Studio Franconia

The Studio Franken is a regional studio of the ARD . It is trimedial at the editorial, technical and administrative level and is operated by Bayerischer Rundfunk .

history

Started in August 1924

The age of broadcasting in Franconia began on August 2, 1924 with a kind of "intermediate station" as a broadcasting station for the Munich radio program, which had started medium-wave broadcasting in Munich on March 30, 1924 as the "German Hour in Bavaria". From 1925 the Nuremberg studio produced its own programs in its broadcasting rooms on Keßlerstrasse, a few hours a week, live music programs and spoken word contributions. They were fed into the entire Bavarian program via the transmission system of the Oberpostdirektion Nürnberg. In 1931 the station moved into its studio on Allersberger Strasse, where it stayed until 1948.

Radio Nuremberg in the time of the National Socialists

From 1933 the National Socialists took control of radio in Germany. They suspended the Nuremberg studio manager Alfred Graf and replaced him with Wilhelm Paulus. From then on, the Nuremberg radio station only produced music. From 1939 onwards, all secondary broadcasters in the German Reich had to largely cease their production operations; only one standard program was broadcast. For Nazi party rallies of the NSDAP, the “Nebensender Nürnberg” provided the technology.

New beginning 1945

Nuremberg ceased broadcasting on April 17, 1945 and went back on air on November 22, 1945 under American military supervision as a secondary station for "Radio Munich". The focus was initially on the “Nuremberg Trials”, which the journalist Fritz Mellinger commented on. Mellinger became the first director of Studio Nuremberg when the Nuremberg station officially started operating on October 1, 1948. Half a year earlier, a separate music department had been set up. Nuremberg initially broadcast mainly music programs. In 1949 the Nuremberg transmitter moved to a park-like area on Wallensteinstrasse.

Forerunner of Bavaria 2

From 1959, music remains the focus of Studio Nürnberg. From 1950 Nuremberg broadcasts a second Bavarian radio program. In the 1950s, the focus of radio programs was on music. Initially popular music , for which the studio engaged the Kurt Edelhagen orchestra in 1949 . In addition, there was the collaboration with the Franconian State Orchestra, today's "Nuremberg Symphony Orchestra". One of Europe's oldest music programs, the Musikalisches Tafel-Confect , went on air for the first time on November 2, 1952. The show offers music from the Middle Ages to classical music, garnished with loosely prepared information. In order to be able to cover Bavaria with the programs of the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation, a VHF transmitter was put into operation in Munich-Freimann on February 28, 1949, and Nuremberg followed in July 1949 as a VHF location. Characteristic for the new program was its higher entertainment content with lectures, radio plays and live broadcasts. The independent full program Bayern 2 developed from the VHF program in Nuremberg.

Radio and television

In 1960 technical developments made it possible to split the program apart. The BR broadcast a separate program for Franconia with Bayern 2 and also on television. In Nuremberg, a special word editorial team is being set up with current reporting in the program “From the Main to the Danube”. In 1971 there was the news program “Franken aktuell” (today “Mittags in Franken”) and since 1977 the program “Mittags in Mainfranken” for the Mainfranken region. Since October, the BR has changed the waves of regional radio programs from Bayern 1 to Bayern 2. Since 1962 there has been a separate television editorial office in the Nuremberg studio. Initially, the television broadcasts had to be sent to Munich by courier. Since 1978 Nuremberg has been serving fixed broadcasting slots within the framework of BR television, including the Franconian Chronicle (today Frankenschau ) which is broadcast on Sundays .

Digital and tri-media future

In May 1990 the “Studio Nürnberg” was renamed “Studio Franken”. On May 2, 1994, the regional television program "Bayern Live - der Norden" (today Frankenschau aktuell ) went on air. In the mid-1990s, Studio Franken began with digital television and radio as well as its own online offering. For this, on December 17, 1992, the new Nuremberg television studio switched to digital operation. Since the renovation, Dolby Surround recordings have been possible in Studio Franken, the contributions are recorded and edited on the computer, then saved and archived as audio files on a server and can thus be researched, listened to and re-edited at any time and on any PC with the appropriate access . In 2014 Studio Franken, in which the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation installed tri-media structures, celebrated its 65th anniversary. 138 permanent employees work in the studio. You will be supported by a large number of freelancers. With 55,416 minutes of broadcasting on the radio, Studio Franken generated around 8% of the total broadcast volume on Bavarian radio in 2014. In 2014, the Nuremberg studio provided 14,142 minutes of broadcasting around 3% of the broadcast volume of BR television on BR TV. Tassilo Forchheimer has been in charge since October 2019.

Locations

The main location with the television and radio studio is Nuremberg . Bayerischer Rundfunk maintains regional studios at a total of eight locations in Franconia. In Upper Franconia, the studio in Bayreuth, which has been tri-media oriented since 2015. In Upper Franconia there are also studios in Hof, Coburg and Bamberg. In Middle Franconia, the BR operates a studio in Ansbach in addition to the central studio in Nuremberg. In Lower Franconia, Studio Franken is present with the regional studio Mainfranken in Würzburg and with offices in Aschaffenburg and Schweinfurt.

Transmission tower on Wallensteinstrasse

At the Nuremberg location there is a 108-meter-high transmission tower in steel framework construction , this is not used for direct broadcasting of programs, but for program playback. On the premises of the Studio Franken in Nuremberg there is also an extensive studio park with its own "Fernsehgärtla" where, in the summer months when the Frankenschau is currently taking a break, etc. a. the evening show is produced and in the school for radio technology the ARD.ZDF media academy founded on January 1st, 2007 . In summer, Studio Franken organizes an open house, the event called “Summer in the Park” is very popular with the population.

The transmitters Ochsenkopf and Dillberg each have two frequencies, with one frequency each from Bayern 1 and Bayern 2 to Studio Franken (with Dillberg 88.9 MHz and 92.3 MHz; with Ochsenkopf 90.7 MHz and 96.0 MHz) , the other belongs to the Studio Ostbayern based in Regensburg . The frequencies of the Dillberg and Ochsenkopf extend very far into other parts of Bavaria, so that the respective regional studios can also be heard outside the actual region.

broadcasts

Studio Franken independently manages a total of 16 radio and television channels, from “Asül für Alle” to “Frankenschau”, the “Heimatspiegel” in BR Heimat , to the popular Sunday program “Tafel-Confect” and the program “Zeit für Bavaria". They are broadcast partly regionally in Franconia, partly on the Bavaria-wide waves of BR television and the radio waves of Bavarian Broadcasting.

Television broadcasts

Regular broadcasts on BR TV from Studio Franken are:

• Frankenschau - every Sunday from 6:05 p.m. to 6:45 p.m.
• Frankenschau current - Monday to Friday from 5:30 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.

Radio broadcasts

Among other things, the radio programs Heimatspiegel ( BR Heimat ), the midday magazine Mittags in Franken ( Bayern 1 ) and folk music (BR Heimat) as well as Auftakt and Tafel-Confect ( BR-Klassik ) regularly come from Studio Franken . During the day there is a short switch to the regions on Bayern 1 every half and full hour. Which are from the Studio Franken Regional news for francs (Upper and Central Franconia), Würzburg from the regional studio Franconia the regional news for Main Franken sent (Lower Franconia).

The digital radio Bayern plus has been broadcasting 24 hours from Studio Franken since February 2, 2015, making it the first full BR program from the regional studio that can be heard across Bavaria.

Transmitting systems on site

A mast with a transmission system for a regional DAB digital radio bouquet is located on the studio premises . The regional mux for Nuremberg on 10C broadcast via this was relocated to the higher Nuremberg telecommunications tower in mid-September 2014 .

Web links

• Official homepage of Studio Franken on br.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The beginnings of Studio Franken on BR.de accessed on December 2, 2014
2. ^ Tafel-Confect on br.de, accessed on December 2, 2014 ( Memento of October 30, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
3. ^ Regionalization of Radio Nürnberg, accessed on December 2, 2014
4. ↑ Portrait Studio Franken BR.de, taken on December 2, 2014
5. ↑ 65 years of Studio Franken, accessed on December 2, 2014 ( Memento from October 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
6. ↑ BR 2014 annual report, accessed on July 28, 2015
7. ↑ Uwe Ritzer , Olaf Przybilla : Bayerischer Rundfunk. The foreman from Rome should fix it. In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . October 18, 2019. Retrieved January 18, 2020.
8. ↑ Multi-media studio in Bayreuth on br.de, accessed on July 28, 2015
9. ↑ List of broadcasts from Franconia, accessed on December 2, 2014

Coordinates: 49 ° 26 '3 "  N , 11 ° 1' 38"  E