Bayern mobil was 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) which was on-air from 1 January 1998 to 31 August 2008 as part of the
DAB pilot project in
Bavaria
Bavaria ( ; ), officially the Free State of Bavaria (german: Freistaat Bayern, link=no ), is a state in the south-east of Germany. With an area of , Bavaria is the largest German state by land area, comprising roughly a fifth of the total lan ...
.
Programming
The music range of ''Bayern mobil'' was wide and went from
oldies
Oldies is a term for musical genres such as pop music, rock and roll, doo-wop, surf music (broadly characterized as classic rock and pop rock) from the second half of the 20th century, specifically from around the mid-1950s to the 1980s, as we ...
of the 60s to current chart hits. Most of the songs were in English, German, French and Italian. The list of titles was compiled by a dedicated editorial team.
''Bayern mobil'' was automated and aired the news from
Bayern 3
Bayern 3 is a public radio station owned and operated by the Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR), the public broadcaster in the German state of Bavaria.
It started operating on 1 April 1971 as BR’s third radio channel. It is focused on pop music.
In Feb ...
hourly from 7 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. In addition, there were traffic and weather reports every half hour.
At irregular intervals, programmes were organized in which the listeners could request music titles by telephone or e-mail. Announcements of these broadcasts could be read in the ''radiotext'' and were read out in the weather and traffic block.
Termination
With ''
I Believe'' by
Joana Zimmer
Joana Zimmer (born ; Freiburg im Breisgau, West Germany) is a German pop music singer, often compared to Celine Dion or Barry Manilow
Barry Manilow (born Barry Alan Pincus; June 17, 1943) is an American singer and songwriter with a career th ...
, the last title was played on ''Bayern mobil'' at 8 a.m. on September 1, 2008. At 8 o'clock
Bayern plus
BR Schlager (until 20 January 2021 ''Bayern plus'') is a German, public radio station owned and operated by the Bayerischer Rundfunk
Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR; "Bavarian Broadcasting") is a public-service radio and television broadcaster, based ...
took over all frequencies of the program.
References
Bayerischer Rundfunk
Defunct radio stations in Germany
Radio stations established in 1998
Radio stations disestablished in 2008
1998 establishments in Germany
2008 disestablishments in Germany
Mass media in Munich
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