ARD Digital

ARD Digital is the name of the digital television bouquets of ARD. The motto is: " ARD Digital - More from television.".

General

It will be broadcast throughout Germany via cable (DVB -C), the Astra satellite (DVB -S) and IPTV. Some programs from the offer are also be received via terrestrial television by (DVB -T) antenna.

Currently, 17 television and 61 radio channels in the DVB standard to be transferred. Among them, in addition to analog broadcast at the same time also three digitally produced exclusively for ARD programs. With them it is possible, for example, to see shows from "Das Erste" at different times.

The play-out center ( POC) for these programs is located in Potsdam at RBB, here the ARD -digital coordination is also located. Furthermore, the compiled data stream of the POC from Potsdam is transmitted to the Astra satellite, from where it is fed into the cable networks. Other locations are in Frankfurt am Main and Langenberg. Here, a different part of the program is compiled ( multiplexed ) and transmitted to the satellite ( uplink).

To receive a suitable digital television receiver ( Set-Top Box ) to the DVB standard is necessary. Supplements will not apply.

19 March 2008, the ARD has the satellite transponder of ARD Digital changed as part of the ARD - quality drive to transfer the programs on cable and satellite with a higher bandwidth. In addition, all regional programs are fed into the cable networks, as more radio programs and the Bavarian television is broadcast in the future as Bayerisches Fernsehen North and South Bavarian television via cable and satellite. By 2 June 2008, the station Eins Extra, Eins Festival, Eins Plus, ARTE, Phoenix and Radio Bremen TV were sent simultaneously to the old and the new transponder; BR -alpha by mid- 2009. Programs have since been transferred to Astra 1KR, 19.2 ° East at 10.74375 GHz and 22.000 MSym / s symbol rate on transponder 51.

Program offers

TV

SDTV

Regional programs that are not yet widespread all over DVB -C are highlighted in italics.

ARD Community programs:

  • The first
  • One Plus (formerly EuroSport stays )
  • EinsFestival
  • tagesschau24 (formerly: One Extra)

Bayerischer Rundfunk:

  • Bavarian Television South ( Old Bavaria and Swabia )
  • Bayerisches Fernsehen Nord ( CHF )
  • BR -alpha

Hessischer Rundfunk:

  • Hr- TV

Central German Broadcasting:

  • MDR TV with Sachsenspiegel
  • MDR TV with Saxony-Anhalt today
  • MDR TV with Thuringia Journal

North German Broadcasting:

  • NDR television with Hello Lower Saxony
  • NDR television with the Hamburg -Journal
  • NDR television with the Nordmagazin (Mecklenburg- Vorpommern)
  • NDR television with the Schleswig -Holstein magazine

Radio Bremen:

  • Radio Bremen TV

Rundfunk Berlin- Brandenburg:

  • Rbb Fernsehen Berlin
  • Rbb Fernsehen Brandenburg

Saarland Radio:

  • SR TV

Southwest Broadcasting:

  • SWR Baden- Württemberg
  • SWR Rheinland -Pfalz

West German Radio in Cologne:

  • WDR television with the local time in Aachen
  • WDR television with the current local time in OWL ( Bielefeld)
  • WDR television with the local time in Bonn
  • WDR television with the local time in Dortmund
  • WDR television with the local time in Duisburg
  • WDR television with the local time in Dusseldorf
  • WDR television with the local time Ruhr (Essen)
  • WDR television with the local time in Cologne
  • WDR television with the local time in Münster (Münster)
  • WDR television with the local time in South Westphalia (Siegen )
  • WDR television with the local time in Bergisch land (Wuppertal)

In North Rhine -Westphalia is in addition to the nationwide popular local time in Cologne also fed via DVB -C since April 12, 2011, each local jurisdiction of local time as well as an adjacent version.

Community programs:

  • ARTE
  • Phoenix

The programs 3sat and KiKA be disseminated through ZDFvision.

HDTV (currently not on DVB -T)

Programs whose HD offshoot be disseminated in the major cable networks over DVB -C are highlighted in bold. Programs that do not have any broadcasts in native HD broadcast are highlighted in italics. The HDTV programs can be received only under circumstances in developed cable networks.

ARD Community programs:

  • The First HD
  • Eins Festival HD
  • One Plus HD
  • Tagesschau24 HD

Third party programs:

  • Bayerisches Fernsehen HD
  • NDR TV HD
  • SWR Fernsehen HD
  • WDR TV HD
  • Rbb Fernsehen HD
  • Hr- TV HD
  • MDR TV HD

Community programs:

  • 3sat HD ( which is distributed via ZDFvision )
  • ARTE HD (not with Kabel BW )
  • KiKA HD ( which is distributed via ZDFvision )
  • Phoenix HD

Multiplexes for DVB-T

The merged into the ARD stations decide which programs from the digital ARD bouquet they broadcast on Freeview. To this end, they usually operate two multiplexes ( in Mecklenburg- Vorpommern only one), partly in cooperation. In addition, the ZDF operates a nationwide multiplex identical, which also contains the ARD investments 3sat and KiKA. In return, the ARD and ARTE multiplexes Phoenix radiate with the participation of the ZDF. The ARD send the following programs on their DVB- T multiplexes:

  • The first in each regional version
  • The private regional TV 3 in each regional version
  • Phoenix (not in Mecklenburg- Vorpommern)
  • ARTE (not in Mecklenburg- Vorpommern)
  • Third foreign television programs, partially interrupted by regional window of neighboring regions
  • One of the digital programs of ARD Digital (not in Bremen, Saarland, Mecklenburg- Vorpommern / in southern Bavaria two digital programs )
  • BR- alpha ( only in Bavaria )

Although technically possible, there are no concrete plans to spread ARD radio programs via DVB -T. The WDR broadcasting ceased individual programs via DVB-T in Berlin again now. ARD chairman Peter Boudgoust but is cited in this regard, " it will internally discuss whether and in what form a new application is submitted at the KEF "

Radio

The radio programs via Astra 19.2 ° East on the frequency 12.265 GHz (radio transponder) be received.

Bayerischer Rundfunk:

  • Bayern 1 (with regional news for Upper Bavaria, and various special programs )
  • Bayern 2 ( with regional news for Munich)
  • Bayern 3
  • BR -Klassik (formerly Bayern 4 Klassik )
  • B5 aktuell
  • B5 plus
  • Bayern mobile (up to 1 September 2008)
  • Bavaria plus (as of 1 September 2008)
  • BR traffic (until 9 January 2012 - > change to DAB )
  • Pulse (BR youth radio; formerly on3 -radio, Bavarian Open Radio and Module )

Hessischer Rundfunk:

  • Hr1
  • Hr2-kultur
  • Hr3
  • Hr4 ( with regional news for the Rhine -Main region )
  • Hr- info ( formerly hr1 plus, hr- hr- skyline and chronos )
  • Hr- info ( MW) ( was set on 31 December 2009 )
  • You FM (formerly hr XXL)
  • Hr- classic ( 30 September 2005 )

Central German Broadcasting:

  • MDR 1: MDR 1 Radio Sachsen ( with regional news for Dresden)
  • MDR Sachsen -Anhalt ( with regional news for Magdeburg )
  • MDR Thüringen ( with regional news for West-/Mittelthüringen )

North German Broadcasting:

  • NDR 1: NDR 90.3
  • NDR 1 Radio MV ( with regional news for Schwerin )
  • NDR 1 Niedersachsen ( with regional news for Hanover )
  • NDR 1 Welle Nord ( with regional news for Kiel)

Radio Bremen:

  • Bremen Eins
  • Bremen Vier
  • Nordwestradio

Rundfunk Berlin- Brandenburg:

  • Radio One ( with Regional News for Potsdam)
  • Info Radio
  • Culture Radio
  • Radiomultikulti ( was set for the year 2008/ 09)
  • Fritz
  • Antenne Brandenburg ( with Regional News for Potsdam)
  • Radio Berlin 88.8

Saarland Radio:

  • SR 1 Europawelle
  • SR 2 Kulturradio
  • SR 3 Saarlandwelle

Southwest Broadcasting:

  • SWR1: SWR1 Baden- Württemberg
  • SWR1 Rheinland -Pfalz
  • SWR4 Baden -Württemberg ( with regional news for Stuttgart)
  • SWR4 Rhineland -Palatinate ( with regional news for Mainz)

West German Radio in Cologne:

Germany Radio:

The programs of the Germany radio ( radio Germany, Germany Kultur and DRadio knowledge ) are spread over ZDFvision.

Interactive

In addition to radio and television programs, the ARD offered in the digital bouquet to also interactive services. Using a mhp -capable decoder and a remote control could the spectators in the ARD portal, inform the ARD Online Channel and ticker broadcasts and program content, actively participate in the programs, such as polls and quizzes vote and Ticker currently on sporting events - information and results. The editors of ARD Digital designed these services again and again and kept up to date. Mhp was not on DVB- T is available. Meanwhile, the spread was shut down due to low usage. However, the new HbbTV was put into operation in 2010, which is the standard for the merger of the Internet and television in Europe.

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