Deutschlandfunk Nova

Deutschlandfunk Nova is a German public radio programme from Deutschlandradio, offering information, education and culture with a mix of spoken features, current topics and music. It is distributed digitally, through apps, online streams and digital radio, and its stream is tagged as current affairs.

The station is part of Deutschlandradio, the national public broadcaster that also runs Deutschlandfunk and Deutschlandfunk Kultur from Cologne and Berlin. It was formerly called DRadio Wissen and was renamed Deutschlandfunk Nova. Its content is defined in the Deutschlandradio state treaty, and it is a public service offering rather than a commercial one. Programming is in German and tends to reach listeners via apps and streaming rather than traditional radios.

Expect science, society and culture topics in short and long formats, with music interludes between the spoken items. A detailed hour-by-hour schedule is available on the official website. This stream is AAC at about 96 kbps in stereo, delivered over HTTPS, and works in browsers, mobile apps and smart speakers.