Radio m
radio m is the radio agency of the Evangelical Methodist Church , which was founded in 1959 as Rundfunkmission (RM). The agency produces Christian radio reports for the programs of various private radio stations. It offers further audio productions on its website.
aims
radio m wants to reach “non-Christians” with its productions. This includes the agency listeners who are far removed from the church and the Christian faith. In order to reach this group of people, the radio agency relies on understandable everyday language.
In terms of content, the productions are based on everyday life experiences. The topics are largely from the areas of church and society. The audience should feel addressed through the choice of topics and linguistic comprehensibility in order to deal with the Christian faith.
By placing the radio productions on private radio stations, the agency wants to reach listeners who do not expect Christian ideas at this point. The agency is not recognizable as such for the listener. The productions fit into the respective program formats. For its work, radio m uses the churches' third-party broadcasting rights in private broadcasting. According to its own account, radio m does not advertise a specific church, but rather orientates itself in its actions to the general Christian missionary mandate.
Sponsorship and funding
As a radio agency of the Evangelical Methodist Church, radio m is partly financed by grants from the Free Church. The Federation of Evangelical Free Churches (BEFG) also helps finance the agency. For the most part, however, the work is financed by donations from individuals, communities and institutions. Cooperation with ecumenical partner agencies as well as services also enable additional, subordinate income.
history
Broadcast mission
The radio agency radio m emerged from the "broadcast mission". This was founded in 1959 by Pastor Gustav Bolay. He had proposed the establishment of a radio program to the Methodist Episcopal Church at the time , which on November 3, 1959 decided to go this “contemporary way of proclaiming” the Gospel. The name of the broadcast mission was “God is calling you today”. The motivation for founding the broadcasting mission was Bolay's observation and conviction: “I saw the time coming when people would no longer come to church as regularly. So the Church has to come to the people. ”
The Radio Mission's first quarter-hour Methodist broadcast was broadcast on Radio Luxembourg on January 7, 1960 at 7:00 am.
The dedicated connection to the Methodist Church was the main obstacle to cooperation with the Evangeliums-Rundfunk (ERF), also founded in 1959 . A different decision was made by Pastor Heinz Stossberg from the Evangelical Community at the time , who was also present on Radio Luxemburg with his program “Keep and think”. In the fall of 1960 he brought this into the ERF, which he co-founded.
After the unification of the Methodist Church and the Evangelical Community to form the Methodist Church in Germany (UMC), the broadcasting mission remained a work of the UMC. From 1974, under the direction of Pastor Gerhard Belz, the external and internal effects of the broadcasting mission reached their peak. The broadcasts of the broadcasting mission were broadcast to Central and Eastern Europe via medium and short wave transmitters in other European countries. The headquarters of the broadcasting mission was relocated from Gebersheim (near Leonberg) to Stuttgart-Kaltental in 1975. There was intensive work accompanying the radio with printed products, mailing of manuscripts, pastoral care and a "cassette service". As a result, listeners and parishes received cassettes of the radio productions for distribution or for use in parish work. In addition, the company began producing its own music in the late 1970s. One of the most successful programs was “I want to pray with you” with Gerhard Belz. It was broadcast monthly from 1977 to 1994.
radio m
The current name "radio m" was initially the title of a youth program broadcast on shortwave. When the German broadcasting landscape was opened to private providers in the mid-1980s, the Methodist Church was the only larger German free church that could show its own radio work.
For a long time radio m was the private radio division of the broadcasting mission. In coordination with and on behalf of the Association of Protestant Free Churches , she supervised free-church radio teams and broadcasting slots for the emerging private broadcasters at various locations.
In Baden-Württemberg, radio m has been one of the church radio agencies ( Evangelisches Medienhaus and KIP-Medien) that supply private radio stations in this state since 1987 . Radio m is also one of the founding members of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Evangelischer Rundfunk e. V.
In 1994, the broadcasting mission at the time moved together with radio m to the newly established media center of the Methodist Church in Stuttgart-Weilimdorf. Here the contributions for the supplied private radio stations were produced, whereby the work became more and more professional and led away from radio work, which was initially strongly voluntary.
Radio Luxemburg (medium wave) remained the most important partner station of the original, independent Methodist radio mission until 2008. An unattractive broadcasting time combined with a short range and high production costs led to the termination of these productions this year, so that private radio work became the agency's sole field of activity. Since then, the facility has officially been called radio m. Pastor Dagmar Köhring is currently in charge.
program
The radio agency supplies around 15 local and regional broadcasting slots for private broadcasters in Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, Lower Saxony and Thuringia as well as a nationwide broadcaster Klassik Radio (as of November 2011).
radio m works with Protestant and Catholic radio agencies. In addition, radio m is a member of the Evangelischer Rundfunk eV consortium.
According to its own statements, the agency produces around 800 to 1000 announcements and journalistic articles with a length of one minute to two and a half minutes each year.
Further fields of activity
In addition to radio productions for private radio stations, the internet presence of radio m is becoming more and more important. Many radio reports can be heard and commented on here. There are also contributions such as radio m talk and radio m compact that are produced exclusively for the Internet .
In addition, the agency offers churches and congregations training courses for holding church services and church events.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b radio m destinations on the radio m web page.
- ↑ UMC , Methodist Church in Germany.
- ↑ Baptisten Germany ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. support radio m.
- ^ Hansjörg Biener: 50 years of radio work by the United Methodist Church. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 390 kB), In: Medien aktuell: Church on the radio. Number 164 (December 2009 / January 2010), p. 14f.
- ↑ Hansjörg Biener: Religion on the edges of an advertising wave - broadcast mission on Radio Luxembourg. In: Material service of the Evangelical Central Office for Weltanschauung questions. 8/2004, p. 293ff.
- ↑ Hansjörg Biener: Christian radio stations worldwide - radio work in a competitive climate. (Calwer Theological Monographs). Calwer Verlag, 1994 ISBN 3-7668-3287-5 .
- ↑ Hansjörg Biener: Mass media for Christ - An overview of missionary media work in Germany. Working group for questions of religion and ideology, n.d.
- ↑ Evangelisches Medienhaus ( Memento of the original from February 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , evangelical partner of radio m in Baden-Württemberg.
- ^ KIP-Medien , Catholic partner of radio m in Baden-Württemberg.
- ↑ Arbeitsgemeinschaft Evangelischer Rundfunk e. V.
- ↑ radio m station list and broadcast times on the radio m website
- ↑ radio m on facebook , the fansite.
- ↑ Services on the radio m website.
