Regiocast

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Regiocast (in full: Regiocast GmbH & Co. KG) is a German radio company based in Kiel. Regiocast primarily operates radio stations in central and northern Germany, including Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Schleswig-Holstein, Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt. With Radio Bob, Regiocast operates the private radio station with the widest reach in Germany after Antenne Bayern. Regiocast also operates Barbara Schöneberger's radio station under the name barba radio. The portfolio also includes over 20 other radio stations as well as companies for broadcasting infrastructure and the marketing of radio advertising.
For technical reasons, shares of less than one per cent cannot be shown. However, due to their participation in several media companies, small shares are also significant. The following persons hold small stakes in Regiocast, which are therefore stated as 0%: The Mohn family (0.57%), the Ippen family (0.24%), Friede Springer and Matthias Döpfner (both 0.04%), Ariane Melanie and Axel Sven Springer (0.01%), the Funke family (0.08%), the Burda family (0.009%) and the Friedmann family (0.0001%).

Key Facts

Business FormCommercial / For-profit
Legal FormLimited partnership with a GmbH as the personally liable general partner (Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft, in short: GmbH & Co. KG)

Ownership

Individual Owner
Group / Individual Owner
  • Stefan Count of Bothmer

    Stephan von Bothmer is a media entrepreneur from Lower Saxony. He is the great-grandson of Fritz Bock, the founder of the Nordwest-Mediengruppe. He holds shares in Regiocast GmbH & Co. KG and thus also in Radio Bob via the von Bothmer Familiengesellschaft mbH & Co. KG. He also holds various interests in various investment companies. The Nordwest-Mediengruppe has a stake in numerous local newspapers in Lower Saxony. Through its subsidiary NWZ Funk und Fernsehen GmbH & Co. KG, it also has more than ten holdings in the radio sector, including Regiocast, Antenne Niedersachsen and Rock Antenne.
    4.5
  • Christian-Tobias, Björn and Olaf Heinrich

    Christian-Tobias, Björn and Olaf Heinrich are the descendants of the Kiel publisher Christian Heinrich and shareholders of the Kieler Nachrichten, which is published by Kieler Zeitung Verlags- und Druckerei KG GmbH. Through their shares in Heinrich Beteiligungs GmbH, they are shareholders of Regiocast GmbH & Co. KG and thus also shareholders of Radio Bob.
    6.35
  • Minor Shareholders

    Regiocast GmbH & Co. KG has a highly diversified shareholder structure with various shareholders, each of whom holds less than five per cent of the company. These include media companies, but also individuals, each of whom holds less than one per cent of the company. The smallest individual shareholding is 0.5%.
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Media Outlets

Other Media Outlets

Other Radio Outlets
  • 80s80s (MD)
  • 80s80s MV (0.8%)
  • 80s80s Hamburg (MD)
  • 90s90s (MD)
  • 94,3 rs2 (0.3%)
  • barba radio (Webradio)
  • Berliner Rundfunk 91,4 (0.6%)
  • delta radio (0.2%)
  • Energy Bremen (0.2%)
  • Feierfreund (Webradio) (MD)
  • Hamburg 2 (MD)
  • LandesWelle Thüringen (0.2%)
  • NORA (Webradio) (MD)
  • Radio BOB! (2.5%)
  • RADIO BOB! rockt Schleswig-Holstein (0.3%)
  • Radio Erzegbirge 107,7 (MD)
  • R.SA (0.4%)
  • R.SH Radio Schleswig-Holstein (0.9%)
  • R.SH Gold (MD)
  • Radio PSR (0.7%)
  • Radio SAW (0.8%)
  • Rockland Berlin-Brandenburg (MD)
  • Rockland Sachsen (MD)
  • Schlagerplanet Radio (MD)
  • SUNSHINE LIVE (1.0%)
  • sunshine live MV (MD)
Other Online Outlets
  • www.80s80s.de (MD)
  • www.90s90s.de (MD)
  • www.berliner-runfunk.de (0%)
  • www.deltaradio.de (MD)
  • www.energy.de/bremen (MD)
  • www.hambur-gzwei.de (MD)
  • www.landeswelle.de (MD)
  • www.radiobob.de (MD)
  • www.radiopsr.de (MD)
  • www.radiosaw.de (0%)
  • www.rockland.fm (0%)
  • www.rs2.de (0%)
  • www.rsa-sachsen.de (MD)
  • www.rsh.de (MD)
  • www.schlagerplanetradio.de (MD)
  • www.sunshine-live.de (MD)

Facts

Other Media BusinessesAdvertising
  • AUDIO HOUSE (business division, 100%)
  • TOP Radiovermarktung (33%) (via Radio-Information Audio-Service Zwei GmbH)
  • Radiozentrale e.V.
Marketing and Investment
  • Eurocast GmbH Radio Venture & Management (64.45%)
Publishing
  • K.F. Schimper Verlag GmbH (64.45%) (via Eurocast GmbH)
Market Research
  • RMS Radio Marketing Service GmbH & Co. KG (9.48%, direct and indirect shareholding)
Infrastructure
  • UPLINK Network GmbH (22.7%)
Copyrights
  • Corint Media GmbH (5.57%) (direct and via shareholdings)
Radio
  • PBR Privater Bremer Rundfunk GmbH & Co. KG (24.4%)
  • 80s80s Audio GmbH & Co. KG (missing data)
  • Privater Sächsischer Rundfunk GmbH (100%)
  • LFS Landesfunk Sachsen GmbH (100%)
  • Radio Bob GmbH & Co. KG (100%)
  • Radio-Information und Audio-Service Zwei GmbH (43%)
  • Neue Berliner Rundfunk GmbH & Co. KG (10.7%) (via Radio-Information Audio-Service Zwei GmbH)
  • VMG Verlags- und Medien GmbH & Co. KG (16.9%)
Streaming
  • QuantumCast digital GmbH (6.25%) (via RCTL)
Production, distribution, licensing
  • The Farm GmbH (100%)
Other Domestic BusinessesInvestment
  • EmiR Beteiligungs GmbH (100%)
  • REGOLD GmbH & Co. KG (50%)
  • RCTL GmbH (50%)
  • Ditting Media Beteiligungs GmbH (100%)
  • M.M.B. Multimedia Verwaltungs GmbH (100%)
    Start-ups, Regiocast GmbH & Co. KG says it invests in start-ups via the German Media Pool fund by offering advertising space in its programme in return for shares in the company. In 2011, for example, this was the case for the fashion platform AboutYou. While the existence of the co-operation is known, there are no concrete details of the exact companies in which Regiocast is involved or the size of the investments.
Founding Year2004
Founder
  • Radio Schleswig-Holstein (R.SH) and Privater Sächsischer Rundfunk (PSR)
    Regiocast GmbH & Co. KG was founded in 2004 by the two private radio stations R.SH and PSR as a holding company. The shareholders of the two radio stations received corresponding shares in Regiocast, while the shareholdings of R.SH and PSR were transferred to Regiocast. The aim of the merger was to create a ‘powerful radio network’ from the individual local radio stations in order to be better able to hold its own against major competitors. Regiocast Verwaltungs GmbH acts as the personally liable partner (general partner).
Employees300
ContactREGIOCAST GmbH & Co. KG
Wittland 3
24109 Kiel
Germany
info@regiocast.de
0341 / 355 355 300
www.regiocast.de
Tax / ID NumberDE 184 534 606
RevenueMissing Data
Operating ProfitMissing Data
Advertising (in % of total funding)Missing Data
Executive Board
  • Rainer Poelmann
    CEO of Regiocast GmbH & Co. KG since 2004 and is also Managing Director of various Regiocast subsidiaries and associated companies.
  • Dirk van Loh
    CEO of Regiocast GmbH & Co. KG since 2010 and Managing Director of Radio Bob GmbH & Co. KG SINCE 2011
  • Matthias Pfaff
    Chief Digital Officer of Regiocast GmbH & Co. KG. He has worked for Regiocast since 2015 and was previously Managing Director at R.SH, one of the founding companies of Regiocast.
  • Folke Strobel
    Procurist of Regiocast GmbH & Co. KG. She also holds numerous power of attorney for Regiocast subsidiaries and associated companies.
  • Sascha Thiel
    Chief Strategic Project Officer of Regiocast GmbH & Co. KG since 2017 and was previously Managing Director at Radio Salü.
  • Franca Wohlfahrt
    Chief Revenue Officer since 2022. Wohlfahrt has also held the position of Chief Sales Officer for the Regiocast brand Audio House.
Supervisory Board
  • noname-304417
    Due to its legal form (GmbH & Co. KG), Regiocast GmbH & Co. KG is not obliged to set up a supervisory board.
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Data Publicly Available
ownership data is easily available from other sources, e. g. public registries etc.
Meta DataDue to its shareholder structure, Regiocast GmbH & Co. KG is only subject to limited disclosure requirements, so that no annual financial statements are published (Section 264a of the German Commercial Code (HGB)). The company did not respond to a corresponding request.
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