Antenne Bayern - Oldies but Goldies plays a straightforward mix of 70s classic rock, pop, soul, funk, and disco, a webradio companion channel to Antenne Bayern, Germany's largest private radio station. Antenne Bayern itself went on air on 5 September 1988, broadcasting its full 24 hour program across 26 FM frequencies, according to the station's history on German Wikipedia. The station was originally meant to be called Radio Bayern, a name blocked at the request of public broadcaster Bayerischer Rundfunk, which argued it would be too easily confused with its own programs.
From that beginning, Antenne Bayern grew into the widest reaching private radio station in the country, headquartered in Ismaning just outside Munich. Alongside its main FM signal, the network built out a set of genre specific webradio channels, letting listeners pick a decade or style instead of the main station's broader daily lineup, with Oldies but Goldies built specifically around the sound of the 1970s.
Popular enough to become its own station
What sets this channel apart from most webradio side projects is what happened to it in 2022. Oldies but Goldies proved successful enough as a standalone webradio brand that it split off from Antenne Bayern entirely, becoming its own independent station called OLDIE ANTENNE, still headquartered in Ismaning and now broadcasting the greatest hits of the 70s, 80s, and 90s across FM, digital radio, and satellite platforms in the Munich area, according to OLDIE ANTENNE's own facts page.
The 70s content that anchors this stream draws from a genuinely wide field, German Schlager acts like Marianne Rosenberg and Udo Jürgens sitting alongside international disco staples that defined dance floors across the decade. That range is part of the appeal: a listener tuning in for German Schlager nostalgia and a listener chasing international disco hits both land on the same channel, built around a decade rather than a single scene.