Federal Association of Free Radios

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The Federal Association of Free Radios (BFR) is the umbrella organization of free radios and radio initiatives in Germany.

The BFR was founded in Hattingen at the end of 1993 and currently has 31 members. It accompanies current media policy critically and represents the interests of free radios vis-à-vis the state media authorities . The association is based at Radio CORAX in Halle (Saale) and has been a member of the Community Media Forum Europe (CMFE) since 2010 . BFR joined AMARC Europe in 2012 . The last BFR congress took place from November 23 to 26, 2017 at the Freie Sender Kombinat in Hamburg. The BFR supports the (program) exchange of the free radios through the provision of mailing lists and as operator of the exchange platform for radio reports frei-radios.net and in the past through the critical support of the news magazine zip-fm .

free-radios.net

The BFR is the operator of the exchange platform for radio broadcasts freie-radios.net, which was conceptually developed between July 1997 and October 1998 and went public in 2001. There are around 80,000 radio programs on the server that can be listened to immediately, downloaded and - in accordance with the CC license - broadcast from other radio stations. The contributions can also be presented by third parties via a documented xml interface.

history

July 22nd, 1997 first conceptual brainstorming in Geiswasser (Alsace); September 25-27, 1997 nationwide meeting in Marburg under the motto “No more day without information”, discussion of a concept that can be seen as a forerunner of “zip-fm”; November 28 - 30, 1997 Development of the “shelf system”, the idea of ​​freie-radios.net takes shape; Fierce discussions begin in the BFR about feared centralist structures. 1998 final development of the concept (February 13-15 in Stuttgart, April 17-19 in Erfurt, April 4-5 in Haina, September 11-13 in Tübingen, October 18-23 in Hattingen )

Cooperation

Free radios that are members of the BFR (or the sister organizations in Austria and Switzerland) can access free-radios.net and upload contributions through an informal application for membership. Other production groups can also apply.

Future Workshop Community Media / BFR Congress

Once a year, the BFR invites active members from its member radio stations as well as from other associations and initiatives to a working and exchange meeting lasting several days. This takes place every year on a different member radio.

zip-fm

The jointly produced news magazine zip-fm existed from July 1, 2002 to July 31, 2014. The joint editorial project was accompanied and promoted at the BFR congresses. Despite controversial discussions, the regular information magazine in German-speaking countries started in 2002 with a half-hour, moderated show every Tuesday to Friday. The programs each consisted of four political contributions from different free radios, the magazine was broadcast by around twelve free radios.

List of radio stations

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ FRBB: PM as of March 31. - Opening of the FRBB studio in the House of Statistics - fr-bb. Accessed April 2, 2020 (German).