It aired its first program on 30 March The first broadcasts consisted mainly of time announcements, news, weather and stock market reports, and music. Programming expanded to include radio plays, concerts, programs for women, language courses, chess, opera, radio, news, and Catholic and Protestant morning services.
Its new studio was designed by Richard Riemerschmid. Deutsche Stunde in Bayern became Bayerischer Rundfunk in In , shortly after the Nazi seizure of power , the station was put under the control of the Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda. Operating as Radio Munich , it broadcast, among other programming, live coverage of the Nuremberg trials and programs such as "War Never Again" " Nie wieder Krieg ".
A station was added in Nuremberg in the early s. BR is a statutory corporation established under the Bavarian Broadcasting Law Bayerisches Rundfunkgesetz , originally passed in , [ 4 ] and updated in to take account of the demands of a changed media and political environment.
Its functions are determined by a legal foundation which lays down the principles under which the broadcaster operates and the structure of its internal organization. Just as important for the work of Bavarian Broadcasting is the cooperation of the ARD consortium, consisting of nine other regional broadcasting corporates as well as Deutsche Welle.
The broadcasting service is further backed by the relevant European legal bases as well as the media service convention, which contain regulations for the on-line offerings of Bavarian Broadcasting.
