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WDR 5

German radio station
Organization radio_station Q1000950
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WDR 5

Summary

WDR 5 is a radio station[1]. It ranks in the top 2% of radio_station entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (36 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • WDR 5 is in the country of Germany[3].
  • WDR 5's instance of is recorded as radio station[4].
  • WDR 5 is owned by Westdeutscher Rundfunk[5].
  • WDR 5 is operated by Westdeutscher Rundfunk[6].
  • WDR 5's Commons category is recorded as WDR 5[7].
  • WDR 5's language of work or name is recorded as German[8].
  • October 7, 1991 marks the founding of WDR 5[9].
  • WDR 5's official website is recorded as http://www.wdr5.de/[10].
  • WDR 5's streaming media URL is recorded as http://wdr-wdr5-live.icecast.wdr.de/wdr/wdr5/live/mp3/128/stream.mp3[11].
  • WDR 5's described at URL is recorded as https://www.kek-online.de/medienkonzentration/mediendatenbank/#/profile/media/5be1a6b1-c70d-466a-bd6f-f64292e0fb75[12].
  • WDR 5's language used is recorded as German[13].

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

  • Country: DE[14]

  • Began / founded: 1991-10-07[15]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 26f662ee-245c-41cc-bfdf-938199fc0635[16]

Body

Founding

October 7, 1991 marks the founding of WDR 5[9].

Operations

WDR 5 is operated by Westdeutscher Rundfunk[6].

Ownership

WDR 5 is owned by Westdeutscher Rundfunk[5].

Why It Matters

WDR 5 ranks in the top 2% of radio_station entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (36 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 5 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[17]

Related Entities

Germany

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [14] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [15] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [16] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [17] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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