Radio Bremen

State broadcaster ARD

Radio Bremen is an institution founded in 1945 by public law (national broadcaster ) for the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen. This makes it the oldest public broadcaster, the Federal Republic of Germany. In addition, Radio Bremen is the smallest state broadcaster ARD, which has belonged since the ARD establishment in 1950. However, Radio Bremen is not only concerned with the state of Bremen, but also reported from the Lower Saxony surrounding areas (see Metropolitan Region Bremen / Oldenburg).

• 4.1 Structural Reform
• 4.2 director of Radio Bremen

• 5.1 radio programs
• 5.2 TV programs
• 5.3 Radio Bremen online

Domiciled and operating

Seat of the transmitter is Bremen, Diepenau 10, 28195 Bremen at the Weser. First, the areas of television and online moved to the new Radio Bremen Bremen complex in the Mitte district ( Stephaniviertel / lazy quarters ). Radio and management followed in late 2007. Located in Bremerhaven is a regional studio. The post-1980 newly built studio and operation of radio building in Bremen- Schwachhausen at the site of the former Air Force hospital since 2007 are no longer in operation and have been converted to a medical facility. The acoustically very high quality concert hall remained independent agencies. The built after 1960 Studio and operation of television building in Bremen- Osterholz since the beginning of September 2007 is no longer in operation and were demolished. The since 1945 in Bremen operated in Leher field transmitters were replaced in 1999 by a new building in Bremen Oberneuland or transferred to technical facilities of Deutsche Telekom. The medium wave transmitter on 936 kHz was shut down in 2010 due to cost reasons without prior notice.

Current situation

The previously separate locations of radio and television have been merged for reasons of economy in late 2007 on a new common, much smaller location in the center of Bremen ( Stephani district), where Radio Bremen claims to be Europe's most modern radio maintains the house. With the move, the technology has been completely digitized. In a joint editorial system for the first time working radio, television and online newsrooms together. This aims Radio Bremen as the first ARD Institute and the Bremedia a consistently trimedial work on.

Due to a massive reduction in the ARD financial equalization lost Radio Bremen since 1999 a large part of its resources. As a result, the programs Hansa Welle and Radio Bremen melody to Bremen Eins had to be merged, the ambitious cultural program Radio Bremen 2, which took over a large part of the former budget to complete, was a co-production with NDR, North West Radio, transferred. It became clear to shed staff currently about 300 employees; be added are operatively, however, the employees of Bremedia Produktion GmbH.

The entire area of ​​production / technology as well as some editorial active station staff were outsourced production GmbH despite protests from the workforce on 1 April 2006 to reduce costs in the subsidiary Bremedia, at the Radio Bremen holds 49 %. 51% has the Bavaria Film GmbH. As of 1 January 2006, the department was outsourced facilities in Bremen stage GmbH, is also involved in the Radio Bremen only as a minority shareholder.

History

Transmitter Bremen 1924-1945

In 1922 the company " German hour for wireless instruction and entertainment," as a first step towards the realization of a general broadcasting was established with artistic performances, composed of Bremen big merchant Ludwig Roselius. On 2 May 1924, the Nordic Broadcasting Ltd ( NORAG ) began in Hamburg with a capital of 300,000 RM operation. On November 30, 1924, the " relay station " Bremen, the NORAG supplied with its own programs, taken by Secretary Bredow in and handed over to Mayor Donandt. The office of NORAG Bremen was initially housed in the building on the market 14. Pündter Ernst (1884-1929) was the first artistic director from 1925 and from January 1926 Head of the Bremen transmitter.

With the establishment of the Bremen transmitter, the capital was doubled; ten shares of RM 500 each were located in Bremen's hands. Due to this participation Bremen received a seat on the board of NORAG, the Senator Thalenhorst occupied. Representatives of Bremen in the Cultural Advisory Council were successively F. Noltenius (1927-1929) and Consul C. Menke ( 1930-1932 ).

The medium-wave transmitter with an output of 250 watts modest was established at the Domsheide the Post Office. From an adjoining room he was " discussed ". The transmitting antenna was initially stretched between the telegraph office and the east tower of the cathedral.

On the opening day there was next to the land mobile news and sports, and the kingdom of the woman. At 17:00 clock the opening ceremony was to be addressed by the State Secretary Hans Bredow and works by Haydn, Beethoven, Mozart, Wagner and Rachmaninoff, performed live by the Philharmonic Quartet Bremen, transferred.

The first home of their own, the transmitter was in March 1925 at the Municipal Theatre On Wall a radio room. The former ballroom equipped to improve the acoustics with thick clouds curtains on walls and ceilings and a heavy carpet on the floor, plays and performances have been broadcast. Later, a move to the former Commercial Museum in the Imperial Road was made.

In the following years the Bremen transmitter controlled daily for three to four hours to the joint program. This included the Sunday concerts from the upper hall hall, the harbor concert, the broadcasting of sports events, live broadcasts from the theater, the Astoria or the reception after the transatlantic flight from Koehl, Hünefeld and Fitzmaurice.

The selection program was supported by a broadcast committee, which was composed of representatives of the Bremen economy, literature, the visual arts and music, and amongst others, the poet August Oldenburg Hinrichs belonged.

1927 presented the Bremen state the sender 's historic buildings of the Old City Scales in Long street. The inauguration took place on 24 September 1927. 1931 the Bremen sender 's own shaft was withdrawn. Henceforth, you could be sent only to each a studio of Norddeutsche simulcast. The Bremen airtime went on about ten hours a week back, current affairs could no longer be broadcast important messages were reported by telephone to Hamburg and appended to the message of NORAG.

1932, the radio was nationalized by the government of Papen. The individual transmission companies received a state commissioner. A year later the NORAG was as Reichssender Hamburg part of the Greater German Radio. 1933, 90 meters high transmitting tower was built of wood in Utbremen. This was after destruction by lightning replaced by a steel structure. He sent until 1945.

Radio Bremen from 1945

In the summer of 1945, there were considerations to take the technical equipment of broadcasting radio station Bremen again. The President of the Senate, mayor Wilhelm Kaisen, negotiated with the Americans. In the fall of 1945, the U.S. armed forces seized a villa in Schwachhauser highway 363 and directed to a station where the military government. He got the name Radio Bremen. The staff began under the direction of the Hamburg-born American officer Edward E. Harriman set up the radio. On December 23, 1945 reported on the initiative of Hans Günther Austria Radio Bremen as the sender of the American occupation with an on medium wave spread over several hours daily program from the villa on the Schwachhauser highway. As Sendesaal the St. Pauli restaurant was used in the Horner Military Highway.

On 26 February 1946, the American military government Walter Geerdes appointed deputy director and on 1 July 1946, director of Radio Bremen. 1949 Radio Bremen was transferred to a public institution for the state of Bremen. The Broadcasting Bremen was established in 1949 confirmed Geerdes as director. 1950, Radio Bremen founding member of the ARD. In the same year the station received from an American donation 1.76 million DM, which made it possible to plans by Herbert anchor Broadcasting House in Schwachhausen district, in what is now the district of Radio Bremen, at the Bürgermeister-Spitta-Allee/Ecke Heinrich -Hertz- to build the road. As outstandingly Sendesaal applies the Radio Bremen, designed by Hans Storm created in 1952 (later Studio F), due to its special construction of a Europe-wide unique acoustics ( acoustician Walter Kuhl ) and has been declared a National Monument in 2009.

Program History of Radio Bremen

Radio Bremen beamed to 1952 only a radio program ( later Radio Bremen 1 and 1968 " Hansa Bremen wave "). On April 14, 1952, the second radio program on FM Radio Bremen 2, which was extended gradually to a demanding program of cultural word contributions as well as classical and modern music started (since 1982 it's a full program and a cultural program since September 1, 1992). Since 1962, Radio Bremen provides a three-percent, one percent today, share the First German Television ( ARD).

On November 1, 1964 Radio Bremen launched its third radio program, Radio Bremen 3, first as a guest worker program, from 1 January 1985 as a full program with Light music. On September 1, 1992, it was transformed into a classical wave and from September 4, 1995 and as of 1 November 1998, a wave melody ( Melody Radio Bremen ) with a focus on regional information.

On January 4, 1965 launched Radio Bremen together with the Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR ) and the Sender Freies Berlin ( SFB), the Third TV "North 3" ( later " N3 - North German Television ", today: NDR television) for the states of Bremen, Hamburg, Lower Saxony, Schleswig -Holstein and Berlin. The SFB, entered in October 1992 under the Community program and launched its own television program ( then known as B 1; later SFB 1, today rbb Fernsehen ). The NDR television was expanded train to train for full program.

At Radio Bremen - in the small but supportive frame - made ​​comedy stars such as Hape Kerkeling (Total normal, produced at Radio Bremen, 1989) and Rudi Carrell ( Rudi Carrell Show, 1965), their first steps and Loriot worked with his eponymous television series (1976 - 78) continued popularity of the television audience.

During the scan this program of NDR launched together with Radio Bremen on September 30, 1988 its regional teletext offer under the name "North- Text". Since December 2001 it is listed as "NDR - text", operate the information about offers of Radio Bremen as "radio bremen -text". Within the first broadcast radio Bremen since 1980 an independent regional program ( " Buten un inland ").

The 4th radio program of Radio Bremen, Radio Bremen Vier, launched on 1 December 1986 as a youth program with a high proportion of rock music before it was changed slightly on 1 September 1992.

On 30 August 1998, the West German Radio (WDR) in cooperation with Radio Bremen launched the radio program Radio Europe as an integrated offer for listeners of foreign origin and interested in German North Rhine-Westphalia and North West Germany. The program is broadcast from September 2001 in Bremen on FM and short time also on medium wave. On the medium wave now sends Bremen Eins.

In 1999, the transmission system at Leher field was shut down. For the dissemination of the FM broadcast transmitter of Deutsche Telekom were rented on the telecommunications tower, whereas for the dissemination of the medium wave transmitter program a new facility near the road Aumundsdamm in Oberneuland district went into operation.

On April 30, 2001 ' Radio Bremen 3 "has been (since 1995 " Radio Bremen melody " ) merged with " Radio Bremen Hansa wave " to the program Bremen Eins. On 1 November 2001, the North West Radio, a common radio program of Radio Bremen and the NDR started. This program was the previous second radio program "Radio Bremen 2". Thus, four radio programs are broadcast since 2001 by Radio Bremen or with the participation of Radio Bremen as before.

On the FM frequency 95.0 MHz, a fifth Radio Bremen program is broadcast, the Parliament shaft. Here are the meetings of the Bremen state are transferred. At other times, the program of NDR Info is transmitted via this frequency. While at the beginning of the RDS Ident was RB / NDR, it is now NDR Info.

On 1 January 2005, the Radio Bremen TV started. Here since the regional content of Radio Bremen Bremen and Bremerhaven are broadcast. Until 31 December 2004, most regional content was in a separate evening program distributed during the First. Radio Bremen, thus conveying the harmonized program schema, which had become necessary because of a new organization in the First. Since 2005, the entire program of the First handled centrally for reasons of cost from the ARD - star point at HR in Frankfurt (Central playout / ZSAW ).

Legal anchoring

Radio Bremen is a public institution. The legal basis is the Radio Bremen Act and the Broadcasting Agreement with the State of Bremen. Supervisory body is the NBC. Authority is the national broadcaster. The fee collection concerned the GEZ Cologne, organizational unit of the German public broadcasters without their own legal entity. Revenues from radio advertising generates the Radio Bremen Media GmbH Diepenau 2, 28195 Bremen. Structure and organization of the Institute are governed by Radio Bremen law. In addition, as set forth therein, among others, the program order and social control of the institution. Finally, the Law was amended by the Bremen State Parliament changed on 23 January 2008 with the votes of the SPD-Green coalition. The amended Act came into force on 1 February 2008.

Affiliated companies are the Radio Bremen Media GmbH (100%, 10 Diepenau, Bremen), the Ndrb Sales & Services GmbH ( with NDR 2) Bremedia Produktion GmbH, Bremen GmbH stage each with its own management.

Structural reform

The organization of Radio Bremen was fundamentally restructured 2005/2006 under the leadership of former director of Heinz Glässgen. The entire technical production and transmission technology of RB was outsourced to the Bremedia Produktion GmbH under a private -public partnership models on 1 April 2006. Shareholders at the Bremen company are the Bavaria Film GmbH with 51 percent and Radio Bremen with 49 percent. Bremedia produces all television productions, being technically all four radio channels and the Internet offer of the transmitter. In addition, the Bremedia production GmbH is involved in the production of feature films. Thus, the transmitter hoped for a reduction in operating and production costs.

The council criticized the outsourcing of the entire technical service in a private company, since it is not bound by the rules applicable to Radio Bremen collective agreements. The services union verdi feared that by hiring journalists Bremedia the " editorial independence of the private sector " is no longer guaranteed. As of 1 January 2006, the department was outsourced facilities in Bremen stage GmbH, is also involved in the Radio Bremen only as a minority shareholder. Previously, it was handed over by Radio Bremen responsibility for the broadcasting of FM and television programs from its own transmitter operating on the German Telekom. Tasks of Radio Bremen in the area of ​​revenue collection are perceived by the NDR since 2001. The aim of the measures was to secure the status of the transmitter as an independent state broadcaster in the future.

Director of Radio Bremen

Programs

Radio Bremen shines alone or together with other broadcasters following programs:

Radio programs

• Bremen Eins - Oldies, Evergreens, melodic pop music, sports
• Bremen Vier - rock music and pop music
• Nordwestradio (Community Programme with the NDR ), Culture and Information shaft
• Radio Europe - "Global Sounds Radio", during the day in German, in the evening in 14 other languages; (Joint program with the WDR with the participation of rbb)

Television programs

• First - Community program of ARD; the proportion of Radio Bremen is 1.0 percent
• Radio Bremen TV Bremen and Bremerhaven
• NDR Fernsehen - Support for the common third television program for Lower Saxony, Mecklenburg -Western Pomerania, Schleswig -Holstein, Hamburg and Bremen; approximately 25 hours of programming per month are now being used by Radio Bremen, which complement the mainly controlled by the NDR program. Beam Radio Bremen its content from, you can see the Radio Bremen logo in the upper right corner.
• Phoenix - participation in the common event channel ARD and ZDF
• KiKA - participation in the children's channel ARD and ZDF
• ARTE - participation in the French-German cultural channel
• 3sat - participation in the cultural channel of ARD, ZDF, ORF and SRG

Radio Bremen online

The third column distribution and own programmatic focus Radio Bremen played even the Internet. As one of the first ARD Radio Bremen went online in 1995. Today, the ten-member own online editorial team oversees a comprehensive Internet offering that accompanies the radio and television programs and their own accents. By Internet also, all four radio waves can be heard live ( stream). The Regional Magazine Buten un inland can also be seen via the web. In addition, many programs are distributed via podcast. Also regional news circulating on the Internet almost around the clock.

Known shipments

Some well-known programs or productions of Radio Bremen are or were:

• 3 nach 9
• Churning
• Beat-Club
• Storybook Germany
• Bremer pet store
• Buten un within
• The Itch Seven
• One is Winning
• Höchstpersönlich
• Loriot ( series, movies and birthday specials )
• Music store
• Not bad at all
• Northern
• Pops sounding wonderful world
• Radio Tatort
• Rudi Carrell Show
• Rudis days Show
• Seal, Puma & Co.
• Sport lightning
• Scene of the crime
• Total normal
• Vinyl

Transmission facilities

By 1999, for operation Radio Bremen in Bremen- Leher field a transmitter for FM, MW, SW and TV with 3 masts and a shortwave antenna on the Leher field. However, this system had to be shut down for reasons of environmental electromagnetic compatibility and demolished.

(: German radio tower GmbH owner ) installed corresponding transmission facilities as a replacement for FM and TV stations were on the telecommunications tower Bremen. Since 24 May 2004, the TV program there is broadcast via DVB -T.

For the on the medium wave frequency 936 kHz working medium wave transmitter, a new transmitter with omnidirectional characteristic was built in Bremen Oberneuland. The antenna serves a bent cage antenna, which is mounted on a 45 meter high guyed, grounded steel lattice mast. This transmitting antenna has a gain of 4.5 dB, causes the system installed there 50 -kilowatt station broadcasts with an ERP of 140 kW. The medium wave transmitter on 936 kHz was switched off for reasons of cost on 13 March 2010.

In addition, operational Radio Bremen also a transmitter for FM and TV in Bremerhaven (at the public park ). This radio station Bremerhaven citizens Park was abandoned in October 2000, since the frequencies of Radio Bremen Bremerhaven from the telecommunications tower ship village of German radio tower GmbH are emitted.