Tag: Public service television
Budget of ARD and ZDF increases to more than ten billion euros a year
Kai Gniffke The ARD chairman wants to invest significantly in the technology in order to keep up with Netflix and Co. (Photo: dpa) Munich The incumbent ARD chairman, Kai Gniffke,…
Germany’s most important media researcher says what’s wrong with ARD and ZDF
Munich Lutz Hachmeister, 63, is one of the most prominent media researchers in Germany. For decades, the former head of the Adolf Grimme Institute has been observing public broadcasting, occasionally…
Scandals force public broadcasting to reform
WDR director Tom Buhrow In the turmoil of the reform debate. (Photo: Imago, Getty Images, ARD [M]) Munich Anyone who believed that the end of the series of explosive, scandalous…
Scandals force public broadcasting to reform
WDR director Tom Buhrow In the turmoil of the reform debate. (Photo: Imago, Getty Images, ARD [M]) Munich Anyone who believed that the end of the series of explosive, scandalous…
Need new social contract for public service
Tom Buhrow “Does Germany want to continue having two nationwide, linear television channels in parallel in the 21st century?” (Photo: IMAGO/Future Image) Hamburg The director of West German Broadcasting (WDR),…
No more trust in RBB
Friederike von Kirchbach The chairwoman of the RBB Broadcasting Council resigned on Saturday. (Photo: dpa) Berlin In the nepotism affair surrounding the recalled director Patricia Schlesinger, the pressure on the…
No more trust in RBB
Friederike von Kirchbach The chairwoman of the RBB Broadcasting Council resigned on Saturday. (Photo: dpa) Berlin The editorial committee of Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (RBB) has asked the management to resign. In…
No more trust in RBB
Friederike von Kirchbach The chairwoman of the RBB Broadcasting Council resigned on Saturday. (Photo: dpa) Berlin The ARD directors have lost confidence in the current management of Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (RBB)…
Schlesinger dismissed as RRB director
Patricia Schlesinger The now former director of the RBB has been recalled by the Broadcasting Council. (Photo: dpa) Berlin According to dpa information, the broadcasting council of the public service…
Merz calls for reforms of public broadcasting
Friedrich Merz The CDU boss sharply criticizes the work of the public institutions. (Photo: IMAGO/Political Moments) Berlin In view of the affair surrounding the resigned RBB director Patricia Schlesinger, CDU…
“You should never lean back”
Munich The outgoing ARD chairman Tom Buhrow rejects a merger of ARD and ZDF. This is a political discussion and has nothing to do with the channel reform, he says…
ARD & ZDF embarrass themselves in the triumph of the chancellor candidates
Three-way battle for the Chancellery Olaf Scholz (from left), Annalena Baerbock and Armin Laschet: The quality of the program was worse than that of the private broadcaster RTL. (Photo: obs)…