98.8 Kiss FM
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| Radio transmitter ( private law ) | |
| reception | terrestrial , cable and livestream |
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 Berlin Brandenburg
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| Start of transmission | January 1, 1993 |
| executive Director | Armin Braun, Christopher Franzen |
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98.8 Kiss FM is a private radio broadcaster from Berlin . The station describes itself as "The Beat of Berlin" and primarily plays hip-hop , pop and RnB . In 1995, Kiss FM was awarded the Viva Comet in the “Best Radio Station” category. In 2015, the station won the German Radio Prize in the “Best Comedy” category for the “Prenzlauer Berg News” series of articles by the two authors Philipp Volksmund and Jochen Drechsler. Kiss FM started on January 1st, 1993 with the slogan "Only Black Music". The studio is located in the building of the “ Das Schloss ” shopping center in Berlin-Steglitz. The responsible media authority is the MABB .
program
At the end of 2007, Christian Schalt (previously at Kronehit in Vienna) took over the position of managing director, which he held until 2014. In July 2009 Sebastian Voigt took over the program management. Together with the Berlin radio stations 94.3 rs2 and Berliner Rundfunk 91.4 , Kiss FM founded the subsidiary Radio Service Berlin in 2006 , which sees itself as a broadcast service company and offers news, music programs, and training. York Strempel took over the program direction in the summer of 2016.
Kiss Cup
Since 2008, 98.8 Kiss FM has organized the "Kiss Cup" annually, in which the station's presenters compete against each other in sporting disciplines, supported by celebrities and listeners. In 2008 the “Kiss Cup” took place in football and in 2009 in basketball in Berlin's Max-Schmeling-Halle . "The Kiss Cup 2010", as well as the following years, took place again in football. In addition to stars like Stromae, Felix Jaehn and Die Atzen, a large number of local acts take part in the charitable campaign.
Facetalk
From 2013 to the end of 2016, the talk show Facetalk ran every Sunday between 9 p.m. and midnight . Each show has a topic that the listeners can call and discuss. In addition to Kiss FM, the program was also broadcast on the radio stations Energy Sachsen and Delta Radio .
Others
In the Kiss FM program, the moderators occasionally cover well-known hits from the charts, for example Alors On Kiss or Frank Zander , in response to the chart success of Barbra Streisand of a dance floor duo.
Moderators
The presenters of Kiss FM use the listener's name and usually only give their first names.
current crew:
- Big Moe ( Kiss FM Morning Show )
- Nina ( Kiss FM Morning Show )
- Karolina ( 10 am-2pm )
- Tolga ( Kiss FM Afternoon , Tolga Meets )
- Lory ( Kiss FM afternoon )
- Ben ( ben the beat )
- Gizem ( German Beats )
- Sophia ( Social, Stars & Style )
- Claudi
Controversy
In 2016, the station came under public criticism after the right-wing extremist rapper MaKss Damage gave a telephone interview on the program Facetalk.
Market shares
The FM transmission area includes Berlin and parts of Brandenburg . According to the media analysis, Kiss FM reaches 53,000 listeners (as of July 2020) in an average broadcast hour (Mon-Fri, 6 am-6 pm).
Transmitter seat
The studio was initially in an old bakery in Berlin-Neukölln . The current headquarters of 98.8 Kiss FM is in the building of the “ Das Schloss ” shopping center in Berlin-Steglitz , from where the Berliner Rundfunk 91.4 and 94.3 rs2 are broadcast.
Frequencies
- DAB + 7B (10 kW, location: Berlin TV tower )
- VHF 98.8 MHz (1 kW, location: Berlin TV tower )
- Cable Berlin 97.90 MHz
At first, the station could only be heard on the cable frequency of 98.45 MHz. Kiss FM could be received via DAB + (digital radio) from August 1, 2011 to March 31, 2014 throughout Germany in the respective broadcasting areas on channel 5C.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Entry on the website of the German Radio Prize
- ↑ side of the media authority of Berlin ( Memento of 28 January 2012 at the Internet Archive )
- ↑ After “Barbra Streisand” by Duck Sauce comes “Frank Zander” (rumsabbeln.de, December 8, 2010)
- ↑ vice.com. October 13, 2016, accessed October 20, 2016 .
- ↑ Shahak Shapira : No thanks, dear neo-Nazi. October 20, 2016. Retrieved October 20, 2016 .
- ↑ http://www.reichwide.de/
- ↑ Daniel Kähler: KISS FM leaves DAB + on March 31st. Radioszene.de, February 25, 2014, accessed on February 28, 2014 .