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The Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR) is a public broadcaster in the German Bundesland of North Rhine-Westphalia with its main office in Cologne . WDR is a member of the ARD . The WDR produces one TV channel (WDR-Fernsehen, older names WDF and West3) and 5 radio channels targeted to different audiences. HISTORY The WDR was created in 1955, when the NWDR was split into the NDR responsible for Lower Saxony, Schleswig-Holstein and Hamburg, and the WDR responsible for North Rhine-Westphalia. On January 1 1956 , the first two radio channels were started. TELEVISION WDR started its regional television service on December 17 , 1965 under the name Westdeutsches Fernsehen (WDF). In 1988 the programme was renamed to West 3; since 1994 it has been known as WDR Fernsehen. While the programmes are mainly run from their Köln headquarters, they also have a number of regional studios performing a regular broadcast called ''Lokalzeit aus...'' with "Regio Aachen" ( Aachen ), "OWL aktuell" ( Bielefeld ), "aus Dortmund" ( Dortmund ), "aus Düsseldorf" ( Düsseldorf ), "Ruhr" ( Essen ), "Köln" ( Köln and Bonn ), "Münsterland" ( Münster ), "Südwestfalen" ( Siegen ) and "Bergisches Land" ( Wuppertal ) added for the respective region. Apart from the WDR Fernsehen channel, WDR also contributes programming to the ARD network. RADIO
All WDR radio stations are available on FM, cable, satellite and digital. WDR 2 is broadcast on two AM stations, 720 and 774 kHz, with even longer traffic announcements and the possibility to opt out for coverage from Parliament. Despite the fact that WDR is a public broadcaster that receives a lot of its funds through licence fees, EinsLive, WDR 2 and WDR 4 carry commercials during the day. ''See also:'' German Television EXTERNAL LINKS LIVE STREAMS |
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