Ö3

Ö3 (Hitradio Ö3) is one of the nationwide radio stations of Austria's public service broadcaster, the ORF (Austrian Broadcasting Corporation). The format focuses on contemporary hit radio, specialising in pop music and chart hits from the 1980s to the present. Ö3 has the biggest audience share by far (averaging 31%) of all Austrian radio stations. 
The station was launched by the ORF on 1st October 1967, as part of a programme of broadcasting reforms. At around the same time, the BBC made changes to its radio services and adopted numbers (Radios 1,2,3,and 4) to identify the different networks, and ORF did the same. Ö3 was the ORF's pop music outlet and the equivalent of BBC Radio 1.. Ö3's schedules initially included alternative genres and many specialist music shows, but later on it changed into a pop oriented radio station in the mid 90's.
== Links To Peel ==
Peel recorded a monthly programme called Nachtexpress (Night Express) for the night-time strand of the radio station Ö3 from 1989-1994. The programmes were one hour long, a fact which Peel frequently regretted, as it meant he had little time to either play longer tracks or treat his listeners to the many new releases that came his way. 
In the summer of 1991, Peel managed to see for the first time the Nachtexpress studios (and a huge pile of bureaucratic forms) in Vienna. But after the ORF reorganised its pop music services in the mid-1990s, it was a new station, FM4, which carried on the alternative tradition of the earlier Ö3. When Peel died in 2004 it was FM4, rather than Ö3, which paid tribute to him.
== Show Dates Available ==
: See Nachtexpress
== External Links ==
*Wikipedia
*Official Website
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