Method for operating a personalized radio system

A broadcasting system (1) having

• a plurality of transmission channels (T1 to Tn, K1 to Kn) for sending program contents (PI) to terminals (N1 to Nn, 25) of users of the broadcasting system (1),
• a number of program content sources (5, 6, 27, 32, 33),
• at least one user community control unit (10, 29), which assigns specific users to specific user communities,
• and at least one program compilation unit (7, 13) for selecting and/or generating community-specific program contents (PIG) for each of the user communities, to which the respective users are assigned, from a plurality of available program contents (PI),
• characterized in that the broadcasting system has means for the entry of a community assignment signal (SGZ) by the individual users, that the user community control unit (10, 29) is designed in such a way that a user is assigned to a user community on the basis of a community assignment signal (SGZ) sent by the user, and that the program compilation unit (7, 13) is set up in such a way that certain user-specific program contents (PIN) are generated and/or selected in order to compile individual user-specific programs (NSP) for each of the various users, whilst community-specific program contents (PIG) of user communities to which the user in question is assigned are integrated into the respective user-specific programs (NSP).