The Raichberg station started broadcast service on as an FM radio transmitter operating the Südwestfunks program SWF 1. The first transmitting antenna was installed at this time on the observation tower “Raichbergturm”, which is close to the current station. Since December 1954, a high steel tube mast was used as an antenna support. As this tower could not carry TV broadcasting antennas, a new steel tube mast went into operation starting in . Between September and November 2007, the originally high mast was converted to the upcoming digital
DVB-T. The old analog
VHF antenna was dismantled and a new high
UHF antenna segment for DVB-T was mounted on top, thereby shrinking the transmission tower from . ==See also==