Broadcasting year 2012

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2012: 90 years after the novel was published, SWR and DLF broadcast a 22-hour radio play version of Ulysses .

General

  • January 18 - From the 18th report of the commission to determine the financial needs of the broadcasters it emerges that ARD and ZDF no longer want to pay feed-in fees to the operators of broadband cable networks from 2013 onwards . These expenditures have so far amounted to 45 million euros on ARD, ten million euros on ZDF and 3.5 million euros annually on Arte. They are missing in the approaches for the year 2013. On June 26th it was announced that ARD and ZDF had terminated the contracts with the cable companies. These have thereupon put in the space to increase the cost to consumers; However, there are narrow limits to this due to the availability of DVB-T, satellite and the Internet. The private broadcasters are meanwhile waiting to see how the conflict will end in order to decide for their part on further payment of the fees.
  • 19 January - After weeks of protests , Niko Pelinka resigns from the post of office manager of ORF General Director Alexander Wrabetz , after the ORF editors had also vigorously opposed his appeal.
  • January 25 - The Supervisory Board of ERF Medien decides to reduce its Management Board from four to two members with effect from June 1, 2012. Only Jürgen Werth as chairman of the board and Ulrich Rüsch as managing director should belong to him. The reason is a generation change in the board as a result of which the board should be reduced to an appropriate size. Udo Vach and Hartmut Diehl are therefore leaving the board, Diehl at his own request even at the end of February 2012.
New DW logo
  • February 6 - Deutsche Welle is renovating its logo and website and expanding its television program. Since then, the broadcaster has mainly called itself “DW” and can now increasingly access programs for which ARD and ZDF hold world rights. Above all, self-produced talk shows such as Günther Jauch , Maybrit Illner and Menschen bei Maischberger are supposed to supplement the news program, of which only 40% is made by DW itself. The program, which was previously produced alternately in German and English every hour, is now offered in English around the clock for North America, Africa, Asia and Australia. There are other broadcast languages ​​in a second channel, including German. The Spanish language program for Latin America will be expanded from one to 20 hours per day. Online content can now also be used via an app . A radio program on shortwave is only broadcast to sub-Saharan Africa.
  • February 7th - The Austrian media manager Gerhard Zeiler will leave the head of the RTL Group on April 18th and switch to the US media group Time Warner , where he will be responsible for the European business of the news channel CNN .
  • February 14th - The French international radio station Radio France Internationale and the international television station France 24 merge under the umbrella of Audiovisuel Extérieur de la France (AEF). The extensive protests by the workers and the listeners were unsuccessful.
Logo from RTS
  • February 29th - Radio Suisse Romande (RSR) in French-speaking Switzerland merges with the local television company Télévision Suisse Romande (TSR) to form Radio Télévision Suisse (RTS). In contrast to the television stations, the radio stations were not given any new names, only new logos. The two television channels were renamed from TSR 1 and 2 to RTS Un and RTS Deux .
  • July 4th - The BBC Trust announces that former Director of BBC Television, George Entwistle , will succeed former Director General Mark Thompson after the 2012 Olympics . With an annual salary of £ 450,000 (the equivalent of around € 565,000), he is paid much lower than his predecessor. Thompson announced on March 19 that he wanted to step down after eight years at the helm of the station. Entwistle took office on September 17, 2012.
  • September 28 - The SWR Broadcasting Council decides to merge the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra with the Baden-Baden and Freiburg SWR Symphony Orchestra . According to a press release by the broadcaster, a main sample location is to be determined by 2016 and the merger to be carried out in a socially acceptable manner.
  • October - The US news magazine Newsweek announces that it will discontinue its print edition from January 2013 after 80 years and will only appear in digital form in future . The reason given for this drastic step is continuously falling advertising income.
  • November 10 - George Entwistle resigns as Director General of the BBC after only two months . It was triggered by two child abuse scandals.
  • December 16 - The radio and television programs of Swiss Radio and Television for German-speaking Switzerland are renamed. DRS and SF become SRF.

Radio

Historical logo of the DLF
  • January 1st - Deutschlandfunk has been in existence for 50 years to the day since January 1st, 1962. A program reform is planned for 2012, with which Deutschlandfunk and Deutschlandradio Kultur are to be developed “complementary to each other”.
  • January 1st - The Saarländischer Rundfunk begins a program reform to implement cost-cutting measures in the SR 2 Kulturradio program. Radio features are only available on public holidays, and two fewer radio plays are produced each year than before. In addition, the radio play date will be moved from Thursday to Sunday afternoon. There are fewer live transmissions to save line costs.
  • January 2nd - Evangeliums-Rundfunk replaces the program Through the Bible by Pastor Hugo Danker in its ERF Plus program with the newly produced series “New Life. The Audio Bible ". "Through the Bible" was heard from 1996 to 2011. According to the ERF, around 100,000 listeners have reported to the station due to the series. About 250 responses were received every month. In February 2012, the ERF announced that it wanted to produce new episodes of the series based on listeners' requests and put them back into the program under the title “Das Wort” “by spring 2013 at the latest”.
  • January 2 - In order to achieve savings of up to 25 percent by 2020 compared to the 2010 budget, the editorial offices of the SWR2 programs “Leben” and “Dschungel” will be merged. The new editorial team has been doing two programs a day since then.
  • January 5th - The BBC Trust approves the launch of advertising for the first time on the UK international service BBC World Service . Affected are the websites in Arabic, Russian and Spanish, as well as the program broadcast on the FM frequency in Berlin. The tax-funded international broadcaster's budget was cut by £ 46 million a year in 2011. As a result, over 600 jobs had to be cut. The British government had asked the broadcaster to generate income of £ 3 million annually "from commercial activities" through 2013/14.
Logo from SWRinfo
  • January 9th - The Südwestrundfunk completely stops its broadcasts on medium wave . Simultaneously, the program enters SWRinfo the place of SWR cont.ra . With the exception of Stuttgart, where there will still be an FM frequency, the new program will only be broadcast digitally ( DAB + , DVB-S , ADR , live stream on the Internet). On February 7, 2012, the 137 meter high mast of the Lake Constance transmitter was demolished. The 240 meter high main transmission mast will remain standing for a certain time. An anemometer is mounted on it, which is initially intended to provide data for possible wind power utilization.
  • January 9th - The broadcasting of BR traffic via DVB-S and DVB-C is switched off so that the station can only be received via DAB +.
  • January 13 - In January 2012 it was announced that the Bulgarian international service Radio Bulgaria would stop its programs on shortwave at the end of the month in order to be broadcast over the Internet. The reform will not restrict the program. Broadcasting on medium wave in Eastern Europe will be retained. The aim is not only to save costs, but also the "desire to correspond to modern trends in the branch".
  • 22 January - After the Dutch radio had to switch to medium-wave broadcasting in Great Britain due to fire damage in an FM transmitter system in late summer 2011, the public service broadcaster of the Faroe Islands Útvarp Føroya is now using medium-wave 531 kHz as a backup supply because several VHF transmitters had been badly damaged by storms. The transmitter is operated with 100 kW and can be heard in large parts of Europe after the Beromünster transmitter in Switzerland and another occupancy from Saxony-Anhalt were switched off on this frequency in 2008.
  • 25./26. January - The Chairman of the BBC Trust , Lord Patten , has ordered the BBC to revise the planned austerity measures on its English local broadcaster BBC Local Radio . It aims to save £ 15 million and cut 280 jobs. Overall, the budget of the BBC is to be reduced by a quarter within five years. Meanwhile, the BBC has its exclusive broadcasting rights for cricket telecast Test Match Special extended for six years until of 2019.
  • February 1 - Since the beginning of February 2012, the broadcasts of Radio Belarus via medium wave and short wave have been severely restricted. Most of the former frequencies are out of service. At the same time, the wireless network was partially shut down.
  • February 13 - World Radio Day takes place for the first time , a day of remembrance that was decided by UNESCO on November 3, 2011 at the suggestion of Spain. The day was chosen because that was the day United Nations Radio was founded in 1946 .
  • February 17 - The board of directors of Deutschlandradio decides, at the suggestion of the artistic director Willi Steul , that Birgit Wentzien will become editor-in-chief of Deutschlandfunk from April 1, 2012 . At this point, your predecessor Stephan Detjen was moving to the capital city studio of Deutschlandradio as chief correspondent. In addition, Hans Dieter Heimendahl will be head of the main culture department at Deutschlandradio Kultur .
  • March - Under the title Der Parteiliche Journalist , Metropol Verlag publishes the history of the radio feature on radio in the GDR , written by media historian Patrick Conley .
  • March 23 - Polish broadcaster Polskie Radio announces the end of its shortwave international broadcasts. The services will be continued, but since then they can only be heard online via the World Radio Network and via satellite as well as an app for iPhone and Android . The programs are also available as podcasts.
  • April 4 - The contemporary history series ZeitZeichen , which runs daily on WDR 3 , WDR 5 , NDR Info and SR 2 Kulturradio , has been broadcast for 40 years. A total of over 14,600 issues were produced. The first broadcast was heard in 1972. Each episode today reaches around 300,000 listeners, the podcast is downloaded by more than 500,000 listeners a month. There were several special broadcasts on April 1 and 4, 2012.
  • April 4th - Radio Canada International announces that the station's budget has been slashed so that two-thirds of all employees will lose their jobs. The services in Russian and Portuguese will be discontinued, as will the news in English and French. The broadcasts on shortwave will also be discontinued. The station continues to operate exclusively on the Internet in English, French, Arabic, Spanish and Chinese.
  • April 5 - In order to protest against the planned consolidation of all Vienna ORF locations in the planned media center in Sankt Marx , and to save the traditional broadcasting house on Argentinierstrasse, Ö1 employees set up the Rettet das Funkhaus initiative .
  • May 3 - The matches of the European Football Championship 2012 are not only broadcast by ARD, but also by ten private radio programs with their own reporters on site ( Radio Hamburg , Hit-Radio Antenne , Antenne Bayern , Radio Regenbogen , Hit Radio FFH , Radio NRW , Antenne Thüringen , Hitradio RTL Sachsen , Radio Brocken and 104.6 RTL and 105'5 Spreeradio in Berlin).
Logo of Radio Nederland Wereldomroep
  • May 11 - After 65 years, the Dutch international service Radio Nederland Wereldomroep ceases broadcasting in Dutch. At the end of the broadcast, a 24-hour farewell program was produced in Dutch, which was also broadcast on the medium wave station Oxfordness in Great Britain on the frequency 1296 kHz. At the same time, the broadcasts end on shortwave. On June 11, 2012 it was announced that the English service would be discontinued at the end of June 2012. The live stream on the Internet ends on June 29, 2012. On this day there will be a farewell broadcast by the English editorial team. The website will continue to be updated, but current reports on the Netherlands will no longer be offered here either.
  • May 29th - After the preamplifier failed at the end of April 2012, Deutschlandfunk confirmed that the Berlin-Britz shortwave transmitter will no longer be operational due to the high repair costs. The listeners are referred to the broadcast via DAB + and via the Internet.
  • May 30th - The program reform of WDR 3 , which was postponed on March 2nd after extensive protests by listeners against a reduction in more demanding programs and subsequently improved , is approved by the Broadcasting Council. The "die-radioretter.de - initiative for culture in broadcasting" had collected almost 19,000 signatures online within a short time. On the one hand, the program will be expanded to include a current culture magazine on Sunday. The website will also be expanded. On the other hand, “a few programs are given up or shortened”. The daily cultural commentaries and a weekly radio essay as well as the journal in the evening on the most important current events of the day were retained. A “permanent 'future workshop'” should provide permanent space for experiments in the program. A one-hour music feature is broadcast on public holidays. Ten slots per year are provided for this.
  • June 12 - The Vatican announces that the broadcasts of Vatican Radio on medium and short wave for Europe and America from the broadcasting center Santa Maria di Galeria will be discontinued on July 1, 2012. In the future, these regions would be supplied via the Internet, via DAB and DAB +, via satellite and via partner stations that take over the broadcasts from Radio Vatican. The shortwave service for the poorer parts of the world, which can only be reached in this way, will continue.
  • June 16 - To celebrate Bloomsday , the first broadcast of Klaus Buhlert's radio play production of James Joyce's Ulysses takes place on SWR2 and Deutschlandfunk . It is repeated between the years in the DLF.
  • June 16 - With an extended, two-hour live broadcast from the Tschauner stage in Vienna- Ottakring , the 200th and, for the time being, last edition of the radio show Trost und Rat with Willi Resetarits can be heard on Radio Wien .
  • July 12 - The BBC World Service editorial offices are gradually leaving Bush House and moving to Broadcasting House. The first World Service broadcast from the new broadcasting center was produced on March 11, 2012. It was a program of the Burmese service with audience participation, in which Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi took part as a guest. The last newscast from Bush House was broadcast on July 12, 2012 at 12 noon local time (11 a.m. GMT). The newscaster was Iain Purdon.
  • Aug. 1 - With Hitradio Namibia launches the first German-language radio stations in Namibia . The programs “Hitradio in the morning”, “Hitradio at midday”, “Hitradio in the evening” and “Hitradio at the weekend” are an integral part of the program.
  • November 1 - Because the Orfordness station on the medium wave frequency 648 kHz has not been used for international broadcasts of the BBC World Service since 2011 , the frequency of the BBC was withdrawn by the British media authority Ofcom in November 2012 . Although it is not suitable for this, the frequency is now to be used for community radio . The frequency 648 kHz has been used by the BBC World Service since it was commissioned. From 1987 a separate program "BBC 648" was operated in which the foreign service could be heard in English, German and French throughout Europe. Since 1990 the program has been called "BBC for Europe".
  • November 6th - In Russia it is announced that the broadcaster Radio Mayak will discontinue its broadcasts on long and medium wave at the end of the year. The shortwave broadcast had ended in 1999.

watch TV

  • January 4th - Federal President Christian Wulff gives ARD and ZDF an interview in which he talks to Ulrich Deppendorf and Bettina Schausten about the political affair that affects him . The interview was recorded in the late afternoon and broadcast unedited with a time delay from 8.15 p.m. Audio recordings and transcripts were distributed on the Internet before the blocking period expired. 11.5 million viewers saw the television program.
  • January 7th - The Franco-German TV broadcaster ARTE is introducing a new program schedule and is also broadcasting its program via live stream on the Internet. It can be displayed in the web browser as well as with a free app on the iPhone and iPad.
  • Jan. 15 - At the awards ceremony of the 69th Golden Globes are Homeland as best drama series, Kelsey Grammer for his portrayal of Mayor Tom Kane in Boss and Claire Danes as the best series actress for her performance of the portrayal of CIA agent Carrie Mathison in Homeland excellent.
  • January 19 - According to Media Control , Germans watched TV an average of 225 minutes a day in 2011, longer than ever before. The greatest increase was found among 50 to 64 year olds, who watch TV an average of 280 minutes a day.
  • 23 January - Premiere of the talk show Gottschalk Live with Thomas Gottschalk , which is broadcast by ARD immediately before the Tagesschau . On April 14th, the ARD announced that the program would be discontinued on June 7th, 2012. The reason is the disappointing audience rating.
  • February 9 - China Central Television launches a new channel, CCTV America , broadcast from Washington, DC, to rival other international news channels. The Chinese program for Africa CCTV Africa is also to be expanded.
  • February 14th - KiKA receives a new logo and new idents.
  • February 16 - The third Austrian community television FS1 goes into operation in Salzburg .
  • February 29th - SRG SSR switches the channels SF 1 , SF Zwei , RSI LA 1 , RSI LA 2 , RTS un , RTS deux to HDTV (720p).
  • March 8 - Televisão de Moçambique , Mozambique's state television , launches a second TV program, TVM-2, 31 years after starting regular broadcasts.
  • March 11th - Markus Lanz will succeed Thomas Gottschalk as the presenter of the ZDF television show Wetten, dass ..?
  • March 15 - Former program director and presenter Thomas Bellut succeeds Markus Schächter as director of ZDF . Bellut, who is assessed as moderately conservative, announces that the ZDF program will be tailored to a younger target group and that considerable savings will be made. Hundreds of employees are to be laid off.
  • April 1st - The entertainment channel RTL Nitro , which specializes in older series such as Charlie's Angels , Action ( 24 ) and sitcoms, starts operations.
  • April 30th - The analog broadcasting of the German television channels via satellite ends. On the night of April 29th to April 30th, twelve additional public service channels will be activated in HD. In cable networks, television will continue to be fed in analogue. Nothing will change for receivers of television via DVB-T.
  • May 13 - In the ZDF is the last episode of the talk show The Philosophical Quartet with Peter Sloterdijk and Rüdiger Safranski to see. The show had been on the program since 2002.
  • June 6th - The 70th and last edition of Gottschalk Live can be seen on ARD . The talk show placed before the Tagesschau was discontinued due to a lack of audience ratings , which fell short of the high expectations of ARD.
  • July 3 - The Austrian private broadcaster Austria 9 ends its program and is replaced by Sixx Austria . The introduction of the station is accompanied by a controversial advertising campaign.
  • July 27th - ZDF announces that the crime series Ein Fall für Zwei will be discontinued in spring 2013 after 300 episodes because the two main actors Claus Theo Gärtner and Paul Frielinghaus no longer want to play their roles.
  • OCT 3 - The British TV channel ITV radiates in his documentary series Exposure contribution The Other Side of Jimmy Savile from. Thus, the abuse scandal surrounding the deceased is Top of the Pops -Präsentator Jimmy Savile known that as a result to resignations in the BBC leads. Savile is said to have molested hundreds of children and young people over the course of decades.
  • October 26th - The American satellite operator Intelsat has switched off the channels on Iranian state television . Whether the shutdown was carried out on the instructions of the US government was neither confirmed nor denied.
  • 24./25. November - The second season of The Voice of Germany begins on ProSieben and Sat.1 .
  • December 15th - The ZDFwochen-journal will be discontinued after 5 years exactly before Christmas for copyright reasons.

Died

2012: Dirk Bach dies at the age of 51

See also

Portal: Radio  - Overview of Wikipedia content on radio
Portal: TV  - Overview of Wikipedia content on TV

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Richard Sietmann: ARD and ZDF no longer want to pay for the cable . In: heise.de. January 18, 2012. Retrieved January 19, 2012.
  2. ↑ Commission to determine the financial needs of broadcasters (KEF, ed.): 18th KEF report ( Memento of the original from July 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kef-online.de archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 876 kB) . December 2011. Retrieved January 19, 2012. passim.
  3. ↑ ARD and ZDF want to view it for free . In: Spiegel Online. June 25, 2012. Retrieved June 26, 2012.
  4. ↑ Jörg Paas: Controversial candidate withdraws application. ORF journalists win dispute over vacancies ( memento from January 22, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) . In: tagesschau.de. January 19, 2012. Retrieved January 19, 2012.
  5. ↑ The course set for a generation change. ERF Medien: Board of Directors reduced in future . In: erf.de. January 25, 2012. Retrieved January 26, 2012.
  6. ^ Sonja Pohlmann: Realignment. New Deutsche Welle . In: Der Tagesspiegel. January 31, 2012. Retrieved February 6, 2012.
  7. ^ Robert Briel: France 24 and RFI finally merge . In: Broadband TV News. February 14, 2012. Retrieved February 24, 2012.
  8. ↑ Petition. Non à la fusion-destruction de RFI . In: RFI riposte. The blog des salariés de RFI. January 27, 2012. Accessed August 28, 2020.
  9. ↑ Les chaînes de la RTS se parent d'une nouvelle identité visuelle ( Memento of February 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive ). RTS press release. February 28, 2012.
  10. ↑ dapd: George Entwistle becomes the new General Director of the BBC . In: welt.de. July 4, 2012. Retrieved July 7, 2012.
  11. ^ Mark Thompson's message to BBC staff . Message from BBC director general announcing his decision to step down in the autumn. In: The Guardian. March 19, 2012. Retrieved March 20, 2012.
  12. ↑ BBC's Mark Thompson to step down as director general in the autumn . UK's top TV executive confirms he is to leave after the Olympics . In: The Guardian. March 19, 2012. Retrieved March 20, 2012.
  13. ↑ George Entwistle, Director-General . In: bbc.co.uk. Inside the BBC. Biographies. Without a date. Retrieved September 26, 2012.
  14. ↑ Merger of the SWR orchestras decided. Broadcasting Council voted with a large majority in favor of the SWR's proposal . SWR press release. September 28, 2012. Retrieved September 28, 2012.
  15. ↑ Newsweek is mothballing the printing presses. In: Heise Online. October 18, 2012, accessed October 18, 2012 .
  16. ↑ "After false report in abuse scandal: BBC boss Entwistle resigns" ( Memento from November 12, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), tagesschau.de , November 10, 2012. Date of inquiry: November 11, 2012.
  17. ↑ 50 years of Deutschlandfunk . Website for the station's anniversary. Retrieved January 6, 2012.
  18. ↑ Jan-Phillip Hein: "Cover your head" . In: focus.de. December 12, 2011. Retrieved January 8, 2012 (interview with Germany Radio Intendant Willi Steul).
  19. ↑ Cathrin Elss-Seringhaus: SR2 Kulturradio unter Sparzwang ( Memento of the original from March 14, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.saarbruecker-zeitung.de archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: Saarbrücker Zeitung. December 13, 2011. Retrieved March 13, 2017.
  20. ↑ Creative despite cost-saving measures  ( 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. @1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.sr-online.de   . In: sr-online.de. Press release. December 12, 2011. Retrieved January 8, 2012.
  21. ↑ “New Life. Die Hörbibel ”on ERF Plus New series replaces“ Through the Bible ” . In erf.de. November 25, 2011. Retrieved January 8, 2012.
  22. ↑ “The Word” as a new edition of “Through the Bible” . In: erf.de. Press release. February 1, 2012. Retrieved February 6, 2012.
  23. ↑ 2 x daily on the air: SWR2 Tandem . In: swr.de. December 1, 2012. Retrieved January 8, 2012.
  24. ↑ SWR will save at least 15 percent by 2020 ( memento from July 14, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) . Press release SWR. In: SatGucker. July 5, 2010. Accessed on January 8, 2012: “For example, SWR1 will achieve a savings volume of 15 percent. On the other hand, SWR2, the program with the largest budget, will have to generate a larger amount of savings. Assume up to a quarter of the budget. It is precisely here that it becomes clear that saving on money is by no means synonymous with saving on quality. The program is taking the task of saving a quarter of its budget as an opportunity to make SWR2 even more journalistic and fresher. "
  25. ^ Mark Sweney: BBC World Service to run ads on some websites and radio stations . In: The Guadian. January 5, 2012. Retrieved January 6, 2012.
  26. ↑ Heidi Keller: The end of the medium wave. Answers from SWR radio editor-in-chief Arthur Landwehr . January 4, 2012. Retrieved January 5, 2012.
  27. ↑ Program start January 9, 2012. This is what SWRinfo offers you . Interview with the SWR editor-in-chief Arthur Landwehr. In: swr.de. December 9, 2011. Retrieved December 18, 2011.
  28. ↑ Kai Ludwig: First MW mast of the SWR torn down  ( 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. @1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.radioeins.de   . In: RBB Radio Eins. Media magazine. February 12, 2012. Retrieved February 18, 2012.
  29. ↑ BR traffic via DVB-S via Astra 19.2 ° East and DVB-C discontinued . In: infosat.de with reference to a press release by Bayerischer Rundfunk. January 16, 2012. Retrieved January 19, 2012.
  30. ↑ Andy Sennitt: Radio Bulgaria to leave shortwave on February 1 ( memento of the original from January 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / blogs.rnw.nl archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: Media Network. January 13, 2012. Retrieved January 14, 2012.
  31. ↑ Radio Bulgaria stops shortwave broadcasts  ( 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. @1@ 2Template: Toter Link / bnr.bg   . In: bnr.bg. January 16, 2012. Retrieved January 19, 2012.
  32. ↑ Andy Sennitt: Dutch Radio 1 transmissions on 648 kHz end today ( Memento of the original from March 29, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / blogs.rnw.nl archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: Media Network. September 22, 2011. Retrieved January 29, 2012.
  33. ↑ Kai Ludwig: Faroe Islands on medium wave with 100 kW  ( 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. @1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.radioeins.de   . In: media magazine. RBB Radio One. Radio news. January 22, 2012. Retrieved January 29, 2012.
  34. ↑ Local radio cuts: BBC told to review plans . In: bbc.co.uk. January 25, 2012. Retrieved January 25, 2012.
  35. ↑ Mark Sweney: Test Match Special secure on BBC radio until 2019 . In: Guardian.co.uk. January 26, 2012. Retrieved January 26, 2012.
  36. ^ Kai Ludwig: Transmitter shutdowns in Belarus  ( 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. @1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.radioeins.de   . In: RBB Radio Eins. Media magazine. January 29, 2012. Retrieved February 5, 2012.
  37. ↑ Personnel decisions at Deutschlandradio Birgit Wentzien becomes the new editor-in-chief at Deutschlandfunk - Dr. Hans Dieter Heimendahl becomes head of the main culture department at Deutschlandradio Kultur . Germany radio. Press release. February 17, 2012. Retrieved February 18, 2012.
  38. ↑ Review: From "Resistance and Adaptation" . In: taz blog . June 9, 2012. Retrieved July 1, 2012.
  39. ↑ Attention, schedule change . In: thenews.pl. March 23, 2012. Retrieved on March 23, 2012: “As of Sunday, the English Section will NOT be available on Short Wave, ending almost 80 years of broadcasts on this spectrum. Many thanks to all our listeners who tuned in via these means over the years. However, the English Section is continuing ALL its transmissions via satellite and online, with podcasts also available via our RSS feed and through the iTunes platform. "
  40. ↑ Schedule . German editing of Polski Radio from March 25, 2012. Accessed March 25, 2012.
  41. ↑ 40 years of ZeitZeichen: radio broadcasts make history. Schmitz: "Public broadcasting in the best sense" . WDR. Press release. February 15, 2012. Retrieved February 22, 2017.
  42. ^ RCI slashed . In: rcinet.ca. April 4, 2012. Retrieved June 12, 2012.
  43. ↑ ORF radio employees want to "save" the radio house , in: Kurier , accessed on July 3, 2012.
  44. ↑ Private radio stations broadcast all EM games live . In: Infosat. May 3, 2012. Retrieved May 3, 2012.
  45. ^ Adieu, Radio Nederland Wereldomroep! . In: dxaktuell.de. May 10, 2012. Retrieved May 12, 2012.
  46. ↑ RNW's Dutch-language service falls silent ( Memento of the original from May 12, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rnw.nl archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: rnwl.nl. May 11, 2012. Retrieved May 12, 2012.
  47. ↑ We're changing ( Memento of the original from June 12, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rnw.nl archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: rnw.nl. June 11, 2012. Retrieved June 12, 2012.
  48. ↑ Historic Deutschlandfunk shortwave is not switched on again . In: DX aktuell. May 29, 2012. Retrieved May 29, 2012.
  49. ↑ die-radioretter.de . Retrieved March 5, 2012.
  50. ↑ Broadcasting Council discusses changes to WDR 3 ( Memento of March 8, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) . Press release. WDR. March 2, 2012.
  51. ^ [WDR 3: Planned changes] . WDR press release. May 30, 2012. Retrieved May 31, 2012.
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