Red Light Radio – Live Radio in Amsterdam’s Red Light District

Radio Netherlands Worldwide reports on a new addition to Amsterdam’s (in)famous Red Light District: a radio broadcasting live from a former prostitute’s cubicle.

The radio station joins a handful of fashion and art galleries introduced to the area as part of an effort to ‘clean up‘ the neighborhood.

Presenters spin their records by the light of a red lamp, in a one-and-a-half by three meter room. Facing the Old Church the window is squeezed-in between a sex theater and red-lighted windows behind which prostitutes beckon potential customers.

Founder Hugo van Heijningen saw a similar radio station broadcasting from behind a window in New York’s East Village. Seeing the sub-culture that grew up around the station, he wanted to copy the idea in Amsterdam — and what better place to do something behind a window than in the Red Light District?

At present the project has a temporary nature, but the DJs hope that Amsterdam’s Project 1012 will extend the station’s three-month license.

Patricia Cronie went to Amsterdam and asked founder Hugo van Heijningen what’s the benefit of making radio next door to the prostitutes?

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Red Light Radio brings you daily shows of local DJ’s, live performances and cool personalities doing a one time only radio show. You can expect shows full of afro beat or shows with black metal next to live acoustic performances or DJ sets by artists or even a show by YOU.