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Advertiser continuity Gabriela Hellweg WDR studios in Cologne in November 1953.
In 1948 the British occupation forces have allowed NWDR to broadcast TV shows for the British zone Other regional networks have also begun to launch television in their own areas Meanwhile, the GDR was launching its own service television, Deutscher Fernsehfunk FDF, based on the Soviet model.
A regular schedule began with the cooperation of all members of the ARD in 1954 Fundamentals in the central areas of entertainment, information and enlightenment were created and developed as TV sets own art form means specific improvements in technology and programming, as well as discounted prices, has led to a steady increase of licensees and the number of licenses has surpassed 1 million in October 1957.
On 1 April 1963, long-promised second television network, the Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen Second German TV channel started Unlike ARD, which was regionalized and had its roots in radio, ZDF was an organized channel center dedicated television exclusively August 25, 1967 at 9 30 pm on ARD and ZDF, Vice Chancellor Willy Brandt started the color TV era in West Germany by pressing a symbolic launch button at the international Fair Radio and TV West Berlin.
East Germany began DFF2 in 1969, and introduced the programming of colors on both channels In 1972, DFF was renamed, dropping the pretense of being a service all-Germany and become Fernsehen der DDR GDR Television or DDR-FS Its two channels has become known as DDR1 and DDR2.
The first two privately funded television network RTL, shorter for Radio Television Luxembourg and SAT 1 began their program in West Germany in 1984. Previously, broadcast RTL Luxembourg but were received in parts of southwest Germany.
After the reunification of TV channels of the German Democratic Republic was dissolved and the remains were used to establish new regional networks, for example, Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk Central German Broadcasting, as part of the ARD Furthermore, chains open more private television, becoming available via cable, satellite and, in some cases, on the air.
Today, with nearly 40 million homes, 365 television channels licensed in Germany and a total market volume of 9615 million in 2008, Germany is one of the largest television markets and most diversified world's highest income segment in Germany is publicly funded 4430 million in 2008, advertising tracking 4035 million and subscription 1,150 million 4 This dominant market position of public free television and advertising funded Germany explains why the segment of the German pay-TV is significantly underperforming in international comparison 5.
Regarding the total viewing television market leaders from Germany market in 2015 were again the two major public service broadcasters ZDF May 12 and Das Erste with 11 6 and the two main commercial channels RTL 9 9 and SAT 1 7 9 6 with the main pay TV provider Sky Deutschland was see the biggest below teleshopping providers in Germany are QVC and HSE24.
With 18 1 million homes Satellit TV is the dominant TV infrastructure in Germany, followed by 17 to 9 million cable TV homes and land 3 8 7 million TV homes in half a 2010 survey of German viewers said that they often found nothing to watch on TV 8.
The German Speaking sphere is the largest market for dubbing in Europe watch foreign television and other formats are often dubbed in German, while subtitled formats with the original language are also becoming more popular 9.
The combined share of ARD called regional broadcasters NDR Programs SWR WDR etc. Was 12 4 2014 11.
Only subscription channel Premiere peaked around the First offered broadcasts of the German League football millennium Germany - Bundesliga Bundesliga was cash cow Premiere, but they lost the broadcasting rights in 2006 to a newly formed competitor - Arena Premiere was the brainchild of former Tsar television, Leo Kirch He went bankrupt after a decade of losing viewers of its subscription channel DF1 digital TV 1 the company re-gained with its new Director Georg Kofler He tries to get return by purchasing new viewers international shows and introducing them to German viewers Lost ABC was shown on Premiere Kofler and Kirch bought international film US film studios in advance to they can disseminate a year after release Normally, American films are shown in non-subscribed ly free TV premiere three years after their release offers a combination of several channels featuring Animal Planet Discovery Channel and Disney Channel; and several thematic channels for music, crime and sport.
In 2005, several German cable operators companies have created a new challenger Premiere - ARENA Participating companies are iesy Hessen and ish TV North Rhine-Westphalia with its combined partnership called Unity Media Arena, a rather small company, wanted to buy rights to pay TV in the German Bundesliga and won by a decision of the management of marketing the DFL's Bundesliga broadcasting rights is considered lucrative market for German television, while Premiere prior rights holders suffered a blow wounding their business model Arena holds the rights to 2006 in 2008 new negotiations were expected in 2008 for the dissemination of the Bundesliga.
As noted above, the ARD was the first German broadcasting station It has a federal structure oriented Currently, nine regional television stations cooperate to produce programs for the television network known as Das Erste The First.
Seven of the broadcasters run their own regional television programs The third, most of them use several frequencies and show local opt-out While multi-state broadcasters NDR, RBB, have state versions by SWR and MDR example RBB Berlin, MDR Saxony, Hamburg NDR, WDR and BR have regional opt-out below the level of the State of North and South BR, WDR 11 variants Some small regions like Bremen RB and SR Saarland have their own broadcasting stations, mainly for historical reasons, they only contribute to the national television program Das Erste and produce an opt-out from the state for their neighbor broadcaster SR-Fernsehen on SWR, Radio Bremen TV on NDR.
Digital satellite television was officially available in Germany since 1996. Prior to May 2012, most of the 30 television channels broadcast their satellite signal using both analogue and digital DVB-S; However, all programs broadcast by analog satellite ended April 30, 2012.
There is currently only one operator pay-TV satellite Germany - Sky Deutschland Before being known as Sky, the service was named First; 12 along its former owner Leo Kirch had serious financial troubles because of his early and exclusive use of Betacrypt encryption, D-box Thereafter, Premiere was bought by News Corporation and renamed Sky, in accordance with their services satellite other European Sky UK and Ireland and Sky Italia.
At the end of 2004 German channel ProSieben group showed a BBC documentary and a TV movie self-produced in 1080i via MPEG-2 DVB-S followed by Hollywood movies Spider-Man and Men in Black II in March 2005, these were for a test for future commercial HD services.
Free regular dissemination of air HD versions of Sat.1 and ProSieben began October 26, 2005 Unlike the test broadcasts, DVB-S2 and MPEG-4 AVC were used in both HD and ProSieben Sat 1 HD have ceased unencrypted broadcasts in 2008; encrypted HD broadcasting two channels included in the HD brand that also includes other commercial channels; see below in January 2010.
First, after several delays, began broadcasting three HD channels each dedicated to a sports films and documentaries in November 2005, although there was virtually no certified receivers appropriate to market the content is sparse and therefore Sky repeatedly formerly Premiere reuses its digital rights management system built property in its jamming system SD broadcast of the Nagravision content to block the analog output of film channel from the STB receiving altogether, which allows the HDCP -secured transmissions; other channels are less restricted.
On 1 November 2009, the HD Premium launched two chains service RTL HD and Vox HD, with Sat.1 HD, ProSieben HD and Kabel eins HD join the service in January 2010 DSF HD now called Sport1 HD began broadcasting trials August 2010 and launched entirely in HD on November 1, 2010, followed by Sixx HD and RTL2 HD on 1 December 2010 in June 2011 Comedy HD Central, Nickelodeon HD and N24 HD joined the service, bringing the number of channels offered 11 April 2011, HD became available to Sky Deutschland subscribers without the need for CAM and HD viewing card although an additional subscription is still necessary.
Currently May 2012 all HDTV satellite channels are broadcast using the codec 264 pm In July 2014, most materials is upscaled SD content.
Before April 30, 2012, had eight free-to-air HDTV channels from broadcasting Germany Satellite Das Erste HD, ZDF HD, Arte HD Anixe HD 13 EinsFestival HD, 14 HD, QVC HD and HSE24 HD 15 After April 30 2012 when all programs broadcast by analog satellite ceased, ten additional HD channels FTA have become available which are all public service channels Phoenix HD, NDR HD WDR HD, BR HD, SWR HD ZDFneo HD ZDFinfo HD ZDFkultur HD 3sat HD and HD KiKa 16 17 from December 2013 all PSB channels except ARD-alpha, SR Fernsehen TV and Radio Bremen are available in HD.
Cable transmission is still analog mainly with usually about 30 channels available transmission DVB-C began in 2004 with Premiere pay-TV and digital versions of analog channels.
The passage late enough to DVB was caused both by the long process of sale of the infrastructure of the former monopolist Deutsche Telekom to others and that the cable network ends at the curb or property with internal cable in large apartment buildings being operated by another company because of this, the new owners of the Deutsche Telekom cable network were in many cases unable to offer new products directly to the viewer .
In 2006, there were three major cable operators, Unity Media in Hessen North Rhine-Westphalia and Baden-Württemberg and by far the largest, Kabel Deutschland in the 13 other states Today, all companies offer 200 TV DVB-C, some 70 channels at no extra cost, and a number of pay-per-view subscription offers and packages like HD-broadcasts of private channels, comparable to HD on satellite further that Sky Deutschland pay channel also available.
In some very large complex of apartments a number of local and national companies operate in an internal cable network that is powered solely by its own satellite antenna on the building, not the local cable operator's satellite channels in Transcoded analog transmission to be received by any TV without additional equipment, or DVB-C.
From 2014, still 17 Germany 2 transmits analog CATV signals, compared with 29 1 of digital cable; this similar to the situation in the Netherlands Sweden and Belgium where the analog cable is still widely used 18.
Terrestrial reception had lost most of its users by citing 1990s required due to extensive cable and satellite coverage in a process both analog broadcasting steps terrestrial television in the states of Berlin and Brandenburg has been extinguished 2003 and replaced in 2005 by DVB-T, about two thirds of the German states began to replace analogue transmission in 2006, all metropolitan and more rural had moved to digital transmission Today, only the foundations of foreign military and some local television stations still broadcast in analog.
While public broadcasters ARD and ZDF transmit throughout Germany, commercial stations are available only in metropolitan areas, so the number of available channels varies between approximately 10 and 30 All channels are free to air and broadcasters rent direct transmission services of an operator transmitter, usually ARD Digital broadcast stations also use their own transmitters.
In June 2016, a gradual shift of the DVB-T with MPEG-2 encoding and encoding with DVB-T2 HEVC started The first phase comprises a new broadcasting multiplex six channels in the selected urban areas, in addition to the old DVB -T 19 channels broadcast in standard 1080p50, but when the programs are upscaled to 720p Das Erste and ZDF or 1080i RTL, Pro7, Sat1, VOX 20 21 22 commercial channels are encrypted and part of Freenet TV 23 -Package the final tipping DVB-T2 will occur in steps, beginning with large metropolitan areas 29 March 2017 switched, the last transmitter is provided to switch 24 in 2019.
Almost all fiction programs on German television are regular TV series While the public broadcaster's main productions that are broadcast, networks of private stations often set series licensed abroad, mainly in the US culminating in the 1990s, the private channels has airy self-produced series such as Der Clown 1996 2000, alarm für Cobra 11 Die Autobahnpolizei alarm for Cobra 11 - the highway Police since 1996, sentinel 1994 1996, Alpha team - the Lifesaver OP 1996 2005 or turf Wolff mainly from 1992 to 2006 with great success since the late 2000s, the amount of the original series of private broadcasters has declined markedly.
The highest-rated series of the drama Tatort crime which airs almost every Sunday on public broadcaster ARD He runs since 1970 and has made several casts, which are not related to each other.
Television in Germany, TV, germany, broadcast by analog satellite.