Steam radio

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Steam radio

description Program guide
language German
publishing company Dampf-Radio Verlags GmbH ( Germany )
Headquarters Call
First edition 1977; again in 1990
Frequency of publication weekly
Web link radioprogrammzeitschrift.de
ZDB 401318-9

Steam Radio is a German radio - Program Guide . It appears weekly in the Dampf-Radio Verlags GmbH in Schleiden .

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Dampf-Radio is the only national program magazine in Germany that only prints radio programs. According to the self-description, it is aimed “at the dedicated radio listener who not only turns on his radio for background sound, but also wants to specifically watch the numerous, excellent programs on public broadcasting”. Accordingly, the focus is on the broadcasts of the cultural programs.

Each edition contains the complete weekly program of all radio stations of the ARD , as well as the programs of Deutschlandfunk , Deutschlandfunk Kultur , Deutschlandfunk Nova , Österreich 1 and Radio SRF 2 Kultur . As far as more detailed information on the individual shipments is available, they will also be printed. Each issue includes over 220 program information. This makes it by far the most comprehensive program magazine for German-speaking radio. Programs from private radio stations are not included. Because of the simple layout, Die Zeit judged in 1995 that the paper exuded "about as much charm as the railway's course book ". The Frankfurter Rundschau said that “compared to the brightly colored TV magazines”, the steam radio was more “an unadorned wallflower”.

history

Dampf-Radio was first published by Verlag Chur in Schleiden from 1977 to 1981 . The magazine was founded by Ernst Chur. Printing machines were used that had originally been used to produce children's books. However, the entrepreneurial concept did not work because the costs for typesetting and printing were too high and the press wholesalers hindered sales.

Since 1990, Ernst Chur and Sigrid Münch made a second attempt because many former readers had wanted it and had promised to pay a higher price for the subscription than before. Since then, the magazine has been published by the Dampf-Radio-Verlags-GmbH in Kall in a family business in a futuristic-looking self-designed building with a large roof dome. The program lists and press releases were then sent by fax from the broadcasters and entered into an editorial system by five employees working from home. Editing, production and sales took place in-house. The concept proved to be successful because in the other program guides the radio program had increasingly taken a back seat to the television program. The plans considered in the mid-1990s to include program criticism in the paper were not implemented in the period that followed. The publisher does not announce the edition because it does not want “a major publisher to become aware of the niche in the market”. In 2001 the aim was to have a circulation of “30,000 to 40,000” copies.

Today, Dampf-Radio is relocated to Dampf-Radio Verlags GmbH in Schleiden. The magazine is published with 144 pages in DIN A5 format. It is "almost ad-free" and can only be obtained by subscription.

The readership is evenly distributed across Germany and the neighboring countries. It is divided into two large groups: on the one hand, more conservative concert lovers, on the other hand, more liberal people who are interested in radio features and reports . About half of the readers are academics, including "many young people". There are also recipients in more distant countries (USA, Japan).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Steam radio: contact. In: radioprogrammzeitschrift.de. Retrieved November 13, 2016 .
  2. ↑ a b c Steam Radio: Welcome. In: radioprogrammzeitschrift.de. Retrieved November 13, 2016 .
  3. ↑ a b c d e Roland Kirbach: Intellectual wealth, small print . In: The time. January 6, 1995. Retrieved November 13, 2016.
  4. ↑ Tilmann Gangloff: No market for information about the "secondary medium" ?. The ambitious radio newspaper “Hörwelt” ceases to appear after just a few months . In: Frankfurter Rundschau. July 1, 1999. Page 11.
  5. ↑ a b c d e Simone Wittke: Read first, then switch on . A family business produces the “Dampf-Radio” program for radio fans. In: Insight. 2001, 10, pp. 26-27.
  6. ^ Jürgen Bischoff: Course book for cable waves . In: The daily newspaper: taz . May 6, 1991, ISSN  0931-9085 , p. 20 ( taz.de [accessed on April 21, 2019]).
  7. ↑ a b Order in the ether . In: Der Spiegel. No. 26/1991. P. 216.
  8. ↑ Michael Thalken: Steam radio from the hemisphere. Radio fans are optimally served. The only radio program magazine available in Germany is produced in a futuristic building . In: Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger. February 8, 2003 (Eifel).
  9. ↑ Gudrun Klinkhammer: Strange dome on an Eifel mountain ridge . In: Kölnische Rundschau. July 28, 2003 (regional).