Radio Hamburg is a private commercial

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 st ...

based on

Hamburg, Germany (male), (female) en, Hamburger(s), Hamburgian(s) , timezone1 = Central (CET) , utc_offset1 = +1 , timezone1_DST = Central (CEST) , utc_offset1_DST = +2 , postal ...

. Established in the 1980s to play popular music of the time, nowadays it plays hits from the 2000s onwards, on high rotation. Their slogan is ''Mehr Musik, mehr Vielfalt'' (English: "More music, more diversity"). Its services also include hourly news, weather and traffic reports, and its website features a live web stream. Since August 2008, Radio Hamburg has been broadcast from the Semperhaus in Hamburg. In the Semperhause are also other stations of the RTL-group like Hamburg Zwei.

Oster-Mega-Hit-Marathon

Translates as Easter Mega Hit Marathon. Since 1989 every Easter the station has a marathon where they play 800 "Mega Hits" over 24–48 hours during Easter. It is usually held in the biggest arena in

Hamburg (male), (female) en, Hamburger(s), Hamburgian(s) , timezone1 = Central (CET) , utc_offset1 = +1 , timezone1_DST = Central (CEST) , utc_offset1_DST = +2 , postal ...

, the

Volksparkstadion Volksparkstadion () is a football stadium in Hamburg, Germany, and is the home of Hamburger SV. History HSV actually have nothing to do with the origins of the stadium, even though they own the current arena. Before the club moved to the cur ...

, which is the stadium of the local football team

Hamburger SV Hamburger Sport-Verein e.V. (), commonly known as Hamburger SV () or Hamburg (), is a German sports club based in Hamburg, with its largest branch being its football section. Though the current HSV was founded in June 1919 from a merger of thre ...

, but in the last years, it was held on the street next to the station, with a big stage.

Music

Radio Hamburg plays

Hot AC Adult contemporary music (AC) is a form of radio-played popular music, ranging from 1960s vocal and 1970s soft rock music to predominantly ballad-heavy music of the present day, with varying degrees of easy listening, pop, soul, R&B, quiet sto ...

. The most popular show is the morning show from 5 to 10 am. The radio host is John Ment, the weather tells Laura Winter and the traffic reads André Kuhnert.

Distribution

Until September 2020 Radio Hamburg broadcast on the FM frequencies 103.6 and 104.0. But until September 2020 a new station (also from RTL) named FluxFM started to broadcast on the 104.0. It can also be heard on the web and via DAB+.

References

External links

Radio Hamburg Official Website

Radio Hamburg Web Stream Radio stations in Germany Mass media in Hamburg RTL Group Radio stations established in 1989 {{Germany-radio-station-stub