Radio Bielefeld

Radio Bielefeld
Radio transmitter ( private law )
Program type	Local radio
reception	analogue terrestrial , cable & web radio
Reception area	Bielefeld
Start of transmission	June 1, 1991
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Radio Bielefeld is the local radio in Bielefeld . It went on air on June 1, 1991 and got its license from the LfM . Timo Fratz is the editor-in-chief.

program

The station's program focuses on local news between 6.30 a.m. and 7.30 p.m., local reporting, reporting of traffic obstructions or speed cameras set up by the police and local weather reporting. Furthermore, consumer tips and event information are in the foreground.

The Bielefeld local radio broadcasts up to 15 hours of local programs from its studio on Süsterplatz on weekdays. The local broadcasts on weekdays are the morning show “Radio Bielefeld am Morgen”, which is broadcast between 6 and 10 a.m., alternately presented by Annika Pott & Jonas Becker or Sebastian Wiese & Timo Teichler, “Radio Bielefeld at work” with Roxane Brockschnieder and Tim Donsbach is broadcast between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. and the program “Radio Bielefeld in the afternoon” with Bettina Wittemeier, Dirk Sluyter and Holger Höhner brings listeners to the end of the day between 2 and 7 p.m. On Mondays and Thursdays, Radio Bielefeld also broadcasts two local hours from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. - Mondays with “Liebold live” - the talk with personalities from the city, moderated by Andreas Liebold, and on Thursdays with “Die HitStory” - an oldie and music request -Show with Stephan Schueler. The youth program “radio deinfm”, which is produced in the studios of Radio Gütersloh , can then be heard until midnight - as on all OWL local radios .

On Saturdays, the local program “Radio Bielefeld on the weekend” runs on Radio Bielefeld between 8 am and 1 pm. On Sundays there is “Radio Bielefeld on the weekend” between 9 am and 2 pm and the local sports magazine “SportTalk” with Tim Linnenbrügger between 4 and 6 pm. Radio Bielefeld, as the official station for Bielefeld, broadcasts all Arminia Bielefeld games with stadium reporter Ulrich Zwetz . The young program “radio deinfm” will also be broadcast on weekends in the evenings (Saturdays - also on weekdays - from 9 p.m. to midnight, Sundays from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.), with the focus on the current listener charts on Sundays.

As the only private broadcaster in NRW to date, Radio Bielefeld has had a supra-local newsroom since 2016 and does not take over the news from radio NRW's supporting program on the hour on the hour.

Between 9 p.m. and 10 p.m., Radio Bielefeld broadcasts the public radio broadcast as required by the state media law of North Rhine-Westphalia . These are recorded broadcasts that are edited and produced by radio enthusiasts or radio groups or radio workshops from the region.

The station's claims are “Always on the pulse of the city”, “All day every day” and “Always easy to hear”.

Coat range

The rest of the program and the world messages to the full hour are outside the local broadcast times from the coat broadcaster Radio NRW taken. Radio NRW supplies 45 NRW local stations with a 24-hour program that can be accessed at any time. However, Radio Bielefeld is prescribed a certain local broadcasting time by the State Agency for Media North Rhine-Westphalia (LfM). In return, Radio Bielefeld broadcasts an hourly advertising block from the NRW program. The music format is the Adult Contemporary (AC) prescribed by Radio NRW , which is aimed at 19 to 49-year-old listeners. The music selection is also largely given by Radio NRW. This also happens during local airtime. Radio NRW determines which title is shown at what time. The station identifier “Radio Bielefeld” and similar IDs outside the local broadcasting times are automatically triggered by a remote control signal from Oberhausen in the mostly unoccupied broadcasting studio in Bielefeld at that time, as is common with all other local radio stations in North Rhine-Westphalia.

The programs are delivered via satellite. If reception is impaired in bad weather, the system automatically switches to an additional ISDN line to Oberhausen.

Since 2016, Radio Bielefeld has been broadcasting its own news from the studio on the half-hour as well as on the hour on the hour during local broadcasts (Monday to Friday from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m., Saturday from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. and Sunday from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m.) Süsterplatz with topics from Bielefeld , NRW , Germany and the world. Radio Bielefeld is thus the first NRW local radio that completely dispenses with news from Radio NRW from Oberhausen during local broadcasting time . In the evening program "radio deinfm", headlines across the OWL are broadcast every half hour.

Employee

Timo Fratz has been the editor-in-chief of Radio Bielefeld since January 1, 2015. Martin Knabenreich previously held the position for over 12 years. Ulrich Zwetz will comment live on the games of the Bielefeld Bundesliga team Arminia Bielefeld . Other well-known presenters are Sebastian Wiese, Timo Teichler, Joris Gräßlin, Annika Pott, Roxane Brock Schnieder, Bettina Witte Meier, Holger Höhner and Dirk Sluyter, Andreas Liebold , also known as the former presenter of Frühstyxradios of FFN , and Stephan Schueler.

Listeners

According to a regular survey , currently (July 2019) 52.8% of Bielefeld residents over the age of 14 tune into Radio Bielefeld on working days, that is over 146,000 people per day. In comparison, the average daily reach of the WDR programs in the city area was 48,000 for 1 live and 45,000 for WDR 2 .

Companies

In accordance with the State Media Act of North Rhine-Westphalia, the responsibility for programming for Radio Bielefeld lies with the local radio broadcasters' association in Bielefeld e. V., which is made up of representatives of socially relevant groups in the city.

Radio Bielefeld Betriebsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG is responsible for economic matters. The newspaper publishers Neue Westfälische, Westfalen-Blatt and the city of Bielefeld are involved.

Most of the technical and business management tasks are outsourced to the full-service provider Audio Media Service (ams) based in Bielefeld.

Two pillar model

The State Broadcasting Act in North Rhine-Westphalia prescribes the operation of local radio stations in the so-called two-pillar model . This model separates the program and economic responsibility with the aim of ensuring that the program does not lose its level or content due to journalistic or economic interests.

reception

Radio Bielefeld can be received via VHF mainly on the 98.3 MHz frequency (Deutsche Telekom building). In the south of Bielefeld you can hear the local station on the 97.6 MHz frequency. Radio Bielefeld can also be reached via cable on 98.90 MHz and 99.85 MHz ( Sennestadt ). In addition, the program is broadcast online via live stream , which can be found on the homepage, or via the Radio Bielefeld app for iPhone and Android devices.

literature

• Hans Paukens, Uschi Wienken (Ed.): Local radio handbook - at eye level with the listener. R. Fischer, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-88927-357-2 .
• Program delivery - economic necessity or obsolete model? ( Series of publications by the German Radio Academy , Volume 1). German Radio Academy, Dortmund 2001, ISBN 3-00-009018-5 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} New broadcast times: From Monday, deinfm will broadcast daily from 9 p.m., in: radioszene.de , accessed on January 15, 2018
2. ↑ Result EMA NRW 2019 II (electronic range analysis), on a separate page from Radio Bielefeld ( Memento of the original from March 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. accessed on September 10, 2019 

Web links

• Radio Bielefeld website

Coordinates: 52 ° 1 ′ 20.7 ″  N , 8 ° 31 ′ 53.4 ″  E