we have about 10 state-stations (run by ZDF or ARD) + 6 state-stations for the Bundesländer (like Bavaria) run by ARD + about 10 private station financed by advertisements for TV. On satellite there are many more (shopping and religeous stations not counted)
Then for Radio every Bundesland (state) has its own state-radio with up to 5 stations (like Bavaria) + 2 German wide stations like Deutschlandfunk and Deutschland Radio Kultur + of course countless private radio stations financed by advertisement.
But the private stations more or less all have the same format playing the same music doing the same dull housewife programms adds included.
The main problem is we don't have outstanding or unique presenters with own characters - all is mainstream and sounds very similiar. - It is a radio culture that is missing - or an identification of the listeners with their station or its presenters.
- this in regard to private stations. The State stations are more orientated for culture, news and information. Entertainment is mostly done by private radio or TV - pretty often on a rather low level.

What part do RTL play in German radio? Yes, I know that RTL are essentially Luxembourg, but RTL Die Grossen Oldies (Or whatever they call it now) is broadcast in German.

No Mike - us Germans never had a real radio pop-, rock- or modern music culture - our pop-music was always adopted from the UK, the US or France or even Italy - and so we never devellopped a radio-culture (like you did) in that sector either.
As a kid we listened to AFN, VOA, or Free Europe or Austria III when we wanted to listen to pop-music in Bavaria and in Northern GER to the pirates, to BFBS or to Dutch stations - German Radio Luxembourg was "housewife - pop" - The housewives knew their presenters of German RTL - but German RTL was not our music.
At school all our party-music we recorded from Radio Free Europe e.g. as they didn't talk into the music on there - the Americans did propaganda by music for Eastern Europe via RFE and VOA

Its because our radio is so boring on AM or FM - housewife-format ..... so if you want to listen to some good radio you have to tune into i-net radio

The Guardian : http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/media-bl...-bbc-local-cuts


Its good to see Roger Days station is getting known.

http://www.rogerday.co.uk/player.php

I assume not the BBC but some smaller private or overseas station - but wouldn't that raise also some license question re to music copyrights or commercial i-net using for feeding radio-stations ? - I have no clue - just a thought ...

yes Gold would be a good option - if, - then hopefully in the night as it gets trough to here on 1548 khz.

( http://www.rogerday.co.uk/player.php )

Garry Stevens confirms that Roger Twiggy Day will be doing a two hour slot starting around the end of June 2013. He will in-fact be doing a one hour pilot show this Friday 3d May at 8pm till 9 then will be heard full time in June on Radio Northsea.
http://355.vze.com/ListenPage.htm
( quote: http://members7.boardhost.com/PirateRadi...1367529848.html )

Just to remind you - Listen to great music and bookmark this station



http://www.rogerday.co.uk/

Listen: http://www.rogerday.co.uk/player.php

Listen with your own player: http://knight.wavestreamer.com:8993/Live/listen.m3u?sid=1
(copy LINK into your player)

a bit off topic ... :
Gold on 1548 khz AM still comes in here in Munich during night-time though with fading due to a Balcan co-channel but when this switches off after midnight reception is quite okay.
Though they do everything to promote DAB+ in GER the result is very poor - only 7,4% of the radio listeners listen via DAB and many stations leave DAB again due to the costs and the lack of interest.
But i-net listening in GER via all kinds of devices (PC, i-net-radio, mobiles etc.) is increasing steadily especially among the youngsters (34%).

- and yes, listening to Roger Twiggy Day's Uncool-Radiop is always a pleasure - worth to bookmark it : http://www.rogerday.co.uk/player.php

- and just B/T/W - does anybody know what has happened to Chirpy ???? - only last-year shows on sunshine-radio... ( http://208.80.53.108:32422/ )

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Uncool Radio is a great listen and RTD is a very genuine guy. He can of course also be heard live at breakfast on Redstone FM the local DAB station for Surrey here in the UK. http://www.redstone.fm/

As for Gold it was ripped apart by parent company Global in March this year and is now basically a jukebox with live breakfast. Apart from London and a couple of other cities it is no longer on DAB and most AM frequencies have been switched to the once excellent (under previous GMG ownership) but now drab repetitive and boring Smooth under Global.

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Chirpy is alive and kicking [well he was when I spoke to him on the phone recently]
Col.

Quote: The Reaper wrote in post #38

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Chirpy is alive and kicking [well he was when I spoke to him on the phone recently]
Col.

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