Establishment for cable communication

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The establishment for cable communication , establishment of the public right in Ludwigshafen am Rhein (also: AKK-Sendezentrale ; short: AKK ) was a "cradle" of the German private radio in the context of the cable pilot project Ludwigshafen . In 1987, its public law tasks were taken over by the state center for private broadcasters (since 2005 LMK ), which is why the AKK was transferred to the state-owned AKK-Sendezentrale GmbH at the end of 1986 . Later companies: AKK broadcasting center GmbH & Co. KG (1992), AKK TV transmission GmbH & Co. KG , today AKK TV transmission GmbH .

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The AKK, which was set up on June 15, 1982, was a public-law institution, which was also the licensing and monitoring authority as well as the broadcasting center and production facility for privately held television and radio . The basis was the state law on an experiment with broadband cable of December 4, 1980 for the introduction and testing of private broadcasting, which was largely promoted by Helmut Kohl and Leo Kirch . The project was funded by the Rhineland-Palatinate Prime Minister Bernhard Vogel , who was often on site in the early days and followed the broadcasting operations.

The AKK had up to 160 permanent employees and was led by well-known personalities from politics and business , u. a. Peter Boenisch (CEO 1982–83), Ulrich Lohmar (CEO), Claus Detjen (Managing Director 1982–85), Rainer Sura and Helmut G. Bauer (Managing Director) and Herbert F. Schnaudt (Commercial Director). Politicians from other federal states tried to poach the program organizers.

In 1992, the state-owned AKK and Neue Medien Ulm TV formed AKK-Sendezentrale GmbH & Co. KG . The AKK broadcasting center later finally ceased broadcasting operations due to a lack of orders. As a result, the intact facilities were disposed of and mass layoffs were carried out. In the meantime, investments had been made in mobile transmission technology and in the high-loss store radio AKK Businessradio (1992–98). The AKK business radio had a broad customer base, including the Metro Group .

In 1995 the state of Rhineland-Palatinate wanted to sell its shares in AKK. The new media Ulm TV announced its intention to take on this to expand the TV area and invest in the long term. Instead, the state of Rhineland-Palatinate sold the AKK in 1995 to POS Medien Beteiligungs GmbH in Kiel for the symbolic price of DM 1 . The sale was connected with payments from the state of Rhineland-Palatinate to the buyer in the double-digit millions; Nevertheless, almost all jobs were lost, as well as the location and most of the stationary technology, which was built in 1983–1984 for over 23 million DM and was regularly supplemented and expanded in the following years.

From the remnants the AKK TV-Transmission GmbH & Co. KG emerged (today AKK TV-Transmission GmbH ).

Broadcasting

Broadcasting began on January 1, 1984 at midnight. Initially, 24 television channels and four new private radio channels could be received in the Vorderpfalz cable pilot project . Over time, the AKK broadcast nationwide.

The AKK's first television customers were:

In the radio sector, there were initially four channels for individual providers or provider associations and the open channel. The first radio channel (104.35 MHz) was awarded to Radio Weinstrasse . This first private broadcaster had undertaken to broadcast at least five hours a day. The award of a transmitter chain for unshielded VHF radio in Rhineland-Palatinate was awarded in 1986 to four provider associations (RPR, LR, Radio 85, PRO Radio4) and was initially called Radio 4 . After a short time, LR and Radio 85 commissioned RPR to broadcast their broadcast times. In 1995, PRO Radio4 agreed to join the RPR. From then on, the program was uniformly called Radio RPR .

One of the last television providers was STAR1, the first private Turkish television broadcaster in Germany. STAR1 was very popular in Turkey , laid out in the west and was broadcast across Turkey via countless relay stations and satellites. The Turkish broadcaster TeleOn was soon added, as did the AKK for Turkey. The uncensored, western-oriented CNN-style news was considered credible and neutral. For example, the word Kurd was in the news, while the TRT still called it Mountain Turks . The audience rate rose to 98%, and the state broadcaster TRT ran into serious problems. At the time, technical facilities in Istanbul were occasionally rammed by municipal garbage trucks, and the Turkish deputy managing director was killed in unknown circumstances. The Turkish state finally brought about the suspension of broadcasting from the AKK.

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  1. ↑ State ordinance on the determination of the time of the establishment of the "Establishment for Cable Communication" of June 2, 1982 (GVBl. P. 190)
  2. ^ Draft and justification: Drs. 9/687
  3. ↑ a b Court of Auditors RP, Annual Report 1998 , Drs. 13/3970 , Item 8, Uz. 1 (p. 56)
  4. ↑ horizont.net : LPR revokes AKK Business Radio's license (September 22, 1998)
  5. ↑ Audit Office RP, Annual Report 1998 , Item 8, Uz. 2.1 restructuring contribution and 2.2 job guarantee ; Answer from the state government: Drs. 13/4253 pp. 12–16