The Public Corporations : Germany

Today, in 1997, the Federal Republic has 11 regional broadcasting corporations, one broadcasting corporation organized under federal law, a second national television network (Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen, ZDF) based on an agreement between all the federal states, and the public corporation “DeutschlandRadio”.
The largest broadcasting station is the Westdeutscher Rundfunk (Cologne) with about 4,400 staff, while the smallest are the Ostdeutscher Rundfunk Brandenburg (Potsdam) and Radio Bremen with about 600 and 640 staff respectively.

The others are the Bayerischer Rundfunk (Munich), Hessischer Rundfunk (Frankfurt/Main), Norddeutscher Rundfunk (Hamburg), Saarlandischer Rundfunk (Saarbriicken), Sender Freies Berlin (Berlin), Suddeutscher Rundfunk (Stuttgart), Sudwestfunk (Baden-Baden) - the latter two are scheduled to merge as of 1 January 1998 to form the Siidwestrundfunk (Stuttgart) - and Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk (Leipzig). Some of them cater for the states in which they are located; others supply programs for several states.