radio Ypsilon
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| Radio station ( free radio ) | |
| reception | analog terrestrial , livestream |
| Reception area | Hollabrunn , Retz , Znaim |
| Start of transmission | October 14, 2000 |
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radioYpsilon is an independent radio station in Hollabrunn, Lower Austria .
The main studio is located in the old slaughterhouse in Hollabrunn. The name comes from the fact that it was originally a radio station of the BG / BRG Hollabrunn (SKZ A-310016), where a studio is still located today, from which mainly live broadcasts for the open house, Advent market and school festival are broadcast. A third studio is located in Znojmo (CZ). There are transmitting antennas in Hollabrunn (in the tower of the BG & BRG Hollabrunn) and in Retz in the warehouse silo. The signal delivery to the main studio was taken over by CRN. radioYpsilon is a member of the Association of Free Radios Austria (VFRÖ) .
history
The radioYpsilon started with the training of young people in the areas of journalistic research, free speech, foreign language skills as well as entertainment and information technology as part of the optional subject radio journalism at the high schools BG / BRG Hollabrunn, the HTL Hollabrunn and the high school Dr. Karla Polesného Znojmo. It was founded under the name GymRadio.
The non-profit organization " Media and Communication Center Northern Lower Austria " was founded as a sponsoring organization and in 1999 an application was made to obtain a license for training radio and to allocate a transmission frequency.
In the presence of Governor Erwin Pröll , broadcasting began on October 14, 2000. Since December 2001 the area of Retz and Znojmo has also been supplied via the 102.2 MHz frequency. In addition to the studio in Hollabrunn, another one has been operated in Znojmo since 2005.
On March 29, 2008 the name was changed to Radio Ypsilon . On the one hand, they wanted to break away from the image of a school station, on the other hand, the area of activity in the three-country triangle Austria - Czech Republic - Slovakia with the three languages should be symbolized by the Y symbol.
The following schools are or have been active at Radio Ypsilon as program creators:
- AG Hollabrunn,
- BG / BRG Hollabrunn,
- HAK Hollabrunn,
- HBLA Hollabrunn,
- HTL Hollabrunn,
- Polytechnic course in Hollabrunn,
- School for Health and Nursing Hollabrunn,
- HAK Retz,
- HLT Retz,
- Federal Commercial Academy Laa an der Thaya
- HAK Krems,
- HBLA Tulln,
- BG / BRG Vienna XVIII., Schopenhauerstraße,
- BG / BRG Vienna XVIII., Schopenhauerstraße - school brothers,
- BG / BRG Vienna XIX., Billrothstr. 73,
- University of Applied Sciences for Media, Sankt Pölten and the
- Danube University Krems .
In addition, non-Austrian schools and institutions also work with:
- Gymnázium Dr. Karla Polesného Znojmo
- BBC World News from BBC World Service in English
- Autonomous Youth Center of Senica (Slovakia)
- Gymnázium Břeclav (Lundenburg)
Participation is planned from
- Catholic Gymnázium Třebíč ,
- the grammar school and the Masaryk University Brno and the
- II Liceum Ogólnoksztoucajce Chrzánow in Poland.
In total, more than 300 students from the BG / BRG Hollabrunn and Dr. Karla Polesného Znojmo, trained in radio journalism from the HTL Hollabrunn and HLT Retz and learned how to use entertainment and information technology. Some of these people now work for radio stations.
In 1999 GymRadio won the "Moment - Leben heute" award for the best school radio program in Austria with its 26-minute "Kosovo" program. In 2004 Gymradio was awarded the "Euregio Innovation Prize". In 2007 the broadcaster won the ideas competition of the village and urban renewal of Lower Austria with the project “Unlimited youth - multicultural radio”.
Since 2008 radioYpsilon has been taking over German-language news and journals from Radio Prague twice a day as part of a cooperation. Also in 2008 radioYpsilon caused a sensation with new ideas and enjoyed international recognition with “Wine on Air”, the world's first “Radio and Internet Wine Tasting” in cooperation with regional winegrowers and the regional management “Land um Hollabrunn”.
Frequencies
- FM 94.5 MHz land around Hollabrunn
- FM 102.2 MHz area Retzer Land and Znojmo Land
- FM 89.0 MHz Ernstbrunn - Leiser Berge
- FM 93.7 MHz Mistelbach
The radioYpsilon program is broadcast 24 hours a day.