Players
Sites
listed as "Live" really are live; sites listed as "On
demand" deliver saved versions of earlier broadcasts.
These are probably more helpful for language learning,
since you can rewind and pause them etc.
- http://www.real.com/
Go here to download the most recent version of RealPlayer for free. You can then bring up the "Radio" window and use the "Advanced Search" function (Select "German" under
language) to find a long, partially annotated list of German stations.
You can also try your luck looking for video clips and streams via Real Player.
- http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/en/download/default.asp
Go here to download Microsoft's Windows Media Player
(make sure you get a free version!). I've been told that
with Media Player you can easily search for radio
stations broadcasting live online in German--but haven't managed to get that to work ==> please email
Hartmut if you have some simple instructions I could paste here!
Live TV
Traditional
[i.e. to be watched on TV, not on your computer] Sources of German Language TV Programming Available
in the US:
- University
of Michigan Language Resource Center Satellite Television
Info Information on Foreign Language Programming
Available in the LRC and on UMTV. The LRC currently receives German programming from the following stations; click on the links to see their schedules and more info:
- Deutsche Welle (DW-TV) (you may still find references to a station called "GermanTV," which was consolidated into DW-TV in January 2006), which offers a variety of programs made for international broadcast, including
- Journal, a daily news program
- popXport, which brings you the buzz from the German music scene every other week
- Bundesliga Kick off!, a weekly Bundesliga soccer report
- Made in Germany, an inside look at the German and European business world
- motor mobil, a car show aired during the Bundesliga off-season
- Projekt Zukunft, on new developments in science and technology
- ProSiebenSat.1Welt, a channel combining offerings of the German cable channels ProSieben and Sat1, including
- feature films and mini-series
- TV series and sitcoms
- documentary series
- Bundesliga soccer programming
- ... and from a new station, "German Kino Plus," which offers
- current and classic feature films
- Tatort, a long-running crime series with rotating police investigators
- romantic TV movies, mini series and dramas
- historical documentaries and travel series
- There used to be a link here to the "International Channel," but unfortunately this channel no longer exists.
Web
Resources for German Language TV Programming
- Surfmusik.de German site listing a variety of live TV sites. The link takes you directly to their listing of German live TV sites. If it breaks, you can get there via their homepage at www.surfmusik.de.
- Online TV Recorder Register (for free) and then select German TV programs you want to record. You have to agree to receive their newsletters, and not to share the recordings illegally. I haven't tried this ==> am not sure if you should be weary of any unexpected charges. Let me know if it works and if I should add any more info about it here!
- SaveTV Another online TV recorder that allows you to select German TV programs you want to record, and then watch them on your computer. You can test the service for free for 2 weeks, and then sign up to continue it for €5-10/month (depending on how long you commit for). I haven't tried this ==> am not sure if you should be weary of any unexpected charges. Let me know if it works and if I should add any more info about it here!
- Broadcast-live.com
Enjoy live and on-demand German language television
broadcasts from Europe. News, business and sports
telecasts are available from Germany, Austria and
Switzerland.
- comfm
French site listing live TV and radio sites on the
web from around the world.
- Beeline TV This site lists live TV and radio sites
on the web from around the world. Not everything works, but still worth a try.
- Virtual
Tuner.com This site lists live TV and radio sites
on the web from around the world. Lots of popups and ads, though.
- www.tagesschau.de "On
demand." This is one of Germany's two main evening
television news programs, and comes in great.
- Deutsche
Welle TV You can also find topical videos
directly from the Deutsche
Welle homepage. At any point, if a link to Live
TV doesn't seem to be doing anything, try clicking
on "Externer Player" to see if that will open the
video file. Play around or ask someone if you
have trouble finding the video you want. In
general, some possible starting points are
-
clicking on "live" at the top right, or on one of
the options under "Jetzt im Programm" in the main
body of the page, to hear whatever is currently
playing, or
-
clicking on "Video on demand" in the left-hand frame
and then on "Ausgabe vom..." ["Edition of..."] JUST
ABOVE the title of the show you want on the list
that appears (NOT on "DW-TV: [title], which brings
you to the webpage associated with that show).
At this point, a separate window opens, and if you
don't start seeing video automatically, you may
need to click on "Externer Player," or you'll need
to get the appropriate plug-in (try switching browsers
first, if e.g. you have both Netscape and Explorer
on your computer). If you then click on other
specific shows, you may think you're not getting
anywhere in the main window, but you'll see the
name of the new show appearing in the second window,
and you may again need to click on "Externer Player"
in that window in order to make it begin playing.
- TW1
Live TV from Austria Click on "TW1 - Livestream"
on the right.
Live Radio
Lists
of Stations
Specific
Stations
- Radio Goethe Government funded, yet "hip" station presenting exclusively German, Austrian and Swiss musicians and bands
- Radio
Austria International Austrian radio station
- Radio
Energy Austrian radio station
- Antenne
Wien Austrian radio station. Real audio
link doesn't work in Netscape 4.
- FM4
Austrian radio station
-
Soundportal.at
Austrian radio station
- WDR
Online. Follow the link to "Nachrichten"
and click on the radio icon to hear the news that
you can see printed on the screen. Or click
on the "Nachrichten für Kinder" link and read
the simplified news for children, which actually also
gives a lot of useful background info on the news
stories which tends to be omitted from German news
more than it is from American news.
Deutsche Welle (the "official" German international
broadcasting station.)
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