Radio for the Whole of Germany

The nationwide broadcasting stations, Deutschlandfunk and Deutschlandradio Kultur, are amongst the main media in Germany and can be favourably compared with the information and cultural stations of the English BBC or Radio France. Additionally, as from 2010 the new digital programme DRadio Wissen will extend the product line.

These stations, free of advertising, belong to Deutschlandradio – the national broadcast station found in all 16 states. Its aim, through the cross state perspective of its programmes, is to make a contribution to the unity of Germany and it is also present everywhere as a top class cultural factor. With a spoken word share of 80 per cent, Deutschlandfunk, produced in Cologne, is the number one service orientated information station in Germany. Deutschlandradio Kultur is the nationwide cultural station.

Despite increasingly limited reception possibilities in some federal states in which the programmes of Deutschlandradio can only be received area-wide on medium wave, long wave, satellite or cable, Deutschlandfunk and Deutschlandradio Kultur still reach a third of the country’s listeners – more than eight million regular listeners.

The national radio broadcasting station is a public corporation carried by all 16 federal states as well as ARD and ZDF. Deutschlandradio broadcasts in two information and culturally orientated stations: Deutschlandfunk as well as Deutschlandradio Kultur.

Deutschlandfunk
Raderberggürtel 40
50968 Köln
Phone 02 21/3 45-0

Deutschlandradio Kultur
Hans-Rosenthal-Platz
10825 Berlin
Phone 0 30/85 03-0

Employees: 680
founded in: 1994

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