R.SA Sommer

R.SA Sommer specializes in what German radio calls 'Oldies' - essentially everything from the 1960s through early 1990s that still drives car sales and dental office waiting rooms. German oldies radio occupies a different cultural space than its Anglo equivalent. The station leans heavily into German language hits and European acts that never quite broke America - Kraftwerk, Neu, Tangerine Dream sitting alongside Rolling Stones deep cuts. The mix is genuinely eclectic because German radio's commercial programming never prioritized American chart isolation the way UK/US stations did. Morning sl…