MDR Schlagerwelt is a German, public

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owned and operated by the

Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk (; "Central German Broadcasting"), shortened to MDR (; stylized as mdr), is the public broadcaster for the federal states of Thuringia, Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt in Germany. Established in January 1991, its headquarters are in Leipzig, wi ...

(MDR). It mostly broadcasts

schlager music Schlager (, " hit(s)") is a style of European popular music and radio format generally defined by catchy instrumental accompaniments to vocal pieces of pop music with simple, easygoing, and often sentimental lyrics. Schlager tracks are typ ...

, which formerly aired on the three regional MDR stations ( MDR Sachsen, MDR Sachsen-Anhalt, and MDR Thüringen – Das Radio) until their transition into an international oldie-based format. MDR Schlagerwelt is a digital-only station and is not available via

FM broadcasting FM broadcasting is a method of radio broadcasting that uses frequency modulation (FM) of the radio broadcast carrier wave. Invented in 1933 by American engineer Edwin Armstrong, wide-band FM is used worldwide to transmit high fidelity, high-f ...

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