Radio Dreyeckland is a radio station in
Mulhouse,
Alsace,
France. Another station with the same name operates in
Freiburg im Breisgau
Freiburg im Breisgau (; abbreviated as Freiburg i. Br. or Freiburg i. B.; Low Alemannic German, Low Alemannic: ''Friburg im Brisgau''), commonly referred to as Freiburg, is an independent city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. With a population o ...
, Germany.
Both stations are successors to Radio Verte Fessenheim which was started by opponents to the
Fessenheim Nuclear Power Plant during the 1970s and was renamed 'Dreyeckland' in 1981.
During the eighties and early nineties people from Switzerland were cooperating with the French Dreyeckland running broadcasts aimed at listeners in Basel and its surroundings using the transmitter in France, because they didn't have a license for Switzerland.
Dreyeckland Freiburg in Germany was started as a pirate station in 1985 and has transmitted legally since 1988 as a separate station but in the same spirit as the one from Alsace.
While radio Dreyeckland from southern Alsace developed into a commercial oldies radio during recent years, the German Dreyeckland is still an alternative station. Today's Radio Dreyeckland in southern Alsace is still using the 104.6 MHz of the former alternative station.
See also
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Pirate radio in France
References
External links
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Internationale Rundfunk- und Fernseh-Chronikincluding information on Radio Verte Fessenheim and Radio Dreyeckland
{{Radio stations in France
Radio stations in France
Former pirate radio stations
Mass media in Mulhouse
Radio stations established in 1979