In the 1980's, numerous shortwave listeners in German-speaking Europe, For some it was even a small footprint on the path to private broadcasting in Germany.
Radio Victoria, the independent shortwave music station, comes sponsored through a former member of the Victoria Listener Club back on shortwave with a revival broadcast of the four-hour annual hit parade from 1984 and station operator Roger Kirk, who died in 2012.
Formerly broadcasting via Radio Milano International over the turn of the year 1984/1985, after forty years and now again in 2024-2025 broadcast, and relayed via Shortwave Gold from Northern Germany on 6160kHz and with the quasi-first broadcast on Boxing Day and the two repetitions on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day:
December 26, 2024 from 09:00 UTC to 13:00 UTC
December 31, 2024 from 09:00 UTC to 13:00 UTC
January 1, 2025 from 09:00 UTC to 13:00 UTC