History
First held with 350 people in the Flora in Cologne in 1992, the award ceremony in Frankfurt was televised and the classical awards were moved to a separate event, ECHO Klassik (de), in Cologne in 1994. Until 1995, only invited guests could attend the ceremony. It was held in Munich, and in 2001, the venue was moved from Hamburg to Berlin because of subsidies of up to 20 million euros, although a return in 2004 was considered. In 2009, the venue in Berlin was moved to O2 World.
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