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Leipzig's Radiolandscape


Leipzig has quite a number of public, commercial and non-commercial radio stations. The largest public broadcaster in that region is the ARD affiliate Mitteldeurscher Rundfunk (MDR). It operates one regional and four non-regional stations in the 3 state area it is assigned to. Apart from the MDR-radios there are nationwide services that people can pick up here.
Commercial radio in the Leipzig region is all about rating oriented, statewide music. For those who want somthing different there are the local non-commercial stations.
 
 
 Public Radio
  • MDR 1 Radio Sachsen on 93.9 FM is directed at an older audience (traditional German music). It is Saxony`s version of the mDR 1 Network

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  • MDR Kultur on 88.4 FM is directed at the higher educated listener which enjoys features and classical music. 

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  • The youth has two choices: MDR's JUMP on 90.4 FM (directed at lower educated teens) and MDR Sputnik on 104.4 FM, for smarter young people who want to be informed with their music.

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  • Another service is MDR Info on 783 AM, an all-news station.

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  • Deutschlandfunk and Deutschlandradio are the nationwide seervices that are beamed to the local FM and cable audiences. The programs are high class, information oriented with culture-contents and mainly classical music.
  •  Commercial Radio
  • The most popular commercial station is Radio PSR on 102.9 FM. It plays "superhits" of the 80s, 90s and current releases from the field of adult contemporary pop.

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  • PSR`s company also offers oldie.fm, the station playing mainly 60s and 70s music. 

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  • A mixture of both musical styles with a tendency to current pop hits is on 91.3 Radio Leipzig

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  • A format "in between" 91.3 and PSR applies to Antenne Sachsen on 106.9, directed at the 30 - 50 somethings.

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  • Energy 99.8 is Leipzig's version of the french based NRJ Network. The very youth oriented current hit station has everything from Hot AC to R&B Black Music in its playlist, making it the most diverse among the commercial stations.
  •  Non-commercial Radio 
  • Mephisto 97.6 is operated by Leipzig University. In its 4 weekday hours of broadcast time it features a two hour magazinestyle culture and information oriented program called "Faustschlag". The evenings on Mephisto offer the current local information show "Direkt" and a "Fourth Hour". The content of that award-winning segment varies from day to day and offers radiofeatures, literature programs, conversations, musicspecials and reviews, a cinema magazine and a week in review show.

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  • Another non-commercial service (broadcasting on 97.6 each Sun- day) is Radio Blau, dedicated to special interest groups. That hobby-station is an experimental playground for people who want to "make radio".
  • FM-FREQUENCY LIST (terrestrial)

    88.4        MDR Kultur
    90.4        JUMP (MDR)
    91.3        91.3 Radio Leipzig
    93.9        MDR 1 Radio Sachsen
    87.6        oldie.fm
    97.6        Mephisto 97.6   (Mo. - Fr.: 10 -12 / 18 - 20 h)
    97.6        Radio Blau  (Sunday 18 -21 h)
    99.8        Energy 99.8 (NRJ Sachsen)
    102.9      Radio PSR
    104.4      MDR Sputnik
    106.9      Antenne Sachsen


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