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InBavaria and inWürttemberg-Baden, Radio München (Munich) and Radio Stuttgart went on air in 1945. In the next years,Radio München was transformed to a Bavarian broadcaster, and in Germany's South West, two public broadcasting corporations started and produced radio and (subsequent) television programs up to their merger in 1998:
The southwestern part ofGermany was at the time was split after the end ofWorld War II intotwo occupation zones, an American and a French one and each of these two broadcasters operated in the subsequent twoGerman States ofBaden-Württemberg andRhineland-Palatinate. In 1998, the SDR and SWF merged into a single unifiedSüdwestrundfunk (SWR).[1] The German wordRundfunk means broadcasting (corporation), and the ending "-funk" in Südwestfunk and Südfunk is short forRundfunk, or means 'radio (program)'.
 Logo of Süddwestfunk in the 1990s | |
| Country | Germany |
|---|---|
| Broadcast area | Baden-Baden,Arsenal, Mainz |
| Headquarters | Baden-Baden, Germany |
| History | |
| Launched | 1946 |
| Closed | 1998 |
| Replaced by | Südwestrundfunk |
TheSüdwestfunk (SWF) was a German radio and television station with its head office inBaden-Baden and with radio and TV-studios there and in theold arsenal ofMainz. It was operating in the formerFrench zone of Germany, which became the southern part of Baden-Württemberg and the Land ofRhineland-Palatinate. Those regions are not as densely populated as the North of Baden-Württemberg withSüddeutscher Rundfunk.
The Südwestfunk was member of the ARD and produced TV programs for ARD and in cooperation withSüddeutscher Rundfunk forSüdwest 3 (a so-called "drittes Programm" / 3rd TV-program), withSaarländischer Rundfunk as third partner for this regional television program.
Südwestfunk also produced 4 radio programs:
SWF3 was one of the most popular radio stations in Germany, with many listeners near the borders of its area, in Stuttgart, inFrankfurt and especially inCologne, the same as todaySWR3. TheSWF Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden was renowned for its interpretations of contemporary classical music that could often be heard at theDonaueschingen Festival.
 Logo of Süddeutscher Rundfunk | |
| Country | Germany |
|---|---|
| Broadcast area | Stuttgart,Karlsruhe,Heidelberg |
| Headquarters | Stuttgart, Germany |
| History | |
| Launched | 1949 |
| Closed | 1998 |
| Replaced by | Südwestrundfunk |
TheSüddeutsche Rundfunk (SDR) was a Germanradio and television station operating in the northern part of theLand ofBaden-Württemberg.
It existed from 1949 to 1998, when it was merged withSüdwestfunk to form the Südwestrundfunk. Süddeutscher Rundfunk was briefly calledSüdfunk and had its head office atStuttgart, with radio and TV-studios there and inKarlsruhe andHeidelberg (in the 80's moved toMannheim) and radio studios also inUlm andHeilbronn.
TheSüddeutsche Rundfunk was member of theARD and produced programs (program items) for the joint channel/programDeutsches Fernsehen (German Television, todayDas Erste). Moreover, SDR ran in cooperation with SWF a regional TV channel, "Südwest 3".
TheSüdfunk started with radio in 1949, in the 1980s, it produced 4 radio programmes:
In 1952, Süddeutscher Rundfunk founded a festival for classical music and opera in the area of Heidelberg, the famousSchwetzingen Festival. Its radio chorus, theSüdfunk-Chor Stuttgart, is now theSWR Vokalensemble. TheSüdfunk-Sinfonieorchester, laterSinfonieorchester des Süddeutschen Rundfunks is nowRadio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart (RSO) (Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra). The SWR Big Band was founded in 1951 by Erwin Lehn as the Südfunk Dance Orchestra.
SDR and SWF were both members ofARD, theConsortium of the public-law broadcasting institutions of the Federal Republic of Germany. This consortium represents common interests of its members and coordinates their work. The design of a network of foreign (radio) correspondents is one example. The new member of ARD from 1998 isSWR.
ARD especially works as a sort of TV-network and has run the first German TV-channel from its start, calledDeutsches Fernsehen. Each member of ARD produces programs for this channel, which is todayDas Erste. After the start ofZDF as second channel in 1963, the public broadcasters of ARD came up with regional television, so-called "Drittes Programm" (3rd TV-program).Südwestfunk andSüddeutscher Rundfunk had a collaboration for aDrittes Programm, calledSüdwest 3, withSaarländischer Rundfunk as a third partner. In 1998,Südwest 3 becameSWR Fernsehen.
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