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Österreich 2 (Ö2; previously known as ''Österreich-Regional'', ''ÖR'' until 1990) is the overall term used to refer the network of nine regional radio services provided by Austria's national public service broadcasting organization ORF. Stations The nine Ö2 radio stations, each of which serves one state of the Austrian Federal Republic (plus the Italian province of South Tyrol) are: * Radio Burgenland, Burgenland * Radio Kärnten, Carinthia * Radio Niederösterreich, Lower Austria * Radio Oberösterreich, Upper Austria * Radio Salzburg, Salzburg * Radio Steiermark, Styria * Radio Tirol, Tyrol (also broadcast in the Italian province of South Tyrol) * Radio Vorarlberg, Vorarlberg * Radio Wien, Vienna These stations' output is broadcast on FM analogue and (for now, Radio Wien only) digital radio, as well as being available via cable, the internet, and satellite ( Astra 19.2°E). Operation The Österreich Regional stations were launched on 1 October 1967 as part of a major re ...
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Radio Tirol
Radio Tirol is the regional radio for Tyrol and the German-speaking population of South Tyrol, and is part of the Österreich 2 group. It is broadcast by the ORF, and the programmes from Radio Tirol are made in the ORF Tirol Studio. History The first radio broadcasting tryouts in Tyrol started in 1926 in Aldrans close to Innsbruck. The history of the ORF Tirol Studio reaches back to the 1945 built "''Sendergruppe West''. This group had 2 studios, one in Tyrol and one in Vorarlberg. In 1952 the transmitters were handed over to the state government of Tyrol. The program was mixed, from news and information shows to classical music, radio dramas and other features.
In the literature department of Radio Tirol, talents like Axel Corti, Otto Grünmandl or Bert Breit were found. During 1954 and 1956 the ''Sendergruppe West'' was integrated into the
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Radio Vorarlberg
Radio Vorarlberg is the regional radio for Vorarlberg and is part of the Österreich 2 group. It is broadcast by the ORF ORF or Orf may refer to: * Norfolk International Airport, IATA airport code ORF * Observer Research Foundation, an Indian research institute * One Race Films, a film production company founded by Vin Diesel * Open reading frame, a portion of the g ..., and the programs from Radio Vorarlberg are made in the ORF Landesstudio Vorarlberg. External links * {{coord missing, Austria Radio stations in Austria ORF (broadcaster) Radio stations established in 1967 1967 establishments in Austria ...
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Radio Salzburg
Radio Salzburg is the regional radio for Salzburg, and is part of the Österreich 2 group. It is broadcast by the ORF, and the programs from Radio Salzburg are made in the ORF Salzburg Studio. History It was founded in 1960 as the second radio program, after the transmitters were moved from the city Salzburg to the close Gaisberg. 1989 Radio Salzburg was the most heard radio in Austria, with a market share of over 55%. Coverage Radio Salzburg is the most heard regional radio of ORF, as it is very Salzburg oriented. It is also possible to receive the radio in Germany, till about Ingolstadt Ingolstadt (; Austro-Bavarian language, Austro-Bavarian: ) is an Independent city#Germany, independent city on the Danube, in Upper Bavaria, with 142,308 inhabitants (as of 31 December 2023). Around half a million people live in the metropolitan .... In the state of Salzburg, Radio Salzburg has the second highest market share, only Ö3 with a higher one. The Radio Salzburg only gets ...
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ORF (broadcaster)
(ORF ; , ) is the national public broadcaster of Austria. Funded from a combination of television licence fee revenue and limited on-air advertising, ORF is the dominant player in the Austrian broadcast media. Austria was the last country in continental Europe after Albania to allow nationwide private television broadcasting, although commercial TV channels from neighbouring Germany have been present in Austria on Pay television, pay-TV and via Signal overspill, terrestrial overspill since the 1980s. History of broadcasting in Austria The first unregulated test transmissions in Austria began on 1 April 1923 by Radio Hekaphon, run by the radio pioneer and enthusiast (1887–1958), who applied for a radio licence in 1921; first in his telephone factory in the Brigittenau district of Vienna, later in the nearby TGM technical college. On 2 September, it aired a first broadcast address by Austrian President Michael Hainisch (1858–1940). One year later, a powerful transmitte ...
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Radio Burgenland
Radio Burgenland is the regional radio for Burgenland Burgenland (; ; ; Bavarian language, Austro-Bavarian: ''Burgnland''; Slovene language, Slovene: ''Gradiščanska''; ) is the easternmost and least populous Bundesland (Austria), state of Austria. It consists of two statutory city (Austria), statut ... and is part of the Österreich 2 group. It is broadcast by the ORF, and the programs from Radio Burgenland are made in the ORF Burgenland Studio. External links * {{coord missing, Austria Radio stations in Austria ORF (broadcaster) Radio stations established in 1967 1967 establishments in Austria ...
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Radio Kärnten
Radio Kärnten is the regional radio for Carinthia and is part of the Österreich 2 group. It is broadcast by the ORF, and the programs from Radio Kärnten are made in the ORF Kärnten Studio. From Monday to Friday at 6.30 pm local time it broadcasts a short information space called “Dreisprachige Nachrichten” (news in three languages) within the program "Servus Srecno Ciao". with short-term news in German, Slovenian and Italian. The most powerful transmitter located on Mount Dobratsch can easily be tuned to 97.80 MHz in the neighboring border areas, namely the Tarvisio area (UD) and Val Canale. A collection of the latest programs is archived at: Servus Srecno Hello. The news program “Dreisprachige Nachrichten” can be heard from around the 30th minute. The music programme is made of oldies music and "Austropop Austropop is pop music from Austria, which came into use in the late 1960s, but had its heyday in the 1970s and early and up until the mid-1980s. Austropop com ...
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Hitradio Ö3
Hitradio Ö3 is one of the nationwide radio stations of Austria's public broadcaster ORF. The format focuses, since a reform in the late 1990s almost exclusively, on contemporary hit radio, specialising in pop music and chart hits from the 1980s to the present. Ö3 has by far the biggest audience share by far (averaging 31%) of all Austrian radio stations. History The station was launched by the ORF broadcaster on 1 October 1967 to a new numbered system, together with the classical music station Österreich 1 and the local radios of the Ö2 group, following a 1964 national referendum against the alignment of the public broadcasting service on the Austrian political '' Proporz'' system. The journalist and radio host Ernst Grissemann was commissioned to build up an entertainment station; he was supported by Frank Elstner, who had worked for Radio Luxembourg, and André Heller presenting the ''Musicbox'' avant-garde music journal. Grissemann served as programme director until 1 ...
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Radio Niederösterreich
Radio Niederösterreich is the regional radio for Lower Austria, and is part of the Österreich 2 group. It is broadcast by the ORF, and the programs from Radio Niederösterreich are made in the ORF Niederösterreich Studio. The radio is mostly heard by the 60+ age group and has a traditionally high listenership in Vienna. It mostly plays old hit-songs, as well as some international music. In the evening, Radio Niederösterreich produces a one-hour show focusing on folk music. The radio offers detailed coverages from live-events and information from all over Austria and positions itself as a "service radio". In the last few years, many programs were merged with large broadcasting lines, whereby Radio Niederösterreich followed the trend to a format radio. Since Radio Wien advanced to being a modern hit radio, Radio Niederösterreich was also able to position itself on the highly competitive Viennese radio market, next to Radio Arabella and Radio Burgenland. Looking at market sh ...
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Radio Wien
Radio Wien is the regional radio for Vienna, and is part of the Österreich 2 group. It is broadcast by the ORF, and the programs from Radio Wien are made in the ORF Wien Studio. Music Radio Wien plays pop and rock music, often old songs but also newer ones. Most songs are sung in English but you can also hear German, Italian, French, Spanish and Portuguese. Here are some examples of artists whose songs are played: *from Austria: Wolfgang Ambros, Falco, Rainhard Fendrich, Kurt Ostbahn, S.T.S. *from the rest of the world: ABBA, The Beach Boys, The Beatles, Bee Gees, Billy Joel, Blondie, Bruce Springsteen, Cher, Chris Rea, Creedence Clearwater Revival, David Bowie, Electric Light Orchestra, Elton John, Elvis Presley, Hot Chocolate, KC and the Sunshine Band, Madonna, Michael Jackson, Mike and the Mechanics, Phil Collins, Prince, Queen, Robbie Williams, Rod Stewart, The Rolling Stones, Stevie Wonder, Supertramp, Tina Turner Tina Turner (born Anna Mae Bullock; November ...
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Radio Oberösterreich
Radio Oberösterreich is the regional radio for Upper Austria Upper Austria ( ; ; ) is one of the nine States of Austria, states of Austria. Its capital is Linz. Upper Austria borders Germany and the Czech Republic, as well as the other Austrian states of Lower Austria, Styria, and Salzburg (state), Salzbur ..., and is part of the Österreich 2 group. It is broadcast by the ORF, and the programs from Radio Oberösterreich are made in the ORF Oberösterreich Studio. Radio Oberösterreich offers a daily program with music, news, sport, culture, weather and traffic service, made for the people in Upper Austria. The target audience is people over 60. The music choice is focused on pop oldies. Sometimes German-speaking modern pop songs are also broadcast, though most of these songs are Austropop. After 6pm and Sunday evenings, Radio Oberösterreich stops broadcasting oldies, but instead focuses on traditional folk music, sport-, culture- and talk-shows. After the introduction of p ...
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Radio Steiermark
Radio Steiermark is the regional radio for Styria, and is part of the Österreich 2 group. It is broadcast by the ORF. Most of the production for Radio Steiermark is done at ORF Steiermark Landesstudio (regional studio) located in the capital of Styria, Graz. Frequencies The most important frequencies: * Graz: 95.4 MHz * Bruck/Mur: 93.2 MHz * Neumarkt: 94.1 MHz * Liezen: 96.8 MHz * Schladming: 96.3 MHz * Mitterbach: 92.8 MHz * Murau: 96.8 MHz * Mürzzuschlag: 94.5 MHz * Knittelfeld: 94.9 MHz * Eisenerz: 97.3 MHz * Rechnitz: 100.1 MHz * Leoben Leoben () is a Styrian city in central Austria, located on the Mur River, Mur river. With a population in 2023 of about 25,140 it is a local industrial centre and hosts the University of Leoben, which specialises in mining. The Peace of Leoben, ...: 97.1 MHz External links * {{coord missing, Austria Radio stations in Austria ORF (broadcaster) Radio stations esta ...
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Vienna
Vienna ( ; ; ) is the capital city, capital, List of largest cities in Austria, most populous city, and one of Federal states of Austria, nine federal states of Austria. It is Austria's primate city, with just over two million inhabitants. Its larger metropolitan area has a population of nearly 2.9 million, representing nearly one-third of the country's population. Vienna is the Culture of Austria, cultural, Economy of Austria, economic, and Politics of Austria, political center of the country, the List of cities in the European Union by population within city limits, fifth-largest city by population in the European Union, and the most-populous of the List of cities and towns on the river Danube, cities on the river Danube. The city lies on the eastern edge of the Vienna Woods (''Wienerwald''), the northeasternmost foothills of the Alps, that separate Vienna from the more western parts of Austria, at the transition to the Pannonian Basin. It sits on the Danube, and is ...
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