Österreich 1 (Ö1) is an

Austria Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine states, one of which is the capital, Vienna, the most populous ...

radio station Radio broadcasting is transmission of audio (sound), sometimes with related metadata, by radio waves to radio receivers belonging to a public audience. In terrestrial radio broadcasting the radio waves are broadcast by a land-based radio ...

: one of the four national channels operated by Austria's

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ORF. It focuses on

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and

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jazz Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a m ...

, documentaries and features,

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and dramas, ''

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'', quiz shows, and discussions.

History

The channel was launched on 1 October 1967 as part of an exercise which saw the ORF's radio output reorganized into three numbered services, the other two being the regional stations grouped as Ö2 and the pop music channel Ö3. Earlier, in 1964, there had been a petition for a national

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, whereby more than 800,000 citizens declared themselves against ideological appointments of key positions within the public broadcasting service by the Austrian

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government of Chancellor

Alfons Gorbach Alfons Gorbach (2 September 1898 – 31 July 1972) was an Austrian politician of the conservative People's Party (ÖVP). He served as Chancellor of Austria from 1961 to 1964. Life Born in Imst, Tyrol, Gorbach served in the Austro-Hungarian Arm ...

(

ÖVP The Austrian People's Party (german: Österreichische Volkspartei , ÖVP ) is a Christian-democratic and liberal-conservative political party in Austria. Since December 2021, the party has been led provisionally by Karl Nehammer. It is currentl ...

) and Vice-Chancellor

Bruno Pittermann Bruno Pittermann (3 September 1905 – 19 September 1983) was an Austrian social democrat politician. He served as both the chairman of the Social Democratic Party of Austria from 1957 to 1967, and the Vice Chancellor of Austria The vice-chanc ...

(

SPÖ The Social Democratic Party of Austria (german: Sozialdemokratische Partei Österreichs , SPÖ), founded and known as the Social Democratic Workers' Party of Austria (german: link=no, Sozialdemokratische Arbeiterpartei Österreichs, SDAPÖ) unti ...

) according to the Austrian ''

Proporz ''Proporz'' (, from german: Proportionalität, "proportionality") is a long-standing practice in the Second Austrian Republic in which positions in government are distributed between political parties in a manner proportional to their electoral o ...

'' system. Two years later, a legal regulation of a nonpartisan broadcasting was passed by the National Council parliament, entailing a relaunch of the ORF radio stations. Ö1 was designated to comply with the public educational mandate (''Bildungsauftrag'') and to offer a broadly cultural program for an artistically inclined audience. One focus is on news broadcasts like the one-hour ''Mittagsjournal'' ("Noon Journal") and ''Morgenjournal'' ("Morning Journal"), launched in the course of the coverage of the 1968

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. Beside established programmes such as ''Du holde Kunst'', first aired in 1945, Ö1 since the 1970s has also broadcast

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(''Hörbilder''), music programmes beyond the strictly classical canon (''Pasticcio'', ''Spielräume''), and several recurring reports on

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in a

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style like ''Der Schalldämpfer'' by Axel Corti (discontinued upon his death in 1993). Similar to other classical music radio stations, Ö1 has to bear with the tension between an elitist "''

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'' widow broadcaster" and a "Classic FM" popularisation, with the station's style and scheduling a matter of ongoing debates.

Operation

After having broadcast from Funkhaus Wien on Argentinierstrasse in the

Wieden Wieden (; Central Bavarian: ''Wiedn'') is the 4th municipal district of Vienna, Austria (german: 4. Bezirk). It is near the centre of Vienna and was established as a district in 1850, but its borders were changed later. Wieden is a small region ...

district of

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for decades, the station moved to the ORF-Zentrum at Küniglberg in the

Hietzing Hietzing () is the 13th municipal District of Vienna (german: 13. Bezirk, Hietzing). It is located west of the central districts, west of Meidling. Hietzing is a heavily populated urban area with many residential buildings, but also contains lar ...

district in late 2022. The current

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was composed by the jazz musician

Werner Pirchner Werner Pirchner (13 February 1940 – 10 August 2001) was an Austrian composer and jazz musician. Life He was born in Hall in Tirol, and had his musical start playing jazz. In 1963 he played vibraphone in the Oscar-Klein-Quartett. The la ...

in 1994, the

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''Ö1 gehört gehört''—a pun on "to be heard" in German conforming with "ought to"—was created by the author

Wolf Haas Wolf Haas (born 14 December 1960) is an Austrian writer. He is most widely known for his crime fiction novels featuring detective Simon Brenner, four of which were made into films. He has won several prizes for his works, including the German pri ...

. The interval signal of Ö1 is a three-note chord, played on a viola. There were two earlier versions of the signal: first one was played by harpsichord and the second one by a synth. Since 2010 a 75-minute altered block of programming is broadcast every morning on the

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frequencies of former Radio Österreich International as Ö1 International. Ö1

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can also be listened to live on the ORF website through

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, the programmes can also be heard for a week after broadcast at no charge. Several are available as

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s and

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s. Ö1 runs the RadioKulturhaus venue in Funkhaus Wien including the KulturCafé

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. It also participates in the annual

Donauinselfest The ''Donauinselfest'' (German for " Danube Island Festival") is a free open-air music festival which occurs annually at Donauinsel in Vienna, Austria. The festival is hosted by SPÖ Wien. It is the largest open-air music festival in the wor ...

music festival.

Programs

External links

Ö1 Website

Ö1 Programme
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History

Operation

Programs

See also

External links