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Radio 100,7

Public-service radio organised under the Loi du 12 août 2022 as the établissement public Média de service public 100,7; on air since 1993, with a statutory brief that includes sport.
✓ Last reviewed: September 2026
Legal formétablissement public “Média de service public 100,7”, under the Loi du 12 août 2022, as the station’s own page names it
LanguageLuxembourgish, per the Euromedia Ownership Monitor (December 2025)
On air since1993, as the station states
Daily listeners, 202217,600, per the Euromedia Ownership Monitor

What is Radio 100,7?

Radio 100,7 is Luxembourg's public-service radio. Its site describes it as Luxembourg's public service radio, and its own page on the station names the law that organises it: “Loi du 12 août 2022 portant organisation de l'établissement public « Média de service public 100,7 »”.[1][2] The text of that law could not be retrieved from Legilux, the official journal's portal.

The Euromedia Ownership Monitor's Luxembourg report of December 2025 describes it as “Radio 100.7, which is the country's only public service radio station, a status it acquired in 2022.” It adds: “Its content is in Luxembourgish and it has a substantial news component.”[3] The Media Pluralism Monitor's Luxembourg 2026 page states: “The independence of public service media (radio 100.7) is secured by the 2022 Law on Public Service Media and the 2023–2030 convention.”[4]

What does Radio 100,7 cover?

The station's own page sets out its mission in Luxembourgish. One of the tasks it lists is to “variéiert Programmer zu sozialen, wirtschaftlechen, kulturellen a sportleche Sujete produzéieren” — to produce varied programmes on social, economic, cultural and sporting subjects.[1] That is the station's own statement of its mission.

Sport appears in its news output rather than in a separate section: on 26 September 2026 its home page carried a Luxembourgish-language item on the men's national football team ahead of its UEFA Nations League matches, an interview with the national coach and a player, with no separate sport menu.[2][5] Its other programming, as its home page presents it, is news, culture and music.[2]

How large is Radio 100,7's audience?

Radio audiences in Luxembourg are measured by ILRES's TRAIL study, commissioned by IP Luxembourg, the advertising sales house of RTL; that study replaced the joint Plurimédia survey suspended in 2023, as the trade site Adada.lu reported on 7 October 2025.[6]

The Euromedia Ownership Monitor, in December 2025, states that “Radio 100.7 can be seen as an instrument that strengthens the national consciousness on a daily basis; like RTL, but for a smaller community (17,600 versus 146,300 daily listeners in 2022)”.[3] Those are 2022 figures, the most recent per-station figures for Radio 100,7 retrieved, and the characterisation is the report's. The same report states that the station “replicates the cosmopolitan yet national cultural radio stations found in major European countries, such as France Culture and Deutschlandfunk Kultur.”[3]

Since when has Radio 100,7 existed?

The station states: “Zënter 1993 op Antenn, séchert de Sender de Service public an der Lëtzebuerger Radioswelt” — on air since 1993, the station provides public service in Luxembourg's radio landscape.[1] The government's information service, in its overview of Luxembourg media of January 2013, gives the same year: “Il faudra attendre 1993 avant qu'une radio publique, la radio socioculturelle Radio 100,7, ne voie le jour au Luxembourg.”[7]

Its present legal form dates from 2022: the Euromedia Ownership Monitor records that it acquired public-service status in that year, and the station names the law of 12 August 2022.[3][1] The station's page describes a board of nine members — six independent members proposed by the board and appointed by the government, and three representatives of the State — serving five-year terms renewable once, and a government commissioner. It states in Luxembourgish: “De Regierungskommissär kann Entscheedunge vum Verwaltungsrot suspendéieren, wa se riskéiere géint Gesetzer, Reglementer, d'Finanzéierungskonventioun oder de Cahier de charges ze verstoussen.” That is, the commissioner may suspend board decisions that risk breaching laws, regulations, the funding convention or the terms of reference. The station states that its financing is secured through multi-year conventions, and that “Ausser dem Parrainage vun eenzele Sendungen dierf keng Publicitéit op senge Radioe gespillt ginn” — apart from sponsorship of individual programmes, no advertising may be broadcast.[1]

Why does Radio 100,7 matter in Luxembourg's sport?

It is the country's statutory public-service radio, and sport is among the subjects its own statement of mission names.[1] The Media Pluralism Monitor's 2026 page states: “While a multilingual media offer exists, particularly through Portuguese and French radio stations, the core public service media—Radio 100.7 and RTL—remain predominantly Luxembourgish-speaking.”[4]

The Euromedia Ownership Monitor compares its governance with RTL's: “Radio 100.7 has a board of directors controlled more by Luxembourgers and an executive director who previously held senior positions in the main daily press publishers also controlled by Luxembourgers (Saint-Paul and Editpress)”.[3] The Media Pluralism Monitor, writing of the ALIA/ALIM and the 2025 draft bill 8625 on media regulation, states: “While the draft bill expands the authority's sanctioning power to include fines up to €250,000, the agency remains strained by resource shortages, with only 15 staff members currently overseeing over 400 channels while managing new mandates such as disinformation and FIMI.”[4] Those are the two bodies' characterisations.

References

  1. Radio 100,7 — Iwwert den 100,7 / about us (mission, Loi du 12 août 2022, governance, on air since 1993). Accessed 2026-09-26.
  2. Radio 100,7 — 100komma7.lu home page, as retrieved 26 September 2026. Accessed 2026-09-26.
  3. Euromedia Ownership Monitor — Luxembourg, country report 2025 edition (Christian Lamour, LISER; December 2025). Accessed 2026-09-26.
  4. Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom — Luxembourg 2026, Media Pluralism Monitor country page (last modified 2 July 2026). Accessed 2026-09-26.
  5. Radio 100,7 — Leandro Barreiro erwaart sech vun der ganzer Ekipp eng Gewënnermentalitéit (Eric Ewald; Nations League preview), as retrieved 26 September 2026. Accessed 2026-09-26.
  6. Adada.lu — Audiences des médias au Luxembourg en 2025 : deux études ILRES distinctes pour supplanter Plurimédia (7 October 2025). Accessed 2026-09-26.
  7. Service information et presse du gouvernement luxembourgeois — À propos des médias au Luxembourg (January 2013) (PDF). Accessed 2026-09-26.