Valerie Weber

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Valerie Weber, 2014

Valerie Weber (born December 27, 1965 in Munich ) is a German radio journalist. She has been radio director of Westdeutscher Rundfunk since May 2014 and, since the cross-media reorganization of the program directorates in 2019, program director NRW, knowledge and culture. Before that, Weber was among other things program director and managing director of the private radio broadcaster Antenne Bayern and its digital radio subsidiary Rock Antenne .

Life

Valerie Weber, who grew up in the Rems-Murr district in Württemberg and in the Lake Constance district in Baden, graduated from high school at Schloss Salem . This was followed by a degree in German studies, theater studies and art history in Erlangen , which she completed in 1988 with a master's thesis on "Cultural programs under pressure from audience ratings - an analysis of public and private television offers". After her traineeship at Radio Downtown in Erlangen, she became a presenter at Rock Radio N 1 in Nuremberg in 1988 . In 1990 she worked as a news editor and presenter for the Schlager and Oldie program Radio Franken and in the same year moved to Stuttgart, where she became program and editorial manager at the Städt-Radio Produktionsgesellschaft Stuttgart for the Stuttgart, Karlsruhe, Heilbronn and Reutlingen locations. There she was responsible for the program of the city radio chain, which mainly addressed an older audience with hits, oldies and local reporting. In 1995 she went to the Ostseewelle in Rostock as program director , and in 1998 in the same position at Hit-Radio Antenne 1 in Stuttgart.

In 2004 she was appointed program director, Antenne Bayern . The main measures included the expansion of the regional studios in Bavaria and again local reporting. The number of listeners increased. In 2006 she was promoted to managing director of Antenne Bayern and Rock Antenne.

Valerie Weber, 2018

Weber's success in private radio depended on the strict commercialization of its stations: major marketing campaigns ranged from throwing fragrances from a plane over the Stuttgart broadcast area to expanding telephone competitions closely linked to the advertising industry into live broadcasts.

On November 14, 2013, WDR director Tom Buhrow proposed to the broadcasting council that Valerie Weber be elected as WDR radio director. On November 22nd, she was elected by the committee with 40 of 43 valid votes. Valerie Weber is the first female radio director of the WDR without a public law background. She was re-elected by the Broadcasting Council for another five years on October 30, 2018 at the suggestion of WDR director Tom Buhrow. Her second term runs from May 1, 2019 to April 30, 2024.

Since a cross-media structural reform, in addition to the six radio broadcasts, the symphony orchestra, the big band, the radio house orchestra and the WDR choir, she has also been responsible for radio, TV and online reporting of the eleven WDR regional studios and the regional politics department as well as the knowledge, Economy and culture. Her focus is on the user-oriented expansion of programs, the establishment of digital formats and special music-educational orchestral programs for a young audience. With multimedia concepts such as “Kurvenklängen” and participatory formats such as “The Best Choir in the West”, she involved the WDR ensembles in popular audience and television formats.

Since January 1st, 2020, Valerie Weber has been chairwoman of the ARD audio program conference. The committee coordinates the radio and non-linear audio offers of all ARD stations and develops them further. Furthermore, she is u. a. responsible for the digital activities of ARD at Audio & Voice. The partner management Audio & Voice is part of the ARD distribution board and regulates the contacts and digital standards when dealing with third-party platforms. Valerie Weber has been a member of the ARD Public Value working group since 2018.

Valerie Weber represents the WDR as a member of the advisory board of the German Radio Prize and on the supervisory boards of KölnMusik, the operating and service company of the Cologne Philharmonic and the “Eight Bridges” festival for contemporary music. Together with the German Music Council, the Gürzenich Orchestra and the Cologne Philharmonic, she has been awarding the German Conductor Prize since 2018. This is an international competition for concert and opera conducting and serves to promote young conductors of all nations.

Awards

  • 1993 LFK media award for "Baden-Württemberg's birthday medley" in the "Politics" category
  • 2005 German Radio Award "Best Program Director"

Web links

Commons : Valerie Weber  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Number of listeners in July 2004: 0.68 million, 2012/13 1.288 million. Calculation basis: listeners per average broadcast hour on weekdays between 6 a.m. and 6 p.m. See reichwide.de - ma 2013 Radio II Update
  2. ↑ Valerie Weber becomes head of programming at Antenne Bayern . In: horizon. May 26, 2004. Retrieved November 18, 2013.
  3. ↑ Manuel Weis: Valerie Weber becomes program manager at Antenne Bayern . In: quota meter. November 6, 2006. Retrieved November 18, 2013.
  4. ^ WDR: Weber elected radio director / Schönenborn becomes television director Horizont.net , November 22, 2013
  5. ^ WDR: Program directors Weber and Schönenborn re-elected - Press Lounge - WDR. October 31, 2018, accessed July 27, 2020 .
  6. ↑ WDR: Milestone in the digital conversion in the program. June 17, 2019, accessed July 27, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Curve sounds. July 27, 2020, accessed July 27, 2020 .
  8. ↑ The best choir in the west. July 14, 2020, accessed July 27, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Valerie Weber. March 11, 2016, accessed July 27, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Weber, Valerie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German journalist
DATE OF BIRTH December 27, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich