Radio Telstar Offenburg
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| Radio station ( private ) | |
| reception | analog terrestrial , cable |
| Reception area | Greater Offenburg (VHF) |
| Start of transmission | 1987 to December 31, 1992 |
| executive Director | Frank Leonhardt |
| List of radio stations | |
Radio Telstar Offenburg (RTO) was a commercial private radio broadcaster based in Offenburg , Baden from 1987 to December 31, 1992 , one of the first of its kind in Baden-Württemberg .
history
RTO was virtually the legal successor to the former Belgian pirate station Radio Telstar International (RTI) in the triangle (Gemmenich) just outside Aachen , which broadcast for almost six months and was then closed by the Belgian public prosecutor's office. The actual founder of RTl and RTO was Helmut Slawik alias Helmut Peters, a person not unknown in the pirate radio scene. In the early days (1987–1989), RTO's programming consisted mainly of pre-produced material from former RTI presenters on tapes ; the proportion of live broadcasts was quite low. That changed in the course of time, new crews of moderators were added, the programs became more local in order to attract more advertising customers. RTO acted as the official live fair radio from the Oberrheinhallen in Offenburg, in August 1989 they broadcast daily directly from the international radio exhibition in Berlin . Well-known presenters were Stephan Kaiser (today Radio NRW), Patrick Lynen (later HR1, SWF III and RTL, also known as a book author and moderation trainer), Johnny Best "JB" (today operator of radioszene.de), Patrick Schneider (as Henk van Boven known from WDR 1), Günther Laubis (today SWR ), Peter Funk and Stefan Kramer.
Program structure
The program scheme had been changed several times over the years. RTO was not a pure chart radio, even if hit parades or current pieces were presented in between. The main focus was on international rock / pop music from various genres that were not heard on every station. The moderators spoke loosely and quickly, as with pirate stations, into music tracks that had already been started, so that a certain continuous "drive" arose, jingles based on the Anglo-American model were used. Each presenter put his program together completely himself and also drove the technology (" self-propelled operation "), there was no editing. News and traffic announcements were also omitted, the focus was on music and an unmistakable flair from the pirate era. In the last years of broadcasting, the program consisted of current magazine programs with information from the region, occasional interviews and a bit of politics from 11 a.m. to 1.30 p.m., from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. pure, branch-related music shows, in which the moderators personally contributed (" Personality Shows ").
Decline
RTO had to share the VHF frequency (first to 101.6 MHz with only 100 watts of transmission power, later to 107.4 MHz and 5 kilowatts) with the other provider Radio Ohr (today HITRADIO OHR ), a so-called frequency splitting . Right from the start, this led to bigger and bigger problems and bottlenecks, including tensions with the competition. RTO only had 4.5 hours of broadcasting time a day, the lion's share coming from Radio Ohr. Radio Ohr was later assigned the frequency 104.9 MHz, on which a full 24-hour program was broadcast. Under these unfavorable conditions, it was very difficult for RTO to develop its own identity. Large publishing companies were behind Radio Ohr, RTO was run purely by the owner and managing director Frank Leonhardt (an enthusiastic fan and connoisseur of the pirate and offshore radio scene ) alongside his electronics company. Finding new advertising and sponsors turned out to be problematic in the long run until the costs were no longer covered - advertising income sank to zero. Feeding into various broadband cable networks in the Ortenau did not stop the downward trend. At the end of 1989 it almost stopped broadcasting, after two more years of hard struggle for survival, RTO was finally silent on December 31, 1992 at 9 p.m.
Some moderators who became known through Radio Telstar Offenburg then switched to public radio broadcasting by ARD or other private radio stations.
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