Radio Vest

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Radio Vest
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Radio transmitter ( private law )
Program type Local radio
reception analogue terrestrial , cable & web radio
Reception area Recklinghausen district
Start of transmission March 21, 1991
Program director Wolfgang Tatzel
List of radio stations
Website
The transmitter is located at the stone gate

Radio Vest (until January 2010 Hit Radio Vest) is the local radio in Recklinghausen for the Recklinghausen district . It went on the air on March 21, 1991 under the name Radio FiV ( F unk i m V est) and received its license from the State Agency for Media in North Rhine-Westphalia . Wolfgang Tatzel has been editor-in-chief at Radio Vest since July 2013. As a trained editor with a lot of experience in the radio sector, he founded Radio Herne in 1990 and was in charge there until 2013. Wolfgang Tatzel is a two-time winner of the Radio Prize of the Bavarian State Center for Media .

program

The radio program is broadcast 24 hours a day . On weekdays eight hours of this are local programs. This includes the morning show that is sent between 6am to 10am and the afternoon program, which finds its transmission place from 14 to 18 AM. The local news between 5:30 and 19:30 is continuously produced locally. On weekends, Radio Vest broadcasts locally from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. In addition, Radio Vest broadcasts citizens' radio on its frequencies in the evenings from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. in accordance with statutory provisions . As of 2020, 3 productions will be broadcast: Radio Turntable (since May 1991), Haltern-Journal and KwieKIRCHE (since January 2019).

The program for the other times, the world news every hour on the hour and the national advertising before these news are broadcast by the supporting program provider Radio NRW from Oberhausen. This is also where the music desk is located, which not only compiles the music program from Radio Vest, but also from all the other NRW local radio stations.

Moderators

As a rule, the morning show is directed by Julia Winterfeld and Gedeon Degen with their respective "5 for Vest" teams, alternating weekly. In addition to the moderators, these teams consist of a news editor, reporter, the "weather expert" Kai Zorn, and a sidekick, who is responsible for traffic on the road and rail.

The afternoon moderators will include Teresa Ledabyl and Patrick Wilking.

Range

According to the range analysis EMA NRW 2019 II, local radio achieved a value of 24.4% for the value “listeners yesterday”. According to this, around 112,000 people tune in to the local radio for the Recklinghausen district Monday to Friday.

The early show with Gedeon Degen and Julia Winterfeld remains the most successful show on the program. The average hourly range over the whole day (Mon-Fri) is 7%, which means that around 33,000 people switch on every hour. The length of time spent in the program (average daily listening time in minutes) is 178 minutes.

history

former headquarters of Radio Vest

Under the direction of editor-in-chief Guido Schulenberg (until summer 1998), an initially five-person editorial team developed a program with a strong focus on local journalism. In the summer of 1991, locally produced radio entertainment was added - a rarity in private radio even then. In the first years of broadcasting, numerous editors and moderators worked on the program, which became well known in the Recklinghausen district. Uli Gladies, Ralf Stutzki (later developed programs for WDR , NDR and SWR with his own agency ), Achim Bleul (today at RTI), Christian Terhoeven (later at RTL Radio , then at the youth channel 1LIVE and now WDR4), Hella Sinnhuber (today Media trainer), Bert Grickschat (today editor and voiceover at point 12 ), or Lars Tottmann (today presenter on WDR television) are prominent examples. In addition, over the years, the employees have repeatedly won radio awards from the LfR (now LfM ), for example in 1997 as an editor in the municipal reporting section on the planned forensics in Marl, and in 1998 in the entertainment category with a special by Christian Terhoeven on the birthday of the Recklinghäuser Comedians Hape Kerkeling , then in 2000 in the economic reporting category on the topic of Hugo-Ewald's closure of the colliery and in 2007 for pre- and live reporting on the demolition of the “Goliath” high-rise in Marl.

In the late autumn of 1998, the station hired a new editor-in-chief who introduced a strict hourly format. This resulted in a radical drop in audience ratings. At the turn of the year 2004/2005, the station name was changed to Hit Radio Vest during a further restructuring , the editor-in-chief changed again and more attention was paid to local journalistic content.

With expanded local news and the name Radio Vest , the station has been on the air since January 11, 2010.

Manfred Stabenau, chairman of the organizers' association, has been in office without interruption since the station was founded. Kurt Bauer, as a local publisher, has since been in charge of the station's operating company, which is economically responsible.

In February 2012 Radio Vest changed its broadcasting studios. The local station moved from the former station at the old Lörhof Center in Recklinghausen ( Lage ), which had to give way due to the construction of the Recklinghausen Arcaden, to Steinstrasse, which is also in downtown Recklinghausen. Radio Vest accompanied the move with photos and video clips, which are presented on its own website. Radio Vest welcomes the audience from the new Steintor studios.

Radio Vest has been using a new jingles package and a new sound logo since September 2, 2013, like the other local radio stations in North Rhine-Westphalia.

Companies

Verlag J. Bauer has a 75 percent stake in the transmitter and Vestische Straßenbahnen 25 percent. Marketing tasks in the area of ​​radio advertising were outsourced to Westfunk .

reception

Radio Vest covers the Recklinghausen district with its frequencies without Gladbeck . You can hear the local radio on three terrestrial frequencies:

Problems with terrestrial reception have been known since the start of broadcasting, especially in Waltrop and Castrop-Rauxel, but also in parts of Datteln. In the district of Gladbeck, Radio Vest is almost impossible to receive. Gladbeck belongs to the broadcasting area of ​​the Radio Emscher-Lippe station .

The transmitter can also be received in the cable network within the Recklinghausen district (also in Gelsenkirchen and in the western part of Dortmund ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Numbers according to Westfunk: Radio Vest, accessed on July 15, 2019.
  2. Radio Vest Moving Blog
  3. Radio Vest on kek-online.de


Coordinates: 51 ° 36 '48.4 "  N , 7 ° 11' 39.6"  E