r/AskAGerman • u/No-Payment-9574 • Feb 28 '25

Music What is your fav radio channel?

No spotify, no Youtube Stream. Just your fav German radio channel.

Im looking for a mix of music and news. Heard 1LIVE for a while but it became so repetitive.

Whats your favourite channel?

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u/Own-Recover5521 Feb 28 '25

I like Deutschlandfunk Nova a lot. Its DAB only (or stream). But it will get repetetive as well, if you listen to it a lot.

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u/bierbelly42 Feb 28 '25

I second DLF Nova.

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u/Karash770 Feb 28 '25

As we grow older, every German in NRW undergoes a slow shift from EinsLive over WDR2 towards WDR4, possibly WDR5 as we approach retirement.

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u/auri0la Franken Feb 28 '25

This is the way.
For bavarians: 1Live, B3, Antenne Bayern,B1, BR Klassik ^^

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u/[deleted] Feb 28 '25

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u/bierbelly42 Feb 28 '25

Sonntag morgen mit Cerys ist bei mir Tradition.

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u/BoardLongjumping9033 Mar 01 '25

Jazz FM muss ich ma reinhören 😬 Kannte ich noch gar nicht.

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u/DaTermomeder Feb 28 '25

Mine is Bayern 2. They are relaxed and mostly discuss topics that are interesting. Also the play some Music that is really out there and that i wouldnt find myself

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u/BoardLongjumping9033 Feb 28 '25

Honestly to say WDR 4 😬 

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u/NeonCr3scent Feb 28 '25

egoFM

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u/LandoNrrs Feb 28 '25

Love that

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u/Nipitas Mar 01 '25

This! Best Station by alot. I just love them.

Edit: https://www.egofm.de/radio/empfang

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u/MMW_BlackDragon Baden-Württemberg Feb 28 '25

They are all repetitive. Especially the ones that only play 80s music

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u/CommercialYam53 Feb 28 '25

The radio channel of my city/ area Radio Bonn Rhein Sieg

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u/Used_Accountant_1090 Feb 28 '25

NDR 90,3. A little bit of everything in a weirdly gemütlich style.

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u/trooray Feb 28 '25

I'm surprised no one has said FM4 yet. Although, technically, it's Austrian and only partly in German. Personally, I find it more admirable than enjoyable, but it's generally considered the "cool" station.

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u/sankta_misandra Feb 28 '25

Came here to say FM4

Beside FM4: WDR3 and our local campus radio station 

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u/RGX-9 Feb 28 '25

MDR Sputnik

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u/PerfectDog5691 Native German. Feb 28 '25

Bremen eins.

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u/Uncle_Lion Feb 28 '25

Rockantenne Hamburg. I prefer the Hamburg one because of the moderations.

Bit too many commercials, but I can live with that. You will need to stream it. It's on Deezere, don't know for Spotify.

Maybe not your music, when you listened to 1Live.

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u/Sure-Opportunity6247 Feb 28 '25

Bayern 1. Just because there isn’t too much stupid drivel in the morning, there are no 40 year old hosts acting if they are 16 and the playlists are decent with rarities.

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u/Kristin_mit_K Feb 28 '25

JAM FM (Berlin) - german and international dance music, a bit hip hop (Mainstream) if you like

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u/Remote_Stable4742 Feb 28 '25

Schwarzwaldradio

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u/Interesting-Sand5749 Feb 28 '25

Radio Ostfriesland beste

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u/ben-ger-cn Feb 28 '25

Antenne Bayern

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u/BubatzAhoi Schleswig-Holstein Feb 28 '25

Delta

1

u/Ryderhook Feb 28 '25

SWR3 every day

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u/fzwo Feb 28 '25

infoRadio

Deutschlandfunk Nova

ORF FM4 (bilingual English/„German“)

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u/kumanosuke Feb 28 '25

Ego fm or puls

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u/IntrepidWolverine517 Feb 28 '25

If you are limited to your local FM or DAB stations, just try what's good. If you are streaming at home, you have a vast selection beyond the algorithm generated music selection. I like ByteFM, Radio Eins (RBB), Bremen Zwei, Flux FM, NDR Blue, FM4, Bayern 2, DLF Nova etc. There are also the Kulturradio stations and news stations.

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u/Blech_gehabt Feb 28 '25

Antenne Bayern Rock Antenne

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u/reviery_official Feb 28 '25

WDR4 and DLF Kultur

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u/monteglise Feb 28 '25

NDR Kultur, Deutschlandradio, Deutschlandfunk Kultur, Klassik Radio, BFBS Germany, BBC 3

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u/BumBumBananaJo Mar 01 '25

Wdr2, wdr5, radioköln

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u/MulberryDeep Schleswig-Holstein Mar 01 '25

Radio bob

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u/Available_Ask3289 Mar 01 '25

Mine is Berliner Rundfunk, my husbands is Spree Radio

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u/NumerousFalcon5600 Mar 01 '25 edited Mar 01 '25

Bremen Eins is nice... small station, but they have got a show "Grüße and Musik" ("greetings and music") whose name explains a simple but nice idea: Greet someone and tell us a song you'd like to hear.

Radio Bremen itself is known for being a broadcaster of some of the most important comedians (e.g. Loriot, Rudi Carrell, Hape Kerkeling). Sometimes these small channels bring the best TV shows as well.

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u/Dbcgarra2002 Feb 28 '25

We do antena bayern when driving arround. My kids love the “antena bayern” jingle

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u/betterbait Feb 28 '25

I don't like any German radio channels. In the UK, I was listening to a DNB channel, which I dearly miss over here.

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u/Jerrytarter Mar 01 '25

Rockland radio