Jazz Wave Plus

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The Jazz Welle Plus was a private jazz and cultural radio, first in the greater Munich area on the FM frequency 92.4 MHz and from 1991 also in Hamburg on the frequency 97.1 MHz.

history

Founded by the then editor of the Jazzzeitung , Hans Ruland (1948-2006), the station went up as Jazz Welle on January 2, 1986 with 8 hours of programming per week in a frequency community with pop providers (such as Radio Arabella ) on Munich frequency 92.4 Broadcast.

After the reorganization of the transmission frequencies in 1988 and 1994, the Jazz Welle Plus Munich 92.4 received together with the Radio K 3 GmbH (children, culture, classical) of the lawyer and jazz trumpeter Jürgen Buchholtz on the same frequency initially 38, then 133 broadcast hours per Week - now under the name Jazz Welle Plus .

At the instigation of the Hamburg media center, Jazz Welle Plus founded Jazz Welle plus Hamburg 97.1 in 1991 together with a number of Hamburg partners , which Hans Ruland headed as managing partner until 1992. After Hans Ruland returned to Munich, the Jazz Welle plus Hamburg only lasted until 1995.

In 1997, for personal reasons, Hans Ruland was forced to give up Jazz Welle Plus and sold the slot to Energy presenter Markus Langemann, whose Relax FM (until 2001) replaced the special interest broadcaster. The Jazz Welle Plus said goodbye on March 25, 1997 with a farewell concert in the Munich Philharmonic.

In the competition for advertising income with the other private broadcasters, the Jazz Welle was only able to keep up with a market share of two to three percent through the self-exploitation of the makers. According to Rulands' judgment, however, "the diversity of jazz ... has hindered its marketability (which many also do not want)".

concept

When Ruland applied for a broadcasting license, he did not primarily want to “do radio”, but rather to give jazz what he thought it was entitled to. His motto was "the slightly different radio that stands out from the (private) bag radio ". The content of the contributions was more important than the presentation. That is why the Jazz Welle Plus attached great importance to the fact that - especially with the specials - only people who knew exactly what they were talking about had their say. The same was true for the cultural, classical and literary programs from 1988 onwards.

So designed z. For example, alongside the presenters from the very beginning, the jazz expert and editor of the Bielefeld catalog, Manfred Scheffner , and the jazz journalist Gerd Filtgen, musicians like Oscar Klein and Roman Schwaller, the jazz specials, the authors Gunna Wendt and Andreas Geyer regularly the literary programs , while the Klassik-Klub u. a. was supervised by the pianists Yaara Tal and Andreas Groethuysen. For the more modern varieties of jazz and jazz-related music stood u. a. Mathias Modica , Chuck Herrmann and Michael Reinboth, later also Marcus A. Woelfle . The names mentioned are representative of the professionals who made Jazz Welle Plus unmistakable.

program

  • Jazz from old-time to avant-garde including gospel , blues , salsa and other jazz-related music styles in specials moderated by experts.
  • Culture (reports from Munich's theaters, exhibitions, galleries, museums, concerts and cinemas)
  • Classical music from the Middle Ages to new music, including crossing borders between light and serious music
  • Literature with author interviews , poetry readings , presentations of new books, etc.
  • Magazine broadcasts with jazz and jazz-related popular music

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