Bayern 1
Bayern 1 is a Bavaria-wide radio station and part of the public broadcaster Bayerischer Rundfunk. With 3.25 million listeners, it is the most listened to radio station in Germany. In its own broadcasting area, Bayern 1 achieves market shares of up to 28.4 per cent. The main target group is between 45 and 69 years old. Bayern 1's programme includes music as well as regional news, interviews, sport and lifestyle topics.
Audience Share
4.6%
Ownership Type
public
Geographic Coverage
regional (Bavaria)
Content Type
licence fee funded € 18.36 per month
Media Companies / Groups
Bayerischer Rundfunk
Ownership Structure
Bayern1 is part of Bayerischer Rundfunk. BR has no owner in the literal sense, as it is part of the public broadcasting system and is financed by the public through a licence fee.
Voting Rights
The management of BR consists of the director general and five directors. According to the Bavarian Broadcasting Act, the director general is "responsible for all operations and programming". BR also has two central committees: The Administrative Board consists of seven people: the current President of the Bavarian State Parliament, the President of the Administrative Court and five other members who are elected by the Broadcasting Council. In the event of parity, the vote of the Chairperson of the Board is decisive. This is currently Dr Ilse Aigner, member of the CSU and President of the Bavarian State Parliament. The Board of Directors passes its resolutions by a simple majority of the votes cast. A tie vote results in the rejection of a resolution. As a rule, votes are conducted openly. The Broadcasting Board consists of 50 members. Twelve are members of the Bavarian State Parliament, one is delegated by the state government and alternating members (usually one or two) are delegated by various social groups, such as churches, trade unions, chambers of commerce, farmers' organisations, cultural associations, a representative of the Bavarian universities and the journalists' association. The Council is intended to represent society as a whole and thus ensure that the various interest groups are represented. The members of parliament are elected according to the number of seats held by the individual parties. The governing CSU party currently makes up the largest group with six members (five from parliament, one from the state government). The Administrative Board passes its resolutions by a simple majority of the votes cast. A tie vote results in the rejection of a resolution. As a rule, votes are conducted openly. The Broadcasting Council passes its resolutions by a simple majority of the votes cast. A tied vote results in the rejection of a resolution. As a rule, votes are conducted openly.
Individual Owner
General Information
Founding Year
1949
Affiliated Interests Founder
Bayern 1 emerged from the first radio programme of Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR). BR was founded in 1949 by the Bavarian State Parliament with the resolution "Gesetz über die Errichtung und die Aufgaben einer Anstalt des öffentlichen Rechts" (Act on the Establishment and Tasks of an Institution under Public Law).
The Bavarian state parliament was elected in 1946 and consisted of 180 seats and four parties. With 104 seats, the Christian Social Union (CSU) had an absolute majority and governed with its own majority under Minister President Hans Ehard.
was the first chairman of the Bavarian Broadcasting Council. He had previously been a playwright and director general of the Bavarian State Theatre. From 1932, he was head theatre director at Munich Radio, which he left in 1935 after the National Socialists brought it into line. From 1945 to 1946, Lippl was editor-in-chief of the Münchner Kirchenzeitung.
was the first director general of Bayerischer Rundfunk in 1949. As early as 1926, he took over the management of the "Current Affairs Department" of "Deutsche Stunde in Bayern", the forerunner of BR. He resigned in 1933 for reasons of conscience. During the National Socialist era, Scholtz worked as a translator. From 1945 to 1946, he was Lord Mayor of Passau. He was honoured with the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for his commitment to independent broadcasting.
Affiliated Interests Ceo
has been the first female director general of Bayerischer Rundfunk since 2020. She had previously been Programme Director of Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk (MDR) since 2019. Her candidacy was supported by a non-partisan group that included the Chairwoman of the BR Board of Directors, Dr Ilse Aigner (CSU). She has worked as a journalist and reporter since 1994. Wildermuth is a board member of the Akademie für Publizistik Hamburg and the EBU Documentary Group (European Broadcasting Group), an international association of public and private broadcasters.
Affiliated Interests Editor-In-Chief
Berg has been programme director since 1996 and there is hardly any public information available about him.
Affiliated Interests other important people
Deputy Editorial Director
President of the Bavarian State Parliament (CSU) since 2018 and qua office Chairwoman of the BR Administrative Board. Aigner also holds various board and trustee positions, including as a member of the TUM University Council and board member of the Wirtschaftsbeirat der Union e. V.
Chairman of the Broadcasting Council since 2022. At the same time, he took over as Chairman of the Supervisory Board of BRmedia GmbH. Until 2018, Ruppert held the Chair of Religious Education and Didactics of Religious Education at the Otto-Friedrich University of Bamberg, of which he was President from 2007 to 2020. Ruppert has been President of the Virtual University of Bavaria since 2002.
Contact
Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR) Bayern 1
80300 München
Hausanschrift:
Rundfunkplatz 1
80335 München
Website: www.br.de/radio/bayern1/index.html
Financial Information
Revenue (in Mill. $)
Missing Data
Operating Profit (in Mill. $)
Missing Data
Advertising (in % of total funding)
Missing Data
Market Share
Missing Data
Further Information
Headlines
Meta Data
The share of the total audience in per cent comes from the agma survey I/2024 and refers to the nationwide daily reach in the population aged 14 and over.
The number of daily listeners in millions also refers to the agma survey I/2024 and refers to the nationwide daily reach (Mon-Sun) in the German-speaking population aged 14 and over.
Financial data is given as 'Missing data' because, according to BR's press information, individual station data is not covered by the obligation to provide information and no information is provided beyond the statutory obligation to provide information.
Comment on the transparency level:
As the transparency level for public service media cannot be categorised in terms of ownership structure, the availability of information on the supervisory and control bodies as well as information on their members and transparency with regard to corporate shareholdings were included in the assessment.
