 Modern logo of Deutschlandfunk. Deutschlandfunk (DLF) is a German national information radio station. Image File history File links Deutschlandfunk_modern_logo. ...
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Broadcasting in the Federal Republic of Germany is reserved under the Basic Law (constitution) to the Länder. This means that all public broadcasting is regionalised, although the regional broadcasters are not forbidden from forming national federations. Preamble of the Grundgesetz The Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany (German: Grundgesetz für die Bundesrepublik Deutschland) is the constitution of modern Germany. ...
Germany is a Federal Republic made up of 16 States, known in German as Länder (transliterated as Laender in English, singular Land). ...
Public broadcasting, also known as public service broadcasting or PSB (though this term has a specific different meaning in the United Kingdom - see public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom) is the dominant form of broadcasting around the world, where radio, television, and potentially other electronic media outlets receive funding...
In the 1950s, the German Democratic Republic (GDR) began broadcasting its Deutschlandsender station on longwave. In response to this, the then-Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk applied for a licence to operate a similar longwave service. This was granted in 1956. East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic (GDR), German Deutsche Demokratische Republik (DDR), was a socialist country that existed from 1949 to 1990. ...
Deutschlandsender was one of the first German radio stations. ...
Longwave radio frequencies are those below 500 kHz, which correspond to wavelengths longer than 600 meters. ...
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1956 (MCMLVI) was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
In 1960, the Federal government proved in court that, whilst broadcasting to Germany was a Länder responsibility, broadcasting from Germany could be seen as foreign affairs and thus reserved to the Federal government. The Federal government then created "Deutschlandfunk" as national broadcasting corporation, based in Cologne. 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1960 calendar). ...
Cologne Cathedral with Hohenzollern Bridge Cologne (German: (help· info) ; Kölsch: Kölle) is Germanys fourth-largest city after Berlin, Hamburg and Munich and is the largest city both in the German Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia and within the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Area, one of the largest...
When the Norddeutscher Rundfunk's licence to broadcasting in on longwave expired, the Federal government took over the frequencies for Deutschlandfunk and began transmissions on 1 January 1962. Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR) covers the 5 northernmost states of Germany. ...
January 1 is the first day of the calendar year in both the Julian and Gregorian calendars. ...
1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar). ...
Unlike the foreign-language service Deutsche Welle, which was also born out of the NDR and became a member of the public-broadcasting consortium ARD, Deutschlandfunk broadcast in German, targetting the GDR and German-speaking minorities in Eastern Europe. The Deutsche Welle building in Bonn This article is about the German international broadcaster. ...
Current logo ARD (Arbeitsgemeinschaft der öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunkanstalten der Bundesrepublik Deutschland – the Consortium of public-law broadcasting institutions of the Federal Republic of Germany), is a joint organization of Germanys regional public broadcasting agencies. ...
German (called Deutsch in German; in German the term germanisch is equivalent to English Germanic), is a member of the western group of Germanic languages and is one of the worlds major languages. ...
Post-reunification
 Deutschlandfunk headquarters in Cologne, Germany. After reunification, Deutsche Welle absorbed the GDR's external service, Radio Berlin International and took over Deutschlandfunk's few foreign language programmes. Deutschlandfunk's mandate to provide a service to the east lapsed. Rather than wind-up DLF, the company was transferred to the ARD and given a new contract to be Germany's national radio broadcaster. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1000x1606, 427 KB) Deutschlandfunk, Radio Station in Cologne, Germany. ...
Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1000x1606, 427 KB) Deutschlandfunk, Radio Station in Cologne, Germany. ...
The Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) and the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) German reunification (Deutsche Wiedervereinigung) took place on October 3, 1990, when the areas of the former German Democratic Republic (GDR, in English commonly called East Germany) were incorporated into the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG, in...
The Deutsche Welle building in Bonn This article is about the German international broadcaster. ...
A Radio Berlin International QSL card Radio Berlin International was the international broadcaster for the German Democratic Republic (East Germany). ...
The ARD divided the operations of Deutschlandfunk into two national services: Deutschlandradio Kultur providing a "Third Programme"-style high-culture service and Deutschlandfunk providing news and information. The RIAS building, now the headquarters of Deutschlandradio Kultur. ...
The studio facilities remain at Cologne and the service remains free of advertising.
Programming Deutschlandfunk's schedules are largely made up of news and documentaries, covering politics, economics and science. There is also some very limited music output.
News Deutschlandfunk broadcasts a news programme on the hour and the half hour.
On weekdays, a morning news magazine is broadcast between 0500 and 0900 with frequent news bulletins. There are further news magazines broadcast between 1200 and 1800.
The main evening bulletin is at 2300.
Culture On Sundays, a discussion programme is broadcast between 0930 and 1000, covering subjects as varied as Islam in Germany, neurophysiology and the history of art. These discussions are archived on the internet[1].
International cooperation Deutschlandfunk provides programming for the German-language Belgian radio station BRF-DLF in Brussels. It also cooperates with the main Belgischer Rundfunk (BRF) domestic radio service for the East Cantons of Walonia, BRF1. Map showing the location of Brussels in Belgium Emblem of the Brussels-Capital Region Flag of The City of Brussels Brussels (Dutch: Brussel, pronounced ; French: Bruxelles, pronounced in Belgian French and often by non-Belgian speakers of French; German: Brüssel) is the capital of Belgium, the French Community of...
BRF headquarters in Eupen. ...
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Transmitters
 Transmiter near Ravensburg Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (979x1494, 629 KB) Beschreibung Description= 100kw Sendeanlage für den Deutschlandfunk bei Ravensburg Source=Own Work Date=2003 Author=Michael Meding Licensing File links The following pages link to this file: Deutschlandfunk Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from...
Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (979x1494, 629 KB) Beschreibung Description= 100kw Sendeanlage für den Deutschlandfunk bei Ravensburg Source=Own Work Date=2003 Author=Michael Meding Licensing File links The following pages link to this file: Deutschlandfunk Metadata This file contains additional information, probably added from...
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The Sender Aholming (transmitter Aholming) is a 500 kilowatt longwave broadcasting transmitter of the German Telekom Inc. ...
Mediumwave The mediumwave transmitters carry the Deutschlandfunk signal to most of Europe during the hours of darkness. With the exception of Heusweiler, they are owned by Deutsche Telekom AG. The transmitter Nordkirchen is a facility for transmitting the program of Deutschlandfunk on 549 kHz with a power of 100 kilowatts, near Nordkirchen, Germany. ...
The Transmitter Thurnau is a medium wave transmission facility for broadcasting Deutschlandfunk radio programmes, on 549 kHz, near Thurnau in Northern Bavaria, Germany. ...
The Cremlingen transmitter is a large mediumwave transmission facility established in 1962 for transmitting the program of Deutschlandfunk on 756 kHz near Cremlingen-Abbenrode. ...
Transmitter Ravensburg Wilhelmskirch with Transmitter Ravensburg The transmitter Ravensburg (Sender Ravensburg) is a medium wave transmission facility in the south of Baden-Württemberg, Germany. ...
The transmitter Ehndorf is a medium wave transmission facility for the propagation of the program of Deutschlandfunk on 1269 kHz, which was etablished in 1966. ...
The transmitter Heusweiler is a facility for medium wave broadcasting near Heusweiler, Germany, which went in service on 23 December 1935. ...
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References - Paulu, Burton Radio and Television Broadcasting on the European Continent Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1967; pp63-69; p187
External links - ((German)) dradio official website
- ((German)) Deutschlandfunk website
- ((German)) ARD Radio
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