Radio Wuppertal

Radio Wuppertal
Radio station ( private )
Program type	Full program
reception	analog terrestrial , cable , live stream
Reception area	Wuppertal
Start of transmission	October 6, 1991
owner	Organizer group Radio Wuppertal eV Operating company local radio Wuppertal GmbH & Co. KG
Program director	Editor-in-chief Georg Rose
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Radio Wuppertal moderator team

Radio Wuppertal is a private radio station that belongs to the group of NRW local radio stations . It started broadcasting on October 6, 1991. The editor-in-chief is Georg Rose .

operator

Like all local radio stations in North Rhine-Westphalia, Radio Wuppertal is based on the so-called two-pillar model. The two pillars are on the one hand the tour operator association (VG) and on the other hand the operating company (BG). The VG is responsible for the content of the program, for the appointment of the editor-in-chief and the editorial team. It is made up of representatives of the “socially relevant groups”. The VG members work on a voluntary basis as a registered association . The BG is responsible for providing the broadcasting technology and financing. She is not allowed to influence the program content or the program design. The operating company is allowed to sell local advertising time. The shareholders of Radio Wuppertal are the Rheinische Post (75%) and the city of Wuppertal. The separation of program content and finances is stipulated and regulated by the State Media Act of North Rhine-Westphalia.

program

Radio Wuppertal broadcasts a full 24-hour program in AC format. Eight hours of broadcasting per day are produced locally in the studio in Wuppertal, the remaining hours running the coat program of Radio NRW . This is a program without a name of its own. The jingles with the station identifier "Radio Wuppertal" are automatically triggered in the radio house in Wuppertal .

Radio Wuppertal broadcasts local news every hour Monday to Friday from 6:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m., Saturday from 7:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. and on Sunday from 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m. every half hour. At 5:30 p.m. the current topics of the day in the day in the valley are summarized again.

The local programs Jasmin & Jens am Morgen (from 6 to 10 am ) and Radio Wuppertal 107.4 with Michael Brockordt (from 2 to 6 p.m.) are broadcast Monday to Friday . In addition, there is the broadcast Radio Wuppertal in the evening: Visits (Wednesdays from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m.). Radio Wuppertal 107.4 on weekends is broadcast locally between 9 a.m. and 12 p.m. The world news is broadcast around the clock by Radio NRW .

Range

Radio Wuppertal studio technology

Around 140,000 people from Wuppertal listen to Radio Wuppertal every day. The station is the market leader in Wuppertal. With an audience rate of 46.2 percent, Radio Wuppertal is in third place nationwide of all radio stations that can be received via VHF (based on residents of the city of Wuppertal over 14 years of age).

reception

The program can be received via the FM frequency 107.4 MHz (station Wuppertal-Westfalenweg ), in the cable network and via internet stream (web radio and app ). The transmission power is 1000 watts. The transmission range is up to 30 km outside the Wuppertal city area.

Broadcast times

Mondays to Fridays

• 00:00 to 06:00 - NOXX
• 6 a.m. to 10 a.m. - Radio Wuppertal 107.4 in the morning with Jens & Jasmin
• 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. - on the morning
• 2 to 6 p.m. - Radio Wuppertal 107.4 with Michael Brockordt
• 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. - in the evening
• 9 p.m. to midnight - NOXX
• in between: the community radio

Saturdays

• 00:00 to 06:00 - NOXX
• 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. - on weekends
• 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. - Radio Wuppertal 107.4 on the weekend with Florian Rübener
• 12 p.m. to 9 p.m. - on weekends
• 9 p.m. to midnight - NOXX
• in between: the community radio

Sunday

• 00:00 to 06:00 - NOXX
• 6 a.m. to 8 a.m. - on weekends
• 8 a.m. to 9 a.m. - Heaven and Earth (on the first Sunday of the month: Heaven and Earth from Wuppertal)
• 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. - Radio Wuppertal 107.4 on the weekend with Jasmin Ashauer (10 a.m. to 11 a.m.: ELBA talk)
• 12 p.m. to 9 p.m. - on weekends
• 9 p.m. to midnight - NOXX
• in between: the community radio

Citizen radio

The local radio stations in NRW are loud Land Media Act NRW (LMG NRW) committed daily 1 hour of airtime to the community radio to provide. The community radio is designed by laypeople. Citizen radio broadcasts usually differ significantly from the rest of the program. It is broadcast nationwide from Monday to Friday from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m., for example the Concert Talk, which runs every last Friday of the month. At the weekend, Radio Wuppertal broadcasts the community radio from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m.

advertising

Marketing tasks in the area of ​​radio advertising have been outsourced to Pressefunk Düsseldorf GmbH, a subsidiary of the Rheinische Post . In the marketing area, she also looks after other local radio stations in the Düsseldorf metropolitan area . In addition to Radio Wuppertal, this also includes Welle Niederrhein , Radio Neandertal , Radio 90.1 Mönchengladbach , Antenne Niederrhein , NE-WS 89.4 and Radio RSG .

Awards

Radio Wuppertal has received several radio awards:

• 1998: LfR Radio Prize, entertainment category, Sabine Opitz, "The Wuppertal 100,000 Mark Show"
• 2002: LfM radio award, category communal reporting, Georg Rose, "The OB election campaign affair"
• 2002: LfM radio award, entertainment category, recognition award for the Radio Wuppertal Advent calendar
• 2002: Journalist Prize Association of Taxpayers, Georg Rose, "The OB election campaign affair"
• 2005: LfM radio award, special award, best local news in NRW
• 2005: LfM radio award, category project and series, Sabrina Heuer "Swinger Club"
• 2005: LfM radio award, category best local advertising campaign, "Das Schwelmer"
• 2006: LfM radio award, category local advertising "The living bread"
• 2009: LfM radio award, category projects and series, (recognition award) Michael Brockordt , "Michael Brockordts 80 facts about Wuppertal"
• 2012: LfM radio award, service category, Rebekka Merholz "The Radio Wuppertal Family Week"
• 2013: LfM radio award, category service + advice, Rebekka Merholz "(K) a forensic clinic for Wuppertal?"

• 2011: aer radio seal for particularly exemplary training
• 2013: aer radio seal for particularly exemplary training
• 2015: aer radio seal for particularly exemplary training

Web links

• Official web presence with internet stream
• iPhone app

Individual evidence

1. ^ Rheinische Post. (No longer available online.) Landesanstalt für Medien Nordrhein-Westfalen, archived from the original on October 12, 2012 ; accessed on July 12, 2011 : “At the end of 2010, the publishing group of the Westdeutsche Zeitung took over its 75 percent stake in the operating company of Radio Wuppertal.” Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ Electronic Media Analysis (EMA) I / 2016 of March 2, 2016

Coordinates: 51 ° 15 ′ 19 ″  N , 7 ° 6 ′ 26 ″  E