Radio One (Basel / Alsace region)
 |
|
|---|---|
| Radio station (association) | |
| reception | analog terrestrial |
| Reception area | Switzerland / France / Germany ( Basel region ) |
| business | January 1, 1982 to 1985 |
| List of radio stations | |
Radio One was a radio station that was receivable via VHF in the Basel area and the surrounding area in the early 1980s . It was broadcast from a studio in Saint Louis (France), where the transmission system was also installed.
There had been political stations in the region for a long time (e.g. Radio Dreyeckland ), but Radio One was the first seriously operated private music radio for young listeners in the Basel region and thus played a role similar to Radio 24 in Zurich, but it was a part of it nowhere near as well known.
program
Mainly modern pop and rock music was broadcast for the target audience of young people and young adult listeners. In addition to the music, there was also news, interviews, reports and entertainment programs.
The moderation was mainly in Swiss German and French, but there were also programs in English, High German and Italian.
The programs were moderated live early in the morning, in the afternoon and in the evening. Between the live broadcasts, a music program with short announcements was played from an automatic cassette changer. This enabled broadcasting around the clock despite a small budget and only part-time, unpaid employees.
history
Radio One was originally a pirate station for young people from Basel . But since they wanted to run a real private radio, which was not allowed in Switzerland at the time, they have a studio and a transmitter in the youth center MJC / CCL (now Espace Loisirs) at 56 Rue du Docteur Hurst in neighboring Alsace, together with French colleagues Saint Louis set up, from where it was broadcast on 102.2 MHz from the beginning of 1982. The frequency was later switched to 101.8 MHz.
In 1982, Radio One in Switzerland applied for a broadcasting license for the private local radio stations introduced in 1983, but received nothing.
Radio One, which was initially free of advertising, began broadcasting advertising blocks in the mid-1980s in order to improve its financial situation, with a view to the competition from the newly introduced commercial private radio stations and the SRG's DRS3 pop music station, which had much more money.
Radio One was active until 1985. At that time there were differences of opinion between the moderators from Switzerland and those from France. A Swiss moderator said goodbye and spoke of differences of opinion, then the station was switched off. A few days later, on April 23, 1985, the transmitter was put back into operation, but without the Swiss, only in French. A few weeks or months later, operations ceased entirely.
Web links
- International radio and television chronicle
- Report on the closure of Radio One in the September 20, 1985 edition of FM-Kompakt (PDF; 121 kB)
- Media Chronicle of Northwestern Switzerland
- Private website with audio and video documents for Radio One
- Discussion in the radio forum of ukwtv.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Espace Loisirs (Formerly MJC / CCL) ( Memento of the original from January 12, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Gnr 98 Radio One, 1982-1982 (Dossier) ( Swiss Federal Archives , 1982)
- ↑ Media Chronicle of Northwestern Switzerland
