From linear to on demand
While radio reception via FM, cable and satellite is declining, internet radio is becoming increasingly important. With time-delayed streams, podcasts and apps, radio is reinventing itself. Stan Hema has been accompanying this transformation since 2016 at Deutschlandradio, which is now acquiring new listeners without losing old ones.
The public broadcaster Deutschlandfunk, founded in Cologne in 1962, became Deutschlandradio in 1994 and, together with RIAS from West Berlin and the former GDR broadcaster Deutschlandsender Kultur, was transformed into a corporation under public law. Deutschlandradio is now an umbrella brand with the three sub-brands Deutschlandfunk, Deutschlandfunk Kultur and Deutschlandfunk Nova.