Thus, NWDR, set up in the British occupation zone, reflected the attitudes of the BBC; the four services set up in the American zone (BR, HR, SDR and Radio Bremen) adopted American-style practices from the Armed Forces Network; and Südwestfunk, in the French zone, tended to be more French than German in its practices.
In this sense were realized the radio compositions for the German broadcasts Südwestfunk and Hessischer Rundfunk,
It existed from 1949 to 1998, when it was merged with Südwestfunk to form the Südwestrundfunk.