Radio NRW

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radio NRW

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legal form GmbH
founding 1990
Seat Essener Str. 55
46047 Oberhausen
management Sven Thölen (Managing Director)
Branch Radio
Website www.radionrw.de
Status: 2017

The Radio NRW GmbH is the provider of the framework program for the current 45 local radio stations in North Rhine-Westphalia . The state is thus an exception among the territorial states in Germany, since it is not a nationwide broadcaster, but rather a framework program provider without its own broadcasting slots due to its “specific organizational structure and economic structure”. Thomas Rump has been Program Director since February 15, 2017.

history

Radio NRW was founded with the beginning of local radio in North Rhine-Westphalia. It started broadcasting in April 1990 with the first private local radio in North Rhine-Westphalia, Radio DU (today: Radio Duisburg ).

When local radio started in NRW, there were initially several providers for the supporting program. Kanal 4 from Cologne did not start broadcasting. Until 1993, RTL Baden-Württemberg provided the supporting program for Antenne AC , Radio Rur and Welle West .

Since January 11, 2010, all local radios have (again) taken over the main program of Radio NRW.

production

Radio NRW produces a daily 12 to 20 hour supporting program for the cooperating local broadcasters in North Rhine-Westphalia, which includes national news and comedy , among other things . After the world news, the nationwide weather forecast and “NRW traffic” follow briefly - except on weekdays from 6 a.m. to 10 a.m., when all stations are broadcast locally and instead broadcast their own local weather and traffic information. During this period, Radio NRW continuously broadcasts the music from the playlist , which is automatically interrupted at predetermined intervals by its own commercials , music beds running for three minutes or other elements as well as the world news on the hour and the nationwide advertising block placed in front of it. This procedure ensures that every local radio station can access the general program at any time in the event of a breakdown in its own broadcasting house and that the listener does not recognize it if possible.

In addition, the radio advertising area is marketed centrally and advertising is provided for the broadcasting operations of the local radio stations. Part of the advertising revenue is transferred to the local broadcasters according to a distribution key.

Within the framework program, the neutral name “local radio” is used in the presentations. Jingles with the station ID are triggered centrally and then played back remotely with the name of the respective station. As the supervisory authority, the LfM differentiates between local programs, community radio and the supporting program. In addition, there are additional collaborations (e.g. takeover of individual editorial contributions) with radio NRW within the local program.

The main program can be heard on Astra 3B at 23.5 ° East (12.646 MHz vertical, 285 kSymbols / s, DVB-S, FEC 7/8) with all digital satellite receivers that support such low symbol rates.

Until May 2016, the operation of the more than 100 ultra-short wave transmitters nationwide was almost exclusively managed by the provider Media Broadcast , since then around 20% of the operation has been taken over by the service provider Uplink Network from Düsseldorf.

In November 2018, Radio NRW announced that it wanted to start three nationwide radio programs via DAB + . The 45 local radio stations currently in North Rhine-Westphalia, on the other hand, are continuing to broadcast via VHF.

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Moderation and editing

Moderators are Jürgen Bangert, Oliver Behrendt, Kai Below, Jörn Ehlert, Philipp Finkelmeier, Dennis Grollmann, Andreas Grunwald, Joschka Heinemann, Matthias Hensel, Stephan Kaiser, Natalie Klein, Kai Klüting, Claudia Löhr, Susi Makarewicz, Annick Manoukian, Marcel Pfüller, Laura Potting, Florian Rogalla, Patrick Rickert, Sven Sandbothe, Sascha Scheuer, Markus Steinacker, Nina Tenhaef, Julia Vorpahl, Ingo van den Wyenbergh, Thomas Wagner and Kevin Zimmer, Music Director and Head of Sound is Robert Gierer. Klaus Schilling is responsible for production. Sebastian Walch has been station voice since the restructuring of NRW local radio stations on January 11, 2010 . He replaced Bodo Venten after twelve years.

Shareholder

The shareholders of Radio NRW are Pressefunk Nordrhein-Westfalen GmbH & Co. KG with 59% and the RTL Group (RTL Radio Deutschland GmbH) with 16.1%, plus own ownership of 24.9% (as of August 2018 ). In turn, more than 30 publishing companies from North Rhine-Westphalia are involved in Pressefunk Nordrhein-Westfalen GmbH (as of 2016). The largest shareholder is the Funke Mediengruppe with 21.7%, followed by Axel Springer with 12.4%, the DuMont Mediengruppe (DuMont Funk und Fernsehen GmbH) with 9.9% and the PFD Pressefunk GmbH (a subsidiary of the Rheinische Post Mediengruppe ) with 9.3%. The other owners include u. a. the newspaper publisher Neue Westfälische (Bielefeld), which is 100% owned by Presse-Druck GmbH, in which the German printing and publishing company of the SPD also has a 100% stake (status: 2016).

Westdeutsche Rundfunk also had a stake in Radio NRW until May 2018 , initially with 30%, later this share had to be reduced for antitrust reasons. After the WDR announced in 2016 that it wanted to sell its shares, this step was finally implemented in May 2018.

See also

Web links

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  1. Imprint on the Radio NRW website
  2. Wolfgang Becker: The radio of the future - in NRW and elsewhere. University of Osnabrück, September 2004. p. 82 (p. 10 of the PDF file)
  3. radio NRW - 45 local radios, one number 1.radionrw.de, accessed on March 31, 2018
  4. Thomas Rump becomes the new head of programming at Radio NRW | RADIO SCENE. Retrieved April 10, 2017 .
  5. Patrick Donges, Philipp Steinwärder: Development of the two-pillar model - an interdisciplinary study of local radio in North Rhine-Westphalia (=  series of media research by the State Broadcasting Corporation of North Rhine-Westphalia . Volume 26 ). 1998, p. 36 ( full text in Google Book Search).
  6. cf. Broadcast times of local radio (see web links, status 2009)
  7. Stephan Munder: UPLINK NETWORK GmbH takes over parts of the radio NRW network. In: radioWOCHE - Current radio news, FM news, digital radio news and radio jobs. May 18, 2016, accessed May 18, 2016 .
  8. ^ Radio NRW: Three nationwide radio programs via DAB +. In: teltarif.de. November 18, 2018, accessed May 18, 2019 .
  9. radio NRW: press release , Oberhausen, November 12, 2018, accessed on March 12, 2019.
  10. ^ Participation structure of Radio NRW
  11. Share structure of Pressefunk Nordrhein-Westfalen GmbH & Co. KG (accessed: September 10, 2016)
  12. New corporate structure at Radio NRW: Hörfunksender takes over shares in WDR news from meedia.de from May 22, 2018