Rostock transmitter

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As transmitter Rostock Rostock's Broadcasting House of beaming 1959-1990 broadcast of the GDR its regional or central radio broadcasts or programs from.

Broadcasting in the region until 1945

Until 1945, the Funk-Hour Berlin operated the secondary station Stettin in Western Pomerania and, at times, a needs meeting point in Greifswald (needs studio) . The secondary station Stettin was assigned to the station Hamburg from 1933 . The Hamburg- based Nordische Rundfunk AG (NORAG) maintained a needs meeting point in Schwerin and Rostock .

Broadcasting in the region from 1945 to 1952

Broadcasting in the Soviet occupation zone after 1945

After the Second World War and the collapse of National Socialist radio, German anti-fascists under the leadership of KPD functionaries built a radio system for the Soviet occupation zone on the orders of the Soviet occupying power . The broadcasting system in the Soviet Zone / GDR had the following structure from 1945 to 1952:

Berliner Rundfunk (as a control station for all transmitters in the Soviet occupation zone and as a control station for Berlin , Brandenburg and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania ; broadcasting start: May 13, 1945 - as of May 22, 1945 as Berliner Rundfunk)

  • State transmitter Schwerin (for Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania; start of broadcast: December 24, 1945)
- Rostock studio
  • State transmitter Potsdam (for Brandenburg; start of broadcast: June 22, 1946)
  • Studio Cottbus (for the Cottbus region ; start of broadcast: around 1948/49)

Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk (for Saxony , Thuringia and Saxony-Anhalt ; seat: Leipzig ; start of broadcasting: September 15, 1945, operating as Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk from November 1945 and broadcasting from the Berlin radio house until a building that was converted into a radio house on June 4, 1946)

  • State transmitter Dresden (for Saxony; start of broadcast: December 7, 1945)
- Studio Chemnitz
  • Landessender Weimar (for Thuringia; start of broadcast: January 1, 1946 after trial broadcasts from November 1945)
- Studio Erfurt
  • State transmitter Halle (for Saxony-Anhalt, broadcast start: December 24, 1946)
- Studio Magdeburg

Deutschlandsender (for all of Germany; seat: Berlin; broadcast start: May 1, 1949)

The Berliner Rundfunk and the Mitteldeutsche Rundfunk worked in their respective broadcasting area as a broadcasting chain, with the state broadcasters creating regional window programs - embedded in the program structure of the respective leading broadcaster (Berliner Rundfunk or Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk). In the course of the further development of broadcasting structures, the broadcasting officers and the corresponding offices in the federal states gradually installed the above-mentioned regional studios, each with a supplier function for the broadcasting houses in Berlin and Leipzig or the regional broadcasters. From around 1948/49 onwards, the Cottbus studio was the only studio to broadcast its own regional broadcasts via wired radio, also embedded in the Berliner Rundfunk program.

The Deutschlandsender was subordinate to the directorship of the Berliner Rundfunk, but had its own editor-in-chief. In any case, the Berliner Rundfunk functioned as a control station for all broadcasting houses and studios in the Soviet Zone / GDR until 1952.

The highest authority was the general director for democratic broadcasting , responsible for all broadcasting stations and their respective broadcasting chains with the associated national broadcasters and the regional studios. Thus, despite the considerable production volume of the broadcasting houses and studios in the federal states and the influence of the KPD / SED in the state administrations, radio in the Soviet occupation zone and the later GDR did not have a federal structure , but was a central radio system with a general manager in Berlin. Neither of these broadcasting houses or studios operated under public law and neither of the two broadcasting chains was a separate legal entity .

Beginnings in Schwerin

At the end of 1945, the state government of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania began to set up a state broadcaster in cooperation with those responsible for broadcasting in Berlin, the Soviet military administration in Germany (SMAD) and the post office . The start of broadcasting under the name Landessender Schwerin was with a one-hour broadcast from 5:00 p.m. on December 24, 1945. However, the radius of action was initially limited to Schwerin and the surrounding area. From December 25, 1945, the national broadcaster broadcast a half-hour program every day at 12:30 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. From January 4, 1946, these programs from Schwerin were integrated into the program structure of the Berlin radio as regional window programs, making the state broadcaster part of the Berlin radio broadcasting chain.

The commissioning of a new 20 kW transmitter made it possible to slightly improve the reception options for the program from Schwerin in the state.

Funkhaus in Schweriner Schillerstrasse

In June 1946, the regional broadcaster moved from the provisionally furnished studio in the rooms of the Oberpostdirektion into a two-family house converted into a broadcasting house. a. with better technical equipment and a small broadcasting hall for music and radio play productions.

With a frequency change in November 1946, the range of the national broadcaster was further improved. Nevertheless, the supply in Western Pomerania remained unsatisfactory. This gap in supply could only be closed gradually.

The daily program volume was around three to four regional windows, spread over the day with a total of around 4½ hours. The production profile among national news, the country radio, the radio courier, the view of the national press and a business magazine, evacuees - and returnee program , answering listener questions as well as music and entertainment, classical music, radio plays , but also special program on upcoming elections and Low German broadcasts. Because the regional broadcaster and later also the Rostock studio / radio house made an effort to maintain the Low German language very early on .

An extremely fruitful collaboration developed between the Schwerin Funkhaus and the Schwerin State Theater , but also with other artistic and cultural institutions such as the Schwerin Police Orchestra and the Rostock City Theater / Volkstheater .

In 1948 the regional broadcaster founded a children's choir.

But the broadcasting house soon proved to be too small for the tasks at hand. Therefore, in 1947, the state broadcaster installed fixed transmission locations outside the broadcasting house for music recordings and transmissions as well as for public events, for which the broadcasting hall in the broadcasting house would not have been suitable. The state government has meanwhile supported the state broadcaster's application to build a new broadcasting house or to be able to convert a building for it.

Funkhaus in Schwerin

After a year and a half of construction, the state broadcaster Schwerin had a building complex at Schloßgartenallee 61 available as a broadcasting house from October 1949 , which significantly improved working conditions. The Funkhaus included u. a. a small broadcasting hall in the main building and a large separate broadcasting hall open to the public - each with their own direction.

In 1951 the national broadcaster founded a youth choir.

Studio Rostock

In March 1947 , what was then the largest company in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania - the Neptun shipyard in Rostock - opened a commercial radio studio that the state broadcaster Schwerin used very often for reporting from Rostock. Nevertheless, the regional broadcaster Schwerin began to set up a radio studio in Rostock. The studio went into operation in May 1948. With a studio manager, two editors , two technicians, a driver and a secretary as well as a studio and an ancient broadcast van , it was located in the house of the Kulturbund at Schillerplatz 10 and produced supplies for the Schwerin broadcasting company and the Berliner Rundfunk. About a year later, the Rostock studio moved to Graf-Schalck-Straße 1 into a house with two studios, a technical operating room and rooms for the editorial office, technician and studio manager, which gradually improved the working conditions in Rostock - also through implementation of a new broadcast vehicle from Schwerin to Rostock.

The supplies from the small Rostock studio for the state broadcaster Schwerin and the Funkhaus Berlin included topics such as regional politics, economy, agriculture, culture, sport and science, but also music and entertainment.

Broadcasting in the region from 1952 to 1964

With the dissolution of the states and the establishment of districts as administrative units in 1952, there was also a restructuring of broadcasting in the GDR. The Rostock district and most of the Schwerin and Neubrandenburg districts corresponded to the transmission area of ​​the former state broadcaster Schwerin.

District studios

As a result of the restructuring of the GDR radio, the broadcasting houses and studios in the previous countries were district studios from summer 1952, only with a supplier function for the central programs produced in Berlin or partly in Leipzig. This also applied to the Schwerin radio station. In district towns in which there were no radio studios yet, the broadcasting committee set up such studios, for example in Suhl , Gera , Frankfurt (Oder) and Neubrandenburg .

But the first corrections to the program structure were made in the summer of 1953. This resulted in the district studios creating regional windows. Three studios shared one frequency of one of three central programs and alternately broadcast half an hour a day on this frequency. One studio acted as the lead studio. The connected studios transferred their programs to the master studio, which broadcast the programs. The Schwerin studio acted as the lead studio for the Rostock and Neubrandenburg studios.

  • Schwerin = Rostock - Neubrandenburg
  • Potsdam = Cottbus - Frankfurt
  • Dresden = Karl-Marx-Stadt (Chemnitz) - Görlitz ( Sorbian )
  • Erfurt = Gera - Suhl
  • Leipzig = Halle - Magdeburg

The 1950s - a time of experimentation

The following years were a time of experimentation, both for the central and even more so for the regional programs - with regard to the frequencies, the transmission times and the respective broadcasting network of the regional programs. In 1955, for example, GDR broadcasting returned to the system of radio stations existing side by side with their own names and directors (Berliner Rundfunk, Radio DDR and Deutschlandsender). The larger district studios were again broadcast houses, to which smaller studios were affiliated. From the beginning of 1956, radio houses and studios were subordinate to Radio GDR and were integrated into its program structure. Potsdam and Frankfurt were assigned to the Berlin radio from 1958 to 1970.

Studio Schwerin had the status of a broadcasting house again, to which the studios in Rostock and Neubrandenburg were affiliated.

In addition to the transmission technology, the studio technology also belonged to Deutsche Post from 1956, without any real benefit being recognized - on the contrary, because the administrative effort increased considerably.

As a result of the experimental years, the GDR radio showed the following structure at the end of the 1950s:

Berlin radio

  • Berliner Rundfunk (entertainment and politics from and for East Berlin and the rest of the GDR)
  • Berliner Welle (entertainment and politics for West Berlin)
  • Regional programs and contributions from the Funkhaus Potsdam and the Studio Frankfurt (Oder) in both programs

Radio DDR

  • Regional programs from the district broadcasting houses and studios (from 1958 to 1970 except Potsdam and Frankfurt)

Deutschlandsender (program for all of Germany)

Radio Berlin International (broadcasts for foreign countries in various languages)

This created a radio structure in the GDR that was to last essentially until the end of the GDR.

Regional programs in the late 1950s and early 1960s

Since Radio DDR II only used its VHF network from 7:00 p.m. and later from 6:00 p.m. for its own broadcasts, Radio DDR I broadcast its programs over this network during the day. The broadcasting houses and studios in the districts integrated their regional windows into the program structure of Radio DDR I. They broadcast at different times for different durations throughout the day on frequencies of Radio DDR II - until the VHF network was fully expanded, also on radio DDR-I frequencies. On the day of the program, Monday, June 1, 1959, the Funkhaus Leipzig broadcast three regional windows with a total broadcast time of 3 hours and 55 minutes, while the Studio Magdeburg only broadcast one window of ten minutes on a local VHF frequency, and Suhl only one Window of 5 minutes within the Weimar regional program. Neubrandenburg, Karl-Marx-Stadt, Gera and Halle did not broadcast that day. The Rostock broadcasting company achieved a transmission time of 1 hour and 45 minutes with two windows.

The Potsdam broadcaster - with the Frankfurt / Oder studio assigned to Berliner Rundfunk from 1958 to 1970 - broadcast a program of 1 hour and 10 minutes in the central morning program of the Berliner Rundfunk and 2 hours a regional window on Monday, June 1, 1959 for the Potsdam district in the afternoon program of Berliner Welle. Frankfurt (Oder) did not broadcast at all.

From January 1963, all broadcasting houses and any connected studios broadcast their daily regional programs uniformly on a Radio DDR II frequency: Mondays to Saturdays from 6:00 p.m. to 6:55 p.m. and Sundays from 7:10 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. - including the one Rostock transmitter.

Broadcasting network Schwerin - Rostock - Neubrandenburg

After a new start in regional programming was made in the summer of 1953 with a modest half hour for Schwerin, Rostock and Neubrandenburg, the program volume of the broadcasting network increased to one to three regional windows with a total broadcast time of one to three hours. As a rule, these were two windows of a total of two hours a day, of which Schwerin had the lion's share. This regional broadcast volume was only half of the daily regional broadcasting time from before 1952.

The production profile of the broadcasting group comprised regionally-related programs on business, culture, education, agriculture and sport, classical and folk music, service and entertainment as well as the sailors' greetings and wishes and other maritime programs from the Rostock studio, but also programs for listeners in the north the Federal Republic of Germany.

Frequent frequency changes proved to be unfavorable for the accessibility of the listeners and their consumption of the regional programs. In some areas, the broadcasting network broadcast its two regional windows alternately over two different frequencies. In addition, it was not possible for many listeners to receive the programs broadcast via VHF because the GDR retailers did not yet offer radio sets with an FM receiver in sufficient quantities or these receivers were relatively expensive and therefore initially unaffordable for many.

In addition, the Schweriner Funkhaus realized music and radio play productions as well as book readings - mainly of Low German works - as well as public events in the large broadcasting hall and other public broadcasting locations for its own regional program and the central programs.

The technical equipment of the broadcasting houses and studios was gradually improved. Nevertheless, the district broadcasting houses always lagged behind the Berlin broadcasting house in terms of technical equipment - the district studios even more. The Funkhaus Leipzig was an exception, later also the Funkhaus Rostock.

Studio Neubrandenburg

In connection with the formation of the districts and the centralization of radio programs, the State Broadcasting Committee installed a radio studio in Neubrandenburg, which had advanced to become a district town, in October 1952, initially with provisional and from spring 1953 with the necessary stationary technology. The studio was located in a villa at Berliner Straße 110 and produced deliveries of small contributions for the broadcasting houses in Berlin, Leipzig and, from summer 1953, within the broadcasting network for Schwerin. From 1959, the studio designed its own small regional windows for the district within the Schwerin / Neubrandenburg broadcasting network on district VHF frequencies.

Rostock radio and television base

In 1958, the State Broadcasting Committee set up a base for radio and television reporting on the International Baltic Sea Week in Rostock in the former Sports Palace in Rostock's Tiergartenallee in the Barnstorfer Forest . After the Rostock studio had become a radio house in 1959 and was able to move into a new, larger building, there was no longer any need to use the Rostock transmitter. The German television radio (DFF) set up a production facility for television games there, from which the Ostseestudio Rostock television emerged in 1962 .

Rostock transmitter

In February 1959, the previous Rostock studio began its preparatory work as a broadcasting company and began broadcasting its programs as the Rostock transmitter in May of the same year .

Expansion of the studio into a broadcasting house

The rapid development of Rostock into a coastal and port metropolis made it necessary, in the opinion of the Rostock SED district management, to expand the Rostock studio into a broadcasting company.

The then 1st SED District Secretary Karl Mewis made the expansion of the studio into a broadcasting center a top priority in the fall of 1958, so that the expansion was completed in record time and the broadcasting center was technically very well equipped for the conditions at the time. A building at Richard-Wagner-Strasse 7 served as the location for the new broadcasting center.

Around 15 editorial staff and almost as many technicians, drivers and administrative staff worked in the broadcasting house. A broadcasting complex with a control room and a sound recording room with a speaker and control room were available to them. Another production complex was under construction at the time.

The Funkhaus began broadcasting as a transmitter in Rostock in May 1959 - on the occasion of the FDJ's fifth parliament, which took place in Rostock.

It was broadcast over two medium-wave frequencies and one ultra-short-wave frequency.

Studio technical work area Rostock

With the establishment of the Rostock broadcasting station in February 1959, the Deutsche Post established the Rostock studio technical work area in the Rostock broadcasting house, which was responsible for the Rostock and Schwerin broadcasting houses and the Neubrandenburg studio. Schwerin and Neubrandenburg continued to form a broadcast network. With the formation of this studio-technical work area in Rostock , from 1959 the Studio Neubrandenburg was editorially assigned to the Funkhaus Schwerin, studio and broadcast technology to the Funkhaus Rostock.

Production profile

Like the other regional broadcasters, the Rostock broadcaster now produced regionally-related programs on business, culture, education, agriculture and sport more extensively than before, produced maritime music and broadcasted service and entertainment.

Reports and reports as well as entertainment programs from the field of maritime transport and port management took up a large part. Reports of negotiations before the Rostock Maritime Court and the seafarers' greetings and wishes broadcast, which the Deutschlandsender and Radio Berlin International also broadcast with a time delay over long and shortwave frequencies, so that these broadcasts across the GDR and in the whole, met with a great response from the listeners World could be received by the sailors.

Broadcasting in the region from 1964 to 1983

The 1960s and 1970s were years in which GDR broadcasting achieved continuity in regional broadcasting, which was accompanied by a gradual increase in regional offers.

Uniform regional offers from 1964

After twelve years of experimentation, in June 1964 the regional programs were again restructured, which should ultimately lead to continuity in terms of frequencies, broadcast times and broadcast networks. Listener research had shown that the audience ratings were highest in the early hours of the morning and in the morning. On average, most GDR residents listened to the radio for around 40 minutes in the morning. This prompted the GDR broadcasters to broadcast six regional programs from 6:05 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. on the frequencies of Radio DDR II - with the exception of Rostock and Cottbus, all of them in a broadcasting network in which one or two studios were assigned to a broadcasting house Neubrandenburg was initially the first studio to broadcast a regional window between 6:05 and 7:57 am within the Schwerin / Neubrandenburg network.

Radio DDR broadcast the following regional offers on its second program:

Neubrandenburg
  • Cottbus (with Studio Bautzen )
  • Dresden - Karl-Marx-Stadt
  • Weimar (with office in Erfurt) - Gera - Suhl
  • Leipzig - Halle - Magdeburg

The Potsdam transmitter and the Frankfurt (Oder) studio continued to belong to the Berliner Rundfunk until 1970 and broadcast on its frequencies - Potsdam on weekdays from 6:05 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. or 9:00 a.m. and from 12:00 p.m. to 12:30 p.m. Clock, Frankfurt from 12:30 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. - later at other times, but as the only district station not in the early hours of the morning.

Gradually, the other studios also began to broadcast regional window programs within the broadcasting network, with the general start of broadcasting of the regional programs gradually being brought forward by one hour to 5:05 a.m.

Rostock transmitter from 1964 to 1983

The Rostock transmitter was a single station and did not broadcast in a broadcast network, nor was it connected to any other supplier studio.

Over the years, the regional program from Rostock consisted of the two-hour, later three-hour Rostocker Morgenmagazin , followed by music programs, a regional magazine and greetings and wishes. On weekends Rostock u. a. a service magazine, youth programs, reports or programs on local history, seafaring - such as the regulars' table for driving people - and in the 1980s the foreign policy magazine Rund um die Ostsee u. Ä.

The production profile included music and radio play productions as well as book readings - mostly Low German literature. Central news came from the main news department in the Berlin radio station, regional news from the Rostock radio station.

It turned out to be unfavorable for the acceptance of the regional programs that two radio programs had to share a frequency on the allocated frequencies that had nothing in common with each other in terms of the program mandate and its design. The regional program was familiar, homely and entertaining, while Radio DDR II was a cultural and educational channel with a lot of classical and serious music as well as a high proportion of verbal contributions, so that after switching to the central program at 10:00 there was always a style break. or the listener switched to another wave and back again the next day. The exclusive broadcasting on VHF and the low level of equipment in GDR households with VHF radio receivers in the 1960s and in some cases still in the 1970s also had a negative effect on the reception of regional programs.

In October 1969 the morning broadcasts started an hour earlier at 5:05 a.m.

From May 1977 the Rostock radio station broadcast in stereo .

Centrally broadcast programs were at the evening hour with folk music in the previous evening program on Radio DDR I - usually broadcast two to three times a year - and the biweekly sailors' greetings and wishes broadcast in the night from Saturday to Sunday from 0:05 to 2 : 00 o'clock, which Radio Berlin International and the Deutschlandsender ( voice of the GDR from 1971 ) continued to broadcast with a time delay over long and medium wave frequencies, so that these programs could be received in large parts of the world.

In addition, deliveries and live connections to the central program took place.

There was a collaboration between the Rostock transmitter on the one hand and the Schwerin transmitter and the Neubrandenburg studio on the other. B. at the original weather talk.

Transmission points outside the broadcasting house were set up in the Rostock Ostseestadion for sports broadcasts, in the Rostock shipping museum for the maritime talk show Stammtisch der Fahrensfahrer , in the Rostock town hall for the broadcast of entertainment programs, in the Warnemünde marine weather service (later the office for meteorology) for the original weather talk and in the traffic control center at the district authority of the German People's Police for traffic radio.

"Radio DDR" holiday wave

The Rostock district as a coastal district was the number 1 holiday region in the GDR with around 7 million tourists annually. This gave rise to the idea of ​​setting up a seasonal holiday radio in Rostock. The idea met with approval from the central management of Radio DDR . In March 1967 the technicians began to create the technical requirements for this. Radio DDR approved new posts for this project.

For the 1967 holiday season, the first "Radio DDR" holiday wave went on air over extended frequencies. In the following years, the Rostock radio station always broadcast the holiday wave from May 1st to the last Sunday in September. Broadcasting began on weekdays at 6:05 a.m. - from 1970 at 5:05 a.m. - broadcasting ended at 8:00 p.m., Tuesdays, due to the earlier start of the evening program on Radio DDR II, sometimes at 7:00 p.m. On Saturdays the holiday wave broadcast from 6:05 a.m. to 2 p.m., on Sundays from 6:05 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

With relaxed moderation and a high proportion of popular music, the program consisted of a colorful mixture of service, entertainment, music for young people, traffic information, regional and central news as well as foreign policy contributions, reports and live entertainment on site. It became very popular with listeners in the three northern districts, both with vacationers and locals.

The programs of the winter program were integrated into the holiday wave program. In addition to the programs produced in-house, entertainment programs were also supplied from the Berlin broadcasting company - such as B. the humorous entertainment program vacation time - and the delayed broadcast of entertainment programs of the central program - z. B. the Schlagerrevue .

The range of services included live connections to the Warnemünde marine weather service (later the Office for Meteorology) for the original weather talk (twice a day) and the live connections to the traffic control center at the district authority of the German People's Police for traffic information.

For Polish and Czechoslovak tourists, the Ferienwelle broadcast news, weather and service tips in the service at noon in Polish, as well as in Czech or Slovak .

The holiday wave often produced large parts of the daily program live on site in the holiday resorts - and did so for up to eight hours a day in three blocks.

Regional news came from the Rostocker Funkhaus, Zentralnachrichten from the main news department in the Funkhaus Berlin as a takeover of Radio DDR. The news from Northern Europe at 5:00 p.m. was an exception . This was created by the editorial staff of Current Politics in the Rostock broadcasting company. Foreign policy contributions for the foreign policy sections on the "Radio DDR" holiday wave were played by the foreign policy department of the Berlin radio station. After the regional news at 2 p.m., there was always a connection to the Foreign Policy Department in the Funkhaus Berlin for a short live conversation about a current foreign policy topic.

In addition, the station Schwerin and the Studio Neubrandenburg participated to a small extent in the program of the holiday wave, u. a. with the Schwerin and the Neubrandenburg district reporter . In addition, Ferienwelle took over the Low German talk show De Plappermöhl , which was produced and broadcast by Funkhaus Schwerin .

During the holiday wave season, the Rostock station always received reinforcements from Berlin from Radio DDR or from other district broadcasting houses and studios.

New building to expand the radio house

In 1975 extensive measures began for a new broadcasting house extension. The construction work was carried out without restricting broadcasting operations. In April 1978 the new radio building was completed. It had a new air-conditioned broadcasting studio and control room complex and an air-conditioned music archive as well as generously equipped work rooms for editing and technology. In addition to the large broadcasting hall of the Leipzig Funkhaus, which was completed in the second half of the 1940s, this was the only new broadcasting hall outside Berlin.

After the completion of the radio house extension, the old radio house underwent a complete reconstruction, which dragged on for years - also without restricting broadcasting operations - which led to a further significant improvement in the working conditions for the radio house employees after the construction work was completed.

Regional programs in the late 1970s and early 1980s

By the end of 1978, Radio DDR had created a structure of 11 regional offers, in which four studios broadcast window programs in a network with a broadcasting company, two of which alternated between two studios. The broadcasting houses broadcast five hours a day, the studios three hours, the Rostock broadcaster 15 hours from May to September, which corresponded to an average weekly broadcast time of 51 hours:

Neubrandenburg
  • Potsdam
  • Frankfurt
Karl Marx City
  • Weimar (with office in Erfurt) - Gera - Suhl
  • Leipzig
Halle / Magdeburg

Regional radio in the 1980s

The regional structure at Radio DDR, which had been established by 1978, had existed until the mid-1980s. Then the GDR radio began to expand the regional programs in the long term.

Rostock transmitter from 1983 to 1989

The expansion plans for the regional programs meant that the Rostock broadcasting company expanded its winter program by three hours from April 1986 and broadcast it until 1:00 p.m. The broadcast of the extended program took place on a frequency of the youth radio DT 64 , which is currently being developed, and which did not begin its program until 1 p.m., so that the break in style when switching to the central program on this frequency was less sharp than when switching on one frequency from Radio DDR II, the cultural and educational program.

This also made it possible to broadcast the daily program of the holiday wave via VHF frequencies, which meant a significant improvement in reception quality.

After the music production had gradually shifted from the Funkhaus Schwerin to the Funkhaus Rostock anyway, the conversion of control room 3 into a music production complex began in the mid-1980s. After further technical expansion and equipping of the necessary peripheral and digital technology of its control room 3, the Rostock Funkhaus took over almost the entire music production of the Ostseestudios Rostock of the GDR television and that of the Funkhaus Schwerin from 1985. As a result, the large broadcasting hall of the Schwerin broadcasting house was less used and lost in importance.

Radio play production also increasingly shifted from the Funkhaus Schwerin to Rostock to the technically better equipped radio house there.

In 1986, the transmission system in the Rostock Ostseestadion was converted and expanded.

In the 1980s around 75 permanent employees worked at the Rostock radio station and many freelancers.

Regional programs from December 1987

By December 1987, the planned expansion of the regional programs was largely completed. The broadcasting houses and studios were no longer subject to Radio GDR, but had a kind of directorship in Berlin.

The holiday wave program was no longer called "Radio DDR" -Ferienwelle, but holiday wave - transmitter Rostock .

The broadcasting houses broadcast on frequencies from Radio DDR II, the start of which had been postponed to 1:00 p.m., and partly on frequencies from the DT 64 youth radio, which was developed into a full program, from 4: 05/5: 05 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., the studios - they called themselves now transmitters - from 4: 05/5: 05 o'clock to 10:00 o'clock over the above frequencies. Leipzig and later Rostock in its winter program also broadcast a regional window from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. All former studios were part of a broadcast network with a larger broadcasting company.

Rostock was the only broadcaster that remained a single station that did not work in a broadcast network and that was not connected to a supplier studio.

The weekday transmission time for all 11 regional programs was 87 hours.

By 1989/90, the regional programs should develop again in such a way that Halle and Magdeburg broadcast separately from January 1989 and the Studio Bautzen, located in the House of the Sorbs , broadcast a one-and-a-half-hour morning magazine in Sorbian from October 1989 - later expanded to three hours . This increased the weekly transmission time of the now 13 regional programs to 95 hours, of which the Rostock station - calculated over the year - had a lion's share of around twelve hours.

Neubrandenburg
  • Potsdam
Frankfurt (Oder)
  • cottbus
Bautzen (Sorbian)
  • Dresden
Karl Marx City
  • Weimar (with office in Erfurt) - Gera - Suhl
  • Leipzig
Hall
Magdeburg.

Response to the new Rostock program

The extended Rostock regional offer outside the holiday wave season had a positive effect on listener behavior - despite stronger competition from youth radio DT 64 and from the German private broadcaster Radio Schleswig-Holstein . Because broadcasting on DT 64 frequencies avoided too strong a style break when connecting to this program after the broadcast had ended. The meanwhile increased equipment level of VHF radio receivers certainly also had a positive effect on listener behavior. The central programs were left behind in terms of audience ratings.

Modernization measures

In 1989, construction work began in the Rostock broadcasting house to install a new control complex - control room 5 - and the use of more modern sound studio technology.

In addition, the radio company received the technical requirements for traffic radio detection, and the transmission point in the traffic control center had the technical possibility of direct access to traffic radio.

Time of political upheaval and after reunification

The time of political upheaval in all GDR districts - the future countries - was characterized by the endeavor to reorganize the entire editorial and technical production potential of radio and television in the region in order to build an independent radio system at the state level, independent of the headquarters in Berlin. Many of these plans, however, were unrealistic and had no prospect of realization from the outset.

Radio Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (RMV)

In the spring of 1990, the three radio locations in Rostock, Schwerin and Neubrandenburg began to make nails. From the three regional programs with a weekly transmission volume of 25 hours, a full program for the future state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania was to be launched. In the meantime, frequencies were free for this, as Radio DDR II had ceased broadcasting and the German broadcaster (previously tuner of the GDR) had taken over the tasks of a culture and education channel. A total of four unrealistic programs were planned for the future, sparsely populated state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.

In June 1990 the broadcasting of the new radio offer Radio Mecklenburg-Vorpommern - RMV with the two programs RMV 1 and RMV-Ferienwelle was started. The headquarters of the Landesfunkhaus was in Rostock. The Rostock Funkhaus was larger and more modern than the one in Schwerin, and with a view to a fusion of radio and television, a television studio complex, the Ostseestudio Rostock of the German TV broadcaster, was located near the Funkhaus. In addition, Rostock was - in contrast to Schwerin - more populous and economically and scientifically more important city as the state capital.

RMV 1 was a joint program of the broadcasting houses in Rostock and Schwerin and the studio in Neubrandenburg, each with its own regional window. Most of the program was designed by the Funkhaus Schwerin, and it included a lot of pop, hits and folk music, as well as a large proportion of regional and national information and light entertainment. The program was aimed primarily at middle-aged and more mature cohorts of locals and tourists who were very well received with this mixture.

The RMV holiday wave - a lively youth program with the latest music - designed almost exclusively the Rostock broadcasting company and should actually broadcast all year round. Due to the strong youth-oriented music orientation of the program, the holiday wave no longer reached a large part of the former audience. B. the middle and more mature age groups, which included the majority of the tourists coming mainly from West Germany and who, as mentioned above, primarily listened to RMV 1 - which would have made the station name Ferienwelle obsolete.

With these offers, the weekly transmission time of the three radio locations increased from 25 to 37 hours. For comparison: The regional broadcasting houses of the North German Broadcasting Corporation (NDR) were broadcasting around 17½ hours of regional radio programs each week. As expected, this could not be achieved in the long term with the existing workforce and production capacities. The previously large volume of music and radio play productions had to be cut back significantly. The RMV holiday wave as a second program could no longer be held. The holiday wave only broadcast regional windows in the second radio program of the North German Broadcasting Corporation - NDR 2 -, which broadcast its program across Mecklenburg-West Pomerania without it being foreseeable that the North German Broadcasting would become the state broadcaster for Mecklenburg-West Pomerania.

In Greifswald , Radio Mecklenburg-Vorpommern set up a radio studio for regional reporting.

After German reunification , there was a strong tug-of-war between the states of the NDR broadcasting area ( Hamburg , Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein ) on the one hand and Berlin and Brandenburg on the other over Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania's membership of a state broadcaster from 1992 onwards the accession of the GDR to the Federal Republic of Germany was under the Broadcasting (radio and television) in accordance with Article 36 of the unification Treaty that of Chancellor Helmut Kohl used from Bayern upcoming broadcast Commissioner for the new Federal states, Rudolf Mühlfenzl . This had the task of transferring the former state radio and the state television into federal structures or winding up.

It was clear to everyone involved that an independent state broadcaster for Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania was out of the question for economic reasons. Participation in the North German Broadcasting Corporation (NDR) or the founding of a "North-East German Broadcasting Corporation - NORA" with the states of Berlin and Brandenburg were up for grabs, as a result of which Hamburg, Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein made the race with the NDR.

Part of the NDR regional broadcasting company

After the North German Broadcasting Corporation had become the state broadcaster for Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania on January 1, 1992, the state broadcasting company was located in the state capital Schwerin. The NDR bundled most of the radio capacity in the Funkhaus in the Schweriner Schlossgartenallee. From there he broadcast the NDR state program NDR 1 Radio MV , which was to become the NDR's most successful radio program.

Radio MV basically continued the program concept adopted by the regional programs and further developed from 1990 onwards, whereby Radio MV was in any case in conformity with the program orientation of the other NDR regional broadcasters.

In contrast, the holiday wave from Rostock - the unloved child at the NDR headquarters - only led a shadowy existence. It was no longer granted a long life because it did not fit into the NDR radio structure. In the summer season 1993 the NDR broadcast the holiday wave from Rostock for the last time.

Since 1994 the studio in Rostock has been producing a one-hour regional window in the program of the NDR youth wave N-Joy .

In the 1990s, the NDR began building a new broadcasting center in Schwerin, which began digital radio operations in 1997 as the most modern broadcasting company in Europe at the time. The NDR gave up the old television studio complex in Rostock in 1998, and the television production capacities moved to Schwerin, the Landesfunkhaus, Hamburg and the former Rostock Funkhaus.

In the former Rostock Funkhaus - which is now called Ostseestudio Rostock - radio and television are under one roof. The current studio produces news and information for the Rostock region and supplies for Radio MV in Schwerin as well as for the other NDR programs produced in Hamburg and for other ARD stations for regional broadcasting radio MV.

For television, the studio in Rostock produces supplies for the regional Nordmagazin produced in Schwerin as well as for NDR television in Hamburg and for the other ARD stations.

Individual evidence

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