Westdeutscher Rundfunk
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The Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR) is a public broadcaster in the German Bundesland of North Rhine-Westphalia with its main office in Cologne. WDR is a member of the ARD. The WDR produces one TV channel (WDR-Fernsehen, older names WDF and West3) and 5 radio channels targeted to different audiences.
History
The WDR was created in 1955, when the NWDR was split into the NDR responsible for Lower Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein and Hamburg, and the WDR responsible for North Rhine-Westphalia. On January 1 1956, the first two radio channels were started.
Television
WDR started its regional television service on December 17, 1965 under the name Westdeutsches Fernsehen (WDF). In 1988 the programme was renamed to West 3; since 1994 it has been known as WDR Fernsehen.While the programmes are mainly run from their Köln headquarters, they also have a number of regional studios performing a regular broadcast called Lokalzeit aus... with "Regio Aachen" (Aachen), "OWL aktuell" (Bielefeld), "aus Dortmund" (Dortmund), "aus Düsseldorf" (Düsseldorf), "Ruhr" (Essen), "Köln" (Köln and Bonn), "Münsterland" (Münster), "Südwestfalen" (Siegen) and "Bergisches Land" (Wuppertal) added for the respective region. Arrangementa are being made to install studios in Bonn and Duisburg.
Apart from the WDR Fernsehen channel, WDR also contributes broadcasts to the ARD network.
Radio
- Eins Live (L1VE) - popular music aimed at a young audience modelled after BBC Radio 1. Special non-mainstream nighttime programmes such as "Heimatkult" with pop music from Germany or "Lauschangriff", a series of audio-books.
- WDR 2 - claim: Der Sender (The Station) - adult-oriented popular music, traffic information.
- WDR 3 - classical, jazz and world music, culture, drama
- WDR 4 - claim: Schönes bleibt (The beautiful remains) - oriented toward senior citizens, mainly German language music.
- WDR 5 - spoken-word programme
- FunkhausEUROPA - joint programme with Radio Bremen, targeted at foreigners and immigrants.
Despite the fact that WDR is a public broadcaster that receives a lot of its funds through licence fees, EinsLive, WDR 2 and WDR 4 carry commercials during the day.
See also: German television
External links
Live streams
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Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR; Bavarian Broadcasting) Deutsche Welle (DW; international broadcasting) Hessischer Rundfunk (HR; Hessian Broadcasting) Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk (MDR; Central German Broadcasting) Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR; North German Broadcasting) Radio Bremen (RB) Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (RBB; Broadcasting Berlin-Brandenburg) Saarländischer Rundfunk (SR; Saarland Broadcasting) Südwestrundfunk (SWR; Southwest Broadcasting) Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR; West German Broadcasting) | |
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Sender Freies Berlin (SFB; Transmitter Free Berlin) Ostdeutscher Rundfunk Brandenburg (ORB; East German Broadcasting Brandenburg) Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk (NWDR; Northwest German Broadcasting) | |
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