Westdeutscher Rundfunk - Radio

Radio

  • 1LIVE (formerly styled L1VE: Radio Eins Live) is a popular music channel modelled on BBC Radio 1 and aimed at a young audience. Its schedules include such non-mainstream night-time programmes as "Heimatkult", focusing on pop music from Germany, and "Lauschangriff", a series of audio-books.
  • WDR 2 (motto: Der Sender, "The Station") focuses strongly on national and regional news and current affairs, together with adult-oriented popular music as well as sports.
  • WDR 3, the cultural channel, offers mostly classical, jazz and world music as well as radio drama and spoken-word features covering literature and the performing arts.
  • WDR 4 (motto: Schönes bleibt, "The beautiful endures") is principally oriented towards an older audience. The channel specializes in traditional and modern tuneful German-language music.
  • WDR 5 (previously WDR Radio 5) offers spoken-word programming with the focus on present-day culture and society.
  • Funkhaus Europa 103,3: previously WDR 5 Funkhaus Europa (an offshoot of WDR 5) and now a joint Radio Bremen / WDR production, this channel, which features a wide selection of world music, is principally directed at immigrants and aims to promote integration. It is not available over-the-air in every part of WDR's broadcasting area.

WDR's radio programmes are available on FM and digital, as well as via cable and satellite. In addition WDR 2 is broadcast on two AM frequencies, 720 and 774 kHz, which provide extended road traffic announcements and opt-out coverage of parliamentary debates.

Except on Sundays and public holidays, 1LIVE, WDR 2, and WDR 4 carry a limited amount of paid-for commercial advertising during the daytime.

WDR also produces a number of experimental digital radio channels, which are mostly variations on 1LIVE and WDR2.

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