Radio Horeb
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| "Life with God" | |
| Radio station ( private ) | |
| Program type | religion |
| reception | analog and digital terrestrial , cable , satellite , phonecast , live stream |
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| Start of transmission | December 8, 1996 |
| owner | International Christian Broadcasting Association (ICR) eV (Balderschwang - formerly Immenstadt) |
| Broadcaster | Radio Horeb |
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Radio Horeb is a private Christian radio station with its administrative headquarters in Balderschwang in the Oberallgäu district . The main studios of the station are in Balderschwang and Munich . The content of the transmissions is based on the teaching of the Roman Catholic Church . The profile within the Catholic spectrum is described by critics as “fundamentalist”, and by the station's own media advisors as “rather conservative”. Radio Horeb belongs to the international family of Radio Maria and is financed exclusively from donations from its listeners. The sponsoring association is the International Christian Broadcasting Association . In addition, around 300 people are volunteers.
Content
The ad-free program consists of five pillars: liturgy , Christian spirituality , help in life, music and news .
A holy mass from various Catholic churches in Germany is broadcast live every day . Laudes , Sext , Angelus , Vespers , Compline and the praying of the rosary (at 6:00 a.m., 7:00 p.m. and midnight) give the program a liturgical framework.
Transmission range
The program has been available nationwide on DAB + digital radio since August 1, 2011.
After the change from 89.0 MHz to 92.4 MHz in Munich, the transmission time was also significantly extended, but reduced again after a new tender in 2017. Current broadcast times on VHF are Monday to Friday 1:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., with a program window from 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. from the Munich church radio as a partner, and Sundays from 10 a.m. to midnight with Holy Mass at 10 a.m., which is also supplied by the Munich church radio . Radio Horeb is also since the late 1990s, 24 hours a day throughout Europe via Astra - Satellite and in South and East Germany , the Switzerland , Austria , Luxembourg and Liechtenstein on cable receivable. The program could also be heard over a telephone server for a long time, which had to be temporarily suspended in 2017 due to irregularities at the provider. The program is also broadcast via internet radio and podcasting ; Since February 2008, which is Ogg Vorbis - Stream radio station also has a mobile app to hear. In addition to the supra-regional program , regional content is broadcast via the Munich FM frequency at certain times. Radio Horeb reaches around 200,000 listeners every day across Germany.
history
Radio Horeb is named after the biblical mountain Horeb ( Sinai ). The two mountains in the lower part of the blue logo symbolize the mountain Horeb, at the same time an "M" for Maria can be recognized by their arrangement.
The “Internationale Christliche Rundfunkgemeinschaft” (ICR eV), founded by the ORF culture editor Siegfried Dobretsberger and based in Ingolstadt at the time , received broadcasting times over local FM frequencies in southern Germany as Radio Neues Europa in the mid-1980s . In Munich, the program from Radio Neues Europa was initially always available on Sundays on the FM frequency 89.0 MHz. In 1995, Pastor Richard Kocher was elected chairman of the ICR eV. As a result of his work as the parish administrator of the St. Anton parish in Balderschwang, the radio activities increasingly shifted to Oberallgäu. Radio Horeb's administrative center was later set up in Immenstadt im Allgäu .
On December 8, 1996, under the direction of Kocher, a Catholic 24-hour radio program called Radio Horeb went on air for the first time on the Astra satellite. The radio station was modeled on Radio Maria Italy, which had quickly risen to become one of the most popular radio stations in the country on the other side of the Alps. By joining the Radio Maria World Family, Radio Horeb became a member of an international Christian radio network. In Munich, broadcasting continued over FM under the name “Radio Neues Europa”. In 2000 the name was changed to Radio Horeb Munich.
The program has also been broadcast in Leipzig via DVB-T since November 2007 (in regular operation since May 2010). Further locations were planned in Dresden, Chemnitz and Zwickau. The broadcast operations in Berlin , which began in September 2005, were shut down in January 2014. As part of the switch to DVB-T2 at the end of March 2017, the broadcaster abandoned this transmission route entirely and abandoned the remaining DVB-T locations.
On August 18, 2008, the ground-breaking ceremony took place in Balderschwang for a new studio with thirty-three workstations on a usable area of 730 square meters, to replace the previous studio in Almhof Lässer. Three guest apartments and a sixty square meter chapel are integrated into the studio.
Rainer case
In 2000, Radio Horeb and its director Richard Kocher hit the headlines because the South Tyrolean Peter Paul Rainer , who was convicted of the murder of his political companion Christian Waldner and wanted by Interpol, worked for the radio under the name Rainer Maria Ulrich from August 1999 to May 2000 . At the time of the hiring, Peter Paul Rainer had been acquitted of all allegations of murder in the second instance. Two months before he was convicted again, Rainer resigned from his employment with immediate effect. After almost eight months of searching by Interpol, Rainer was arrested on January 4, 2001 by the Austrian police in an apartment in Rudolfsheim-Fünfhaus (Vienna). The tenant of the apartment and present at the time of the arrest was Gerlinde Nöbauer, who, according to the Kempten criminal investigation, was an employee of Radio Horeb. Richard Kocher publicly confirmed at the time that he knew about Rainer's history and that he himself had attended the trial in Brescia. However, he believed in Rainer's innocence and therefore hired him. In an official statement at the time, Kocher commented on the "Rainer case" as follows: "A church that keeps talking about giving everyone a new chance must be measured by this word."
Peter Paul Rainer was released from prison in mid-2013. In January 2015 he appeared publicly at a Pegida event in Linz .
Controversy over licensing
In May 2004, the broadcaster received a large part of the transmission time freed up by the discontinuation of the FAZ business radio and temporarily used for AFK M94.5 on the FM frequency 92.4 MHz for the greater Munich area from the Bavarian State Center for New Media (BLM) and sat down against numerous competitors. This decision was not without controversy. The then Sendlinger pastor Klaus Mucha, responsible for the radio contributions of the Archdiocese of Munich and Freising in the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation , criticized the station as “fundamentalist”, while the chairwoman of the BLM media committee Anna Geiger criticized the image of women and approaches to racial discrimination in the program. The conservative Catholic newspaper Die Tagespost compared Radio Horeb with a “Turkish radio”, which could easily get a license. In the run-up to the decision, critics accused the station of incitement to hatred and racism because a Tyrolean priest had made derogatory comments about Sinti and Roma in a program taken over by his friends, Radio Maria Austria . Pastor Richard Kocher distanced himself from this and deleted the contribution from the program. With a letter of recommendation from Amnesty International , he was able to convince the media council, which decided on the frequency allocation, despite the critical voices. The then chairman of the BLM Media Council, Erich Jooss , said in 2013 about the process: “We observed the station very closely, but this single accusation remained. Otherwise Radio Horeb would never have received the license. "
Partner station and station family
Radio Horeb is part of the worldwide “Radio Maria transmitter family” and sees itself as the voice of the church on radio, although it is not officially recognized as such. Part of this transmitter family are, for example, Radio Maria in Italy as the first transmitter of its kind, as well as Radio Maria South Tyrol , Radio Maria Austria , Radio Maria German-speaking Switzerland and around 80 stations worldwide.
There are also four partner stations that Radio Horeb supports financially, organisationally and ideally. Radio Horeb is also calling for donations for these stations.
The station takes over the news from Vatican Radio every day at 4 p.m. , which is repeated at 2 a.m. In addition, the Radio Academy produced by Vatican Radio is taken over every day at 6 p.m.
Web links
- Own web presence
- Radio Horeb - Entry with basic data at the Bavarian State Center for New Media (BLM)
- H.-J. Biener: Text before the start of the broadcast on the history of the station ( memento from April 2, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- Dominik Baur: God and tirades free home. Spiegel Online , May 27, 2004
Individual evidence
- ↑ blm.de: Yearbook 2013
- ↑ a b Volker ter Haseborg: Ugh, devil. Berliner Zeitung, June 2, 2004, p. 30 (December 1, 2012)
- ↑ https://www.horeb.org/das-sind-wir/team_30
- ↑ Reception via DAB +. ( Memento of December 19, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Website of the broadcaster. Retrieved April 17, 2012.
- ↑ Wibke Becker: A transmitter for the other, invisible world. Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, February 1, 2015, page 6.
- ↑ Message from Teltarif from January 4, 2014
- ↑ welt.de: Radio Horeb and the Waldner murder case, January 11, 2001 , accessed on May 10, 2017.
- ^ Dolomites, arrest in Vienna. ( Memento from October 6, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) (stol.it)
- ^ Radio Horeb and the Waldner murder case. The world.
- ↑ jf-archiv.de
- ^ Peter Paul Rainer publicly again, Tiroler Tageszeitung, March 23, 2015.
- ↑ Markus Reder : Too Catholic for Munich? In: Die Tagespost , May 22, 2004.
- ↑ Tim Rotter: Devotion from the Allgäu. In: ALPS-Magazin 2/2013, pp. 78-83 (quote: p. 82).
- ↑ World family of Radio Maria (Radiomaria.org): station overview ( Memento of July 3, 2010 in the Internet Archive )