sunshine live

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Sunshine live
Station logo
Radio transmitter ( private law )
Program type Eurodance / techno- oriented music channel
reception FM , cable , satellite ,
DAB + and internet
Reception area Baden-Württemberg , supraregional
Start of transmission June 20, 1997
owner Eurocast
MOIRA Rundfunk (a subsidiary of Medien Union ) has
several smaller shareholders
executive Director Petra Lemcke
List of radio stations

sunshine live (also sl; ssl; or radio sunshine live ) is a private nationwide radio broadcaster with a focus on electronic dance music . The station began operating under its current name on June 20, 1997 in Schwetzingen and is now based in Mannheim . Since December 13, 2016, most programs have been broadcast from the top floor of the Das Schloss shopping center in Berlin. The old studio in Mannheim, which had been in the Kauffmannmühle in the Hafenstrasse in the Jungbusch district since January 30, 2006 , was closed and moved to a smaller studio in the Mannheim Music Park . Some shipments will continue to be made from there.

The sender's mascot is Clubby , a light blue baby head with headphones and a nose piercing.

In June 2016, Sunshine announced live that VHF broadcasting in the Rhine-Neckar area and the move to Berlin on July 1, 2016 were discontinued .

program

Regular broadcasts from Sunshine Live include:

Shipment name content Moderators Studio
BPM - Beats per Morning Monday to Friday from 6 a.m. to 10 a.m. Resi & Justin Berlin
Recorder Monday to Friday from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. Nikola
AfterNoons Monday to Friday from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m., stars, lifestyle and the best house , trance and dance hits nonstop DJ Falk
DJs afterwork Monday to Friday from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. DJ Falk Mannheim
Back to the 90s Tuesday from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m., the best Eurodance , DreamDance , Trance and Happy Hardcore hits of the 90s Christoph
Classics Saturday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., live mixes of the biggest disco tracks from the 1990s and 2000s DJ Falk & Eric SSL
Sunshine live charts Saturday from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m., the listeners' 20 most popular tracks. Justin
Connected Sunday from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m., the hottest news from the game and PC world Eric SSL
Dance 50 Sunday from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m., the 50 biggest dance tracks coordinated by German DJs Berlin
Club sound Berlin Sunday from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Electronic music nonstop Monday to Friday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and Saturday from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Overnight Monday to Friday from midnight to 6 a.m. and on weekends from 6 a.m. to 7 a.m., news on the hour and dance hits non-stop

At all other times, Sunshine broadcasts live mix shows from international DJs. Depending on the program, the set is restricted to a certain genre. All programs during this time are put together and presented by the DJs themselves, without the influence of the station's music department.

In the night from Sunday to Monday ran until April 29, 2007 22:00 to 2:00 the shipment adult music . This was compiled and presented by DJ Taucher . The music selection was mostly non-commercial electronic music as well as excerpts from his latest sets. Occasionally Taucher also had guests on his show. The program was taken out of the program surprisingly and without notice, which led to a large audience protest. DJ Taucher only found out about the cancellation shortly before his last broadcast and moderated for several minutes, crying. According to the broadcaster, the reason for the discontinuation was the introduction of the Sixty Radio Show in the Sunday afternoon program and the low number of listeners.

Live broadcasts

Sunshine live is represented at various events which are broadcast live on the radio. This includes the regular Welcome-To-The-Club- Party. These broadcasts usually take place on the nights from Friday to Saturday and from Saturday to Sunday. Exceptions on other days can be found in the station's program (e.g. from trade fairs). In the summer of 2009, live broadcasts from the RIU Palace (Mallorca) with DJ Klubbingman , a sunshine live DJ, took place every Tuesday .

history

Previous programs

The direct predecessor of sunshine live was Radio Sunshine , which initially carried the name RNO Radio (for the Rhine-Neckar-Odenwald region ) and at times the mixed form RNO Radio Sunshine and broadcast a hit and oldie program. It went on air on October 1, 1994 at the beginning of the second licensing period of the Baden-Württemberg private broadcaster from Schwetzingen. The organizing company of sunshine live still bears the old name RNO Rhein-Neckar-Odenwald Radio GmbH & Co. KG today .

Several local broadcasters preceded this program. On the one hand, the radio station Wachenburg , which is part of the Weinheimer Nachrichten , started broadcasting on October 1, 1987 on the 100.7 MHz frequency from the eponymous Weinheimer Wachenburg and later switched to the 107.7 MHz frequency. At the end of 1992 it became the oldie station Rhein-Neckar with RTL Radio as a supporting program and at the same time got the frequency 106.1 MHz from the station Heidelberg-Königstuhl .

Another forerunner program was the Rheintal Radio from Schwetzingen, which started on April 8, 1988 and was broadcast from the studios that were later also used by sunshine live. The station initially took over the main program Radio Regenbogen , later the oldie station Rhein-Neckar. It was broadcast from the Wiesloch transmitter on the 107.4 MHz frequency, which was later changed to 107.1 MHz.

The two channels merged until 1994 and Schwetzingen was selected as the new studio location. For the second licensing period of Baden-Württemberg's private broadcasters from October 1994, the station, which has now been declared a local station for the Rhine-Neckar-Odenwald region, also received the 25 kW basic network transmitter frequency 102.1 MHz from the Reisenbach telecommunications tower and the 107.9 MHz frequency from the filler transmitter in Mosbach and expanded its transmission area to include the Odenwald in Baden .

The two Odenwald frequencies previously broadcast the program launched by Radio TON on September 18, 1989 (at times Radio 7 Radio TON and from 1992 Radio TON Gold ) from Bad Mergentheim , whose broadcasting area was divided up for the new licensing period. While the Neckar-Odenwald district was allocated to the broadcasting area of ​​the new RNO Radio , the remaining broadcasting area was merged with that of Heilbronner Radio Regional . The two stations were merged to form Radio TON Regional , the forerunner of today's Radio Ton .

The technical structure of today's local program was achieved. After the station had little success with the hit and oldies program, it was decided to restart the program as a youth station while retaining the part of the name “Sunshine”. Since there was previously no such program in the entire broadcasting area, it was expected that such a format would have a better chance of success. After the last broadcast of the old program ended on June 17, 1997 at 8 p.m., there was a program loop on the frequencies for a few days until the sunshine live program started on June 20, 1997 at 3 p.m.

1997–1999: youth broadcasting time

The new program started with the then 14-year-old Sarah Thumb von Neuburg (now presenter MDR Jump in Halle (Saale)) and her talk-call-in show Sarah Live . The music orientation corresponded to the CHR format. The first two tracks played were The Notorious BIG - Hypnotize and 2Pac - California Love . Even Rammstein and pop music ran in the rotation, with the exception of boy groups . Over time, the musical direction was adapted more and more to the techno genre.

Well-known programs from the youth broadcasting era:

  • Roundabout
  • Shut up
  • Sarah-Live, later X-Ray - three-hour youth talk show on Friday afternoons
  • Flashlight
  • Jungle
  • Live date
  • Backstage
  • Computerworld
  • Power on Monday

1999–2000: Consolidation of the format

The tender for a regional youth station in Baden-Württemberg was won by a consortium led by the Mannheim station Radio Regenbogen , in which RNO Radio was also involved as a partner. In order to quickly assign a 24-hour program to the license, sunshine live was switched to these newly acquired frequencies in November 1999 .

The music program at that time was mostly dance-heavy, but still used a lot from other areas of the music world. About this aspect there was a dispute among the shareholders, which led to the founding of the radio station bigFM , as sunshine live rejected reformatting to more black music and less dance.

Sunshine live broadcast from the end of March 2000 (after the bigFM program loop was activated) temporarily exclusively on the VHF frequencies in the Rhine-Neckar triangle because the satellite broadcast (ADR) was temporarily required to feed the new bigFM transmitter. Since the middle of April 2000 sunshine live can be received again without interruption via Astra.

Well-known programs
  • Not Alone
  • Flashlight
  • Track check
  • Labelite
  • Crash factory
  • RPR maximum

The program Flashlight was discontinued in 2002, a special broadcast took place on December 17, 2005.

2000–2015: Expansion of the transmission area and formatting

After the company shares in Schimper-Verlag (Schwetzingen) were taken over by the radio group Eurocast (shareholders: Radio PSR , Hit Radio FFH , Radio SAW , 94.3 rs2 and other stations of the radio group Regiocast ), formatting can be observed.

At times, were call-in contests included in the daily program to win new listeners and increase revenue. The programs were produced by the same company that was responsible for the call-in television channel 9Live . However, since media analyzes showed no corresponding effect and regular listeners criticized the call-in elements massive, the broadcaster discontinued them. The nightly call-in-show was subsequently only broadcast on late Monday evening and was finally discontinued. All that remains is a call-in quiz that is broadcast daily at different times and is similar to the television speed quiz format (as of September 2012).

Since January 2007, Sunshine has been broadcasting a German version of the Vonyc Sessions live with Paul van Dyk on Thursday evening. In February 2007 the internationally known program Mellomania Deluxe was replaced by a program in cooperation with the Ministry of Sound label . According to the broadcaster, this was mainly due to financial reasons. On April 29, 2007, the Sunday program Adult Music ran with its international audience for the last time.

In 2007 Sunshine celebrated its tenth anniversary live on October 2nd in the Kinki Palace in Sinsheim on a 3000 m² dance floor. A specially launched anthem reached the German single charts after about two weeks and jumped from 0 to 75th place.

During the new mobile phone boom of the Apple iPhone and the Android and Windows Mobile platforms, the private radio working group developed various mobile apps with which Sunshine Live can be received via UMTS or EDGE .

Logo with the old claim

For the New Year of 2010, Sunshine Live replaced all bumpers and jingles from the radio program and replaced the slogan “we are among you” with “electronic music radio”. Before the start of the program, traffic jams were switched to “Streetscan”, News to “News” (every half hour “Newsscan”) and “Weatherscan”. New talkovers were created for the moderators and short flash recordings, for example 30-second music recordings.

Sunshine Live broadcasts from various German and Spanish discos at regular intervals. Live broadcasts from the Prater in Bochum or the Kinki Palace in Sinsheim take place regularly in midsummer . Other club visits include the Volkspalast in Leipzig or the Riu Palace on Mallorca.

Well-known programs
  • Breakfast Club
  • DJs afterwork
  • Mellomania Deluxe
  • Welcome to the club
  • Hire & Fire (until September 2011)
  • Sunshine Live Charts
  • Maximum
  • Code red
  • Global beats
  • uptrax charts
  • Pick up
  • Mix Missions (Easter 2003 - from 2003/2004 always over Christmas and New Year)

Move to Berlin

Since the announcement of the move to Berlin in June 2016, enormous further changes have been observed in the program. With the opening of the studio in Berlin, it was designed as a technically leading location and the Mannheim studio is referred to as an outdoor studio after its move within Mannheim. The morning show BPM, the daily program until 4 p.m., as well as all recorded programs are run from Berlin, almost all live DJ programs, i.e. starting with DJs after work up to the programs in the late evening, as well as most of them of the weekend live program (Classics, Charts, Connected) come from Mannheim.

On October 2, 2016, the 1000th and last regular Welcome to the Club broadcast took place. Between December 3rd and 10th, the hourly news broadcast was finally removed from the program.

In 2017 a partnership was established with the broadcaster Ibiza White FM . In addition to a weekly two-hour program, the Sunshine Live FM radio show , which is produced by DJ Falk on Sunshine Live and broadcast on Sundays on Ibiza White FM, there has also been a program produced by Ibiza White FM since June 10, 2017, on Sunshine It will be broadcast live under the name Ibiza White FM Saturday morning before the Classics. Ibiza White FM also provides studios for live broadcasts from Ibiza.

Known programs that ended on December 31, 2016

Well-known programs since moving on January 1, 2017

  • A State Of Trance (with Armin van Buuren )
  • Back to the 90s (with Christoph; since April 1, 2017)
  • BPM - Beats per Morning (since June 8, 2015, first with Holger and Annina, since moving to Berlin on January 1, 2017 with Katha and Justin) (until June 5, 2015 Morningclub (with Paddy) (former name: Morningshow , before Fresh ))
  • Classics (with DJ Falk & Eric SSL)
  • Connected (with Eric SSL )
  • Dance 50
  • DJs Afterwork (with DJ Falk, Eric SSL & DJ Jackbell)
  • Felix Kröcher (formerly hardliner with Felix Kröcher )
  • Hardwell On Air
  • Ibiza White FM (produced by Ibiza White FM ; since June 10, 2017)
  • Karottes Kitchen (with DJ Karotte )
  • Special Squad (with Eric SSL )
  • sunshine live charts (with DJ Falk & Eric SSL)
  • Technoclub (with Frankfurt's DJ legend Talla 2XLC )
  • The Pressurehead (with The Pressurehead )
  • UMF radio
  • Uptrax
  • Vonyc Sessions (with Paul van Dyk )

In favor of a format conversion, R&B and hip-hop are no longer played.

future

On December 16, 2017, Eric SSL announced in the program Classics that Roger Shah will be represented again with his own program on Sunshine Live from 2018.

He was previously represented on Sunshine Live with his brother Pedro del Mar with the show Mellomania Deluxe .

Compilations

Sunshine live has been bringing out a techno compilation series since 2001, which now has 65 editions (as of August 2018). The Sunshine live sound is presented on these triple CDs. It used to be mixed on the third CD, today all three CDs contain new sound from the radio station. In addition, Sunshine live sells various CD series, such as Sunshine live Classics, Mellomania, Sunshine lives House club Edition, Schranz Total, Club Sounds, Dream Dance and a few others, which used to be mostly on the Toptrax label and are currently on the label Uptrax appear.

In January 2006 the Sunshine live DVD was released, which contains 26 videos by well-known artists from the trance field.

reception

VHF

As the first VHF frequency outside of Baden-Württemberg, the Berlin-Brandenburg Media Authority assigned the 94.9 MHz frequency to sunshine live in Templin, Brandenburg, on July 1, 2010 . However, the distribution was stopped again on May 1, 2012.

Since December 15th, 2015 sunshine can be received live in and around Rostock on 92.4 MHz. This was made possible by the allocation of a free VHF frequency by the state media authority Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. The station could be received terrestrially via VHF in parts of Baden-Württemberg , Bavaria , Hesse and Rhineland-Palatinate until June 30, 2016 .

On June 30, 2016, the local station frequencies were transferred to the new rock program Regenbogen 2 .

With effect from May 31, 2016, Sunshine Live has been assigned an additional VHF frequency in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania by the State Media Authority of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.

Sunshine Live can be heard in and around Stralsund on FM 103.1. The output power is 0.2 kW.

The technical distribution of the VHF frequencies is carried out by the network operator Uplink Network from Düsseldorf.

VHF frequencies sunshine live
former frequencies as local station Mannheim / Heidelberg
Weinheim 107.7 MHz 0.1 kW until June 30, 2016
Heidelberg 106.1 MHz 1.0 kW until June 30, 2016
Wiesloch 107.1 MHz 0.1 kW until June 30, 2016
Mudau 102.1 MHz 25 kW until June 30, 2016
Frequencies as a nationwide special-interest program
Stuttgart-Munster 104.9 MHz 1.0 kW
Rostock 92.4 MHz 0.1 kW
Stralsund 103.1 MHz 0.2 kW

Digital radio

Sunshine live can be received nationwide via the cable networks of Kabel BW , Vodafone Kabel Deutschland and Unitymedia , Europe-wide via satellite ( SES Astra ) and worldwide via Internet live stream. Since 2011 sunshine live can be received nationwide via DAB + , Channel 5C.

The broadcast epoch via DVB-T in Berlin was very short at around one year. For this purpose, a media driver's license was applied for at the media authority in Baden-Württemberg (LfK) , which enabled the way to today's program of sunshine live. In January 2014, DVB-T reception in Berlin was ended.

Since the beginning of 2015, sunshine live has been received by Satelio in southern Africa via DVB-S, especially in Namibia by German-Namibians . On June 30, 2016, broadcasting on the FM frequencies 106.1 MHz (Rhine-Neckar area) and 102.1 MHz (Odenwald / Heilbronn) was discontinued and replaced by Radio Regenbogen 2. The broadcaster now wants to take care of digital distribution even more.

Awards

Shop

The broadcaster Sunshine Live has an online shop on the website. This is where the radio station's fan articles are offered, including hoodies, bags, the official Sunshine Live compilations and much more.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.sunshine-live.de/news/sunshine-live-aus-dem-hauptstadtstudio-berlin
  2. ↑ http://www.mannheim24.de/mannheim/mannheim-neuer-radiosender-regenbogen-zwei-ab-juli-auf-frequenz-von-sunshine-live-6491059.html
  3. ↑ Sender details at the State Office for Communication
  4. ^ A b Sunshine Live - Classics radio show from June 10, 2017
  5. ↑ Mannheim / Ibiza: Radio sunshine live broadcasts live from Beachparty from Ibiza. In: www.heidelberg24.de. Retrieved June 26, 2017 .
  6. ↑ sunshine live with a new daily program. In: www.radiowoche.de. Retrieved June 26, 2017 .
  7. ^ Sunshine live - Shop (CDs). Retrieved May 26, 2018 .
  8. ^ Medienanstalt Berlin Brandenburg (accessed September 15, 2009)
  9. ↑ Radio week: sunshine live gives up FM frequency in Templin
  10. ↑ meinungsbarometer.info : INDUSTRY PORTRAITS - Companies | OPINION BAROMETER.INFO. Retrieved July 23, 2017 .
  11. ↑ ZAK: Board chairmen of the media authorities recognize new programs in nationwide digital radio
  12. ↑ Extension: Sunshine Live comes on DAB +  ( 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.dxaktuell.de  
  13. ↑ Message from Teltarif from January 4, 2014
  14. ↑ Report to Satelio
  15. ↑ sunshine live focuses on digital distribution - sunshine live. In: www.sunshine-live.de. Retrieved July 4, 2016 .
  16. ↑ http://www.deutscher-radiopreis.de/radiopreis/Bestes-Sounddesign-Electronic-Musik-Poems,sounddesign101.html
  17. ↑ Laudation for the German Radio Prize 2010