MDR Sputnik

MDR Sputnik
Radio station ( public law )
reception	FM , DAB + , cable , satellite and live stream
Reception area	Saxony Saxony-Anhalt Thuringia
Start of transmission	May 1, 1993
Broadcaster	Central German radio
Intendant	Karola will
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alternative logo from MDR Sputnik since June 4, 2017

Headquarters of the transmitter in Halle (Saale)

MDR Sputnik ( spelling : MDR SPUTNIK ) is the youth radio of the Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk . Jana Cebulla has been the program director since October 2015. The station claim is simply the best music. Your favorite music and Sputnik is with you .

History and reception

Former logos from MDR Sputnik

MDR Sputnik logo until June 3, 2017

Sputnik's roots lie in the " DT64 youth radio " of the GDR radio . With the liquidation of the central GDR radio through the Rundfunküberleitungsgesetz at the end of 1991 there was also a threat that the popular youth radio would be completely switched off. The listeners fought a series of protests to maintain it. The Mitteldeutsche Rundfunk initially agreed to continue broadcasting the DT64 program for the first half of 1992 on the previous frequencies in its future broadcast area. In other parts of the DT64 reception area, broadcasting either ceased immediately at the end of 1991 or was phased out in favor of the establishment of new programs.

On July 1, 1992, with the end of VHF broadcasting, the program moved to medium wave frequency (1044  kHz from the Wilsdruff transmitter with 250  kilowatts of transmission power). From January 1, 1993, the transmission power was reduced to 150 kW, which freed up funds for the planned satellite broadcast.

Since March 1, 1993, when MDR television was switched on to Astra 1B, the program could also be received via subcarrier method via satellite. On May 1, 1993, the program was renamed MDR Sputnik to emphasize the station's position as the first and at that time the only MDR satellite radio program. The name suggestion came from the then Saxon Prime Minister Kurt Biedenkopf . However, the “MDR” suffix gradually disappeared over the next few years.

From July 1993, when the medium wave frequency was switched to MDR Info , the program could only be received via satellite. In November 1993 Sputnik moved from Berlin to Halle (Saale) to its own broadcasting station on Waisenhausring. In addition to being broadcast via the Astra satellite, the program could also be received digitally via the DSR package from the TV-Sat 2 and Kopernikus satellites.

On February 15, 1994, the readers of the Dresden magazine SAX voted Sputnik the most popular radio station of 1993. On December 7, 1994 the attempt by five commercial radio stations to have the broadcasting of Sputnik ceased by a court failed. The Sputnik website, which later won several awards, went online on May 13, 1995. From September 22, 1995 to September 30, Sputnik went on a concert tour in 17 train stations in Germany with Erich Honecker's dining car . In 1996, Sputnik was temporarily available in Central Germany via digital audio broadcasting .

On February 12, 1997, Sputnik received the VHF frequency 104.4 MHz in Petersberg from the State Chancellery of Saxony-Anhalt for terrestrial broadcasting in and around Halle with a range as far as Leipzig. Sputnik has been there since September 15, 1997. Later in the state of Saxony-Anhalt, VHF frequencies were added in Fleetmark , Jerichow , Klötze , Magdeburg , Naumburg , Stendal and Zeitz . On October 21, 1998, the Federal Administrative Court dismissed an action brought by Saxony in the last instance. Saxony had sued the broadcast of Sputnik on VHF as a violation of the MDR state treaty. Since August 30, 1999, Sputnik has been broadcasting from the new MDR radio house in Gerberstrasse in Halle.

Despite a slight but steady increase in the number of listeners according to the media analysis, the station changed its program schedule on December 4, 2006 and again placed more emphasis on radio as an information medium for a still young audience. At the same time, Sputnik expanded its online offer to include an online community platform that went online in December 2006 under the name "mySputnik" and has been linked to the same offerings by You FM from Hesse and Fritz from Berlin and Brandenburg since December 2007 . Another program reform in summer 2010 brought the program closer to the mainstream. In addition, the information content of the program was shut down again. This was justified with the low number of listeners in the previous, alternative program format.

Since August 1, 2011, Sputnik can be received together with other MDR programs via DAB + in Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia.

program

Sputnik initially took over the last program scheme from DT64 with programs such as Morgenrock, Take Five, Rush Hour, Sleep Disorder and formats such as Grenzpunkt Null , Deutschland im Stau and Dr. Kaos , which enjoyed cult status at the time. In the course of the expansion to format radio , the program scheme was greatly simplified at the end of the 1990s and in the years thereafter. The format radio concept reached its climax with the slogan "Black, Hot and Sexy". During the day, the program schedule consisted at times of only four programs that hardly differed: Fat Awakened, The Day, The Night, Sleep Disorder . The connection to the parent company MDR was also little promoted. The station was officially called Sputnik , the MDR logo was dropped. Sputnik has had its own program manager since December 4, 2006, is again broadcasting a more word-based program with a word share of 25 percent and is officially called MDR Sputnik again. Programs are broadcast on a weekly basis.

News cut from 2018

Since December 17, 2018, the news has been called SPUTNIK Newsfeed , with the unchanged slogan "Everything that is important today." Due to massive cost savings, these are only produced independently for the morning shows SPUTNIK TAG and WACH - with Vani van Morgen (from 5:30 a.m. to 9:00 a.m.). After that, the current messages from MDR are only read out on the hour until 8 p.m. The MDR also justifies the change with the significantly changed media use of the target group.

There is also a podcast with Team Raimund , which deals with the background of daily events. It will be pre-produced, published on the station's website and podcast platforms from 4 p.m. and broadcast on the radio from 6 p.m.

Day program

• SPUTNIK TAG and WACH , morning show with different topics, interaction via Instagram (@mdrsputnik).
  (Monday to Friday from 5 a.m. to 9 a.m. - moderated by "Vani van Morgen" alias Vanessa Massholder)
• SPUTNIK your day , morning program
  (Monday to Friday from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. - moderated by Philip, Theresa, Lumaraa , Lars, Eva, Josi, Eric, Kathi, Lil 'Tiff)
• SPUTNIK GOOD Vibes , afternoon program with double
  moderation (Monday to Friday from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. - moderated by Josi and Greg)
• TEAM RAIMUND , the latest news magazine and background information as a podcast and broadcast
  (Monday to Friday from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. - moderated by Raimund Fichtenberger)
• SPUTNIK POPKULT, evening program on pop culture topics (Monday to Thursday from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. - moderated by Sissy, Lars, Theresa, Kathi)
• SPUTNIK your weekend (Saturday 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., Sunday 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. - moderated by Lars, Eva, Josi, Kathi, Lil 'Tiff, Lumaraa , Philip, Theresa, Chris )

Evening and night program

• SPUTNIK Popkult , culture magazine with new (alternative) music, literature, cinema, discussions, lifestyle and themed weeks (Monday to Thursday from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.) - moderated by Sissy , Lars, Theresa or Kathi
• Music special programs
  • Sputnik club pearls , sophisticated electronic music, with a focus on the local scene with Kathi Groll (every fourth Wednesday of the month from 10 p.m.)
  • Sputnik Soundcheck (Tuesday from 10 p.m. to 11 p.m.)
  • Sputnik Roboton , broadcast on electronic music (Wednesday from 10 p.m. to 11 p.m., repeat Monday from 1 a.m. to 2 a.m.)
  • Sputnik Rock It , format for rock music (Thursday from 10 p.m. to 11 p.m., repeat Monday from 2 a.m. to 3 a.m.)
  • Sputnik Black Beatz - the mix , format for urban music (Friday from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m., repeated on Sunday from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m.)
  • Sputnik Disco (Saturday from 1 a.m. to 6 a.m. and from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m.)
  • Sputnik-Club - Residents , guest mix show (Saturday from 10 p.m. to 11 p.m.)
  • Sputnik-Club - Boris Dlugosch , program for electronic music with Boris Dlugosch (Saturday from 11pm to 1am)
  • Radio mit K - a format organized by Anita Schroeder with the band members of the band Kraftklub as moderators (also broadcast on Fritz from RBB)

Rubrics

• SPUTNIK Musiknews , Starnews and Gossip presented as a talk with the moderator at SPUTNIK TAG and WACH and SPUTNIK Your HAMMER afternoon and as a podcast to listen to on sputnik.de - presented by Josi, Philip, Annika, Lumaraa , Sarah or Lars

Set formats are:

• The Sputnik Festival of wish music , Sunday broadcast with music wishes and listener greetings
• party
• Sputnik guest list , program in which guest list places are given away for regional discos
• mySputnik am Sonntag , Sunday adaptation of the mySputnik format , discontinued in April 2010 in favor of Buntfunk
• Update , current news magazine and English news at 6.30 p.m.
  (Monday to Friday from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m.), discontinued in mid-August 2010, replaced by a daily update
• 360 degrees , world magazine with foreign reports, connections to correspondents, reports on foreigners in Germany and Germans abroad, reports on travel destinations and bands abroad.
  (Saturday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.), discontinued on August 14, 2010
• Live , one-hour magazine for live music (concerts, festivals, unplugged sessions)
  (Sunday from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m.)
• Buntfunk , hybrid Sunday program with interactive audience participation, which u. a. is also broadcast via video live stream
  (Sunday from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m.)
• Sputnik Your Sunday
  (Sunday from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.)
• The Grindigs - A family goes its own way :
  the daily radio comedy was broadcast in a dressing gown or Take Five and lure (1992-1998). Acting actors were mother Uschi (Bettina Heinrich, otherwise secretary at the station), father Manfred (Michael Rödger), grandpa Walter (Christian Finkenwirth, also known as "Bodo Bohrfutter"), son Jockl and daughter Peggy, always fighting everyday and not -Everyday adversities, with each other and against each other.
• The SPUTNIKer in the morning (replaced by SPUTNIK TAG and WACH, former airtime 6-10 a.m.)
• The SPUTNIKer in the afternoon (replaced by SPUTNIK - Your HAMMER afternoon)
• SPUTNIK treat yourself (Saturday 6 a.m. to 11 a.m. - moderated by Lukas Klepsch and Tiffany Zimmermann)
• Sputnik Talkradio - free word program by Maurice Gadja and Kevin Klose (1st-3rd Sunday of the month 7-9pm), detached from the broadcast clock
• Sputnik Insomnia , show characterized by soft and melancholy music. Excerpts from film dialogues can be heard between the titles (similar to the earlier format Grenzpunkt Null ) (Sunday from 11pm to 1am)
• Sputnik Chillzone (Tuesday to Friday from 1 a.m. to 2 a.m.)
• Sputnik Soulfood (Monday from 10 p.m. to 11 p.m., repeat Monday from 3 a.m. to 4 a.m.)
• Sputnik audio experience , audio book broadcast (Sunday from 10 p.m. to 11 p.m.)

• Lateline , joint, Germany-wide night talk by the young ARD programs (Tuesday to Thursday 11pm to 1am)
• Your night, night radio with listeners talk, interactive thrillers and radio plays
  (Monday to Friday from 10 p.m. to 2 a.m.), discontinued in May 2008
• Generation Pop, magazine for the soundtrack of life , in which listeners presented their experiences with pop music
  (Wednesday from 10 p.m. to 11 p.m.), (discontinued in May 2009)
• Hörerlebnis (working days) , a quarter-hour audio book broadcast that was discontinued in April 2010 in favor of Lateline , now on Sundays

music

Like its predecessor DT64, Sputnik played a wide range of contemporary rock and pop music in the early 1990s. With the conversion to format radio at the end of the nineties, the music selection gradually changed into current chart hits in close rotation with preferably R&B and positioned itself as what is known as contemporary hit radio . With the renewed reorganization of the station orientation in December 2006, the range of music in the program was greatly expanded. Among other things, special music programs were introduced in the evening, including formats known from earlier times. The R&B and rap share that initially continued to exist has since declined sharply. During the day, the station mainly plays rock, pop and electro-pop with an alternative direction.

The soundcheck enables close cooperation with the German and Austrian music scene. Young, unknown bands and music groups without a record deal are also played in the daily program.

bilingualism

From December 2006 to August 2010, MDR Sputnik broadcast the news twice a day on weekdays, also in English. Unlike the youth radio station FM4 of ORF this was caused not by license, but was established by the transmitter by the worldwide especially for young people relevance of the English language. The messages were spoken by native speakers of British and American origins. Furthermore, MDR Sputnik mostly used the native speaker principle. English-language tones were not translated or summarized only afterwards.

Ear contact

In addition to the free listener hotline, MDR Sputnik was the first broadcaster to be in contact with its listeners via WhatsApp. The listener has the option of contacting the editorial team via smartphone.

The broadcaster has also developed an app with which listeners can select their favorite music via a voting system.

Moderators

Well-known moderators and editors beyond the station were and are among others. a .:

• Peter Beddies ( MDR Kultur , MDR Aktuell , Radio Eins)
• Gesine Kühne (Fritz, ByteFM )
• Karl Mäurer, Update (MDR News)
• Sissy Metzschke , formerly Dein Morgen, currently Sputnik Popkult (member of the hip-hop / R&B group Skills )
• Johannes Paetzold, Makossa ( Radio Eins , Radiomultikulti , MDR Kultur and BBC World Service )
• Hendrik Schröder (Fritz)
• André Wieckenberg , Your Day, Your Sunday (MDR TV, KLLC San Francisco, Antenne Niedersachsen )
• Tim Wiese , Update, Popkult ( Deutschlandradio Kultur )

The former moderators of Sputnik include u. a. Mitri Sirin , Jan Hahn , Tobias Kluge, Stephan Michme , Alex Buchwald, Rob Szymoniak , Wiebke Binder ( MDR current ) and Camillo Schumann (MDR current).

More audio streams

In addition to the current on-air program, Sputnik offers genre-specific audio streams with club, rock and black music accompanying the program. The content of these audio streams comes from the on-air special broadcasts and is recreated at weekly intervals. Furthermore, the current editions of the programs Insomnia , Soundcheck , Black Beatz, Roboton and Popkult can be heard in a loop as a stream.

Prizes and awards

In 2002 the Sputnik website was awarded the NEO Award as the best radio website, on February 26, 2003 with the Lead Award as the best entertainment magazine of 2002, in 2003 with the German Dance Award and with the Online Music Award (Best Media Music Page) honored.

Sputnik spring break

The Springbreak Festival is a music festival presented annually at Whitsun by MDR Sputnik. It emerged from the Sputnik Turntable Days in 2008 .

• See main article: Sputnik Springbreak

Web links

Commons : MDR Sputnik  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Sender's website
• Information from the ABC of ARD
• From DT64 to MDR Sputnik including old transmission schemes (without reference to the restructuring of the program in December 2006)
• Young radio in the east on time online via MDR Sputnik

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Information on the station ( memento of November 9, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) on mdr.de
2. ↑ Legal text
3. ↑ Chronicle . In: Andreas Ulrich, Jörg Wagner (Eds.): DT64. The book about the youth radio 1964-1993 . 1st edition. Thom Verlag, Leipzig 1993, ISBN 3-9803346-0-0 (1st to 5th thousand).
4. ^ MDR: Sputnik Frequencies
5. ↑ Press release of the Federal Administrative Court ( Memento from July 23, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
6. ^ No bullshit at the end: The protests against the Sputnik program reform . now.sueddeutsche.de
7. ↑ MDR included with the digital radio restart. Archived from the original on October 4, 2011 ; accessed on July 13, 2020 . 
8. ↑ Sputnik Nexel Level: Balance of an experiment
9. ↑ Kai Gauselmann: Messages with Bäm !: MDR-Sputnik cuts news drastically . In: Mitteldeutsche Zeitung . ( mz-web.de [accessed on November 8, 2018]).
10. ↑ MDR SPUTNIK: News only 5:30 to 9:00 . In: FLURFUNK . November 5, 2018 ( flurfunk-dresden.de [accessed November 8, 2018]).
11. ^ Sputnik day and awake
12. ↑ Stefan Mann: radio memories: youth radio DT64 & MDR Sputnik. In: www.iskra.earthtribe.de. March 9, 2005, archived from the original on September 5, 2014 ; accessed on January 11, 2015 . 
13. ↑ Sissy Metzschke ( Memento from February 13, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) at skillsside.de