The World's most popular alpine radio show! All the secrets, all the backroom gossip! Mike and Rosemarie's daily show
has been broadcast for 21 years..... and it's still going strong (despite me being on it!!)
It seems incredible but Infotourist, along with Radio BeO, is 21years old
this year, with Mike clocking up in excess of an amazing 6300 editions of the programme without missing a show! (Guinness
Book of Records take note!)
With the numerous deep valleys, and millions of tonnes of mountains between
them, Radio Berner Oberland has quite a task on it's hands to provide excellent signals to all it's audience. Over ten transmitters
and as many cableways are used to achieve this as well as relays in the longer road tunnels.
This amazing FM transmitter mast recently came into service
on top of the Oberland's pyramid mountain Niesen, increasing the coverage of Radio BeO way up into the Capital Bern, even
as far as the Emmental!! It also improves reception in the Kander valley on 88.8 MHz.
Click to read!
The Niesen transmitter is a whopper I'm sure you'll agree, but
it's not quite as big or powerful as the International Deutsche Welle relay that I visited at Cyclops, where you could hear
the programmes in a metal bucket held in the direction of the transmitter. Think what it was doing to my brain cells!
What do you mean 'that explains a lot'?!
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On Infotourist you'll hear Mike often refer to Fred. Not a real person,
but the excellent Radio Berner Oberland music computer that chooses records to play during the day, and runs the automated
service for Music Natur and Nacht programmes. Fred has the pick of the astonishing Radio Beo music library, which is
rated as one of the best in Europe. As well as an astounding amount of digital music, the vinyl collection of records
is legendary! Oh and Mike knows the entire collection even better than Fred!!
Below Mike is looking.. well 'carnival - like' with his Mardi Gras beads kindly given by Pete Wilson and
his wife from Louisiana on a trip to the Radio BeO studios.
When the player loads you can carry on surfing while you listen!
If you can label yourself as ' a lover of the Bernese Oberland' we'd love
to hear from you. Please contact the programme on the email address mike@radiobeo.ch
Ah summer nights in the garden listening to BeO. A little cold without
a cover though. Enjoy the programme and happy listening!!! Don't forget you can keep in touch when you go home...anywhere
in the world via www.radiobeo.ch
Why not send us some photos of you in the Oberland and join the
gang of the 'In'crowd.
Mike at work with a particularly tough interviewee.. Catherine!!
I received an email from a certain lady journalist who described the chap
pictured above as a 'gorgeous hunk'.. no not me.. our dear firend and popular Swiss musician and composer John Hanni.
John lives in Lenk in the Bernese Oberland and is a great supporter of the show. You can visit his website here.
