Ö1 International

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Ö1 International
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Radio station ( public law )
reception Shortwave , satellite
Reception area worldwide
business July 1, 2003 to December 31, 2009
Broadcaster ORF
Intendant Alexander Wrabetz
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Radio Austria 1 International (Ö1 International) is the Austrian international service that can be received via shortwave and is the successor to Radio Austria International . Since 2010, only a 75-minute block of the domestic program Ö1 has been broadcast on the remaining shortwave frequency , the foreign language programs have been discontinued  without replacement. This broadcast is the last remaining part of Austrian broadcasting abroad .

History and program

After Radio Austria International  (RÖI) had stopped broadcasting and the ORF international service had been restructured, the Ö1 domestic program - the ORF's classic, cultural and information channel - began with some foreign language programs exclusively on shortwave on July 1, 2003 were broadcast, to broadcast worldwide via shortwave, but in a severely limited length and transmission power. The frequencies remained the same as with RÖI; it was also broadcast in Europe via the Astra 1H satellite , the World Radio Network and audio via the Internet ( streaming , podcasting ). Ö1 International was organized after the budget cuts by Rainer Rosenberg . The cuts in the program and the transition from Radio Austria International to Ö1 International were mainly due to the costs. In contrast to other broadcasters, the Austrian foreign service is not financed from the state budget, but from the ORF budget. The broadcasting law only contains the supply of foreign countries as an optional provision. Therefore, since then, no more own programs have been produced for foreign countries, only domestic programs from the Ö1 program are used.

An old program element was initially retained - in abbreviated form - the English-language Report from Austria (and Report from Austria - The Week in Review ). It was broadcast on shortwave at various times instead of the Ö1 program, but was finally discontinued on December 31, 2008. Other programs were Insight Central Europe and Infos en français . Ideas for a Spanish program were not implemented either, only Noticiero de Austria was sent in Spanish. The broadcast operations were then drastically restricted step by step.

Since January 1, 2010, only one block with the morning journal (with news in German) and the classic show Guten Morgen Österreich has been on air between 07:00 and 08:15  CEST on 6155 kHz (49 m band) . In 2016, the transmission time was extended to 8:20 a.m., as the current message block had always been prematurely canceled at 8:15 a.m. Overseas territories have not been supplied since March 2013.

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Individual evidence

  1. a b ORF short wave new Ö1 International . In Wiener Zeitung online, June 30, 2003 (update April 7, 2005)
  2. Alfredreiber: Ö1 belongs to: the annotated success story of a radio station. Böhlau Verlag Wien, 2007, ISBN 978-3-205-77495-2 , chapter normal operation , p. 344 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  3. a b c d In conversation with Michael Kerbler (ORF-Ö1) In: Radio-Kurier - worldwide listen 7/2012, rubric radio heads , section Current service and international broadcasting , p. 25, columns 1–2 (whole article 24–25, pdf , addx.org)
  4. Driver: Ö1 is heard. , P. 319.
  5. see frequencies , oe1.orf.at