How we checked Kontrafunk
Everything published about this station was read from the station's own website or its own stream, and every fact below names the page it came from and the year it was read. We changed 1 thing about this entry. We also found 3 things we could have published and decided not to.
What we publish, and where each part came from
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Description
Kontrafunk is a German-language talk and current affairs station launched in 2022 by the journalist Burkhard Müller-Ullrich, and it is a Swiss company, Kontrafunk AG, registered at Steckborn in the canton of Thurgau. It is aimed at listeners across the whole German-speaking area rather than one country, with a daily news magazine, an evening journal with live interviews, weekly reviews and a Sunday discussion round. Alongside the politics there are lecture, reading and classical music strands, plus legal, medical, education and economics programmes. It began as an internet station and has also been carried on DAB+ in eastern Switzerland since the summer of 2024.
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Kontrafunk imprint page | 2026 |
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Contact route
a contact page with the company's Swiss postal address and a set of separate email addresses by purpose, including one specifically for listener feedback ("Echos aus der Hörerschaft", which the station offers to publish as listener voices with the sender's consent), one for technical support questions, one for advertising and sponsoring, and dedicated listener-post addresses for three named programmes, one of which invites listeners living abroad to write in and come on as guests.
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KONTRAFUNK | 2026 |
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Contact page
https://kontrafunk.radio/de/kontakt
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KONTRAFUNK | 2026 |
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Music
News, talk and cultural programming, not a music station, though it carries a classical music strand
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Kontrafunk imprint page | 2026 |
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Language
German
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Kontrafunk imprint page | 2026 |
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Kind
talk
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Kontrafunk imprint page | 2026 |
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Where
Steckborn, Thurgau, Switzerland, per its own imprint (Kontrafunk AG); its own help page calls it "ein Internetradio" and also states "In der Schweiz ist der Kontrafunk in manchen Gebieten ueber DAB+ empfangbar", linking its own DAB coverage map, so it is an internet radio that additionally transmits on DAB+ in parts of Switzerland
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KONTRAFUNK | 2026 |
What we corrected
Each of these changed a field in our own entry. The reasoning is the researcher's own, recorded when the change was made.
| Field | Change | Why |
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| language code |
de
what it said before was not recorded; the
reasoning usually states it
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Switzerland is correct and confirmed on the station's own imprint page, which names Kontrafunk AG at Seestrasse 58, CH-8266 Steckborn in the canton of Thurgau. The entire output is German language, aimed at all German-speaking countries, so the missing language code is de. |
What we found and did not publish
Material that would have made this page fuller, and was refused. A page with five named presenters looks better than a page with none even when the five are a website theme's demonstration content, and the difference is invisible to a reader. So it is recorded here instead.
| What we could have said | Why we did not |
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| a WhatsApp route | the only api.whatsapp.com string on the site is a share-link pattern inside an analytics script, not a number a listener could write to
source |
| the email addresses and the postal address | the addresses are JavaScript-obfuscated against spambots on the page, and are not copied here in any case
source |
| the specific DAB+ ensemble or block, and a correction that this site was fully readable by plain fetch from the agent vantage despite the briefing calling it previously unreadable | the site links a coverage map but names no channel or block number
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If you think something here is wrong
Tell us which fact and what you found instead. Everything above names its source and its date, so a disagreement can be settled by looking rather than argued. Where another site disagrees with us, it is usually because it is repeating a radio directory, and occasionally because we got it wrong. We would like to know which.
Read from the station's own material; this page is generated from the
catalogue as it stands now, so it changes when the research does. Research
current as at 2026.
This entry began as: Kontrafunk — listed via Radio Browser · https://www.kontrafunk.radio/