MDR 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 radi ...

owned and operated by

Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk (MDR; ''Central German Broadcasting'') 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, with regional studi ...

(MDR). The station broadcasts news and current affairs 24 hours a day. At night, it produces ''ARD Infonacht'' which is rebroadcast by several other regional all-news stations. The station was originally called MDR Info. The name was changed in 2016 to bring it in line with MDR's television news branding.

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