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Deutsche Welle
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Deutsche Welle headquarters in Bonn
Type International public broadcaster
Country Germany
Headquarters Bonn, Germany
Key people
Peter Limbourg (Director General)
Launch date
3 May 1953; 66 years ago
Affiliation World Radio Network
Official website
DW.com
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Deutsche Welle (German pronunciation: ['d??t?? 'v?l?]; "German wave" in German) or
DW is a German public international broadcaster.[4] The service is available in 30
languages. DW's satellite television service consists of channels in English,
German, Spanish, and Arabic. While funded by the German government, the work of DW
is regulated by the Deutsche Welle Act,[5] meaning that content is intended to be
independent of government influence. DW is a member of the European Broadcasting
Union (EBU).

DW offers regularly updated articles on its news website and runs its own center
for international media development, DW Akademie. The broadcaster's stated goals
are to produce reliable news coverage, provide access to the German language, and
promote understanding between peoples.[6]

DW has been broadcasting since 1953. It is headquartered in Bonn, where its radio
programmes are produced. Television broadcasts are produced almost entirely in
Berlin. Both locations create content for DW's news website.

It is also a provider of live streaming world news which can be viewed via its
website, YouTube, and various mobile devices and digital media players.

As of 2018, around 1,500 employees and 1,500 freelancers from 60 countries work for
Deutsche Welle in its offices in Bonn and Berlin.[7] The Director-General of DW is
Peter Limbourg.

Contents
1 History
1.1 Beginnings
1.2 German reunification
1.3 Internet presence
1.4 Recent events
1.5 Rebranding television news
1.6 Logos
1.7 Broadcast languages
2 Controversy
3 Shortwave relay stations
3.1 Transmitter sites in Germany
3.2 Shortwave relay stations outside Germany
3.3 Relay stations leasing transmitter time to DW
4 Directors-General
5 DW services
6 DW Akademie
7 Learn German section
8 See also
9 References
10 External links
History
Beginnings
DW's first shortwave broadcast took place on 3 May 1953 with an address by the then
West German President, Theodor Heuss. On 11 June 1953, ARD public broadcasters
signed an agreement to share responsibility for Deutsche Welle. At first, it was
controlled by Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk (NWDR). In 1955, NWDR split into
Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR) and Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR), WDR assumed
responsibility for Deutsche Welle programming. In 1960, Deutsche Welle became an
independent public body after a court ruled that while broadcasting to Germany was
a state matter, broadcasting from Germany was part of the federal government's
foreign-affairs function. On 7 June 1962 DW joined ARD as a national broadcasting
station.[8] Deutsche Welle was originally headquartered in the West German city of
Cologne. After reunification, when much of the government relocated to Berlin, the
station's headquarters moved to Bonn.

German reunification
With German reunification in 1990, Radio Berlin International (RBI), East Germany's
international broadcaster ceased to exist. Some of the RBI staff joined Deutsche
Welle and DW inherited some broadcasting facilities, including transmitting
facilities at Nauen, as well as RBI's frequencies.

DW (TV) began as RIAS-TV, a television station launched by the West Berlin

broadcaster RIAS (Radio in the American Sector / Rundfunk im amerikanischen Sektor)
in August 1988; they also acquired the German Educational Television Network in the
United States. The fall of the Berlin Wall the following year and German
reunification in 1990 meant that RIAS-TV was to be closed down. On 1 April 1992,
Deutsche Welle inherited the RIAS-TV broadcast facilities, using them to start a
German- and English-language television channel broadcast via satellite, DW (TV),
adding a short Spanish broadcast segment the following year. In 1995, it began 24-
hour operation (12 hours German, 10 hours English, 2 hours Spanish). At that time,
DW (TV) introduced a new news studio and a new logo.

Deutsche Welle took over some of the former independent radio broadcasting service
Deutschlandfunk's foreign-language programming in 1993, when Deutschlandfunk was
absorbed into the new Deutschlandradio.

In addition to radio and television programming, DW sponsored some published

material. For example, the South-Asia Department published German Heritage: A
Series Written for the South Asia Programme in 1967 and in 1984 published African
Writers on the Air. Both publications were transcripts of DW programming.

Internet presence
In September 1994, Deutsche Welle was the first public broadcaster in Germany with
an internet presence, initially www-dw.gmd.de, hosted by the GMD Information
Technology Research Center. For its first two years, the site listed little more
than contact addresses, although DW's News Journal was broadcast in RealAudio from
Real's server beginning in 1995, and S�ddeutsche Zeitung's initial web presence,
which included news articles from the newspaper, shared the site. In 1996, it
evolved into a news website using the URL dwelle.de; in 2001, the URL changed to
www.dw-world.de, and was changed again in 2012, to www.dw.de. Deutsche Welle
purchased the domain dw.com, which previously belonged to DiamondWare, in 2013; DW
had attempted to claim ownership of the address in 2000, without success. DW
eventually moved to the www.dw.com domain on 22 June 2015.

DW's news site is in seven core languages (Arabic, Chinese, English, German,
Spanish, Portuguese for Brazil, and Russian), as well as a mixture of news and
information in 23 other languages in which Deutsche Welle broadcasts. Persian
became the site's eighth focus language in 2007.

German and European news is DW's central focus, but the site also offers background
information about Germany and German language courses.[9] Deutsch, Warum Nicht?
(literally: German, Why Not?) is a personal course for learning the German
language, created by Deutsche Welle and the Goethe-Institut.[10]

Recent events
In 2001, Deutsche Welle (in conjunction with ARD and ZDF) founded the German TV
subscription TV channel for North American viewers. The project was shut down after
four years owing to low subscriber numbers. It has since been replaced by the DW-TV
channel (also a subscription service).

Unlike most other international broadcasters, DW-TV does not charge terrestrial
stations for use of its programming, and as a result, Journal and other programmes
are rebroadcast on numerous public broadcasting stations in several countries,
including the United States, Australia, and New Zealand. In the Philippines,
selected Anglophone programmes are shown nationwide on Net 25.

Deutsche Welle is still suffering from financial and staffing cuts. Its budget was
reduced by about �75 million over five years, and of the 2,200 employees it had in
1994, only 1,200 remain. Further cuts are still expected.[when?]

In 2003, the German government passed a new "Deutsche Welle Act", which defined DW
as a tri-media organization, making the Deutsche Welle website an equal partner
with DW-TV and DW Radio. The website is available in 30 languages, but focuses on
German, English, Spanish, Russian, Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, and Arabic.
Persian became the eighth focus language in 2007.

In March 2009, DW-TV expanded its television services in Asia with two new
channels, namely DW-TV Asia and DW-TV Asia+. DW-TV Asia (DW-TV Asien in German)
contains 16 hours of German programming and 8 hours in English, whilst DW-TV Asia+
contains 18 hours of English programmes plus 6 hours of German programmes.[11]

In August 2009, DW-TV's carriage in the United Kingdom on Sky channel 794 ceased,
although the channel continues to be available via other European satellites
receivable in the UK.[12]

In 2011, DW announced a major reduction of service including the closure of most of

its FM services in the Balkans (except for Romani), but that it would expand its
network of FM partners in Africa. The radio production for Hausa, Kiswahili,
French, and Portuguese for Africa were optimized for FM broadcasts and DW also
produces a regional radio magazine daily in English, to be rebroadcast by partners
in Africa.

Audio content in Arabic is distributed online, via mobile, or rebroadcast by

partners.

DW announced it would focus on FM partnerships for Bengali, Urdu, Dari/Pashtu, and

Indonesian for South Asia, India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan.

On 1 November 2011, DW discontinued shortwave broadcasts in German, Russian,

Persian, and Indonesian and ended its English service outside Africa. Chinese
programming was reduced from 120 minutes to 60 minutes a week. As of November 2011,
DW only broadcast radio programming via shortwave in: Amharic, Chinese, Dari,
English and French for Africa, Hausa, Kiswahili, Pashtu, Portuguese for Africa and
Urdu.[13]

The budget of the Deutsche Welle for 2016 was 301.8 million euros.[14]

On 25 February 2018, DW-TV published "The Climate Cover Up - Big Oil's Campaign of
Deception" (2018)[15] after documents confirmed big oil companies have known[16]
the burning of fossil fuels impacts climate since 1957.[17]

Rebranding television news

On 22 June 2015, DW TV launched a 24-hour English-language news channel with a new
design and a new studio as part of a rebrand to DW News. Previously, DW's news
programmes were called Journal and broadcast in English in 3-, 15- and 30-minute
blocks. The new channel offers 30-minute updates every hour and 60-minute
programmes twice a day on weekdays. DW News broadcasts from Berlin but frequently
has live social media segments hosted from a specially-designed studio in Bonn. The
German, Spanish and Arabic channels also received a new design.

At the same time, DW's news website moved from a .de URL to .com and added a social
media stream to its front page. The refreshed DW services were launched under the
tagline 'Made for Minds'.

Logos

Original logo (1953)

Deutsche Welle logo (1992�1995), introduced following the start of Deutsche Welle
TV in 1992

Deutsche Welle logo (1995�2012), intended to suggest a radio wave, although it drew
comparisons to the Nike Swoosh

DW logo (2012�present)

Broadcast languages
Language Began Ceased Remarks
German 1953[18] TV
English * 1954[18] Radio & TV
French * Radio
Spanish TV
Portuguese Radio
Arabic 1959[19] TV
Persian 1962[20]
Turkish
Russian
Polish *
Czech * 2000[21]
Slovak * 2000[21]
Hungarian * 2000[21]
Serbo-Croatian * 1992[22]
Swahili 1963[20] Radio
Hausa Radio
Indonesian (Malay)
Bulgarian
Romanian *
Slovene 2000
Modern Greek 1964[20] Radio
Hindi
Bengali
Urdu
Italian * 1998[23]
Chinese 1965[24]
Amharic Radio
Sanskrit 1966 1998
Japanese 1969[24] 2000[21]
Macedonian
Pashto 1970[25] Radio
Dari Radio
Serbian 1992[22]
Croatian
Albanian
Bosnian 1997[23]
Danish * 1965 1998[23]
Norwegian *
Swedish *
Dutch * 1967
Ukrainian 2000[21]
Belarusian 2005[26] before 2011
* partly by Deutschlandfunk (until 1993)

Controversy
On 10 April 2019, DW announced that Venezuela's state telecoms regulator Conatel
had halted its Spanish-language channel. By 15 April, the broadcasting service was
restored.[27]

Also in 2019, the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs accused DW of calling on

Russians to take part in recent anti-government protests, and threatened it would
take action against the outlet under domestic law if it made such calls again.[28]
Shortly after, Russia's parliament accused DW of breaking election legislation and
asked the foreign ministry to consider revoking the German broadcaster's right to
work in the country.[29] By November, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov
declared he did not support banning foreign media outlets.[29]

Shortwave relay stations

Transmitter sites in Germany
The J�lich radio transmitter site began operation in 1956 with eleven 100 kW
Telefunken transmitters.

The Wertachtal site was authorized in 1972 and began service with four 500 kW
transmitters. By 1989 there were 15 transmitters, four of which relayed the Voice
of America.

The Nauen transmitter site was inherited from Radio Berlin International. RBI's
Russian-made three 500 kW and one 100 kW transmitters were replaced by four
Telefunken 500 kW transmitters and four rotatable antennas. Deutsche Welle no
longer uses any of transmitters in Germany.

Shortwave relay stations outside Germany

Trincomalee, Sri Lanka (1984 to 2013) sold to Sri Lanka Broadcasting Cooperation
3 � 250 kW shortwave transmitters
1 � 400 kW mediumwave transmitter
20 antennas (to be verified)
Kigali, Rwanda: A relay station in Kigali, Rwanda, was inaugurated on 30 August
1963, and provided coverage for Africa.[30] This relay station closed 28 March
2015.
4 � 250 kW shortwave transmitters
Sines, Portugal closed on 30 October 2011 and was due to be dismantled after a few
months.
3 � 250 kW shortwave transmitters
DW used a relay station in Malta had three SW and one 600 kW-MW transmitter and
gave partial coverage of the Americas, Southern Asia and the Far East.[31] It was
inaugurated on 29 July 1974 in exchange for a grant of almost 1 million GBP. The
station closed in January 1996.

Formerly, DW shared a transmitting station on Antigua in the Caribbean with the

BBC. It was inaugurated on 1 November 1976 and closed on 31 March 2005. It had a
relay-exchange with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation that allowed DW to use
two 250 kW transmitters in Sackville, New Brunswick until that facility closed down
in 2012.[32]

Relay stations leasing transmitter time to DW

In 2013, DW leased time on the following relay stations:[33]

Woofferton, United Kingdom (BBC World Service)

Kranji, Singapore (BBC Far Eastern Relay Station)
Dhabayya, United Arab Emirates (United Emirates Radio)
Nakhon Sawan, Thailand (BBC East Asian Relay Station)
Ascension Island (BBC Atlantic Relay Station)
Meyerton, South Africa (Sentech)
Directors-General
12 October 1960 � 29 February 1968: Hans Otto Wesemann
1 March 1968 � 29 February 1980: Walter Steigner
1 March 1980 � 8 December 1980: Conrad Ahlers
19 December 1980 � 30 June 1981: Heinz Fellhauer (interim)
1 July 1981 � 30 June 1987: Klaus Sch�tz
1 July 1987 � 30 June 1989: Heinz Fellhauer
1 July 1989 � 31 March 2001: Dieter Weirich
1 April 2001 � 30 September 2001: Reinhard Hartstein (interim as deputy intendant)
1 October 2001 � 30 September 2013: Erik Bettermann
1 October 2013 � present: Peter Limbourg
DW services
DW (Radio): shortwave, cable TV, satellite and digital radio (DRM) broadcasting in
29 languages, with a 24-hour service in German and English
DW (TV): satellite television broadcasting mainly in German, English, Arabic and
Spanish.
www.dw.com: 30-language news website
Deutsche Welle maintains live video streams on YouTube in German, English, Spanish
and Arabic, as well as several channels with recorded videos in various categories
and languages.
DW Akademie
DW Akademie is Deutsche Welle's international center for media development, media
consulting and journalism training. It offers training and consulting services to
partners around the world. It works with broadcasters, media organizations, and
universities especially in developing and transitioning countries to promote free
and independent media. The work is funded mainly by the German Federal Ministry of
Economic Cooperation and Development.[34] Additional sponsors are the German
Foreign Office and the European Union.

DW Akademie's journalism traineeship is an 18-month program for young journalists

that provides editorial training in the three areas in which Deutsche Welle
produces content: radio, television and online. It is aimed at aspiring journalists
from Germany as well as from regions to which Deutsche Welle broadcasts.[35]

The "International Media Studies" Master's Program, offered in cooperation with the
University of Bonn and the University Bonn-Rhein-Sieg of Applied Sciences, is based
at DW Akademie. The four-semester program combines the disciplines of media
development, media regulation, and communications. The seminars are held in English
and German and the degree is aimed at media representatives from developing and
transitioning countries.

Carsten von Nahmen became head of DW Akademie in September 2018. He had been DW's
senior correspondent in Washington since February 2017 and prior to this, deputy
editor-in-chief and head of DW's main news department since 2014. Christian Gramsch
was director of DW Akademie from November 2013 until May 2018, and prior to this
DW's regional director for multimedia. He succeeded DW Akademie director Gerda
Meuer, who had previously been deputy editor-in-chief of Deutsche Welle's radio
program, and had earlier worked for various media outlets and as a correspondent
for Inter News service. Ute Schaeffer has been DW Akademie's deputy head since 2014
and was previously Deutsche Welle's editor-in-chief.[36]

Learn German section

Deutsche Welle's website has a section dedicated to providing material for those
who are interested in learning the German language.[37] Among the material
available in their site, they offer free access to an animated series called Harry
lost in Time (Harry gefangen in Zeit), for beginners.[38] Through Flash animation,
the series tell the story of a fictional character named Harry Walkott, a man who
is struck by lightning in the Black Forest during his vacation in Germany and,
because of this, becomes stuck in time, with the same day repeating over and over.
With an English narration, the series introduces German expressions, words and
grammar explanations, and also provides exercises to the user.

See also
Euronews
Karin Helmstaedt � DW presenter for the Euromaxx culture and lifestyle show
Max Hofmann � Brussels Bureau Chief for DW in Belgium
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