ARD-Hauptstadtstudio
The ARD studio is a joint facility of all ARD regional broadcasters based in the Wilhelmstrasse in Berlin's Mitte district, very close to the Reichstag building and other centers of federal policy, is reported from the studio. It was opened to coincide with the move of the Federal government from Bonn to Berlin in 1999.
Terms and Description
In building the Berlin radio correspondents all national broadcasters and correspondents of some third-party television programs for their local newscasts in addition to a television editorial community with supplies mainly to the central editorial office of ARD housed currently in Hamburg. Create Correspondents their contributions mainly for their home newsrooms in each ARD stations. They have access to a fully digital system that, for example, makes it possible to transfer finished radio reports in seconds from the main studio in the contribution pool of ARD company at which he can be sent immediately in the running program without any further effort.
About 70 journalists produce in the ARD studio contributions to their home stations (as of end of 2012). In addition, is sent from the large TV studio A with corner windows Sundays at 18:30 clock the report from Berlin. Also on elections, party conferences, state visits or current national political events there are special broadcasts from the studio on the Spree, including ARD foci or color confess. For shipments with foreign participants an interpreting booth with more than 50 seats has been installed, which are grouped around a round table. The message and event channel Phoenix produced there also regularly the Phoenix round, and the ARD television sends interviews from Studio A.
On the ground floor of the building is the ARD Info Center, which acts as information for the general public. This information can be requested around the ARD purchased products and autograph requests are fulfilled.
The building stands on the face of the 1877/1878 built for Hermann von Helmholtz Institute for Physics of the Friedrich- Wilhelms- University, called because of its dimensions as the " Palace of physics." As a result, there researched many other eminent physician, including James Franck, Gustav Hertz, Walther Nernst, Max Planck and Wilhelm Wien, whose work on a commemorative plaque, which was unveiled on 16 April 1999. The Institute building was destroyed at the end of the Second World War and enttrümmert the ruins.