Domradio

Domradio is licensed as a journalistic full-format program without advertising, where religious elements form deliberate program focal points. Sunday and holiday church service broadcasts from the diocese's churches, as well as the daily Laudes, Compline, and the day's Gospel, are fixed program components. The "Good News" is also presented in the form of reports on topics that concern Christian values such as charity, tolerance, and solidarity. On Sundays at 10:00 AM, the church service from Cologne Cathedral is broadcast live, and on weekdays, a one-hour German-language service from Vatican Radio is aired.

The program mainly consists of magazines, features, and documentaries. At the top of the hour, there is a "Heavenly Hit" as an introduction to "The Word," a short literary text for the hour. News is broadcast at the half-hour mark. Domradio has its own news editorial team that compiles secular and church news and often comments on it immediately with church statements. The editor-in-chief is Ingo Brüggenjürgen, supported by a team of eleven permanent employees, three trainees, and about 25 freelancers. The budget is 3 million euros.

The music selection on Domradio includes current chart hits and songs from the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s, as well as some "kölsche Tön" (Cologne tunes). Through the broadcast of church services, spiritual and church music is also aired, which is complemented by classical compositions in special programs (Laudes, Compline, Musica).

According to its own "target group definition" from 1999, Domradio is primarily aimed at three groups of recipients: "Church-socialized Christians rooted in the Catholic Church"; "Cologne Catholics," "who seek encounters with the church during life transitions"; and "people who have become estranged from church life but are open to value-normative and church positions in their opinion and decision-making processes and attribute competence to the church in many areas."