Time radio

Zeitfunk is a program area in broadcasting . Time radio broadcasts deal with current events, using different journalistic genres such as reports , reports , interviews and commentaries . The television has taken the concept of radio.

Time radio is one of the classic areas of radio ; German broadcasting statistics first list the term in 1932. Many broadcasters have their own radio newsrooms.

One of the oldest life Radio broadcasts that belongs echo time of the Swiss Radio DRS . Since 1945, the program has conveyed "the most important news, reports, reports, interviews and analyzes of current affairs" every day, according to the Swiss broadcaster. RIAS Berlin claims to have established the first time-only broadcasts in Germany. The hr2 time radio program Der Tag was awarded the 2006 Otto Brenner Prize for critical journalism.

Time radio broadcasts often contain verbal contributions and reports, but rarely music. In some radio broadcasts, (instrumental) music is also used as a short separator between two topics. The most well-known time broadcasts in German-speaking countries include:

• Reports from today ( WDR 2 , WDR 5 , NDR Info and NDR 1 country programs, weekdays 11:30 p.m.)
• That was the day ( Deutschlandfunk , weekdays at 11 p.m.)
• The day ( hr2-culture , weekdays 6:05 p.m.)
• Echo of Time (Swiss Broadcasting SR DRS)
• Echo of the day (WDR 5 and NDR Info, weekdays 6:30 p.m.)
• Information in the morning (Deutschlandfunk, daily 5:05 a.m. to 8:59 a.m.)
• Information at noon (Deutschlandfunk, daily 12:09 p.m. to 1:29 p.m.)
• Information in the evening (Deutschlandfunk, daily 6:09 p.m. to 6:40 p.m.)
• Morning, noon, evening, night and midnight journal ( Ö1 , from 7:00 a.m., from 12:00 p.m., from 6:00 p.m., from 10:00 p.m. and from 12:00 a.m.)
• Studio 9 ( Deutschlandfunk Kultur , weekdays 5:07 a.m. to 8:59 a.m. & 5:07 p.m. to 6:29 p.m. and Saturdays 6:07 a.m. to 8:59 a.m.)
• SWR2-Aktuell ( SWR2 , 12:00 p.m. to 12:30 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ U. Heitger: From time signals to political means of leadership. Development tendencies and structures of radio news programs in the Weimar Republic 1923–1932 . Münster 2005, p. 389 .
2. ↑ The oldest time radio broadcast in the German-speaking area. Deutschlandfunk, October 8, 2005, accessed October 29, 2016 . 
3. ↑ "Otto Brenner Prize for Critical Journalism - Thorough research instead of ordered truths" - an overview of all award winners - 2005-2016 ( Memento of the original from August 3, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF), otto-brenner-preis.de, requested on July 29, 2017.