About Hochschulradio Düsseldorf

Hochschulradio Düsseldorf

Hochschulradio Düsseldorf — styled "hochschulradio düsseldorf" — is the student radio of the Rhine metropolis: a station by students for students, made by members of Düsseldorf's four higher-education institutions — Heinrich-Heine-Universität, Hochschule Düsseldorf, Robert Schumann Hochschule and the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. Run in student self-administration by the association Hochschulradio Düsseldorf e.V., the station broadcasts around the clock on 97.1 MHz FM, on 91.2 MHz cable and as an MP3 stream. The studio sits on Campus-Süd at Universitätsstraße in Bilk. The programme: music off the mainstream, campus life, politics, culture, health and cinema — the students' city, on the students' frequency, in the state capital on the Rhine — the campus radio of NRW's capital, where the students meet the metropolis — the campus radio in the state capital, the Rhine as the backdrop.

Overview

Hochschulradio Düsseldorf is one of NRW's licensed campus radios: a 24-hour licence under the simplified procedure, volunteer-run, advertising-free, financed by the universities, member contributions and sponsoring. It broadcasts 24/7 across the Düsseldorf city area on 97.1 MHz terrestrial, 91.2 MHz in the cable network and worldwide as an MP3 stream (also via the campus-radio app). The programme is made by students and other university members from all of Düsseldorf's higher-education institutions — the full university, the applied-sciences university, the music conservatoire and the art academy: the campus as a quartet, the four institutions as the four voices of the station — the university, the applied sciences, the music, the art, one frequency — the quartet on 97.1 MHz.

The editorial line is the campus-radio promise: music off the mainstream, reports on university and campus life, and information on politics, culture, health and cinema. The station keeps its audience current on everything around Düsseldorf's universities, the city and world events — from the lecture hall to the Rhine, from the Mensa to the Medienhafen — the students' Düsseldorf, from the campus to the harbour — the city seen through student eyes, on 97.1 MHz. Anyone can join: moderator, editor, newsreader — the microphone open to all four universities, the redaction welcoming interview guests, the curious and everyone who wants to try radio air — the open door as the station's policy — the redaction that welcomes the curious, the guests, the future broadcasters.

History

Düsseldorf belongs to the founding generation of NRW's campus radios. When the 1996 change to the state media law enabled student stations, Düsseldorf was among the first five cities to follow Bochum's Radio c.t. onto their own frequencies — the class that put NRW's students on the dial — Düsseldorf among the first five, after Bochum's pioneering Radio c.t. — the first campus frequency, the model for the rest. The city's student-radio roots run even deeper: Düsseldorf hosted the first national meeting of campus radios (Bundestreffen der Hochschulradios) on 3–4 November 1994 — the student broadcasters of Germany gathering in Düsseldorf before most of them even had licences — the 1994 Bundestreffen as the founding moment of the movement — Düsseldorf as the birthplace of Germany's campus-radio network.

The station has been carried ever since by the registered association Hochschulradio Düsseldorf e.V., in student self-administration, and is a member of the Dachverband der Campusradios Nordrhein-Westfalen — the umbrella of the state's campus radios, the network that binds the twelve student frequencies — the Dachverband as the campus radios' common voice — the umbrella that speaks for the student frequencies. The studio moved with the campus: today it broadcasts from the modern studios on Campus-Süd, with editorial rooms on Universitätsstraße in Bilk — two studios with modern technology, the redaction meeting weekly, the contributions cut on site — the redaction rooms as the workshop, the studios as the stage — Campus-Süd as the campus radio's true home.

Programming

The programme runs around the clock on 97.1 MHz. Music off the mainstream is the signature — the genres the commercial stations ignore, curated by students: the sound of the campus, not the charts — the music the students actually listen to, not the music they're sold — the off-mainstream as the programme, the charts as the exception. Campus-life reporting covers the four universities: the HHU, the Hochschule Düsseldorf, the Robert Schumann Hochschule and the Kunstakademie — the art academy's students bringing a cultural ear you won't find on any other campus station, the music conservatoire's students bringing the classical depth — the Robert Schumann Hochschule's ear for the serious, the beautiful, the difficult — the conservatoire's students as the station's classical conscience. Information strands on politics, culture, health and cinema round out the schedule; the station keeps its listeners current on the universities, the city and the world — the campus, Düsseldorf, the planet, in that order — the concentric circles of the student worldview — the campus first, the city second, the world third. The weekly editorial meetings, the two studios with modern technology, the cutting of contributions — the craft learned by doing, the redaction as the school — the campus radio as the media apprenticeship — the students learning the craft by making the programme.

Organization and Ownership

Hochschulradio Düsseldorf is carried by the registered association Hochschulradio Düsseldorf e.V., in student self-administration — the students' station, run by the students themselves, the redaction open to every faculty from every institution — the physicist next to the art student, the microphone as the meeting point — the redaction as the university in miniature. It is a member of the Dachverband der Campusradios Nordrhein-Westfalen — the state's campus-radio umbrella, the solidarity of the student frequencies — the Dachverband as the campus radios' trade union — the twelve frequencies, one voice, the students' lobby. Like all NRW campus radios it is volunteer-run, advertising-free, and financed from university funds, member contributions and sponsoring — no advertisers, no compromises — the campus radio's clean funding, the independence of the volunteer — the station that belongs to its makers, not to its advertisers. The studio and editorial rooms are on Campus-Süd at Universitätsstraße 70, 40225 Düsseldorf — the HHU's campus as the station's home — Campus-Süd, Universitätsstraße, the heart of the student city — the HHU's Bilk campus as the transmitter of ideas. The 24-hour licence comes from the Landesmedienanstalt NRW under the simplified campus-radio procedure — the legal privilege that puts students on the dial — the 24-hour licence, the simplified procedure, the frequency as a right — the students' 24 hours, the simplified procedure, the dial that belongs to the campus. Detailed financial figures are not publicly confirmed in the sources consulted.

Digital Presence

The station streams live as an MP3 stream (low and high quality) via hochschulradio.de and the campus-radio app — the 97.1 MHz made worldwide, the stream playable in the browser or any player — the campus radio without borders — the MP3 stream, the app, the 97.1 MHz for the world. The campus media portal cm3-online.de presents the station with studio photos and team portraits: the editorial rooms, the two studios, the redaction meetings — the campus radio made visible, the faces behind the frequency — the team portraits, the studio photos, the campus radio with a face — the studio photos, the team portraits, the people behind the 97.1. As a student station, the digital presence is the native habitat: the programme where the students live, on the devices that never leave their hands — the stream as the pocket frequency, the app as the campus radio to go — the 97.1 MHz in the student's pocket — the app, the stream, the campus radio to go.