SWR cont.ra

SWR cont.ra
Radio station ( public law )
reception	FM  (only in Stuttgart), DAB , satellite ( DVB-S , ADR )
Reception area	Baden-Württemberg Rhineland-Palatinate
business	July 1, 2002 to January 8, 2012
Broadcaster	Südwestrundfunk
Intendant	Peter Boudgoust
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SWR cont.ra was a word radio that Südwestrundfunk (SWR) had been producing since July 2002. The word "cont.ra" is an abbreviation of "content radio" ( radio with content ). The program was produced in Baden-Baden and advertised itself with the words: This is where the information plays - for everyone who wants to know. On January 9, 2012, SWR cont.ra was replaced by the new news channel SWRinfo .

program

The focus in SWR cont.ra was on information and cultural programs. Monday to Friday, the early program until 9 a.m. was designed like a news channel: news every 20 minutes, supplemented by various categories (weather, sport, economy, ...). Instead of frequent broadcasting of news (such as B5 aktuell ), SWR cont.ra otherwise relied on particular detail in the information broadcasts. In addition to numerous repetitions and takeovers from other SWR programs, especially from SWR2 , but also SWR1 , SWR cont.ra also offered its own, e.g. B .:

• Transfers from the Bundestag and the state parliaments
• important sporting events without music interruption
• Programs from the specialist editors (environment, church, economy, ...)
• an intercultural magazine ( SWR international )
• historical documents from the SWR archive
• Boulevard and infotainment ( cont.ra-BASS, colorful, current, showbiz and sport )

The news program Tagesschau was broadcast at 8 p.m. At night, the station took over the ARD info night (produced by MDR Info ; not on all medium wave frequencies). In the early days of the station still was at this point INFOradio from RBB broadcast.

In the evening from 7 p.m., SWR cont.ra broadcast the joint foreign language or foreigner programs of the ARD in its first six months, until these were discontinued in their former form at the end of 2002.

reception

Old logo of the station, with larger arrows and without SWR

SWR cont.ra could be heard as a live stream on the Internet and on the SWR's medium wave stations . Due to austerity measures, broadcasting via medium wave was limited to the Mühlacker , Rheinsender , Heilbronn and Ulm stations during the night in July 2005 . In contrast to the other SWR radio programs, it was only broadcast via the terrestrial digital radio system DAB in a reduced, dull mono sound quality (greatly reduced bit rate with cut highs). Originally, however, it was intended to increase the acceptance of the DAB system. SWR cont.ra could be received via DVB-S and ADR via the Astra satellite at 19.2 ° East , and in the downtown area of ​​Stuttgart via VHF on 91.5 MHz.

Medium wave

With the final broadcasting deadline for SWR cont.ra, the medium-wave transmitters also stopped broadcasting on January 8, 2012. Operation of the Ulm-Jungingen transmitter ceased on December 30, 2011. The operation of the DRM transmitter in Obereisesheim was stopped on July 1, 2011.

Channel	frequency	ERP	Transmission area
Lake Constance transmitter ¹	666 kHz	150 kW	southern Baden-Württemberg
Mühlacker	576 kHz	100 kW	northern Baden-Württemberg
Rhine transmitter	1017 kHz	100 kW	Rhineland-Palatinate
Freiburg ¹	828 kHz	10 kW	Breisgau
Ulm	1413 kHz	1 kW	Ulm region
Heilbronn-Obereisesheim	711 kHz	5 kW	Heilbronn Region (DRM)

¹ Limited operation: Monday to Friday from 5 a.m. to 11 p.m., Saturday and Sunday from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m.

VHF

Channel	frequency	ERP	Transmission area
Stuttgart Broadcasting House	91.5 MHz	0.3 kW	Downtown area of ​​Stuttgart

Web links

• Homepage: SWR cont.ra. The information radio

Individual evidence

1. ↑ SWR: SWR relies on topicality and regionality. Broadcasting Council welcomes new program projects . Press release. September 23, 2011. Retrieved September 25, 2011.
2. ↑ Heidi Keller: The end of the medium wave. Answers from SWR radio editor-in-chief Arthur Landwehr . January 4, 2012. Retrieved January 5, 2012.