changes with effect from 1 September 1998: SWF 1 and SDR 1 became SWR1 Baden-Württemberg and SWR1 Rheinland-Pfalz: regional programmes for their respective states (Länder) S 2 Kultur became SWR2 SWF3 and SDR 3 became the pop station SWR3 S 4 Baden-Württemberg became SWR4 Baden-Württemberg SWF 4 Rheinland-Pfalz became SWR4 Rheinland-Pfalz DASDING was unchanged and continued broadcasting The television channel Südwest 3 became Südwest BW and Südwest RP, and today transmits as SWR Fernsehen A radio news channel, SWR cont.ra, was added in July 2002. This was relaunched with a new programme format on 9 January 2012 as SWRinfo. It was relaunched again as SWR Aktuell on 6 February 2017 Organization Since 2007, the managing director of SWR has been Peter Boudgoust, who was previously the administrative director of SWR. The managing director's office is located in Stuttgart. Seven other directors serve under him (locations of their offices in parentheses): Jan Büttner – Administration (Stuttgart) Dr. Christoph Hauser – Information, Sport, Film, Service & Entertainment (Baden-Baden) Gerold Hug – Culture, Knowledge, Young Formats (Baden-Baden) Stefanie Schneider – Regional Programming for Baden-Württemberg (Stuttgart) Dr. Simone Schelberg – Regional Programming for Rhineland-Palatinate (Mainz) Dr. Hermann Eicher – Legal Department (Mainz) Michael Eberhard – Engineering and Production (Baden-Baden) Transmitter locations Fernsehturm Stuttgart (Stuttgart TV Tower – a large TV/radio transmission tower in a steel-reinforced concrete structure, also containing a tower restaurant and viewing deck) Rheinsender at Wolfsheim for FM Fernsehturm Heidelberg (Heidelberg TV Tower – a large TV/radio transmission tower in a steel-reinforced concrete structure, containing a viewing deck). Transmitter Aalen for FM and TV Transmitter Waldenburg for FM and TV Transmitter Bad Mergentheim-Löffelstelzen for FM and TV Transmitter Ulm-Kuhberg for VHF Transmitter Freiburg-Lehen for FM and TV Transmitter Ulm-Ermingen for FM and TV Transmitter Hornisgrinde for FM and TV Transmitter Raichberg for FM and TV Transmitter Wannenberg for FM and TV Transmitter Blauen for FM and TV Transmitter Bad Marienberg for FM and TV Transmitter Fernsehturm St. Chrischona (Switzerland) for FM and TV Transmitter Feldberg im Schwarzwald for FM and TV Transmitter Weinbiet for FM and TV Transmitter Haardtkopf for FM and TV Transmitter Kettrichhof for FM and TV Transmitter Witthoh for FM and TV Transmitter Saarburg for FM and TV Transmitter Potzberg for FM and TV Transmitter Eifel for FM and TV Transmitter Waldburg for FM and TV Transmitter Dieblich-Naßheck(Koblenz) for FM and TV Transmitter Donnersberg for FM and TV Transmitter