium, France, and Luxembourg. Most of the 208 DJs at that time also worked on RTL Community. (Benny Brown, Mike Hollis, Stuart Henry, Bob Steward, Barry Alldis (nicknamed Captain Community), Howard Pearce, Dave Christian to name but a few) I worked in the afternoons and the program was often shared between 2 DJ’s It consisted of local and international news, weather, and music.

Why have you kept this domain for so long?

It was planned to keep it longer! Initially it was used for my own Radio Station W.A.K.Y (A local frequency that I obtained from the Government back in the early 90’s soon after Radio Luxembourg English service closed.) 15 years later in 2006 I was forced to close the Station (that’s another story for another day) and so stopped the web site and hence use of the domain. What motivated you to give us the domain for the project? It was planned to start a new station one day and so I always kept the domain hoping that it would be put to good use again. I was/and still am in the process of starting a new station but I was approached by Dominque and after several meetings and much thought I realized how so important my domain name was for her project, after nearly a year later I made the decision to pass over my “domain baby” radio.lu to her project Radio Luxembourg. I knew it would be well looked after and not wasted.

What motivated you to give us the domain for the project?

It was planned to start a new station one day and so I always kept the domain hoping that it would be put to good use again. I was/and still am in the process of starting a new station but I was approached by Dominque and after several meetings and much thought I realized how so important my domain name was for her project, after nearly a year later I made the decision to pass over my “domain baby” radio.lu to her project Radio Luxembourg. I knew it would be well looked after and not wasted.

We deeply appreciate Bob’s support and faith in our project.