Media landscape Ulm

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The media landscape in Ulm has both a historically turbulent history and, in the age of the Internet, a wide spread. In this article, the areas of press, radio and television as well as internet media in the city of Ulm are presented.

Press

There have been press publications in Ulm since the 16th century.

The Ulm Intelligence Gazette was first published in 1752 . As a refugee from the Bavarian censorship, Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart stayed in Ulm between 1775 and 1777 in order to continue to publish his well-known German Chronicle . A mayor from nearby Blaubeuren lured the publisher, who had meanwhile also drawn the displeasure of the Duke of Württemberg, out of the safe walls of Ulm into his office, where he was then arrested and imprisoned.

Between 1803 and 1810, the famous Allgemeine Zeitung, founded by Friedrich Cotta in Tübingen under the title Latest Weltkunde in 1798, was another “persecuted newspaper” in Ulm, now Bavaria, in order to evade the Württemberg censorship . After Ulm was incorporated into Württemberg, the newspaper moved on to Augsburg. Ulm thus lost its second national press organ.

At the time of the founding of the "Ulmer Tagblatt" (1859, today Südwest Presse ), only the "Schnellpost" (founded in 1837) and the "Ulmer Landbote" (founded in 1792) were of the large number of newspapers published in the revolutionary years 1848/1849. left free.

As was customary at the time, at the end of the 19th century a number of politically determined newspapers also appeared in Ulm, so that in 1911 there were nine newspapers, five of which appeared daily. What survived the First World War and the inflation was brought into line by the National Socialists, for example the social democratic "Donauwacht" founded in 1911 and the Ulmer Tagblatt in 1934. Only the organ of the Center Party, the "Ulmer (since 1913: Swabian) Volksbote", which was founded in 1898, was tolerated until 1937, but then, on September 30, 1937, it had to pass to the National Socialist "Ulmer Tagblatt - Ulmer Sturm - the sole official gazette and party official organ of the city Ulm “give way.

Today the Südwest Presse is the largest daily newspaper in Ulm and the region and is used by 92 percent of all newspaper subscribers. It is the last daily newspaper in Ulm's newspaper history and appears with numerous local editions in the Württemberg-Bavarian region. Other daily newspapers are the “Neu-Ulmer Zeitung” (a local edition of the “ Augsburger Allgemeine ”) and the “ Schwäbische Zeitung ” from Leutkirch.

Radio and television

Ulm is the location of a studio of the Südwestrundfunk ( SWR ). Among other things, the regional program "Schwaben Radio" for SWR4 Baden-Württemberg is produced here. A television team provides the state programs on SWR television (3rd television program) with contributions.

On the Kuhberg, the SWR operates the Ulm-Kuhberg transmitter , which supplies the Alb-Danube district and parts of the Biberach district in Baden-Württemberg as well as the Neu-Ulm and Günzburg districts in Bavaria with radio signals.

With the area broadcaster Radio 7 for south-east Württemberg, the local broadcaster Donau 3 FM for the Donau-Iller region and the non-commercial radio freeFM , three radio stations are based in Ulm.

In Ermingen is the telecommunications tower Ulm-Ermingen of the German radio tower for the distribution of radio and television programs.

The regional TV broadcaster Regio TV Schwaben , which was launched on September 22, 2006, is located on Ulmer Münchner Strasse and initially produced a half-hour news program that was repeated every 30 minutes. The distribution takes place via the cable network in the regions of Ulm, Neu-Ulm, Ehingen, Biberach, Heidenheim, Aalen, Geislingen, Schwäbisch Gmünd and Ellwangen.

Internet media

With the increasing importance of online media, a number of websites have also been established that are relevant for Ulm. The Ulmer Südwest-Presse operates the Südwest-Aktiv portal, the online equivalent of the print edition. The site also has opportunities for readers to exchange information on the reports in forums or to get to know each other on a dating site.

The Swabian newspaper operates with SZON also an online counterpart to its print edition and here offers regional news from Ulm. With various other offers such as look.de (online attractiveness barometer) and kool.de (online magazine for young people), SZON and its partners offer their own portals aimed at young people.

The portals of the radio stations Radio 7 and Donau 3 FM offer up-to-date and regional news.

The volunteer-driven portal team Ulm .com offers local news from the scene and party area and pictures of parties and events from the Ulm region. In addition, the site has a forum and its own profile pages for each user and an integrated message system and is used by many younger people in the Ulm region as a central virtual meeting point (350,000 registered users in April 2008).