Deutschlandfunk

The radio station Deutschlandfunk (abbreviation: DLF) is a national news and information station in Germany. The transmitter is similar to Radio 1 in Netherlands andFlanders respectively.

In the beginning of the fifty years of the regional broadcasters ARD gave the contract to the Northwest German Rundfunk (NWDR) to a rural radio program via the long waveto take care of. This happened in response to the commissioning of the long wave transmitter Deutschlandsender by the GDR. The first test transmissions were in 1953 and in 1956 started the meanwhile established Norddeutsche Rundfunk (NDR) with the broadcasts.

On 26 October 1960 a law with which the Bundestag took the Deutschlandfunk was founded as an independent broadcaster. In addition to the Deutschlandfunk became with this law also incorporated the Deutsche Welle . The Deutschlandfunk focused on Germany through the long wave, while the Deutsche Welle on the short-wave overseas pointed. The independent Deutschlandfunk went from 1 January 1962 broadcasting from studios in Cologne. In the 1960s was also a European in-house department that broadcasts for Eastern Europe in languages other than German, like English, Czech, Croatian, Polish and Serbian.

After the fall of the iron curtain and the reunification of Germany, the radio station was reorganized and the international broadcasts were transferred to the Deutsche Welle.In 1994 it was merged with radio station DeutschlandRadio Kultur from Berlin to the radio station DeutschlandRadio.