Medium economy

At the beginning of the 1980er Cologne uses a restaurant crisis into the mechanical engineering nature and chemical industry. Unemployment rises ever more, and the city Cologne sets on medium and technology-oriented enterprises. Since then Cologne beside Berlin is in the history of the television the most important medium city of Germany.

Thus centers were established like the MediaPark and the Coloneum. Within the range training in media gives it the Cologne journalist school and Europe to professional school Fresenius.

Television

The West German broadcast (WDR) has his seat in Cologne since 1926. It called itself first "“Wefag"”, designated themselves however then into "“West German broadcast AG"” (WERAG) over. Its television and are at several places in the city.

Since 1988 the private television station RTL and its daughters RTL 2 and super RTL, as well as the news station who were added later N-tv and Vox in the Rhine city are, collect themselves also many production companies such as Brainpool, Bonito TV and end mol Germany with their Studios in Cologne. These are distributed over the whole city and like those the production company MMC in the neighbour municipality

Thus numerous series develop like the lime tree road, which plays however in Munich, the Anrheiner, under us and forbidding love in Cologne.

The infrastructure at "“medium suppliers"” and, as usual in the industry, large selection to freelance medium-creative and the Cologne culture scene like the magazine Spex, pulled also 1993 VIVA and 1995 VIVA PLUSES, at that time still to VIVA TWO, as location. Meanwhile VIVA changed the owner and was resumed strongly restructured in Berlin.

The television production company AZ Media TV, which produces the trend magazines for RTL, sits likewise in Cologne. The AZ Media AG operates center TV into Cologne in addition the city television station.

Music label and publishing houses

Numerous in Cologne residents companies (among other things Sony Music, Zomba record, Jive uvm.) moved away meanwhile to Berlin, like also the central presentation platform "“PopKomm"” of the city. In the MediaPark lain central has EMI, one of the five major Labels their head office. To the repertoire of the label belong among other things volume like the Beatles uvm.

Kabarett and Comedy

The transmission TV totally with Stefan Raab and the Harald Schmidt show and their occasional successor, Anke Late Night, the Wochenshow, Ladykracher or were noted here or live were sent.

Those famous, notorious container of Big were located bread ago likewise nearly in Cologne: in the directly bordering city in which also large Studiolandschaften developed.

Broadcast

The West German broadcast sends from Cologne also its radio broadcasting programs like the youth transmitter unity live one. Here the radio broadcasting program Deutschlandfunk sends Cologne radio houses the Germany radio from. The moreover transmitters enrich such as radio Cologne the radio landscape.

Press and publishing houses

The national press landscape does not serve Cologne rather, the residents publications is rather related to the region. At Cologne daily papers the Cologne express, which Cologne city indicator and round-look, all three newspapers appear given change of M. DuMont the looking mountain publishing house. Daily ones of Cologne local sections are in "„taz "“and "„the pictures "“. City revue the Cologne magazine and the Cologne pictorial are monthly magazines with Lifestyle and culture contents. Besides there are various quarter newspapers as of Cologne indicator sheets.

Further publishing houses:

• Publishing house Kiepenheuer & Witsch
• VUB Printmedia

Former enterprises

• Clouth Gummiwerke
• Felten & Guilleaume (until 2004)
• Herstatt bank (until 1974)
• Pohlig Heckel Bleichert
• Cologne-Bonn railway (until 1992)
• Cologne Mindener railway (until 1880)
• Bonn railway (until 1857)

Related links

• www.stadt-koeln.de
• www.koeln.de

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