Media in the Rhine-Neckar triangle

The diverse media landscape of the Rhine-Neckar Triangle is only partially designed to cross borders. Due to the country's responsibility in the area of ​​the media, there are still limits here that contradict economic and cultural cohesion, but they are increasingly disappearing.

Print media

Newspapers

Three large newspaper publishers in the Rhine-Neckar triangle have been able to maintain their independence to this day:

• Mannheim morning
  • Mannheim morning / South Hesse morning
  • Bergstrasse indicator
  • Schwetzinger Zeitung / Hockenheimer daily newspaper
  • Franconian news
• The Rheinpfalz , Ludwigshafen
• Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung , Heidelberg

There are also local editions of other newspaper publishers in several cities:

• Starkenburger Echo ( Darmstadt Echo )
• Wormser Zeitung, ( Rhein-Main-Presse )

There are also independent local newspapers that take on the role of a large newspaper publisher:

• Eberbacher Zeitung ( Südwest-Presse )
• Lampertheimer Zeitung / Bürstädter Zeitung ( Rhein-Main-Presse )
• Schifferstadter Tagblatt ( Gießener Anzeiger )
• Speyerer Morgenpost ( Badisches Tagblatt )
• Weinheimer Nachrichten / Odenwälder Zeitung ( Mannheimer Morgen )
• Viernheimer Tageblatt ( Badisches Tagblatt )

The Bild-Zeitung also has a local Rhein-Neckar edition based in Mannheim.

In addition, the weekly newspaper (Pfalz / Baden) appears with numerous local editions.

There is also an independent church newspaper for the Speyer diocese:

• The pilgrim , Speyer

Magazines

• Municipal information Mannheim (every 14 days)
• meier (print edition discontinued in 2012)
• Sportwoche Mannheim (print edition discontinued in 2007)

broadcast

public service broadcasters

Südwestrundfunk SWR

The Southwest Broadcasting (SWR) is the public service broadcaster for Baden-Wuerttemberg and Rhineland-Palatinate. With the programs SWR1 Baden-Württemberg , SWR1 Rhineland-Palatinate , SWR2 , SWR3 , SWR4 Baden-Württemberg , SWR4 Rhineland-Palatinate , DASDING and SWR Aktuell , it covers almost the entire region.

Hessischer Rundfunk hr

Hessischer Rundfunk (hr) is responsible for the Bergstrasse district in southern Hesse with the programs hr1 , hr2 , hr3 , hr4 , hr-info and You FM .

Nationwide channels

The two nationwide programs Deutschlandfunk and Deutschlandradio Kultur from Deutschlandradio can also be received in many places .

Private broadcaster

• Landau aerial
• Antenna Palatinate
• big FM
• harmony.fm
• Hit Radio FFH
• Radyo Metropol FM
• Radio rainbow
• Radio RPR
• Rockland Radio
• SkyRadio
• sunshine live

Allied forces transmitter

• The American Forces Network of the US armed forces had its European headquarters in the Coleman Barracks , Mannheim-Sandhofen , from 2004 to 2012 . The local AFN Heidelberg program for Heidelberg, Mannheim and Stuttgart was produced from 1993 to 2009 for the move to the AFN European headquarters in Mannheim-Seckenheim . The European headquarters has been located in the Sembach barracks (near Kaiserslautern ) since 2014 . The Heidelberg-Wieblingen transmitter was switched off in 2014.

Non-commercial local radio stations

• bermuda.funk
• Radioactive

watch TV

public service broadcasters

The Südwest Fernsehen is broadcast as the third program of the SWR in two independent regional programs for Baden-Württemberg and Rhineland-Palatinate.

In the Hessian part that's hr-TV of hr the responsible third party program .

Regional broadcasters

The cross-border private local program Rhein-Neckar Fernsehen can be received in the entire region, in the Rhineland-Palatinate part there is also the K3 culture channel .

Open channels

In many Rhineland-Palatinate cities there are also open channels in which citizens can record and broadcast their own material.

• Haßloch / Böhl-Iggelheim open canal
• Open Canal Landau in the Palatinate
• Open Canal Ludwigshafen
• Open Canal Neustadt
• Open Canal Speyer
• Schifferstadt open canal
• Open Canal Worms