hr2-kultur is a German, public

radio station Radio broadcasting is the broadcasting 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 rad ...

owned and operated by the

Hessischer Rundfunk (; "Hesse Broadcasting"), shortened to HR (; stylized as hr), is the German state of Hesse's public broadcasting corporation. Headquartered in Frankfurt, it is a member of the national consortium of German public broadcasting corporations, A ...

(HR). It airs a cultural format with a high percentage of spoken word and classical music. Hr2 took over some news formats from hr1 after its transition into an oldies format. The station is commercial-free.

Reception

The station is available in Hesse via

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and

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, and beyond Hesse via

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and

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. On 11 February 2013, some of hr2-kultur's FM frequencies were taken over by Hr-info and You FM.

References

Radio stations in Germany Radio stations established in 1950 1950 establishments in West Germany Mass media in Frankfurt Hessischer Rundfunk {{Germany-radio-station-stub