The southwest broadcast (SWR) is an institute of the public right (national broadcasting corporation) for the countries Baden-Wuerttemberg and Rhineland-Palatinate with three main locations in Stuttgart, Baden-Baden and Mainz.

Seat of directorship and administrative management is Stuttgart. The television and radio management are settled in Baden-Baden. The national transmitters are in Stuttgart and Mainz.

The SWR came out 1998 from the fusion of the South German broadcast (Southern German Broadcasting Corporation) with seat in Stuttgart and the southwest radio (Southwestern German Broadcasting Corporation) with seat in Baden-Baden and is member of the working group of the public broadcasting corporations in the Federal Republic of Germany (pool of broadcasting corporations). The SWR is after the West German broadcast (WDR) the second largest institute for pool of broadcasting corporations. In his transmission area of approximately 55,600 km humans live 14.7 million.

Legal basis

The convention over the southwest broadcast of 31. May 1997 furnished the SWR "„for the meeting of broadcast in the countries Baden-Wuerttemberg and Rhineland-Palatinate "“. In the convention the obligation embodied for the objectivity and of its reporting as well as "„the cultural order of the public broadcast are "“.

Programs

The SWR organizes alone or together with other radio and TV organizations the following programs:

Television programs

• The first "„first German television "“- community program of the pool of broadcasting corporations; the SWR portion amounts to 16.95 per cent and covers the participation in pool of broadcasting corporations digitally, one mainly over cables and satellite spread Programmbouquet.
• Southwest television (our third) - third television program for Baden-Wuerttemberg and Rhineland-Palatinate; the program is radiated in two national programs for Baden-Wuerttemberg and Rhineland-Palatinate. The Saarland broadcast takes over over 70 per cent of this program and supplements it for its transmission area with own transmissions under the designation SR southwest television.
• Phoenix - common event channel of the pool of broadcasting corporations and Second Channel of German Television.
• KI.KA - Child channel of pool of broadcasting corporations and Second Channel of German Television.
• ARTE - French-German culture channel.
• 3sat - Culture channel of pool of broadcasting corporations, Second Channel of German Television, ORF, and SRG.

Radio broadcasting programs

• SWR1 Baden-Wuerttemberg ("„unity belonged heard. SWR1. "“)
• SWR1 Rhineland-Palatinate ("„unity belonged heard. SWR1. "“)
• SWR2 ("„discovering it SWR2 "“)
• SWR3 ("„more hit. More Kicks. Simply SWR3 "“)
• SWR4 Baden-Wuerttemberg ("„SWR4. There are we at home. "“)
• SWR4 Rhineland-Palatinate ("„SWR4. There are we at home. "“)
• THE THING ("„THE THING ///alles which you want "“)
• SWR cont.ra (content radio) ("„SWR cont.ra. Information and more "“)

SWR4 sends regional programs at certain times.

SWR4 Baden-Wuerttemberg switches daily for several hours into the following regional windows apart:

• Bathe radio (Karlsruhe)
• Bodensee radio (Friedrichshafen)
• Franconia radio (Heilbronn)
• Kurpfalz radio (Mannheim)
• Radio Stuttgart (Stuttgart)
• Radio south bathing (Freiburg)
  • High Rhine radio *
  • Ortenau radio (open castle) *
  • Radio mash gau (Freiburg) *
  • Radio Black Forest Baar Heuberg (Villingen Schwenningen) *
• Radio
• Swabia radio (Ulm)

(* Subregionalfenster in the program of radio south bathing.)

SWR4 Rhineland-Palatinate offers only week and Saturday between 12:00 and 13:00 regional information from the following cities to clock:

• Radio Kaiserslautern (Kaiserslautern)
• Radio Koblenz (Koblenz)
• Radio Ludwigshafen (Ludwigshafen)
• Radio Mainz (Mainz)
• Radio Trier (Trier)

History

The SWR was created to 1 January 1998; on 1 September 1998 it took up the transmit mode. 1 October 1998 it became legal successors Southern German Broadcasting Corporation and Southwestern German Broadcasting Corporation, who had been dissolved to 30 September 1998.

Formal fusion:

• made of Southwestern German Broadcasting Corporation 1 and Southern German Broadcasting Corporation 1 the two national programs SWR1 Baden-Wuerttemberg and SWR1 Rhineland-Palatinate became
• from S2 culture became SWR2
• from SWF3 and Southern German Broadcasting Corporation 3 the Popwelle SWR3 became
• from Southwestern German Broadcasting Corporation 4 Rhineland-Palatinate became SWR4 Rhineland-Palatinate
• from S4 Baden-Wuerttemberg SWR4 Baden-Wuerttemberg became
• THE THING was invariably continued to lead
• from the television program southwest 3 became the two national programs southwest German Federal Armed Forces and southwest RP (today SOUTHWEST television)

In July 2002 the information program SWR took up cont.ra its transmit mode.

Organization

Director of the transmitter became 1998 up to this time the officiating director Southwestern German Broadcasting Corporation, Professor Peter Voss with seat in Stuttgart. Seven directors, who carry for the following fields of application responsibility, are subordinated to it (service place in parentheses):

• Peter Boudgoust - administration (Stuttgart)
• Bernhard Nellessen - television (Baden-Baden)
• Bernhard Hermann - sound broadcasting (Baden-Baden)
• Dr. Willi Steul - national transmitter Baden-Wuerttemberg (Stuttgart)
• Dr. Uwe rose tree - national transmitter Rhineland-Palatinate (Mainz)
• Dr. Hermann Eicher - Justitiariat (Mainz)
• Bertram Bittel - technology and production (Baden-Baden)

Radio houses and Studios

The SWR maintains beside the three radio houses in Stuttgart, Mainz and Baden-Baden still Studios in the following cities:

• in Baden-Wuerttemberg: Freiburg in mash gau, Heilbronn, Karlsruhe, Mannheim, and Ulm
• in Rhineland-Palatinate

Regional offices of the SWR are

• in Baden-Wuerttemberg: Friedrichshafen, Offenburg and Villingen Schwenningen
• in Rhineland-Palatinate: Bath Neuenahr Ahrweiler, Betzdorf, Idar Oberstein and Landau, as well as since short in Worms, Traben Trarbach and Gerolstein.

In Baden-Wuerttemberg additionally of the SWR in Aalen, Albstadt Ebingen, beaver oh, exist beeches, Konstanz, MOS brook, Pforzheim, Ravensburg, Swabian resound, deaf bishop home and Waldshut Tiengen.

The SWR employs - with sinking tendency - altogether scarcely 3700 coworkers.

Transmitting plants

• Stuttgart TV tower (TV tower in reinforced concrete construction way with tower restaurant and prospect platform, first of the world)
• Transmitter
• Rheinsender: Medium-wave transmitter in wolf home southwest from Mainz. Transmitter frequency 1017 kHz, transmitting power: 100 KW. Antenna: more established more isolated against earth, doubles 1950 feedable selfradiating transmitting pole of 150 meters height.
• Bodenseesender: Medium-wave transmitter in tubing village with Messkirch, transmitter frequency: 666 kHz, transmitting power: 150 KW. Antenna: during the day hours a 240 meter high radiating transmitting pole, during the night hours a directional antenna, isolated against earth, consisting of two 137 meters high masts isolated against earth.
• TV tower (Heidelberg) (TV tower in reinforced concrete construction way with prospect platform)
• Transmitter Aalen for UKW and TV
• Transmitter forest castle for UKW and TV (hybrid tower)
• Transmitter bath Mergentheim for UKW and TV
• Transmitter Heilbronn upper ice home for MW
• Transmitter Ulm Jungingen for MW
• Transmitter Ulm Kuhberg for UKW
• Transmitter Heidelberg Dossenheim (MW, since 30 April 2004 out of operation)
• Transmitter Freiburg Lehen for MW, UKW and TV
• Transmitter elm tree RMI gene for UKW and TV
• Transmitter Hornisgrinde for UKW and TV
• Transmitter Raichberg for UKW and TV
• Transmitter tub mountain for UKW and TV
• Transmitter blue one for UKW and TV
• Transmitter bath Marienberg for UKW and TV
• Transmitter TV tower pc. Chrischona (Switzerland) for UKW and TV
• Transmitter field mountain in the Black Forest for UKW and TV
• Transmitters wine-offer for UKW and TV
• Transmitter Haardtkopf for UKW and TV
• Transmitter Witthoh for UKW and TV
• Transmitter Saarburg for UKW and TV
• Transmitter Potzberg for UKW and TV
• Transmitter the Eifel for UKW and TV
• Transmitter forest castle for UKW and TV
• Transmitter the bleaching wet tail (Koblenz) for UKW and TV
• Transmitter thunder mountain for UKW and TV (TV tower in reinforced concrete construction way)
• Transmitter Linz on the Rhine for UKW and TV
• Transmitters became green in the for UKW

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