Nuremberg's free radio: indie guitars, soul, and Latin.
R.A.D.I.O. e.V. — the Rundfunk-Aktionsgemeinschaft demokratischer Initiativen und Organisationen — spent three years assembling a station before Radio Z went on air in December 1987, with a regular licence following in 1988. It nearly ended in 1993, when a magazine item on sadomasochism drew complaints and the regulator opened proceedings to revoke that licence; twenty thousand listener signatures and a run of donations kept it on the dial. In October 2012 it was the first free radio in Germany to reach DAB+.
Twelve hours go out live every afternoon and evening on 95.8, and round the clock on digital. More than eighty editorial desks divide that up: Stoffwechsel takes culture and politics, and from early on the slots inside its hour belonged to women, young people and migrants as desks in their own right. Onda Latina, Rock in Black and Castrop Rauxel hold the music end.
Left of the dial, left of centre.
