Saarländischer Rundfunk
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Public broadcasting
Public broadcasting includes radio, television and other electronic media outlets whose primary mission is public service. Public broadcasters receive funding from diverse sources including license fees, individual contributions, public financing and commercial financing.Public broadcasting may be...
for the German Bundesland (State) of Saarland
Saarland
Saarland is one of the sixteen states of Germany. The capital is Saarbrücken. It has an area of 2570 km² and 1,045,000 inhabitants. In both area and population, it is the smallest state in Germany other than the city-states...
, with its headquarters in the Broadcasting House Halberg in Saarbrücken
Saarbrücken
Saarbrücken is the capital of the state of Saarland in Germany. The city is situated at the heart of a metropolitan area that borders on the west on Dillingen and to the north-east on Neunkirchen, where most of the people of the Saarland live....
. SR is a member of the ARD
ARD (broadcaster)
ARD is a joint organization of Germany's regional public-service broadcasters...
.
Finances
Licensing feesTelevision licence
A television licence is an official licence required in many countries for the reception of television broadcasts...
required for Radio and TV sets are €17.03 per month, as of 1 April 2005. For radio reception alone, the monthly fee is €5.52
Programming
SR provides programs to various TV and radio networks, some done in collaboration with other broadcasters, and others completely independently.TV programming
- SR Fernsehen - Third TV channel for the Saarland, part of a regional collaboration with SüdwestrundfunkSüdwestrundfunkThe Südwestrundfunk is a public broadcasting company for the southwest of Germany, specifically the states of Baden-Württemberg and Rhineland-Palatinate. The company has main offices in three cities: Stuttgart, Baden-Baden and Mainz, with the director's office being in Stuttgart. It is an...
. - ARDARD (broadcaster)ARD is a joint organization of Germany's regional public-service broadcasters...
- SR contributes programming to Germany's main network. - Phoenix - collaborative network programming between the ARD and ZDFZDFZweites Deutsches Fernsehen , ZDF, is a public-service German television broadcaster based in Mainz . It is run as an independent non-profit institution, which was founded by the German federal states . The ZDF is financed by television licence fees called GEZ and advertising revenues...
. - KI.KAKI.KAKI.KA is a public non-commercial free television channel based in Erfurt, Germany. It is a joint venture of national public television channels ARD, and ARD's constituent broadcasting institutions – BR, HR, MDR, NDR, Radio Bremen, RBB, Saarländischer Rundfunk, SWR, WDR and ZDF, and is targeted at...
- Children's network from the ARD and ZDF. - arteArteArte is a Franco-German TV network. It is a European culture channel and aims to promote quality programming especially in areas of culture and the arts...
- Franco-German cultural network - 3sat3sat3sat is the name of a public, advertising-free, television network in Central Europe. The programming is in German and is broadcast primarily within Germany, Austria and Switzerland .3sat was established for cultural...
- Cultural network from the ARD, ZDF, ORF (Austrian Broadcasting), and SRGSRG SSR idée suisseSRG SSR is the Swiss public broadcasting organisation, founded in 1931 as SRG-SSR. Headquartered in Bern, SRG SSR is a non-profit organisation, funded mainly through radio and television licence fees and making the remaining income from advertising and sponsorship.Switzerland's system of direct...
(Swiss Broadcasting).
Radio programming
- SR 1 Europawelle ("Europe Wave") - Pop music and information, transmitted twenty-four hours per day
- SR 2 Kuturradio - cultural radio, transmitted twenty-four hours per day
- SR 3 Saarlandwelle ("Saarland Wave") - Transmits music in the German and French languages, as well as Saarland information, twenty-four hours per day.
- UnserDing ("Our Thing") - Youth-oriented programming, in cooperation with DASDING from Südwestrundfunk.
- antenne saar - Spoken word information source with a Franco-German character.
Transmitters
- Heusweiler radio transmitter (broadcasts DeutschlandfunkDeutschlandfunkDeutschlandfunk is a German public broadcasting radio station, broadcasting national news and current affairs.-History:Broadcasting in the Federal Republic of Germany is reserved under the Basic Law to the states. This means that all public broadcasting is regionalised...
's programming) - VHF and TV transmitters on the Göttelborner Höhe, in the Moselle RiverMoselle RiverThe Moselle is a river flowing through France, Luxembourg, and Germany. It is a left tributary of the Rhine, joining the Rhine at Koblenz. A small part of Belgium is also drained by the Mosel through the Our....
valley, and in the BliesBliesThe Blies is a right tributary of the Saar River in south-western Germany and north-eastern France . The Blies flows from three springs in the Hunsrück mountains near Selbach, Germany. It is approximately 100 km long, ending in the French city of Sarreguemines...
valley.
History
The first broadcasts from the Saarland began in 1929. In 1935, when the Saar rejoined Germany, the Saar station became Reichssender Saarbrücken, part of Reichs-Rundfunk GmbH Berlin under the control of Joseph GoebbelsJoseph Goebbels
Paul Joseph Goebbels was a German politician and Reich Minister of Propaganda in Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945. As one of Adolf Hitler's closest associates and most devout followers, he was known for his zealous oratory and anti-Semitism...
's Propagandaministerium.
After World War II
World War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
, the Saarland was under French
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
occupation as the Saar Protectorate
Saar (protectorate)
The Saar Protectorate was a German borderland territory twice temporarily made a protectorate state. Since rejoining Germany the second time in 1957, it is the smallest Federal German Area State , the Saarland, not counting the city-states Berlin, Hamburg and Bremen...
. The French military government established Radio Saarbrücken in the area. This came under civilian control on 31 December 1947.
In 1952, the Saarland introduced a broadcasting law which reorganised radio broadcasting, and created the Saarländischer Rundfunk company. In 1953, SR expanded into television and started a second radio network, SR2.
The Saarland became part of the Federal Republic of Germany in 1957 and Saarländischer Rundfunk was converted into a public broadcasting corporation, patterned on the system in other Länder
Länder
Länder or Bundesländer may refer to:* States of Germany, the 16 federal subdivisions of Germany* States of Austria, the 9 federal subdivisions of Austria...
, and renamed Saarland Rundfunk. The organisation joined the ARD alliance of broadcasting corporations in 1959.
On 5 April 1969, the three broadcasters then covering southwest Germany, Saarländischer Rundfunk, Südwestfunk (SWF; Southwest Broadcasting) and Süddeutscher Rundfunk
Süddeutscher Rundfunk
The Süddeutscher Rundfunk was a German radio and television station operating in the northern part of the state of Baden-Württemberg. It existed from 1949 to 1998, when it was merged with the then Südwestfunk to form the Südwestrundfunk....
(SDR, Southern German Broadcasting), began a joint third television channel, Südwest 3 or S3. The new channel only operated three days a week at first, then expanded to four days in September 1969 and the whole week in 1971. On 30 August 1998, S3 became SR Südwest Fernsehen, planned in co-operation with Südwestrundfunk
Südwestrundfunk
The Südwestrundfunk is a public broadcasting company for the southwest of Germany, specifically the states of Baden-Württemberg and Rhineland-Palatinate. The company has main offices in three cities: Stuttgart, Baden-Baden and Mainz, with the director's office being in Stuttgart. It is an...
, the successor to SWF and SDR. Since 11 September 2006 it has been simply called SR Fernsehen. 70 % of the programming is identical with the new SWR Fernsehen, but the design and corner logo is different. A teletext service, Saartext, has operated since 2 October 1989.
On 1 November 1964, the SR reorganised its radio services, converting SR1, previously a general network, into the music station SR1 Europawelle Saar. A new station, SR3, was launched, aimed at immigrant workers in the region. Since 7 January 1980, SR3 has been known as SR3 Saarlandwelle and is the main regional station for the Saar.
SR2 became SR2 Studiowelle Saar in 1967. From 1972 until 1990, this station was organised in co-operation with SDR and SWF, and from 1990 until 1994 in co-operation with Hessischer Rundfunk
Hessischer Rundfunk
Hessischer Rundfunk is the public broadcaster for the German state of Hesse. The main offices of HR are in Frankfurt am Main. HR is a member of the ARD.- Studios :...
's hr2 station. From 1 January 1995, the station has been known as SR2 KulturRadio and is now programmed independently.
SR4, the fourth radio service, began on 6 November 1989. The station carried programming for immigrant workers and, from 1 March 1999, coverage of debates in the Bundestag and Bundesrat
Bundesrat of Germany
The German Bundesrat is a legislative body that represents the sixteen Länder of Germany at the federal level...
(German parliament). When parliament was not sitting, SR4 carried SR2 and SR3 programmes.
On 1 March 1999, the SR began a youth station, UnserDing, programmed in co-operation with the SWR's youth service DASDING. In January 2004, SR4 was closed and its frequencies taken over by UnserDing.
Directors of SR and its predecessor organizations
- 1935-1940: Adolf Raskin, Director of "Reichssenders Saarbrücken" (Imperial Broadcasting Saarbrücken)
- 1940-1948: Karl Mages, Director of "Reichssenders Saarbrücken", and later director of "Radio Saarbrücken" and first director of SR.
- 1948-1956: Frederic Billmann, General Director of Saarländischer Rundfunk (under French postwar administration)
- 1957-1976: Franz Wilhelm Mai, Director of the public broadcaster Saarländischer Rundfunk (under West German administration, after Saarland was reunited with West Germany)
- 1977-1988: Hubert RohdeHubert RohdeHubert Rohde is a German politician, representative of the German Christian Democratic Union.-Life:Hubert Rohde was born in a Christian family in Hildesheim...
- 1989-1996: Manfred Buchwald
- 1996-2011: Fritz Raff
- 2011-present: Thomas Kleist
External links
- Saarländischer Rundfunk homepage, .