Hundred, 6

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Hundert, 6 was one of the first two private radio stations in Berlin .

history

Ulrich Schamoni

The Berlin radio station Hundert, 6 was founded in 1987 by the filmmaker Ulrich Schamoni and several medium-sized companies and began broadcasting on April 10, 1987. The first broadcasting house was on Paulsborner Strasse, and a few years later the company moved to a new broadcasting house on Katharina-Heinroth-Ufer. The station achieved considerable ratings in the first few years.

In the first few years Hundert, 6 shared the slot with another station, Radio 100 , which is closely related to the alternative movement . In order to distance himself from this and its content, Hundert played the German national anthem at 6 at 7 p.m., which was the end of the broadcast at the time . The alternative operator, which then went on air, countered with the sound of a toilet flush. If the broadcasting time of Radio 100 ended at 11 p.m. , this broadcaster declared that now, with the restart of the broadcasting time of Hundred, 6 , an “18-hour pause signal” (the program of Hundert, 6 ) would be broadcast. Since Radio 100 switched to a different frequency (first together with Radio in Berlin ), Hundert, 6 was a 24-hour radio. Even after the changeover to 24-hour operation, the national anthem was still played shortly before 7 p.m., but was expanded to include a station announcement. This was followed by news, followed by the nightly oldies show with songs from the 50s to 70s.

With its reporting critical of the GDR, the radio station was a thorn in the side of those in power in the east, so that in 1989 the hourly news broadcasts were temporarily drowned out with interference signals. However , this did not detract from the popularity of Hundred, 6 in the East.

Georg Gafron

Schamoni left in 1992. Georg Gafron then took over the program management and later also the management together with Klaus H. Röttger (Marketing / Sales). In 1995 Hundert, 6 was bought by Thomas Kirch . The station was at times strongly colored politically. At the time when Georg Gafron was managing director, the station was geared towards the CDU in terms of political content . The governing mayor Eberhard Diepgen and the CDU parliamentary group chairman in the Berlin House of Representatives, Klaus-Rüdiger Landowsky , were frequent guests at one hundred or six . In the Berlin election campaign in 2001 Hundert, 6 warned Berliners against a change of government to a red-red coalition . As a result, the broadcaster launched a poster campaign entitled “No power to the perpetrators!” , Which mainly featured motifs from the Berlin Wall .

Thomas Thimme

In the course of the crisis in the Kirch group , the station changed hands in 2002. Thomas Thimme , who was managing director of the bankrupt Radio 100 in the 1980s and founded ENERGY 103.4 in the 1990s, became the program manager and managing director .

insolvency

On April 18, 2005, managing director Thimme filed for bankruptcy for Hundert, 6 Medien GmbH at the Charlottenburg district court. Before that, the old broadcasting house on Katharina-Heinroth-Ufer in Berlin-Tiergarten was moved overnight to the Medialog company, whose managing director was Thomas Thimme as well and to which the broadcasting license had been transferred at the beginning of 2005. In May 2005, Medialog returned the license for the 100.6 MHz frequency. However, since the insolvent license holder, Hundert, 6 Medien GmbH, did not have any technical possibilities, Medialog initially sent on on behalf of the insolvency administrator.

From September 1, 2005, the insolvent company sent again with part of the original team, after the insolvency administrator had withdrawn Medialog from the contract. The studios were in Berlin-Wannsee with another radio station. Since then, Medialog has been broadcasting on its Power Radio frequencies (VHF 88.3 MHz; VHF 91.8 MHz; VHF 92.7 MHz; VHF 93.3 MHz; VHF 94.4 MHz; VHF 95.2 MHz; VHF 95, 3 MHz; VHF 97.0 MHz and VHF 98.2 MHz), which cover northeast Berlin, northern Brandenburg and the southeast “bacon belt” of Berlin.

In order to clear the way for these interested parties, the insolvency administrator returned the license for the new tender to the media authority. In January 2006, the media council selected Netzeitung and Motor FM from among a total of 30 investors .

Moderators

The station's moderators were:

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