Radio in Depth: Northern Germany
Posted by Paul • Saturday, September 29. 2007 • Category: feature
Welcome to the first in a new series of articles looking at the radio stations available on the net from various regions around the world. For the next few weeks, we will be looking at radio stations in Germany, starting with this week with northern Germany, covering the states of Schleswig-Holstein, Niedersachsen and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, and the city states of Hamburg and Bremen.
Unlike most other European countries, Germany doesn't have one single nationwide public broadcaster; rather it has public broadcasters for each state (or in some cases, multiple states). Northern Germany is covered by Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR), although the city-state of Bremen also has its own public broadcaster, Radio Bremen, which works closely with NDR.
NDR has eight radio stations:
The NDR1 stations also have further regional opt-outs within each state. Most programming is in German, although all three NDR1 stations and NDR 90.3 offer short broadcasts of news and information in Low German (Plattdeutsch), a language which sounds vaguely midway between German and Dutch.
All of NDR's radio stations have internet streams.
NDR operate one television station, NDR Fernsehen, which is available from terrestial transmitters throughout northern Germany, cable throughout the entire country and satellite across most of Europe. Many of the programs are also streamed online.
NDR podcasts many of its programs, both audio and video.
Radio Bremen is the smallest German public broadcaster, and operates only four radio stations, two of them jointly with other broadcasters:
Internet streams are available here, and podcasts can be found here, including podcasts in Plattdeutsch and Latin.
Northern Germany also has a number of commercial radio stations, most of them playing pop music targetting an under-30 female skewed audience, although there are a few more interesting exceptions.
There are also numerous community stations:
Unlike most other European countries, Germany doesn't have one single nationwide public broadcaster; rather it has public broadcasters for each state (or in some cases, multiple states). Northern Germany is covered by Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR), although the city-state of Bremen also has its own public broadcaster, Radio Bremen, which works closely with NDR.
NDR has eight radio stations:
- NDR1 Niedersachsen: Niedersachsen regional station; music and local news.
- NDR1 Welle Nord: Schleswig-Holstein regional station; music and local news.
- NDR1 Radio MV: Mecklenburg-Vorpommern regional station; music and local news.
- NDR 90.3: Hamburg regional station; music.
- NDR2: Adult contemporary popular music.
- NDR Kultur: Classical music and arts.
- NDR Info: Rolling news and information.
- n-Joy: Youth station; popular and alternative music.
The NDR1 stations also have further regional opt-outs within each state. Most programming is in German, although all three NDR1 stations and NDR 90.3 offer short broadcasts of news and information in Low German (Plattdeutsch), a language which sounds vaguely midway between German and Dutch.
All of NDR's radio stations have internet streams.
NDR operate one television station, NDR Fernsehen, which is available from terrestial transmitters throughout northern Germany, cable throughout the entire country and satellite across most of Europe. Many of the programs are also streamed online.
NDR podcasts many of its programs, both audio and video.
Radio Bremen is the smallest German public broadcaster, and operates only four radio stations, two of them jointly with other broadcasters:
- Bremen Eins: talk and adult-oriented music.
- Bremen Vier: youth oriented music - pop, rock, dance.
- Nordwest Radio: a co-production of NDR and Radio Bremen; classical music and culture
- Funkhaus Europa: a co-production of Radio Bremen and the Western German broadcaster WDR; talk and music for immigrant communities and foreigners.
Internet streams are available here, and podcasts can be found here, including podcasts in Plattdeutsch and Latin.
Northern Germany also has a number of commercial radio stations, most of them playing pop music targetting an under-30 female skewed audience, although there are a few more interesting exceptions.
- Radio NORA, broadcasting to Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein, Radio NORA plays contemporary and oldies music. NORA is an acronym for Nord-Ostsee Radio. Their internet stream is here.
- Radio Schleswig-Holstein sticks to modern pop music. Its webstream is here.
- Delta Radio plays modern rock music, to the Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein Region. Internet stream.
- Oldie 95: Hamburg's 60s, 70s and 80s station.
- Radio Hamburg plays popular music and targets itself to be Hamburg's local station; clearly it must do this well, as it captures around a quarter of the available audience. You can listen for yourself here.
- Energy Hamburg: part of the huge french NRJ conglomerate, Energy plays only Top 40 hits
- Alster Radio 106.8, again based in Hamburg, has a more male oriented rock/pop sound.
- Radio ffn: Based in Hannover, with a number of regional studios, FFN is yet another pop station, this time broadcasting to the Niedersachsen area. Their internet streams are available in a number of different formats.
- 89.0 RTL, part of the huge RTL group, is in fact based in the German state of Sachsen-Anhalt, but is heard throughout all of Niedersachsen. It is yet another pop music station aimed at the 16-25 year old market
- Hit-Radio Antenne: 80s and 90s hits, in Niedersachsen.
- Radio 21: Classic rock, in Niedersachsen.
- Antenne Mecklenburg-Vorpommern: 80s and 90s hits
- Ostseewelle Hitradio: more pop music, based in Rostok
There are also numerous community stations:
- Offener Kanal Lübeck
- LOHRO, Rostock
- FSK, Hamburg
- Tide 96.0, Hamburg
- Ems-Vechte-Welle, Emsland
- OSRadio, Osnabrück
- Radio Jade, Wilhelmshaven
- Radio Okerwelle, Braunschweig
- Radio Ostfriesland, Emden
- Radio Zusa, Lüneburg
- Radio Flora, Hannover
- Stadtradio Göttingen
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