Sat.1

Sat.1 (own spelling: SAT.1 ) is a private television station with full program and based in Unterföhring near Munich. The station is part of ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG, its founder Leo Kirch was.

  • 4.1 Sat.1 Austria
  • 4.2 Sat.1 Switzerland

History

Station's history

On January 1, 1984, the station rang one day before the first broadcast of RTL plus the era of private television in Germany as part of the Ludwigshafen cable pilot project. At 9:58 clock the program company for cable and satellite broadcasting (PKS ) was of a basement studio in Ludwigshafen on the air. With the sentence: " Ladies and gentlemen, at this moment you are witnessing the start of the first private television broadcaster in the Federal Republic of Germany " welcomed Jürgen Doetz, then managing director of the station, together with the presenter Irene Joest at 10:30 clock the spectators. From 10:33 clock was followed by the opening of the Fireworks Music by Georg Friedrich Händel. Further programs of the first transmission day was:

The logo of PKS was a rotating globe, was on the PKS. Aired the TV was first on the European satellite ECS 1: The transmitter could be received only at the beginning of 1200 cable households in the Ludwigshafen cable pilot project. On January 1, 1985, the stations PKS renamed in Sat.1. Since December 8, 1989 Sat.1 sends 19.2 ° East on the Astra position.

On October 1, 1987 Sat.1 launched as the second German television station, according to RTL plus, a factory daily breakfast television ( Good Morning with Sat.1 ). On September 12, 1990, it came to the inauguration of sat.1 broadcasting center in Mainz, sent from the left until the sat.1 media center in Berlin on 30 August 1999.

In January 1991, the test image, which until then had sent after the programs disappeared. In the program- free time then the sat.1 text was sent. Since mid-1993 Sat.1 sends a 24 -hour full program.

Weekday at 17:30 clock regional news programs are broadcast under the title 17:30 Sat.1 in the states of Bremen, Lower Saxony, Hamburg, Schleswig -Holstein, North Rhine -Westphalia, Rhineland -Palatinate, Hesse and Bavaria.

1995 moved Sat.1 under the slogan " Full hour full program " the start of the main evening program by 15 minutes 20:00 clock and also let the program subsequent start on the hour each. This means that the supremacy of the ARD evening news should be broken, the end at 20:15 clock specified a fixed point in all other transmission schemes. After the ratings fell significantly at Sat.1, the station came back in 1997 back to the old time schedule.

1996 saw an uproar: Margaret shrines Makers, who stood for tax evasion in the crossfire of criticism, wanted to express in their own right in their mission shrines Makers Live. During the post started off, broke Sat.1 up the shipment and Ulrich Meyer leaving instead a statement from the station to the incident.

On 2 October 2000 merged with the television station ProSieben Sat.1 organization. From this merger, the ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG was formed.

On November 10, 2001 posted Sat.1 the qualifier for the FIFA World Cup 2002 between Ukraine and Germany the best audience to date with an average 14.02 million viewers and a market share of 55.1 percent.

On 6 September 2004, the station switched off the VPS signal. Since late February 2007 transmits Sat.1 additional information about the current program blucom.

On 16 July 2007, ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG announced drastic cuts in sat.1 information area. Around 70 jobs should be eliminated solely with Sat.1. Already on July 17, ran the program Sat.1 at noon and in the evening Sat.1 no more; So the conversion program began just one day after the announcement. On 31 August 2007, the night news was finally adjusted.

On 19 July 2007 Sat.1 took after the boycott of the station on the first and ZDF, the transfer of the 2007 Tour de France. These transfers, however, were to rate disaster, as market shares in any broadcast day were over ten percent. So they were both well below the average of the sender and well below the market share of the regular afternoon program. Also from an economic perspective, this decision was a mistake. The advertising rates for the afternoon had to be reduced by 60 percent.

On 13 November 2008, the ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG announced at a staff meeting at the Hilton Hotel in Berlin to relocate its headquarters from Berlin to Unterföhring near Munich. This affected 350 editors and administrators. The departments of the marketer Northern and Shell Media GmbH moved to Unterföhring. ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG wanted to achieve further savings by the elimination of 225 jobs at Sat.1. At the same time a change in management was known. The previous sat.1 CEO Matthias Alberti joined on 1 January 2009 for German Free TV Holding and was beside Andreas Bartl dortiger CEO. His successor at Sat.1 since January 1, 2009 Guido Bolten, the former managing director of cable one who has left the station on February 1, 2010. Andreas Bartl, CEO of ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG, took over at this time the leadership of the company.

On January 20, 2009, there was in Berlin for the first strike of the employees in the German private television. The reason for the staff meeting were the failed negotiations between Sat.1 and the employee representatives on a social plan. At the 36-hour industrial action to which the German Journalists Association ( DJV ) and Verdi had called on about 90 percent of the more than 600 employees at the Berlin-Mitte sat.1 Location participate.

Since January 31, 2010 Sat.1 sends his program in HD on the platform Astra HD in HD.

On 19 May 2012, the station beaming with a more than 13 -hour coverage of Munich from the longest football transfer the station's history. At the same time the best audience in the final of the UEFA Champions League final between Bayern Munich and Chelsea could be achieved with an average of 16.77 million television showers and a market share of 55.3 percent. In the top off a 20.38 million viewers, so that the market share during the penalty shoot- climbed to a record high of 70.1 percent.

Market shares

In 1988 Sat.1 had to so far only time a higher market share than RTL, and in 1994, its highest market share, partly because of the time broadcast football broadcasts ran - Sat.1 Bundesliga. In the channel ranking the transmitter is usually the fourth. Only in the years 1988 and 1995, managed to carve out in 3rd place in 2006 fell Sat.1 rate increase after three years back under ten percent.

1 January 2013 Sat.1 has a new license at the Media Institute Hamburg / Schleswig -Holstein requested and thus removed from the authority of the Rhineland-Palatinate State Office of Media and Communication. Background should be the coupling of the license to the Third Party News and Pictures.

The average age of the audience is 51 years ( as of 2012).

Station logos

Logo from 1986 to 31 August 2001

Logo from 1 September 2001 to September 2, 2004

Logo of 3 September 2004 to 16th March 2008

Logo of March 17, 2008 to September 15, 2009

Logo of September 16, 2009 to August 15, 2011

Logo for August 16, 2011

Already in 1986, changed its logo for the first time Sat.1. Introduced with the original version of flat, colored halo was first curved into a "ball" and integrated into the logo.

In 1996, the CBS logo has been revised for the second time. Unlike previous campaigns in which the ball is always standing in the foreground, the transmitter sat for the first time the entire logo in the foreground. The colorful ball was replaced by a much smaller, simple, black ball. In addition, the logo was now surrounded by an ellipse. Although the lettering Sat.1 was in the foreground, was the ball as a screen logo. However, its colorful paint was revoked and he was a simple dark gray, slightly transparent circle.

On 1 September 2001, Sat.1 presented with a revised design. Now the station showed as screen logo not only the ball but also the bookmark. Thus, the 1996 current direction was continued. The ball was now similar to the first logo again colorful. The screen logo moved from the left to the right corner of the screen. On 3 September 2004 changed Sat.1 TV station logo slightly. The colorful ball contained in the monochrome logo was, again, usually, shown in dark pink.

On 17 March 2008 a renewed relaunch of the corporate design of the station took place. Since then Sat.1 took the ball again as the sole channel logo and new on-air elements. To see the duration logo was left again. Similarly, the font used was renewed. The SAT1DigitalSans used to redesign, a modified version of the font Sans Digital was replaced in both the transmitter logo as well as the presentation of program content on posters or in the on -air design. Reminiscent of a blend of VAG Round font and Arial Rounded font was called Sat1 Rounded.

The since the September 16, 2009 rotating clockwise sat.1 ball moved back into the right corner of the screen. In some cases, such as with short commercial breaks, the ball turned counterclockwise. As a new font Klavika was introduced.

On July 20, 2011 Sat.1 announced at a press conference that the sender gets back a multicolored ball during the month of August, a completely new design was not planned. It was decided then but for a revision of the appearance. The new design, continue with the font Klavika Bold is used since August 16, 2011.

Slogans

  • 1993: " The best time of the day"
  • 1994: " The private program "
  • 1995: "Full hour. Full program "
  • From 1996: " I'm keeping ' you!"
  • From 2000: " Sat.1 - Yes "
  • From 2001: "Powered by emotion"
  • From 3 September 2004: " Sat.1 shows it all! "
  • From 2008: " More ..."
  • From 16 September 2009: "Colour Your Life "
  • Since October 1, 2012: " Rejoice on it"

Managing Director ( since 1988)

Reception

  • Cable: analog, digital
  • Satellite: digital
  • IPTV
  • DVB- T

Sat.1 is sent digitally via satellite and all German networks. The analog satellite broadcasting was shut down on 30 April 2012. With the introduction of DVB -T in some regionally available analogue terrestrial broadcasting has been discontinued altogether; the digital terrestrial broadcasting radio station takes place in the majority of metropolitan areas. A digital distribution on the cable networks have been agreed after years of negotiations with the cable operators and so is Sat.1 now fed in most digital cable networks. In Switzerland, Austria and Luxembourg, the transmitter radiates the German program, but included in the first two Swiss, and Austrian programs.

In the Video center on the homepage of the transmitter part of the program is also made available on the internet. The self-produced series are there free watchable for seven days after the TV broadcast. After that, they are chargeable seen at maxdome.de. Sat.1 but also the self-produced movies for free Tuesday for seven days on the internet.

Sat.1 HD

On 29 and 30 November 2004 with the television miniseries "The Ring of the Nibelungen " for the first time a high-resolution HDTV broadcast, in addition to the standard definition in PAL, performed in simulcast method. This test should provide the high definition capability and future security for further transfers to the test. By the end of the test phase in 2008, followed by other broadcasting in HD.

Since 31 January 2010, the HD program is broadcast encrypted Sat.1. Receivable, the program is via satellite (SES Astra ) on the pay-TV platform HD , but since mid-2011 and pay TV services from cable Germany, Kabel BW, Unity Media, as well as the IPTV offering Telekom Entertain.

Program window

Sat.1 Austria

For Austria, a separate program window Sat.1 Austria is broadcast with numerous magazines and its own advertising. Since September 2011, the Austrian station also broadcasts a high definition simulcast version of Sat.1 Austria.

Sat.1 Switzerland

In Switzerland, a separate program window is broadcast with Swiss advertising and own broadcasts, which means that the Swiss audience the regular program can not receive at those times. Examples include the shipments Joya Joya runs and travels, or KickOff and GetOut snowboard magazine, or Celebrations - Where are the heroes? and Move in! - The reins broadcast or Ricardo hammer show and Forbidden TV.

Shipments

Internet

Since February 20, 1996 Sat.1 is also represented on the Internet. At the start there was an appearance on schmidt.de the Harald Schmidt Show. In September 1996, the first official website followed www.sat1.de. Over the following years, Sat.1 online has developed into a general-interest services that covers in addition to the program information also topics such as lifestyle, sports, counselor, family entertainment and car. Since 12 March 2008 offers sat1.de - such as the Internet offer of ProSieben and kabel eins - the possibility of certain programs from the past week to watch online in hindsight and to evaluate them.

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