Radio EINS Coburg streams a pop, rock, and 80s-leaning mix alongside local news and sports for Coburg, Kronach, Lichtenfels, Sonneberg, and Hildburghausen in Bavaria and southern Thuringia. You can stream it live and free on Radio Shuffle from anywhere in the world.
More Than Thirty Years on Air
Radio EINS went on air in Coburg on November 28, 1992, according to Wikipedia's entry on the station, making it a genuine fixture of Bavarian local radio for more than three decades. The station broadcasts from its Funkhaus on Seifartshofstraße in Coburg and today aims its programming squarely at listeners between 30 and 59, a demographic reflected in a playlist built around pop, rock, and 80s hits rather than current chart music.
A Region Covered on Six Frequencies
Rather than serving a single city, Radio EINS covers six districts across a stretch of Bavaria and southern Thuringia, broadcasting on FM frequencies that shift by location, from 89.2 MHz in Coburg itself to 90.0 MHz in Kronach and 95.4 MHz in Lichtenfels. That spread of frequencies lets the station reach smaller towns and rural communities that a single city-license station could never cover, with reporters working directly in the Coburg, Kronach, Lichtenfels, and South Thuringia region rather than relaying national content.
Broadcasting From a City With Royal History
Coburg itself carries an outsized historical footprint for a city its size. It served as capital of the Duchy of Saxe-Coburg and later Saxe-Coburg and Gotha until the early twentieth century, and Prince Albert, the future husband of Britain's Queen Victoria, was born nearby at Schloss Rosenau in 1819 and remained a regular visitor to Coburg Castle before his marriage. The castle itself, nicknamed the "Fränkische Krone" or Franconian Crown, dates back to a document first mentioning it in 1056, and Martin Luther spent six months there in 1530 while working on his German translation of the Bible. A local station broadcasting daily news and community updates from a town with that kind of layered history has plenty of material to draw on beyond its regular music rotation.
Local Leadership, Local Focus
Radio EINS today operates under management from Mischa Salzmann, with Anja Hampel overseeing programming and editorial direction. The schedule runs a morning show called Der Morgen from 6 to 10 a.m., a midday block called Besser arbeiten through the afternoon, and a monthly Jugendradio segment on the last Friday of each month, giving younger listeners a dedicated slot inside a station otherwise built for an older, established audience.
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More than thirty years after its first broadcast, Radio EINS Coburg remains a genuinely local station, covering six Franconian and southern Thuringian districts with news, sports, and a pop and rock playlist tuned to listeners who grew up with the station. Stream it free on Radio Shuffle to hear it live.