Yesterday (radio broadcast)

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Yesterday was a radio broadcast that was broadcast on WDR 2's program from January 1995 to March 2013 . The program was invented and hosted by Roger Handt , who was occasionally represented by Detlev Steinmetz.

history

The broadcast began on January 7, 1995. Yesterday was the follow-up to the oldie show that was discontinued shortly before Eins Live began broadcasting . The broadcast time was Saturday evening, initially as part of the evening magazine from 7:20 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. Since 1999 the program Zeitzeichen was moved from the WDR 2 program to other WDR programs, Yesterday began at 19:05.

Transmission sequence

The program was divided into two parts. In the first hour, listeners' requests were fulfilled, around 7:45 p.m. the listener's question for participation in the second part of the program was asked.

The second part of the program was the “Yesterday Quiz”, which showed similarities with the Question Mark section of the earlier WDR2 program Radiothek . Twice two listeners played against each other; In the first part, music questions had to be answered or celebrity voices recognized. In the second part, the questions focused more on culture, sport, general education or the zeitgeist. The respective winners of the rounds played against each other in the final from 9:30 p.m. In addition to the book and film question, part of this was the collage , a mix of music titles and celebrity voices. The finalists received either three CDs of their choice or, on request, tickets for a concert presented by WDR 2. The losers in the first two rounds received a CD as a consolation prize. At times it was also possible to request parts from the WDR fan article range at the time, including bathrobes, mugs, etc.

The yes and no jingles in the quiz rounds included: Yeh yeh from Georgie Fame , Won't get fooled again from The Who , I can't control myself from the Troggs , Hello goodbye from the Beatles , The wild rover from the Dubliners and Excerpt from "A Teenage Opera" by Keith West .

The broadcast from the so-called WDR2 arena was broadcast with an audience on every second Saturday of the month. As a rule, in the Yesterday quiz on these programs, a telephone candidate played against one of the 30 or so guests from the arena, which was a larger room in the middle of what was then the WDR2 program center, surrounded by studio, control and reaction rooms, and for the broadcast was furnished with tables and chairs. Guests and Roger Handt and his team were entertained with drinks and snacks during these broadcasts at WDR costs. The waiting time for tickets for the Arena broadcasts was recently well over three years. In order to be able to serve the great demand a little more effectively, some programs with 100 guests were also held in the broadcasting hall of the WDR. These editions were sometimes characterized by limited sound quality due to the difficult technical conditions in the hall for this type of broadcast.

In the period from January 1995 to the end of 2000, only one particular year was dealt with in a broadcast, to which all questions related. The year was briefly introduced in the first hour; A mix of the tracks A hard day's night , Yesterday and She Loves You by the Beatles and Bongo Rock 73 by the Incredible Bongo Band served as the musical basis . Since January 2001, the yesterday quiz programs have not dealt with individual years, but rather a decade between the 1950s and 1990s. With effect from July 2, 2011, the yesterday quiz from 8:05 pm onwards no longer differentiated weekly according to decades, but instead dealt with quiz topics and music titles from all decades in each program; d. H. from the 1950s to 1990s.

The show was broadcast for the last time on March 30, 2013 and was discontinued after the retirement of presenter Roger Handt. The last track Roger Handt had the song Goodbye Yesterday by Jimmy Cliff play.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Roger Handt ends with "Yesterday" on WDR 2. Retrieved March 5, 2013 .