Bundesliga conference

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The Bundesliga conference , also ARD Bundesliga conference , the live sports coverage of ARD at the Bundesliga on the radio. It is produced centrally by WDR 2 for all broadcasting ARD radio waves.

Broadcast times

The ARD Bundesliga conference always runs at the end of the two halves and is shown in the programs WDR 2 (on the program: "Liga Live"), Bayern 1 (today in the stadium), Bremen Eins (the Bundesliga), hr1 (arena) , hr-info , MDR info (Bundesliga), MDR Jump *, MDR 1 Radio Sachsen , MDR Sachsen-Anhalt *, MDR Thuringia *, NDR 2 (The NDR 2 Bundesliga show), NDR 1 Welle Nord , Inforadio (Sport am Saturday), radioeins , SR 3 Saarlandwelle (sports and music), SWR1 (stadium) and occasionally also Bremen Vier , hr3 and SR 1 Europawelle broadcast. (*: only the final conference)

On Saturdays, the so-called half - time conference begins punctually on all channels at 16:08, the so-called final conference at 16:55.

While the ARD broadcasters use a joint conference at the end of the half-time, the broadcasters switch to the individual sports reporters separately at other times and thus create their own conference, in which the teams from their own broadcasting area then form a focus.

A Bundesliga conference is not only held by the ARD broadcasters, but also by the private internet radio station 90elf from August 2008 to May 2013 . In contrast to the ARD version, this conference extends over the entire duration of the game. Also, the reporters don't hear each other here. Instead, the moderator builds the conference from the reporters' individual game reports. After SPORT1 had taken over the Bundesliga rights from 90elf, its internet sports radio Sport1.FM also broadcast a Bundesliga conference until 2017, which was based on the same principle as the 90elf conference. The music streaming service Amazon Music has been offering a Bundesliga conference since 2017, which extends over the entire playing time with separate conference commentators and is thus similar to the ARD conference.

Type of transfer

The type of comment makes the special attraction. While the radio usually reports on sporting events in a linear fashion, the Bundesliga conference takes up the peculiarity of the football match day and reports in a conference call in parallel on the games taking place at the same time. Each encounter is accompanied by its own commentator, who reports the game situations up-to-the-second when the program is switched on. Since the moving image is missing, the game develops in this type of transmission in the head of the listener, who has to get an idea of ​​what is happening in the course of the live description.

Particular tension always develops when the sports reporter declares a goal without mentioning the successful team, e.g. B. "Gate in Frankfurt".

While the direct description of current events traditionally formed the focus of the ARD Bundesliga conference, today the description of the game events that occurred a long time ago is of increasing importance; the retelling of the previous minutes of the game takes up more and more space than the up-to-the-second live broadcast of the events happening in the stadium. While some conference calls from ARD broadcasters contain a high proportion of retelling of past minutes of the game, the proportion of up-to-the-second reports was very high in 90 eleven.

Before all games taking place at the same time were reported in the conference, only four games were previously broadcast. After the conference, the recordings of the last four minutes of the remaining games were played one after the other.

Even before the Bundesliga was founded, there was a conference call on the radio. From September 21, 1952, several games were reported at the same time on the weekend.

Position in the media landscape

The ARD Bundesliga conference is very popular with the population. The switching conference for the last 20 minutes of the game, which is broadcast by 14 ARD radio stations, regularly reached 8.02 million listeners in 2009. In 2006 there were 6.89 million radio listeners in 2003 and 7.42 million. For comparison: 90elf reached 600,000 listeners at the final of the 2008/2009 season, the ARD conference came to 6.25 million.

In 2010 the editorial team of the WDR-2 version “ Liga Live ” received the German Radio Prize for the format. Germany was "unthinkable without the Bundesliga conference on Saturdays," said the jury's statement. Some particularly dramatic final conferences were published in 2013 as books or are available as recordings on CD.

The football podcast Rasenfunk has chosen the title Final Conference for its weekly review of the current Bundesliga matchday as a tribute to the ARD Bundesliga conference .

For years, the ARD Bundesliga conference was the only way for football fans to watch Bundesliga games at the same time as teletext . It was not until the Premiere reporting and the increasing spread of the Internet that serious alternatives emerged. The Bundesliga conference on pay TV plays a special role here, as a conference call that is not limited to listening has been offered for the first time since the 2000/2001 season.

Selection of well-known reporters

Former reporters are marked with a *, deceased ones with a †.

Northern German Radio

Bavarian radio

Günther Koch from 1977 to 2006

Südwestrundfunk (SWR)

until 1998: Süddeutscher Rundfunk (SDR) / Südwestfunk (SWF)

Saarland radio

West German Broadcasting Cologne

Manfred "Manni" Breuckmann from 1982 to 2008

Hessian radio

Broadcasting Berlin-Brandenburg (RBB)

until 2003: Sender Free Berlin (SFB) / Ostdeutscher Rundfunk Brandenburg (ORB)

Radio Bremen

Central German radio

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Goal in Bremen!" The radio legends Günther Koch and Manfred Breuckmann on the Bundesliga conference. . In: Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung, August 5, 2011
  2. ^ First football switching conference on ARD radio (on September 21, 1952)
  3. ↑ Karolin Schmidt / Lothar Mai: The Bundesliga on the radio. Results of a usage analysis over time.
  4. ^ Felix Huegel: Football live. 90elf broadcasts the Bundesliga, Deutschlandfunk, Markt & Medien, August 8, 2009. Here the broadcast manuscript online.
  5. ^ German Radio Prize 2010 - The reasons given by the jury
  6. ↑ Tooor ... in Germany! The most dramatic final conferences from 50 years of the Bundesliga. WDR (Hrsg.), Suhrkamp Taschenbuch, Berlin, ISBN 978-3-518-46428-1
  7. ^ Hessischer Rundfunk. The heartbeat final in Frankfurt - never more 2nd division! Live recording of the ARD conference call from the final of the second Bundesliga on May 25, 2003. Frankfurt am Main, hrMedia. 2003. (Also contains excerpts from the final conference of the last Bundesliga matchday 1998/1999.)
  8. ↑ [1]