German national public radio broadcaster
Deutschlandradio
(
DLR
;
lit.
'
Radio Germany
'
) is a national German
public
radio broadcaster.
History
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Deutschlandfunk
was originally a West German news radio targeting listeners within West Germany as well as in neighbouring countries,
Deutschlandfunk Kultur
is the result of a merger of
West Berlin
's
RIAS
station and
East Berlin
's
DS Kultur
after
German reunification
.
[1]
Both networks that used to broadcast mainly on the AM bands have since spread throughout Germany, having been allocated many additional
FM
transmitters. However, because of lack of analogue frequencies, during 2003 Deutschlandradio changed its distribution strategy to digital terrestrial transmission.
Stations
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It operates four national networks:
[2]
[3]
Dokumente und Debatten
is a digital-only special-event channel. It broadcasts coverage of the
federal parliament
, sports events, talk shows and shipping forecasts. Many of the talk shows are rebroadcasts of the audio portions of TV shows made by
ARD
,
ZDF
or
Phoenix
.
[4]
It uses digital frequencies of both Deutschlandfunk and Deutschlandfunk Kultur.
Deutschlandfunk Nova
is knowledge orientated station, started in 2010 as
DRadio Wissen
, targeting a younger audience, and broadcast only digitally ? via
satellite
,
cable
, DAB, and online.
Deutschlandradio
is based in
Cologne
, with some departments?including
Deutschlandfunk Kultur
?based in Berlin.
Branding
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On May 1 2017,
DRadio Wissen
was renamed
Deutschlandfunk Nova
,
Deutschlandradio Kultur
was renamed
Deutschlandfunk Kultur
.
[5]
[6]
Distribution and transmitters
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The three programs and the additional special event channel are all distributed terrestrially via Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB+) on a nation-wide single frequency network (SFN) in VHF channel 5C. The coverage at the end of 2019 is for portable indoor reception 85% of the population and for mobile reception 96% of the area of Germany or 99% of the highways respectively.
For an intermediate time the two programs Deutschlandfunk and Deutschlandfunk Kultur are still transmitted in analog way via
FM
with an average coverage of 64% of the area. The switch over from analogue to digital started in 2015 with the switch-off of
medium wave
and
long wave
. In 2018/2019 first small-power FM transmitters were switched-off two. The aim is to further improve the digital terrestrial coverage of DAB+ and to reduce the analogue transmission step by step. For stationary reception the programs are also distributed via satellite on the transponder of ZDF.
Of course the programs are streamed via the internet and available on relevant platforms.
Beside the linear programs extensive non-linear content is available via
audio-on-demand
(podcast, mediathek and various platforms). Deutschlandradio is also very active in social media networks in order to make the content available to all public.
Orchestras and choirs
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Deutschlandradio has a 40% share in
Rundfunk Orchester und Chore GmbH
, a non-profit organisation which operates:
[7]
[8]
The other shareholders are the
Federal Republic of Germany
(35%), the State of
Berlin
(20%) and
RBB
(5%).
Logo history
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References
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Further reading
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External links
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