Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen

Type	Broadcast television network
Country	Germany
Availability	National; also distributed in Austria and Switzerland
Owner	Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen
Key people	Markus Schächter, President
Launch date	April 1, 1963
Website	www.zdf.de

Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen ("Second German Television"), ZDF, is a public service German television channel based in Mainz. It is run as an independent non-profit agency established by joint contract between the German federal states (Länder). ZDF is funded from a television licence and advertising [1]. Image File history File links Download high-resolution version (1197x700, 53 KB) ZDF logo This is a logo of a television station, network, corporation, or other organization, and is protected by copyright and/or trademark. ... Terrestrial television (also known as over-the-air, OTA or broadcast television) was the traditional method of television broadcast signal delivery prior to the advent of cable and satellite television. ... A television network is a distribution network for television content whereby a central operation provides programming for many television stations. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Germany. ... Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF), loosely translated to Second German Television Service, is a public service German language television station based in Mainz. ... Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States (1861-1865) The majority of this article is about heads of states. ... April 1 is the 91st day of the year (92nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 274 days remaining. ... See also: 1962 in television, other events of 1963, 1964 in television and the list of years in television. For the American network television schedule, please see 1963-64 American network television schedule. ... A website (or Web site) is a collection of web pages, typically common to a particular domain name or subdomain on the World Wide Web on the Internet. ... The term television channel generally refers to either a television station or its cable/satellite counterpart (both outlined below). ... Mainz is a city in Germany and the capital of the German federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate. ... Germany is a Federal Republic made up of 16 States, known in German as Länder (singular Land). ... A television licence (or more correctly broadcast receiver licence, as it usually also pays for public radio) is an official licence required in many countries for all owners of television (and sometimes also radio) receivers. ...

The station began broadcasting on 1 April 1963 from Eschborn. The channel broadcast its first programme in colour in 1967. In 1974 ZDF moved its base of operations to Mainz-Lerchenberg, after briefly being located in Wiesbaden. April 1 is the 91st day of the year (92nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 274 days remaining. ... 1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (the link is to a full 1963 calendar). ... Eschborn is a city in the district Main-Taunus, Hessen, Germany. ... See TV (disambiguation) for other uses and Television (band) for the rock band European networks National In much of Europe television broadcasting has historically been state dominated, rather than commercially organised, although commercial stations have grown in number recently. ... 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar (the link is to a full 1967 calendar). ... 1974 (MCMLXXIV) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... Wiesbaden is a city in central Germany. ...

Unlike American television networks, ZDF (and other German TV networks) has no subsidiary stations and broadcasts one signal over a large transmitter network throughout Germany. This network, unlike that of the First German television channel ARD, is run by T-Systems, a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom) (formerly by the German postal service Deutsche Bundespost). Prior to the reunification of Germany, ZDF, like ARD, positioned many of its transmitters in locations favourable to its broadcasts being easily receivable in extensive areas of the GDR, where both channels were viewed (illegally) by large parts of the population. An affiliate is an entity with a relationship with a peer or a larger entity. ... Current logo The Arbeitsgemeinschaft der öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunkanstalten der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (Cooperative association of public-law broadcasting institutions of the Federal Republic of Germany), or simply ARD, is a joint organization of Germanys regional public broadcasting agencies. ... [[Images:Bonn DTAG2. ... This article needs copyediting (checking for proper English spelling, grammar, usage, tone, style, and voice). ... German reunification (Deutsche Wiedervereinigung) refers to the reunification of Germany from its constituent parts of East Germany and West Germany under a single government on October 3, 1990. ... GDR redirects here. ...

ZDF has also been relayed by cable since the days of the first cable pilot projects. The first Europe-wide satellite broadcast via Astra 1C began in August 1993 during the Internationale Funkausstellung (IFA - "International Broadcasting Exhibition") in Berlin. In the same decade, these new technologies were used to enable the start of digital broadcasting of ZDF. Since 2002 it has been possible to receive ZDF, ARD, and all the major television channels digitally via DVB-T in ever larger areas of the country. Coaxial cable is often used to transmit cable television into the house. ... World map showing Europe A satellite composite image of Europe Europe is one of the seven traditional continents of the Earth. ... Artists impression of a Boeing 601 satellite, as configured for digital television transmission by SES Astra Satellite television is television delivered by way of communications satellites, as compared to conventional terrestrial television and cable television. ... Astra 1C was the third satellite launched by the Société Européenne des Satellites (SES), now SES Astra. ... 1993 (MCMXCIII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003). ... Berlin is the capital city and one of the sixteen states of the Federal Republic of Germany. ... Digital television (DTV) is a telecommunication system for broadcasting and receiving moving pictures and sound by means of digital signals, in contrast to analogue signals in analogue (traditional) T.V. It uses digital modulation data, which is digitally compressed and requires decoding by a specially designed television set or a... DVB-T stands for Digital Video Broadcasting - Terrestrial and it is the DVB European consortium standard for the broadcast transmission of digital terrestrial television. ...

ZDF also operates the channels KI.KA, arte, 3sat and Phoenix in cooperation with other networks. Included in its digital offering ZDFvision are the channels ZDF.dokukanal, ZDF.infokanal and ZDF.theaterkanal. Today ZDF is Europe's largest television network. KI.KA (Der Kinderkanal = The Childrens Channel)is a public television channel based in Erfurt, Germany. ... Arte is a Franco-German TV network, which aims to promote quality programming related to the world of arts and culture. ... 3sats logo 3sat is the name of a public, advertising-free, television network in Central Europe. ...

ZDF's animated station identity mascots, the Mainzelmännchen (a play with the words "Mainz" and "Heinzelmännchen", the latter meaning "brownies" (elfs) in German), created by Wolf Gerlach in 1963, quickly became very popular and are still shown in between commercials. In 1976 the famous graphic designer otl aicher made a corporate design for ZDF Animation is the filming a sequence of drawings or positions of models to create an illusion of movement. ... A mascot, originally a fetish-like term for any person, animal, or thing supposed to bring luck, is now something—typically an animal or human character—used to represent a group with a common public identity, such as a school, professional sports team (the name often corresponds with the mascot... From the earliest days of the medium, television has been used as a vehicle for advertising in some countries. ... Otl Aicher, also known as Otto Aicher (May 13, 1922 - September 1, 1991) was one of the leading German graphic designers of the 20th century. ...

Administratively ZDF is headed by a director general (Intendant), who is elected by the ZDF Television Council, the composition of which is in turn determined by the "societally relevant groups" named in the ZDF contract. Since the founding of the network in 1963, the following have held the office of Intendant:

• 1963 - 1977: Karl Holzamer
• 1977 - 1982: Karl-Günter von Hase
• 1982 - 2002: Dieter Stolte
• since 2002: Markus Schächter

ZDF was admitted as a full active member of the European Broadcasting Union in 1963. Logo of the EBU/UER. The European Broadcasting Union (EBU), known in French as LUnion Européenne de Radio-Télévision (UER), and unrelated to the European Union, was formed on 12 February 1950 by 23 broadcasting organizations from Europe and the Mediterranean at a conference in the...

Programmes

• Aktenzeichen XY... ungelöst
• The Bold And The Beautiful (Reich & Schön)
• Derrick (cancelled)
• Ein Fall für Zwei
• heute
• Der Kommissar (cancelled)
• The Old Fox (Der Alte)
• Veronica Mars
• Wetten, dass..?

The logo of The title of this article contains the character ö. Where it is unavailable or not desired, the name may be represented as Aktenzeichen XY... ungeloest. ... The Bold and the Beautiful (often called Bold or annotated to B&B) is an American television soap opera, created by Lee Phillip Bell and William J. Bell. ... Derrick is a German TV series produced by ZDF, ORF and SRG between 1974 and 1998 about Chief Inspector (Oberinspektor) Stephan Derrick (Horst Tappert) and his loyal assistant Inspector Harry Klein (Fritz Wepper), who solve murder cases in Munich and surroundings (with only three unsolved cases). ... Ein Fall für Zwei (meaning a case for two) is a German detective show series. ... heute (translates from German as today) is a news show on the German television channel ZDF. The main show is broadcast at 19:00, consisting of news of the day, weather forecasts and sports. ... Der Kommissar is also the name of a 1982 hit song by Falco. ... The Old Fox (original German title Der Alte) is a German television series created in 1976, now running for over three decades. ... Veronica Mars is a critically acclaimed American teen drama/mystery-neo-noir series which premiered on UPN on September 22, 2004, airing its first two seasons on the network before changing to The CW Television Network on October 3, 2006. ... Wetten, dass. ...

External link

• Official Site (German)

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