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50-633: The Drug Commissioner of the German Federal Government has been called the nation's drug czar by the state media company Deutsche Welle . The first US Drug czar was Harry J. Anslinger who served as the first Commissioner of the Treasury Department's Federal Bureau of Narcotics from 1930 to 1962, under the administrations of five presidents: Hoover , Roosevelt , Truman , Eisenhower and Kennedy . Legislative efforts for marijuana prohibition under Anslinger included

100-413: A two-tier approach that they are using for the future growth of their company which consists of a global approach and a regional approach. Within their global approach, DW has now made plans to boost its competitiveness market throughout the world with news and television coverage. The plan implements covering almost all regions of the world with two television channels in each region. With some exclusions,

150-557: A German International broadcasting station was supported by CDU chancellor Konrad Adenauer . To prevent governmental indoctrination in Germany, broadcasting is a matter of the federal states. In a years-long dispute between the Adenauer and the federal states of Germany , the federal government was allowed to create Deutschlandfunk aiming GDR citizens and Deutsche Welle for an international audience. In 1959, Adenauer presented

200-399: A bill to establish three federal broadcasting companies: Deutschlandfunk , Deutsche Welle and Deutschland-Fernsehen (Germany-TV) . The Federal Constitutional Court stopped Adenauer's television plans. Radio, on the other hand, was permitted as a federal institution. In 1960, Deutsche Welle became an independent public body after a court ruled that while broadcasting to Germany was

250-494: A day on weekdays. DW News broadcasts from Berlin but frequently has live social media segments hosted from a specially designed studio in Bonn. The German, Spanish, and Arabic channels also received a new design. At the same time, DW's news website moved from a .de URL to .com and added a social media stream to its front page. The refreshed DW services were launched under the tagline 'Made for Minds'. Deutsche Welle has developed

300-644: A director of cannabis policy and enforcement, called a pot czar. In Washington State, the consultant to the Washington State Liquor and Cannabis Board determining statewide procedures and regulations following legalization was "quickly dubbed 'pot czar'". A similar cannabis regulation staff position in Oregon Liquor Control Commission was also called "marijuana czar". In the UK , Keith Hellawell , former Drugs Advisor to

350-425: A major reform. The main changes have been a radical reduction of shortwave radio broadcasting—from a daily total of 260 to 55 hours—and an expansion of television broadcasting. In 2013, DW leased time on the following relay stations: DW Akademie is Deutsche Welle 's international center for media development , media consulting and journalism training. It offers training and consulting services to partners around

400-491: A new news studio and a new logo. Deutsche Welle took some of the former independent radio broadcasting service Deutschlandfunk 's foreign-language programming in 1993, when Deutschlandfunk was absorbed into the new Deutschlandradio . In addition to radio and television programming, DW sponsored some published material. For example, the South-Asia Department published German Heritage: A Series Written for

450-570: A push for all states to adopt similar drug laws, the Uniform State Narcotic Drug Act and the Marijuana Tax Act of 1937 , which in effect criminalized the drug and set the stage for marijuana prohibition. In California, the head of the state Bureau of Medical Cannabis has been called "marijuana czar". Following statewide medical and recreational legalization, the city of Sacramento, California appointed

500-476: A result of German reunification, Deutsche Welle has been the only remaining broadcasting corporation under federal law. In contrast to the national public broadcasters, which are financed by the license fee the ARD state broadcasters, Deutschlandradio and ZDF, it is not financed through the broadcasting fee, but from federal taxes. The Ministry for Culture and Media is responsible for the financing, which in turn allows

550-654: A similar name was Deutsche Welle GmbH , founded in August 1924 by German diplomat and radio pioneer Ernst Ludwig Voss in Berlin and broadcast regularly from January 7, 1926. The station was initially owned by 70% by Reichs-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft and 30% by the Free State of Prussia . From 1931 onwards, Deutsche Welle broadcast from the Berlin Broadcasting House . On January 1, 1933, Deutsche Welle GmbH

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600-669: A start capital of 100,000 Reichsmark as an umbrella organisation by nine regional broadcasters – that is to say, all of the German radio stations other than the Deutsche Stunde in Bayern – serving the various states of the Weimar Republic . From 1926, a majority share was held by the state-owned Deutsche Reichspost authority, represented by RF engineer and Reichspostministerium official Hans Bredow as chairman in

650-700: A state matter, broadcasting from Germany was part of the federal government's foreign affairs function. On 7 June 1962, DW joined ARD as a national broadcasting station. Deutsche Welle was originally headquartered in the West German city of Cologne . After reunification , when much of the government relocated to Berlin, the station's headquarters moved to Bonn. With the German reunification in 1990, Radio Berlin International (RBI), East Germany 's international broadcaster ceased to exist. Some of

700-864: A tri-media organization, making the Deutsche Welle website an equal partner with DW-TV and DW Radio. The website is available in 30 languages but focuses on German, English, Spanish, Russian, Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, and Arabic. Persian became the eighth focus language in 2007. In March 2009, DW-TV expanded its television services in Asia with two new channels, namely DW-TV Asia and DW-TV Asia+. DW-TV Asia (DW-TV Asien in German) contains 16 hours of German programming and 8 hours in English, whilst DW-TV Asia+ contains 18 hours of English programmes plus 6 hours of German programmes. In August 2009, DW-TV's carriage in

750-551: Is regulated by the Deutsche Welle Act, stating that content is intended to be independent of government influence . DW is a member of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU). DW offers regularly updated articles on its news website and runs its own centre for international media development, DW Akademie. The broadcaster's stated goals are to produce reliable news coverage, provide access to

800-415: The Deutsche Welle for 2016 was 301.8 million euros. On 25 February 2018, DW-TV published "The Climate Cover Up – Big Oil's Campaign of Deception" (2018) after documents confirmed big oil companies have known the burning of fossil fuels impacts climate since 1957. Deutsche Welle is funded from federal grants taken from the federal tax revenue. Since the reorganisation of broadcasting as

850-631: The Haus des Rundfunks ("House of Broadcasting"), on Masurenallee in Berlin - Westend , was inaugurated as the official seat of the Reichs-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft. Designed in 1929 by the architect Hans Poelzig (1869-1936), it is the world's first self-contained broadcasting centre and includes a large concert hall. The triangular-shaped building also housed the broadcaster Deutsche Welle GmbH and, from 1935 until its relocation in 1937,

900-754: The Austrian Anschluss in 1938, the former Radio Verkehrs AG at Vienna became the Reichssender Wien . On 1 January 1939 the RRG was renamed Großdeutscher Rundfunk . After the Invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939 upon the staged Gleiwitz incident , the former RRG became a vital instrument of wartime propaganda, especially by the daily Wehrmachtsbericht and the popular request show Wunschkonzert für die Wehrmacht (see Wunschkonzert ). From 9 July 1940 onwards all Reichssender aired

950-544: The DW to offer a broadcast with low to nonexistent advertising time. On 10 April 2019, DW announced that Venezuela 's state telecoms regulator Conatel had halted its Spanish-language channel. By 15 April, the broadcasting service was restored. In 2019, the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs accused DW of calling on Russians to take part in recent anti-government protests and threatened it would take action against

1000-516: The Fernsehsender Paul Nipkow television station. In the summer of 1932, the German government under Chancellor Franz von Papen started to gain control over the broadcasting companies of the RRG, full control over the corporation was reached in 1934. The regional broadcasters were also made reliant on the RRG, becoming local branches. The management board had to admit a representative, who supervised programming, delegated by

1050-795: The German language, and promote understanding between peoples. It is also a provider of live streaming world news which can be, like all DW programs, viewed and listened via its website, YouTube, Satellite, Re-broadcasting and various Apps and digital media players . DW has been broadcasting since 1953. It is headquartered in Bonn , where its radio programmes are produced. However, television broadcasts are produced almost entirely in Berlin . Both locations create content for DW's news website. As of 2020, Deutsche Welle had 1,668 employees (annual average). In total, over 4,000 distinct people of over 140 nationalities work in DW's offices in Bonn and Berlin, as well as at other locations worldwide. A predecessor with

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1100-616: The Labour government of Tony Blair , has been referred to as a drug czar. Deutsche Welle Deutsche Welle ( pronounced [ˈdɔʏtʃə ˈvɛlə] ; "German Wave"), commonly shortened to DW ( pronounced [deːˈveː] ), is a German public , state-owned international broadcaster funded by the German federal tax budget. The service is available in 32 languages. DW's satellite television service consists of channels in German , English , Spanish , Tamil , Hindi , Persian , and Arabic . The work of DW

1150-830: The Latvian capital, Riga . In March 2022, a Belarusian court recognized the Telegram channel “DW Belarus” and the Deutsche Welle logo as extremist materials. In April 2024, the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Belarus labeled DW Belarus as an extremist group. On 30 June 2022, DW was banned in Turkey upon the request of Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK). RTÜK ordered DW in February 2022 to pay

1200-828: The Minister of the Interior, Wilhelm von Gayl . In the course of the Gleichschaltung process after the Machtergreifung in 1933 the RRG was nationalized by the Nazi government and was used extensively by the Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda under Joseph Goebbels to dictate radio programming. On 30 January 1933, while the new Minister of the Interior Wilhelm Frick enforced

1250-678: The RBI staff joined Deutsche Welle and DW inherited some broadcasting facilities, including transmitting facilities at Nauen , as well as RBI's frequencies. DW (TV) began as RIAS-TV , a television station launched by the West Berlin broadcaster RIAS (Radio in the American Sector / Rundfunk im amerikanischen Sektor ) in August 1988; they also acquired the German Educational Television Network in

1300-662: The South Asia Programme in 1967, and in 1984 published African Writers on the Air . Both publications were transcripts of DW programming. In September 1994, Deutsche Welle was the first public broadcaster in Germany with an internet presence, initially www-dw.gmd.de, hosted by the GMD Information Technology Research Center. For its first two years, the site listed little more than contact addresses, although DW's News Journal

1350-644: The Tor network in order to circumvent censorship measures by non-democratic states. Deutsche Welle was heavily involved in technological resarch initiatives in order to adapt shortwave transmission to today's standards through the use of digital technology. DW favored the technology of the Digital Radio Mondiale consortium. In 2008 she started the BBC & DW project with the British BBC. However, this

1400-653: The United Kingdom on Sky channel 794 ceased, although the channel continues to be available via other European satellites receivable in the UK. In 2011, DW announced a significant reduction of service including the closure of most of its FM services in the Balkans (except for Romani ), but that it would expand its network of FM partners in Africa. The radio production for Hausa, Kiswahili, French, and Portuguese for Africa

1450-688: The United States. The fall of the Berlin Wall the following year and German reunification in 1990 meant that RIAS-TV was to be closed down. On 1 April 1992, Deutsche Welle inherited the RIAS-TV broadcast facilities, using them to start a German- and English-language television channel broadcast via satellite , DW (TV), adding a short Spanish broadcast segment the following year. In 1995, it began 24-hour operation (12 hours German, 10 hours English, 2 hours Spanish). At that time, DW (TV) introduced

1500-424: The address in 2000, without success. DW eventually moved to the www.dw.com domain on 22 June 2015. According to DW, their website delivers information by topic with an intuitive navigation organized to meet users' expectations. The layout offers more flexibility to feature pictures, videos, and in-depth reporting on the day's events in a multimedia and multilingual fashion. They also integrated their Media Center into

1550-429: The dw.de website making it easier for users to access videos, audio, and picture galleries from DW's multimedia archive of reports, programs, and coverage of special issues. DW's news site is in seven core languages ( Arabic , Chinese , English, German, Spanish, Portuguese for Brazil , and Russian), as well as a mixture of news and information in 23 other languages in which Deutsche Welle broadcasts. Persian became

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1600-513: The entire world will be covered. Hours covered range throughout regions and the coverage will be in German, English, Spanish, and Arabic. The regional approach looks at marketing over the Internet to offer news coverage in languages other than the 4 being offered. With updates on DW's website news will be better tailored to each region. Over time, they plan to diversify their online coverage with more regional content being covered. The budget of

1650-736: The following eleven regional broadcasting companies: An additional nationwide programme known as the Deutschlandsender was broadcast on longwave from the Königs Wusterhausen radio transmitter of Deutsche Welle GmbH (a separate company which was, however, 70% owned by the Reichs-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft) . Regular television programmes were transmitted from Berlin by the Fernsehsender Paul Nipkow . On 22 January 1931

1700-535: The license fee or to terminate their service in Turkey. In October 2022, Iran sanctioned DW Farsi for coverage of 2022 Iranian protests . Iran's Foreign Ministry announced the sanctions in a statement, accusing those listed of "supporting terrorism."  * partly by Deutschlandfunk (until 1993) The main distribution of DW programs is by Satellite transmissions, Internet Stream and re-broadcasting by local FM-radio stations. Historically shortwave broadcastswere

1750-509: The live broadcast of the torchlight parades, the RRG chairman Hans Bredow resigned and was replaced by Eugen Hadamovsky . Several former managers were arrested and imprisoned. With effect from 1 April 1934 the regional broadcasting companies were incorporated as Reichssender . Upon the affiliation of the Saar territory in 1935, the regional broadcaster was incorporated as Reichssender Saarbrücken (see Saarländischer Rundfunk ). Likewise, after

1800-450: The main distribution chanel of international broadcsters. so Deutsche Welle. For parts of Africa, where DW believes many people can still be reached via radio, DW broadcasts programs via shortwave. The TV program is distributed via various satellite channels and fed into cable networks. It is also available as a live stream on the DW website and in the ARD media library. Since 2019, DW has been providing its websites as an onion service via

1850-453: The outlet under domestic law if it made such calls again. Shortly after, Russia's parliament accused DW of breaking election legislation and asked the foreign ministry to consider revoking the German broadcaster's right to work in the country. By November, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov declared he did not support banning foreign media outlets. On 3 February 2022, in retaliation to Germany's broadcasting regulator's decision to ban

1900-401: The rank of a Reichs-Rundfunk-Kommissar . The logo of the RRG was designed by German graphic designer Otto Firle . An official broadcast receiving licence was required for the reception of radio broadcasts at a monthly fee of 2 Reichsmark . In 1932 there were four million registered radio users giving the corporation a revenue of four million Reichsmark Programming was provided by

1950-529: The same uniform nationwide program, which ended with the occupation of the Haus des Rundfunks by the Red Army during the Battle of Berlin on 2 May 1945. RRG engineers were responsible for important advances in sound-recording technology. Walter Weber, while working for Hans Joachim von Braunmühl at the RRG, made many improvements in the field of magnetic tape sound recording . The most widely significant

2000-509: The site's eighth focus language in 2007. German and European news is DW's central focus, but the site also offers background information about German and German language courses. Deutsch, Warum Nicht? (literally: German, Why Not? ) is a personal course for learning the German language, created by Deutsche Welle and the Goethe-Institut . In 2003, the German government passed a new " Deutsche Welle Act", which defined DW as

2050-411: The then-West German President, Theodor Heuss . On 11 June 1953, ARD public broadcasters signed an agreement to share responsibility for Deutsche Welle . At first, it was controlled by Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk (NWDR). In 1955, NWDR split into Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR) and Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR), WDR assumed responsibility for Deutsche Welle programming. Politically the creation of

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2100-625: The transmission of the Russian state-run RT Deutsch channel over a lack of a broadcasting license, the Russian foreign ministry said that it would shut down DW's Moscow bureau, strip all DW staff of their accreditation and terminate broadcasting of DW in Russia. It also stated that it would begin the procedure of designating DW as a " foreign agent ". The Moscow office of Deutsche Welle was informed that it would be shut at 9:00 on Friday, 4 February 2022. DW made plans to relocate Moscow operations to

2150-678: The world. It works with broadcasters, media organizations, and universities especially in developing and transitioning countries to promote free and independent media. The work is funded mainly by the German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development . Additional sponsors are the German Foreign Office and the European Union . Reichs-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft The Reichs-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft ( RRG ; Reich Broadcasting Corporation )

2200-480: Was a national network of German regional public radio and television broadcasting companies active from 1925 until 1945. RRG's broadcasts were receivable in all parts of Germany and were used extensively for Nazi propaganda after 1933. Historical recordings of RRG broadcasts are today held by the German Broadcasting Archive . The company was established in Berlin on 15 May 1925 with

2250-597: Was broadcast in RealAudio from Real's server beginning in 1995, and Süddeutsche Zeitung ' s initial web presence, which included news articles from the newspaper, shared the site. In 1996, it evolved into a news website using the URL dwelle.de ; in 2001, the URL changed to www.dw-world.de, and was changed again in 2012, to www.dw.de . Deutsche Welle purchased the domain dw.com , which previously belonged to DiamondWare , in 2013; DW had attempted to claim ownership of

2300-779: Was inaugurated on 29 July 1974 in exchange for a grant of almost 1 million GBP. The station closed in January 1996. Formerly, DW shared a transmitting station on Antigua in the Caribbean with the BBC. It was inaugurated on 1 November 1976 and closed on 31 March 2005. It had a relay-exchange with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation that allowed DW to use two 250 kW transmitters in Sackville, New Brunswick until that facility closed down in 2012. In July 2011 Deutsche Welle began implementing

2350-527: Was officially transferred to Deutschlandsender GmbH . The station sees itself in the tradition of the first German foreign broadcaster, the Weltrundfunksender (world broadcaster) of the Weimar Republic . The Weltrundfunksender was renamed to deutscher Kurzwellensender (German Shortwave Broadcaster) by the Nazis in 1933. DW's first shortwave broadcast took place on 3 May 1953 with an address by

2400-598: Was optimized for FM broadcasts. DW also produces a regional radio magazine in English daily, which is to be rebroadcast by African partners. Audio content in Arabic is distributed online, via mobile, or rebroadcast by partners. DW announced it would focus on FM partnerships for Bengali, Urdu, Dari/Pashtu, and Indonesian for South Asia, India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. On 1 November 2011, DW discontinued shortwave broadcasts in German, Russian, Persian, and Indonesian and ended its English service outside Africa. Chinese programming

2450-636: Was reduced from 120 minutes to 60 minutes a week. As of November 2011, DW only broadcast radio programming via shortwave in Amharic, Chinese, Dari, English, and French for Africa, Hausa, Kiswahili, Pashtu, Portuguese for Africa and Urdu. On 22 June 2015, DW TV launched a 24-hour English-language news channel with a new design and a new studio as part of a rebrand to DW News . Previously, DW's news programmes were called Journal and broadcast in English in 3-, 15- and 30-minute blocks. The new channel offers 30-minute updates every hour and 60-minute programmes twice

2500-630: Was soon discontinued due to a lack of success on the listener side. In the so called "Golden area" of shortwave radio at the time of the cold war , DW had a number of shortwave relay stations in South-East Asia, Africa and Europe. DW used a relay station in Malta that had three SW and one 600 kW-MW transmitter and gave partial coverage of the Americas, Southern Asia and the Far East. It

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