Since 1963, radio broadcasts were transmitted in stereophonic sound. Trials with quadrophonic sound are left at that.

Again, plastics, metal and acrylic plastic appear on the market-all in white, chromium-coloured or black. The design is supposed to make operating the sets easier, i.e. clear and simple.

The technical concept of the sets also changes dramatically: The first component systems appear on the market as early as in the sixties. Around 1970, the so-called compact systems become popular: The radio unit on the right-hand side, the cassette player in the middle, the record player on the left-hand side -all protected by a large acrylic plastic cover-, naturally, with the speakers standing separately.

TV is turning into a dominant fact of life. In 1963, the second TV station appears on the scene, in 1964, a third TV station for Bavaria -the »Bayerische Rundfunk«- and three years later all is in colour.

It wasn't until the eighties that public radio and public TV saw competition in private companies. Since then, a multitude of TV stations battle over TV audiences - whether this has helped the quality of the programmes is a matter of individual choice...

New developments also in recording technology: In 1969, the first video recorders appear on the market. Tape recorders become much easier to handle with the advent of the compact cassette in 1964. And the old vinyl disk is soon replaced by the CD as from 1983. A hefty DM 2000.-- (just over EUR 1000) was the price for the first CD players.

Digitization is today's central topic. The days of analogue radio are counted! New media are taking over the world, the internet links people under a world-wide network, the computer merges with television, radio and telephone thus creating a completely new form of communication at a very high rate.