Radio W1

Radio W1 was a private radio broadcaster from Würzburg . Radio W1 was the city's third local broadcaster , alongside Charivari.fm and 106.9 Radio Gong . The full 24-hour program was broadcast on VHF 95.8 MHz (Würzburg) and 92.6 MHz ( Ochsenfurt ) and was discontinued in 1992. (Up until March 31, 2008, you could hear a 24-hour folk music program on the Radio Melodie frequency . This program has meanwhile ceased broadcasting; egoFM has been broadcasting its program there since the end of November 2008. )

history

Due to the limited space available, Radio W1 moved into the glass studio in the Wöhrl fashion department store a good year after it started broadcasting in Münzstraße 3. After major financial difficulties for the station (at that time the cuckoo was sometimes stuck on the record collection), Radio W1 moved to Ludwigstrasse 8a. Co-partner Manfried Prater had his own small radio studio there, which he made available to the broadcaster to maintain the program. In the first days and weeks after the move, only "non-stop music" could be heard from the tape.

Radio W1 was discontinued on October 1, 1992, among other things for financial reasons. Although the program reform for Hit-Radio (carried out at the time by Holger Richter - now head of programming at RTL Radio in Luxembourg ) had brought some new listeners, the numbers were not enough to create a financially viable concept for the station. Radio W1 sometimes tried new forms of advertising such as "program sponsorship". Individual broadcasting hours were financed by local sponsors (e.g. "Bono furniture pick-up market").

One of the best-known employees of Radio W1 was Kai Fraass, who was also the station's editor-in-chief for a time, with his weekly scene report "Kai was there".

In 1990 the station organized the longest hit parade in the world. Under the title "Top 2000-Y" (renamed to "Top 2000" at the time because of legal problems - without "Y") the two moderators Marcus Schiller and Kaya Göck organized a nine-day permanent moderation, alternating eight hours. The closing event took place in the " Airport " disco on Gattingerstraße. The world record was not achieved because radio W1 broadcast advertising in the program contrary to the statutes.

Since October 2009, the former editor-in-chief Kai Fraass has continued the station as a live stream on the internet via the platform "laut.fm".

Web links

• [1] - Homepage of Radio W1
• Radio W1 online - Radio W1 at laut.fm (own program of the former W1 editor-in-chief)
• www.wuerzburg-fotos.de - Detailed information on the station history with pictures and audio files