WDR 1 was a German public

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owned and operated by the

Westdeutscher Rundfunk (; "West German Broadcasting Cologne"), shortened to WDR (), is a German public broadcasting, public-broadcasting institution based in the States of Germany, Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia with its main office in Cologne. WDR is a const ...

(WDR). It was replaced by

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in 1995.

History

The station was originally the information program of the WDR and combined entertainment and pop music on the one hand with public service information and educational mission on the other. Instead of a fully formatted program, WDR 1 offered many special interest programs, a high proportion of words and a targeted regional focus. WDR 1 officially went on air on January 1, 1956, after the regional stations WDR and

Norddeutscher Rundfunk (; "North German Broadcasting"), commonly shortened to NDR (), is a public broadcasting, public radio and television broadcaster, based in Hamburg. In addition to the city-state of Hamburg, NDR broadcasts for the German states of Lower Saxony, ...

(NDR) had been formed from the NWDR. Until the NDR radio programs were reorganized in 1981, WDR 1 and NDR 1 broadcast a joint program that was only temporarily split into regional programs.

References

Westdeutscher Rundfunk Defunct radio stations in Germany Radio stations established in 1956 Radio stations disestablished in 1995 1956 establishments in West Germany 1995 disestablishments in Germany Mass media in Cologne {{Germany-radio-station-stub