NDR Info streams news and spoken-word programming covering politics, society, economics, sport, science and culture, backed by interviews, commentary and background reporting. Once evening falls, the schedule shifts toward features, radio drama and jazz, and overnight the station opens up further into chansons, blues, reggae and world music. Anyone can stream it live and free right now.
A Broadcaster That Outlasted Four Names
NDR Info belongs to Norddeutscher Rundfunk, a Hamburg-based broadcaster whose own name has shifted with German history itself. It began broadcasting on May 2, 1924 as Nordische Rundfunk AG, known as NORAG, according to Wikipedia's history of the broadcaster. It became Norddeutsche Rundfunk GmbH in 1933, then Reichssender Hamburg under Nazi state control from 1934 to 1945, before Allied administration renamed it Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk in the postwar years. The broadcaster settled into its current name, NDR, on January 1, 1956.
From NDR4 to NDR Info
The news channel itself went through its own smaller rebrand, known first as NDR4 and then NDR4 Info, before adopting its current name, NDR Info, on June 2, 2002. That name change reflected what the channel had already become, the dedicated information and news service for the entire NDR broadcast region covering northern Germany.
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NDR Info carries a news format forward from a broadcaster whose own name has tracked nearly a century of German history. Stream it free on Radio Shuffle.