The program used to be considered the home of the old geezers. Now almost exclusively hits from the 1980s are playing that seem suspiciously familiar. Therefore: switch. And to the BR’s only real hipster station.
It’s time to gossip about BR again. As a fee payer (18.36 euros per month) you are allowed to do that, so you can have a say from time to time, especially when it comes to the program. It used to be that Bayern 1 was quite rightly considered a wave for old geezers. All day long they played hits by Peter Kraus, Buddy Holly, Cornelia Froboess, Caterina Valente and other songs that were typically played on the state league soccer fields during the half-time break.
In the meantime, however, Bayern 1 almost exclusively plays music from the 1980s. Back then, dear grandchildren, both men and women grew their hair at least to shoulder length, bleached it and blow-dried it. To do this, they squeezed into brown leather pants, the zips of which, in the worst case, had to be closed with flat-nosed pliers. However, the flat-nose pliers could only be carried in a separate tool case, because not even a piece of paper would fit into the trouser pockets. The soundtrack was provided by: Bon Jovi (Runaway), Chris de Burgh (Don’t Pay The Ferryman), pool (Rosana), Jennifer Rush (Ring of Ice) or wham (Wake Me Up Before You Go Go) and many more that are now being played up and down again on Bayern 1. Tears for Fears (Shout) recently even performed in Landshut at a BR eighties festival.
Unfortunately, it is not possible to completely unsubscribe from individual channels, which is why you switch to Bayern 3 for three seconds in the car. but Marshmello x Khalid (number) or Teenage dirt bag are difficult in a different way. Then quickly switch to Bayern 2, where the climate crisis is very often discussed and in between a homeless singer-songwriter from the USA sings songs from her first CD.
So in the end you end up on a channel that can’t even be received on VHF, and that’s why it’s the only real hipster station on BR: BR-Heimat. Early in the morning, various three and four songs sing about the approaching autumn and that the birds no longer whistle and the fire in the parlor is already burning. The very cool Arthur Dittlmann says that it’s all pretty melancholic, but let’s just say autumn. At that moment you suddenly even feel too old for Bayern 1, but reconciled with BR.