The West German broadcast Cologne (WDR) is an institute of the public right (national broadcasting corporation) for the country North Rhine-Westphalia with seat in Cologne. Besides it is member of the pool of broadcasting corporations and their largest broadcasting station as well as one of the largest transmitters of Europe. 2006 celebrate the WDR its existence. It resulted 1956 from splitting the NWDR into the NDR and the WDR.

Studios of the WDR

The WDR in Cologne possesses the largest production capacities. The different houses and plants of the transmitter are on the city center (sound broadcasting and television) and the suburb (television) distributes.

Additionally there are Regionalstudios, which produce local of programs for television and sound broadcasting and send (restaurant time out"…). The most important Regionalstudio lies in Duesseldorf. There only the country-wide television broadcasts like e.g. WDR up-to-date, at home and on the way, current ones hour, west pole, etc. manufactured, also the line of the program area of regional programs is there settled. Dortmund is as location likewise of emphasized importance, since beside the regional transmissions also individual sending straining for the television program and for the radio wave WDR2 as well as the traffic messages in sound broadcasting are manufactured there. At the same time the Dortmunder serves also as Ersatzstudio for the "“guidance wave in such a way specified"” WDR 2. In addition in Dortmund also the restaurant television broadcast is manufactured "„point Dortmund "“, similarly as in Cologne the transmission "„point Cologne "“. Further Regionalstudios of the WDR is Regio Aachen (Aachen), OWL up-to-date (Bielefeld), Ruhr (meal), cathedral country Westf.), south Westphalia (victories) and Bergi country (Wuppertal). Besides the WDR possesses regional offices in Kleve, Detmold and Bonn. Regionalkorrespondenten sit in Krefeld, Duisburg, Paderborn, Minden, Ahaus, Rheine, Arnsberg and Monschau.Die federalpolitical reporting of the WDR become from its in Berlin, a WDR Fernsehkorrespondenten for the 3. Television program and perception by the television community editorship of the Pool of broadcasting corporations Hauptstadtstudios in Berlin. In addition the WDR in the following cities of the world operates Auslandsstudios, partially in co-operation with the NDR: Washington (the USA), Brussels (Belgium), Paris (France), Moscow (Russia), New York (the USA), Nairobi (Kenya), Amman (Jordanian one).

Programs of the WDR

The WDR sends alone or in co-operation with other broadcast and/or TV organizations at present following television and radio broadcasting programs:

First, television of the pool of broadcasting corporations

The WDR supplies among other things transmissions for the first television program like the transmission with the mouse, Harald Schmidt, the pool of broadcasting corporations morning magazine, which sport-look, the scene or Soaps such as lime tree road, forbidding love and Marienhof. Also large television plays as man, Speer and it or also anniversaries after Uwe the Johnson come from the North-Rhine/Westphalia broadcasting station.

WDR television

Major item: WDR television

The WDR television is the so-called third television program in the German television for North Rhine-Westphalia. The name comes of to the time, when there was in Germany only pool of broadcasting corporations and Second Channel of German Television as full programs and the only regionally radiated television programs in their circulation area the third programs was in each case.

Sound broadcasting

• One live one - youth program for the target group 14-29
• WDR 2 - officially information guidance wave mentioned, music rather for the target group 30-59, strong regionalization
• WDR 3 - Culture radio, high portion of classical music, interspersed beside it jazz niches, word programs, no advertisement
• WDR 4 - Program for lovers of German hit music, people music and the easy maintenance
• WDR 5 - Education wave with high word portion, only short instrumentale Zwischenmusiken (often jazz), 2 child transmissions daily, no advertisement
• Radio house Europe - world music, information for foreign inhabitants, integration program (in co-operation with radio Bremen), no advertisement

Only over DAB (digital radio) as well as addr (Astra digitally radio) to be radiated:

• One live Diggi - music and message of unity live one without presentation
• WDR 2 classical period - contributions from WDR 2 with classical music
• VeRa (traffic radio) - traffic messages spoken of a computer non stop in full length, which is taken over with particularly pilotpregnant traffic conditions also by the MW-transmitters

"„Ochestras "“of the WDR

The WDR has four own ochestras:

• WDR broadcast Sinfonie-orchestra Cologne; the orchestra was created 1946 as a follow-up orchestra for 1926 created former orchestras of the realm transmitter Cologne
• WDR broadcast orchestra Cologne; based 1947 as "„an orchestra Hermann Hagestedt "“of the NWDR, are carried it since 1956 by the WDR. The orchestra appears also together with the WDR Big volume Cologne as "„a large maintenance orchestra "“
• WDR broadcast choir Cologne; based 1955
• WDR Big volume Cologne; based 1947 as "„dance and a maintenance orchestra Adalbert Luczkowski "“of the NWDR, are carried the formation since 1956 by the WDR. With the WDR broadcast orchestra Cologne appears the Big volume also as "„a large maintenance orchestra "“. Today as one the best Big of volume of the world outstandingly.

Transmitting plants

The WDR operates several basic net transmitters

• Transmitter for TV (in the meantime switched off) and DVB-T on the Colonius in Cologne
• Transmitter for MW, UKW, TV (in the meantime switched off) and DVB-T on the Venusberg with Bonn
• Transmitter for MW, UKW, TV and DVB-T in long mountain

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