ZDF

ZDF , abbreviation of Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (in French: the second television German ), is the second Television channel federal public general practitioner German.

History of the chain

Deutschland-Fernsehen GMBH

The federal chancellor Adenauer and its cabinet wished a second television program diffused on the federal and concerning level federal government. It should be a question of a company of private television. However, this project undermined the cultural sovereignty of the Länder (including television), so that those could destroy it by depositing a complaint in front of the federal constitutional court. The federal government pretexted that its authority on the German federal post office conferred the right to him to grant licenses of sending and thus, by extension, made it qualified for broadcasting, although this argument has little chance to be received by a court. The federal government hoped to be able to dissuade the länders to carry felt sorry for in their granting on August 1st 1960 a minority interest in this second television program baptized Deutschland-Fernsehen GMBH and which was to start to emit at January 1st 1961.

Länder SPD of Hamburg, Bremen, Lower Saxony and of Hesse finally carried felt sorry for in front of the federal constitutional court between on August 19th and on September 19th 1960, since they saw their cultural sovereignty reached by this project. February 28th 1961, the judgment of the federal constitutional court of Karlsruhe declares that Deutschland-Fernsehen GMBH is unconstitutional and also confirms single competence that have Länders for the questions of program and organization about the sector of broadcasting, the federal government being compétant only for the technical side of broadcasting. This clear separation of competences had been posed in 1945.

ARD 2

In accordance with the judgment, Deutschland-Fernsehen GMBH , which cost 63.000 DM, is dissolved and the project is taken again on the basis of federal television carried jointly by different the Länder. But the German Post office had already begun the construction of a second network of transmitters to the standard UHF intended to diffuse Deutschland-Fernsehen GMBH and adapters UHF, sold approximately 80 DM, had been designed to make it possible the oldest receivers to collect the progamme. So that the televiewers can already adapt this new network of transmitters UHF, one thus authorizes ARD to temporarily diffuse there every the 8 p.m. day to 10 p.m. a second program baptized ARD 2 . The emissions begin on May 1st 1961 in the zone of diffusion of the Hessischer Rundfunk and a month later at the federal level. The authorization of diffusion is granted until June 30th 1962 then prolonged until the March 30th 1963.

ZDF

The treaty on “the establishment of the institute of public law of the second channel of German television ( ZDF )” is signed on June 6th 1961 by the presidents of the Council of Länder with Stuttgart and between in force on December 1st of the same year. The beginning of the emissions is planned for on July 1st 1962 but this date will be finally deferred to April 1st 1963.

The planning of the transmitters of the new program integrates the will of an optimal reception in as many parts as possible of GDR. The first experimental diffusion of the ZDF takes place in the night from March 19th to 20th 1963 on the transmitter of Feldberg, the second experimental test in the night from March 26th to 27th on all the transmitters of the chain. At this moment 61% of the televiewers can be reached then approximately 80% starting from August 25th 1967.

October 1st 1973, the newspaper of information Heute is created. Its initial diffusion was programmed the every day, at 7 p.m.

July 13rd 1984, the three German-speaking groups of public television, German ZDF, the Austrian ORF and Switzerland SRG, conclude a contract on a common program from Satellite television as test for the German linguistic surface common to the three countries: 3sat was born.

The chain launches on October 2nd 1989 the ZDF-Mittagsmagazin , magazine of information and services, diffused daily at 1 p.m.

June 28th 1989 with Bonn, the presidents of the Council of Länder decide promotion and planning of a cultural channel of television Franco-German. April 30th 1991 with Strasbourg, Dieter Stolte (for the ZDF) and Jerome Clément (for Seven) sign the treaty of foundation of the cultural channel of television European, ARTE, which starts to emit on the two sides of the the Rhine in May 1992.

In 1994, the ZDF diffuses its first programs in Dolby Surround through the emission headlight of the chain, Wetten dass…? . A new program timetable aiming at “improving competitiveness of the chain the morning, the afternoon and the evening…” is installation in 1998 and on June 2nd 2001, it is offered a new preparing of younger antenna to dominant orange with new a logo in which letter Z of preceding logo “ZDF” is graphically improved to be assimilated to figure 2. The new initials can be read “2DF”.

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