BR24 (until 30 June 2021: ''B5 aktuell'') is a German public

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 ...

owned and operated by the

Bayerischer Rundfunk Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR; "Bavarian Broadcasting") is a public-service radio and television broadcaster, based in Munich, capital city of the Free State of Bavaria in Germany. BR is a member organization of the ARD consortium of public broadcas ...

(BR). On May 3, 2021, Bayerischer Rundfunk announced that ''B5 aktuell'' will be renamed to BR24 on July 1, 2021. Existing formats on television, such as the “Rundschau”, will be also preceded by a “BR24” in the name in the future. The BR is thus creating a uniform brand for news. When it began broadcasting on May 6, 1991, B5 aktuell was the first information program in German-language radio. Since the start of broadcasting, editors and technicians have been working in three shifts every day, with broadcasting beginning shortly before 6 a.m. each day. From midnight to 6 a.m., BR24 broadcasts the ARD Info night produced by NDR Info. In March 2019, the station stepped up regional reporting from Bavaria and changed its programming scheme accordingly under the motto "From Bavaria for Bavaria."

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