Westdeutscher Rundfunk
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German regional public broadcaster
Key facts
- Type
- Broadcast radio, television and online
- Country
- Germany
- Headquarters
- Cologne , North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany
- Official website
- www .wdr .de
via Wikipedia infobox
Research organization · ROR
- Type
- Company
- Founded
- 1955
- Location
- Cologne, Germany
- Also known as
- WDR
- Status
- Active
GRID grid.507513.5 · ISNI 0000 0001 1119 5024
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- production company
- Country
- Germany
- Located in
- Cologne
- Headquarters
- Cologne
- Parent organization
- ARD
- Follows
- Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk
- Official website
- www.wdr.de
- Image
- WDR Archivhaus Köln.jpg
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- topic's main category
- Category:Westdeutscher Rundfunk
- Commons gallery
- Westdeutscher Rundfunk
- inception
- 1956-01-01
- Commons category
- Westdeutscher Rundfunk
- hashtag
- WDR
- owner of
- German Press Agency
- social media followers
- 1000000
- nominated for
- European Film Award for Best Film
- product or material produced
- terrestrial television
- short name
- WDR
- P8168
- Mesnay
- has works in the collection
- TextielMuseum, Stedelijk museum Amsterdam
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Encyclopedic overview
Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln ( pronounced [ˈvɛstˌdɔʏtʃɐ ˈʁʊntfʊŋk ˈkœln]; "West German Broadcasting Cologne"), shortened to WDR (pronounced [ˌveːdeːˈʔɛʁ] ), is a German public-broadcasting institution based in the Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia with its main office in Cologne. WDR is a constituent member of the consortium of German public-broadcasting institutions, ARD. As well as contributing to the output of the national television channel Das Erste, WDR produces the regional television service WDR Fernsehen (formerly known as WDF and West3) and six regional radio networks.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Westdeutscher Rundfunk” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.