Night program (ARD radio)

Most ARD radio programs offer community night programs at night . They are each produced by a state broadcaster and taken over by several others.

History of origin

Previously completed both radio - and television programs of ARD her daily radio program at night between 23:00 and 24:00 and illuminated just before the shutdown of the station the closedown of. The carrier was then switched off or a test image was displayed until the daily broadcasts were resumed the next day.

To close this nocturnal break in broadcasting, the NWDR began broadcasting the first ARD night program on November 2, 1947 . This idea was also taken up and implemented in August 1948 by Radio Frankfurt . However, it was a question of regional program formats with a cultural content, which did not completely bridge the night.

Nightly cultural programs such as the evening studio of the hr or the night studio of the SWF Baden-Baden were designed in a similar way.

In 1959, the ARD ended its nocturnal supply shortage at most radio stations and broadcast the joint night program produced by a program on radio almost across Germany. It was not until July 1, 1959 that the first regular community service in the ARD medium-wave range came about with “Music until early morning” and thus finally closed the nocturnal program gap. The ARD had thus on the night of the program in the DDR stationed Germany station responds, the radio silence of the ARD radio stations with his send strong medium-wave transmitter equalizer and shift workers wanted to achieve the FRG with its propagandistic night program. Die Zeit wrote in 1954:

“The radio program is a department store with many departments. The most luxurious radio goods are called 'night programs' or 'night studios'. As the listener research has shown, these demanding late-evening programs are only heard by five to ten percent of the audience. But even that is, roughly calculated, 300,000 to 600,000 listeners in the broadcasting range of the NWDR alone. "

- Listener and night program in: Die Zeit , No. 6/1954

By 1968, the state broadcasters had expanded their radio program to a 24-hour program.

Current offer

Currently (as of April 7, 2020) there are five community night programs. All programs are usually produced live.

The ARD Hitnacht , produced by the state programs of the NDR in Hamburg, Hanover, Kiel or Schwerin, is the first joint program. It replaced the ARD night express in 2011. It can be heard on most service waves daily from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m.

The ARD night concert , produced by BR-Klassik in Munich, is the second and, with its first broadcast in 1980, also the oldest night program. It is produced between midnight and 6 a.m. and adopted by most culture waves.

The ARD Popnacht , produced by SWR3 in Baden-Baden, has been available since 1990. In the beginning the program was called ARD-Nachtrock . It is produced daily between midnight and 5 a.m. and can be heard on most pop waves.

The fourth night program is the ARD info night , which is produced by MDR Aktuell in Halle (Saale). Since 2011, most of the information waves have broadcast this community program between 11 p.m. and 6 a.m.

The latest night program is ARD's young night , which started in 2018 and is produced daily between 0:00 and 5:00 by 1LIVE in Cologne.

literature

• Monika Boll: Night program. Intellectual founding debates in the early Federal Republic. Lit, Münster 2004.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Monika Boll, night program , 2004, p. 52
2. ↑ Der Spiegel 28/1959 of July 8, 1959, Kleine Nachtmusik , p. 55
3. ↑ Joachim-Félix Leonhard, Medienwissenschaft Volume 2 , 2001, p. 1440