Radio melody
Radio Melodie was a national commercial special interest broadcaster with a music program consisting of folk music and hits . It broadcast from October 14, 1991 to March 31, 2008.
Program and story
The radio station, which was based in Straubing, Lower Bavaria, was most recently located in the ZDF house in Unterföhring near Munich . In addition to Germany , the main distribution area of radio melody included Austria and Switzerland . The media law approval was granted by the BLM .
The shareholders of the Radio Melodie program provider company Studiobetriebs-KG were Neue Welle Bayern Rundfunk-Verwaltungsgesellschaft (62.5%), WWZ Beteiligungsgesellschaft (10%), Josef Keller Verlag (10%), Zeitungsverlag Oberbayern (10%) and the publishing house Tages-Anzeiger (7.5%).
In addition to sound carrier advertising, the channel was increasingly financed through fee-based call-in competitions , such as those that could be seen on television on 9Live, for example. The subscriber fee levied by the BLM, which was levied by the owners of broadband cable connections in Bavaria, also contributed to the financing. This type of subsidization, which the BLM has since been prohibited by the Federal Constitutional Court, does not exist outside of Bavaria.
In the early years, Radio Melodie brought almost exclusively traditional folk music from the Alpine region and neighboring countries. The program was later expanded to include popular hits.
Most recently, the range of music on offer included popular hits and folk melodies during the day, while one-hour special programs with brass music, traditional tunes and popular titles could be heard in the evenings. On Wednesday and Sunday, several hour long listener request concerts were broadcast, on Saturday the broadcaster portrayed performers from the pop scene. With its music selection, Radio Melodie relied exclusively on German-language titles. The program also included several sections from the areas of health, cooking and various tabloid topics. During the day the program was moderated, in the evening and during the night only music could be heard.
The Radio Melodie program was mainly aimed at an older audience. The exact number of listeners was difficult to determine because of the special reception situation. At the end of March 2008, former employees of Radio Melodie started a follow-up program called Radio Heimatmelodie on the Internet , which is musically based on its predecessor.
reception
Radio Melodie was initially received via the Kopernikus telecommunications satellite and the Deutsche Telekom cable network, and later also via the Astra satellite . Most recently, it was distributed analogue and digitally via the Astra satellite, in all large and most small cable networks and in major Bavarian cities also via VHF (Munich, Nuremberg , Augsburg , Würzburg and Regensburg ).
criticism
In the last few years of its existence, Radio Melodie was largely financed through call-in competitions. These competitions were often played for hours and often not sufficiently resolved. The solutions were often incomprehensible or not communicated at all. The low chances of winning, as well as the so-called "hands-on rules" for participating in call-in broadcasters, were practically never mentioned. The programs also did not mention the risk of gambling addiction, especially among the target group of the older population.
Former frequencies
The former VHF frequencies from Radio Melodie were awarded on May 8, 2008 to the provider of a newly founded youth station with the working title Radioblut . The program started on November 21, 2008 under the name egoFM .
| Frequencies | |
|---|---|
| augsburg | 94.8 MHz |
| Munich | 104.0 MHz |
| Nuremberg | 103.6 MHz |
| regensburg | 107.5 MHz |
| Wurzburg | 95.8 MHz |
Individual evidence
- ↑ BLM: Participation Fee
- ↑ Participation fee according to the Bavarian Media Act is unconstitutional
- ↑ Rules of the State Media Authorities June 19, 2007 ( Memento of the original from October 5, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ "Media Council assigns youth radio VHF support frequencies" (BLM, May 8, 2008)
