Radio Charivari Regensburg has been on air since 1987, run by Funkhaus Regensburg, the same company behind local station Gong FM. The station builds its programming around what it calls two pillars, "mehr Hits, mehr Abwechslung" (more hits, more variety) paired with regional service information, news, and listener call-ins, a formula aimed squarely at listeners between 30 and 49.
One Name, Five Bavarian Cities
Charivari is not unique to Regensburg. The Charivari brand traces back to Nuremberg, where a private station launched into the city's cable network in February 1986 as Neue Welle Franken before rebranding as Charivari on December 3, 1986. The name spread across Bavaria, and today five sister stations carry it: Munich, Nuremberg, Regensburg, Würzburg, and Rosenheim, each running independently but sharing the same hit-radio identity that built the original station's audience.
A Signal Built for the Oberpfalz
Charivari Regensburg reaches an estimated 430,000 daily listeners across the Upper Palatinate and neighboring districts, carried on ten separate FM frequencies stretching from Landshut to Weiden, plus DAB+, digital cable, and online streaming. That kind of reach, spread across multiple terrestrial transmitters including sites at Ochsenkopf, Hohe Linie, and Hoher Bogen, makes it one of the region's dominant commercial stations outside of Bavaria's big three cities.
Broadcasting From a UNESCO World Heritage City
Regensburg itself gives the station an unusually rich backdrop. Its old town, designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2006, is the only fully preserved large medieval city in Germany, built around its role as a key trading post on the Danube linking routes to Italy, Bohemia, and beyond. More than a thousand protected monuments sit within the old town, a density of history that few other Charivari markets can match.
Why Tune In
Radio Charivari Regensburg offers a straightforward hit-radio format with genuine regional reach, broadcasting from one of the best-preserved medieval cities in Europe. For listeners across the Oberpfalz who want current hits mixed with local service information, it has been the region's go-to commercial station for close to four decades.