Supporting program (media)

An accompanying program (also daily accompanying program ) refers to radio formats that are designed to bind the listener to the program over a longer period of time, ideally all day. A special feature is the strategy of conveying content that does not require active listening or concentration on the content, but remains switched on in the background during the daily routine and at the same time enables other activities. Usually this means a very high proportion of music . Stations with the formats Adult Contemporary or Contemporary Hit Radio are often referred to as "accompanying programs" . Such formats are pejoratively referred to as bag radio .

Web links

• Die Zeit: Save the radio! by Ulrich Stock. A dossier from the newspaper Die Zeit from February 24, 2005
• "Bag radio" theory by Frank Schätzlein. Essay on media science research on "bag radio" in the 1990s
• Radio reports: Transfer endangered - Germany's radio stations are on their way to a serious crisis Telepolis -Article on media analysis March 2006
• Quiet, please from Götz Alsmann in the Tagesspiegel
• I got you babe format radio in public broadcasting - statistics on music selection