Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg
State broadcaster ARD
The Rundfunk Berlin -Brandenburg ( RBB ) is a public institution (national broadcaster ) for the German states of Berlin and Brandenburg. The seat is in Berlin and Potsdam.
The merger of the station Sender Freies Berlin ( SFB) and the East German Rundfunk Brandenburg ( ORB) was established on 1 May 2003, the RBB. He is a member of the Association of Public - service broadcasters of the Federal Republic of Germany (ARD).
The broadcaster has beside the two main broadcasting studios in Potsdam and Berlin still Studios in Cottbus and Frankfurt ( Oder) and regional offices in Mount Pearl and Prenzlau. Furthermore, it operates in Potsdam, the play-out center of the ARD, a broadcast center for the programs in ARD digital bouquet. The RBB is responsible for the ARD studio in Berlin together with the WDR. Every five years, changes the responsibility for the ARD television studio in Warsaw between the RBB and the WDR, in the period 2009-2014 it is at WDR.
Program
The RBB has to ensure that both the State Treaty states of Berlin and Brandenburg are powered equivalent, taking into account the regional program needs. Currently, he produced the following television and radio programs - alone or in cooperation with other radio and television stations:
TV
- The First First German Television - Community program of ARD
- Rbb Fernsehen - third television for Berlin and Brandenburg, emerged from SFB1 and the ORB television. Between 19:30 and 20:00 the transmitter chain is regionalized and in Berlin the evening news, the program is broadcast in Brandenburg " Brandenburg aktuell".
- Phoenix - common event channel ARD and ZDF
- KiKA - children's channel ARD and ZDF
- ARTE - French-German cultural channel
- 3sat - Cultural channel ARD, ZDF, ORF and SRG
Radio
- Radio Berlin 88.8 - The ARD Landeswelle for Berlin from Berlin
- Antenne Brandenburg - Country Programme Brandenburg in Potsdam with regional information from the studios in Potsdam, Cottbus, Frankfurt ( Oder), pearl mountain and Prenzlau
- Radio One - day supplementary program consisting of Potsdam, designed for students aged 25 and over
- Fritz - Youth Radio from Potsdam
- Culture Radio - Culture and Classical from Berlin
- Info Radio - Information and news program from Berlin
- Sorbian radio - joint program with the MDR in the Sorbian languages
- Radio Europe - integrative program of WDR and Radio Bremen, which is produced in cooperation with the RBB; during the day in German, in the evening in 14 other languages ( replaced on 31 December 2008, produced by RBB Radiomultikulti )
Known productions
The RBB produced for ARD among other crime films of the transmission lines the scene and police call 110, the political magazine contrasts as well as the satirical show satire summit, which will be broadcast as a successor of the windshield wiper in 2009. In the years 2003 to 2005, the RBB exuded The Kurt Kroemer Show, which took place nationwide attention. Since then, the transmitter produces the Nachfolgeformate In Krömers (2005/ 06 ) and Kroemer - The International Show ( since 2007 ) for the first (ARD). Since 2005, RBB also radiates from the interview broadcast Thadeusz, welcomes you to the presenter Jörg Thadeusz prominent guests from politics, business and culture. This program was specially Fiese seven known by their category within which each host is aware faced subjectively formulated questions.
About a high level of awareness in the capital region also has the acquired business and the continued regional news program by the SFB Berlin evening news. Since 1958, first with time slot in the ARD (including Germany -wide transmission of the Berlin visit of John F. Kennedy ), and later spread among SFB - frequency, reports the Evening News as a city magazine on politics, economy, sports and timeliness in Berlin and provides sensitivities, originals and anecdotes in front of the districts and neighborhoods.
Since 1983 ( the 25th anniversary ) old posts on evening news in the weekly show flashback be repeated until 2004 25 year old, then those of 15 years ago.
The Ohrenbär is a radio program for 4-8 year old children and is broadcast since 1987.
History
The RBB took on 1 May 2003 on the transmission mode. He took over the programs of the previous SFB and ORB:
- On TV from the television program SFB SFB1 - then rbb Berlin
- From the ORB ORB television - then rbb Brandenburg
Both programs were merged on 29 February 2004. Be sent separately since only the regional evening news broadcasts and Brandenburg Aktuell.
- On the radio: 88acht from the city SFB radio and the program Radiomultikulti
- ORB programs Antenne Brandenburg and Radio 3
- Operated jointly by SFB and ORB programs Radio One, Fritz, Info and Radio Culture
Kultur and Radio 3 were merged on 1 December 2003 to the new Culture Programme radio.
On 21 May 2008, the management of the RBB announced that December 31, 2008 Radiomultikulti and mission Polylux to be set. This was justified by the financial problems of the transmitter, especially so, since there are in the area of effect especially many fees exempt because of low income. According RBB 14.5 % of households there are exempted from the obligation to pay fees, while the ARD average is 9%. The sender receives for its program in accordance with below-average performance by license fees. Thus arose for the fee period from 2009 to 2013 and a deficit of 54 million euros. By this measure, the RBB hoped but save at least 36 million euros for the period. Public grants, for example, by the participating states are not permitted under State Broadcasting Treaty.
Organization
First director of the RBB is since 1 May 2003 Dagmar Reim. Their are four directors with the following tasks under the direct authority:
- Claudia Nothelle (Program Director )
- Nawid Goudarzi ( production and operations management )
- Hagen Brand perpetrator ( Administrative Management )
- Reinhart Binder ( Directorate of Legal and Corporate Development )
2006 employed the transmitter 1,650 employees.
Editor in Chief and Deputy Program Director of the RBB is Christoph Singelnstein.
Transmission facilities
- Transmission mast for FM and TV at the Berlin Scholzplatz
A MW - transmitter at the Stalluponer Allee in Berlin was shut down on 1 January 2006 and later dismantled.
In addition, transmission facilities of Deutsche Telekom AG are used to spread the RBB television. This transmitter locations are:
- Berlin Alexanderplatz
- Berlin Schäferberg
- Booßen / Treplin
- Calau
The following analog TV transmitters were shut down on 31 December 2006:
- Belzig
- Elsterwerda
- Freyenstein
- Guben
- Höhbeck
- Pritzwalk
- Spremberg
- Helpterberg
The FM radio programs are broadcast by the RBB following transmitter sites:
- Berlin Alexanderplatz
- Berlin Scholzplatz
- Bad Belzig
- Booßen / Treplin
- Calau
- Casekow
- Cottbus (city)
- Guben
- Lubben
- Pearl mountain
- Prenzlau
- Pritzwalk
- Wittstock
- Oranienburg
The television program is broadcast terrestrial digital and DVB -T. It is respectively in Mecklenburg -Western Pomerania, Saxony, Saxony -Anhalt and Thuringia within the bouquets of the NDR. MDR to see.
In addition, the radio and television programs are both analog ( only TV ) and digital broadcast via satellite and many cable networks.
In addition to the FM transmission of broadcasting programs, the RBB involved in the DAB pilot project.
Since June 2013, the RBB also offers a live stream on their own website.
Sound body
The RBB does not maintain sound body, but is involved in the following orchestras of the earlier radio stations in Berlin with 5%, which form the radio orchestras and choirs GmbH since January 1, 1994:
- Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin (RSB )
- Deutsches Symphonie -Orchester Berlin ( DSO)
- Berlin Radio Choir
- RIAS Chamber Choir
Others
Since 1992, the MDR Television Ballet has its seat at the TV center, since the Guinean samples Studio C is expanded as a ballet studio since its commissioning in 1971. The German Symphony Orchestra Berlin rehearses his performances in " Ferenc Fricsay Hall", which was created in 1995 from part of the former porch hall, in the above large-size TV sets were built.