About N90 4 Beat

N90 4 Beat

N90 4 Beat (also spelled "N90 4.. BEAT") is Nuremberg's local private hip-hop station — "Finest Hip Hop": hip-hop and R'n'B music for the 15-to-35 target group, broadcast digitally terrestrially and via livestream in Nuremberg/Fürth and parts of the surrounding area — the Finest Hip Hop's brand, the 15-to-35's audience, the Nürnberg/Fürth's beat — the brand's pure hip-hop, the audience's youth, the beat's Franconia. On air since 1 October 2019, the station is based at the Funkhaus Nürnberg and belongs to the Studio Gong station group (managing director Alexander Koller, programme director Gerald Kappler) — the 1 October 2019's Sendestart, the Funkhaus's home, the Studio-Gong's ownership — the Sendestart's 2019 autumn, the home's Nuremberg, the ownership's Gong. The programme was approved by the BLM media council on 6 June 2019 as one of two new stations for the local DAB slot — the only applicants for the two slots — the 6 June 2019's Genehmigung, the lokalen DAB-Sendeplatz's launch, the einzigen Bewerber's luck — the Genehmigung's June 2019, the launch's DAB, the luck's exclusivity. The name, despite speculation about an intended FM 90.4 MHz broadcast, is according to the station merely a reference to the Nuremberg postcodes 904xx — the 90,4 MHz's speculation, the Postleitzahlen's 904xx, the name's reference — the speculation's FM dreams, the reference's postcodes, the name's Nuremberg. The BLM approved a 24-hour programme with news and local Franconian topics — currently broadcast unmoderated: international hip-hop titles of the 1980s and 1990s alongside current chart music, plus Franconian and national newcomers, with listener engagement via social media — the 24-Stundenprogramm's licence, the Nachrichten's mandate, the unmoderiert's flow — the licence's full 24 hours, the mandate's news, the flow's music.

Overview

N90 4 Beat broadcasts pure hip-hop and R'n'B music — "Finest Hip Hop" — for the 15-to-35 audience in Nuremberg/Fürth and parts of the surrounding area: digitally terrestrial (DAB+, local Nuremberg multiplex 10C) and via livestream — the Hip-Hop-/R'n'B-Musik's programme, the 10C's multiplex, the Livestream's worldwide — the programme's pure hip-hop, the multiplex's local, the worldwide's stream. The station is based at the historic Funkhaus Nürnberg and belongs to the Studio Gong station group. Managing director: Alexander Koller; programme director: the experienced Gerald Kappler — the Funkhaus Nürnberg's seat, the Alexander Koller's management, the Gerald Kappler's direction — the seat's Funkhaus Nuremberg, the management's Koller, the direction's Kappler.

The music: international hip-hop titles of the 1980s and 1990s alongside music from the current hip-hop charts — Sido, the Fantastischen Vier, Snoop Dogg, Eminem and Jay-Z among the rotation — plus Franconian and national newcomers — the 80s' and 90s' titles, the aktuellen Hip-Hop-Charts' hits, the fränkische Newcomer's stage — the titles' golden decades, the hits' charts, the stage's Franconia. The BLM's licence mandates a 24-hour programme with news and local topics from Franconia; both new programmes broadcast otherwise "currently" unmoderated — the 24 hours' mandate, the lokalen Themen aus Franken's news, the derzeit's unmoderiert — the mandate's 24 hours, the news' Franconia, the unmoderiert's currently. Listener engagement runs via social media — the Hörer's Einbindung, the sozialen Medien's channels, the engagement's likes — the Einbindung's loyal listeners, the channels' social, the likes' engagement.

History

The programme was approved by the BLM media council in its session on 6 June 2019 as one of two new stations for the Aufschaltung (launch) on the local DAB slot — the Medienrat's Sitzung, the 6 June 2019's approval, the Aufschaltung's launch — the Sitzung's media council, the approval's June, the launch's Aufschaltung. Together with N90 4 Beat, the web radio Pirate Gong returned to the DAB path — remaining in the internet while the new station was de facto newly founded under its (changed) broadcast licence "Mein Lieblingsradio" — the Pirate Gong's return, the Webradio's internet, the "Mein Lieblingsradio"'s licence — the return's DAB path, the internet's web, the licence's Lieblingsradio. The programme represented an innovation in the coverage area — the Neuerung's Versorgungsgebiet, the hip-hop's first, the innovation's beat — the Neuerung's wide coverage, the first's hip-hop, the beat's innovation. The two programme providers were the only applicants for the two slots — the einzigen Bewerber's pair, the Sendeplätze's two, the applicants' exclusivity — the pair's lonely only, the two's slots, the exclusivity's applicants.

At the founding there was speculation about an intended FM broadcast on 90.4 MHz — but the station name, according to the station, is merely a reference to the Nuremberg postcodes 904xx — the Gründung's speculation, the UKW-Verbreitung's 90.4, the 904xx's reference — the speculation's founding days, the 90.4's FM, the reference's postcodes. On 1 October 2019 N90 4 Beat went on air — distributed by the Funkhaus Nürnberg (which has broadcast the DAB+ programme since 1 July 2019) — the October 2019's Sendestart, the Funkhaus Nürnberg's Verbreitung, the 1 July 2019's DAB+ — the Sendestart's October 2019, the Verbreitung's Funkhaus, the DAB+'s July.

Programming

The BLM approved a 24-hour programme with news and local topics from Franconia — the BLM's 24-Stundenprogramm, the Nachrichten's news, the Franken's locals — the 24-Stundenprogramm's BLM approval, the news' Nachrichten, the locals' Franken. The music programme: international hip-hop titles of the 1980s and 1990s plus music from the current hip-hop charts — Sido, the Fantastischen Vier, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Jay-Z — with Franconian and national newcomers added — the 80s' and 90s' international titles, the charts' current hits, the Newcomer's additions — the titles' international reach, the hits' current, the additions' newcomers. The station broadcasts currently unmoderated; the listeners are integrated via social media — the unmoderiert's flow, the Hörer's integration, the media's social — the flow's unmoderated stream, the integration's listeners, the social's media. The "Finest Hip Hop" promise: the 80s' classics, the 90s' anthems, the charts' now — Nuremberg's hip-hop station — the Finest Hip Hop's motto, the classics' decades, the Nuremberg's beat — the motto's finest promise, the decades' hip-hop, the beat's Nuremberg.

Organization and Ownership

N90 4 Beat is owned by Studio Gong and based at the Funkhaus Nürnberg. Managing director: Alexander Koller; programme director: Gerald Kappler — the Studio Gong's ownership, the Funkhaus's seat, the Koller's and Kappler's leadership — the ownership's Studio Gong, the seat's Funkhaus, the leadership's duo. The Funkhaus Nürnberg — the operating company behind Radio F, Hit Radio N1, Charivari 98,6 and Radio Gong 97,1 — distributes the DAB+ programme — the Funkhaus's Betreibergesellschaft, the Radio F's sisterhood, the DAB+'s distribution — the Betreibergesellschaft's steady operation, the sisterhood's stations, the distribution's DAB+. The Funkhaus ownership: Verlag Nürnberger Presse Druckhaus Nürnberg GmbH & Co. (68%), Nordbayerische Verlagsgesellschaft mbH (20%), Olympia-Verlag GmbH (12%) — the 68 per cent's Nürnberger Presse, the 20 per cent's Nordbayerische, the 12 per cent's Olympia — the 68's clear majority, the 20's minority, the 12's Olympia-Verlag. Detailed financial figures for N90 4 Beat are not publicly confirmed in the sources consulted.

Digital Presence

N90 4 Beat is receivable via DAB+ in Nuremberg/Fürth and the surrounding area and via livestream worldwide — the DAB+'s Nuremberg, the Umland's parts, the Livestream's world — the Nuremberg's DAB+, the parts' wide surroundings, the world's livestream. The station's website n904beat.de presents the programme and the music; listener engagement runs via social media — the Webseite's n904beat.de, the Programm's presentation, the social media's engagement — the n904beat.de's digital home, the presentation's programme, the engagement's social. The digital face is the hip-hop's face: the 80s' and 90s' classics, the current charts, the Franconian newcomers — Nuremberg's "Finest Hip Hop" on every single platform — the classics' decades, the charts' now, the platforms' every — the decades' 80s and 90s, the now's current charts, the every's platforms.