Tagesthemen
- Caren Miosga (since 2007)
- Thomas Roth ( since 2013)
The issues of the day are a news broadcast of the German TV channel Das Erste. The News Journal differs from the news in style and content clearly and regularly on Mondays to Thursdays at 22:15 clock, Fridays at 21:45 clock, Saturdays after 20:15 - clock broadcast (often a show or a movie ) and Sunday broadcast at 22:45 clock. The show is usually from Monday to Thursday for 30 minutes on Friday and 15 minutes on weekends for 20 minutes.
For events of particular significance Extra editions of the daily issues as issues of the day Extra are inserted into the program, it is sometimes already sent was 20 clock.
History and Concept
January 2, replaced in 1978 the program " issues of the day " the hitherto usual late edition of the evening news and was first aired on Mondays to Thursdays. By 1999, sent on Friday instead of the report from Bonn, however, contained a message block and in the meantime one days theme main title ( " the issues of the day with the report from Bonn " ) owned. In the 1980s, also spending were introduced on Saturday and Sunday. The show lasts half an hour during the week, from Friday to Sunday it is shorter. In 1999, the report from Berlin, now compiled and edited by the ARD studio in the report from Bonn.
In contrast to the evening news, which should be only one news snippets, the audience should be informed by the issues of the day through supplementary information, underlying connections and background information. The generally four to five editorial contributions go to content and thematic beyond just daily events.
An overview of news about the events of the day is taken over by the editors of news. By 2002 the weather came at the end of the issues of the day from the German Weather Service, 2002 They changed to Jörg Kachelmanns company Meteo Media. By the end of 2012, the weather has been sent in a separate short mission following the issues of the day. January 1, 2013, the weather forecast is again part of the broadcast.
Thus, at about 2.0 million viewers per broadcast - The market share of the issues of the day has declined with the expansion of the media landscape in Germany now, for a long time but was about 10%. The daily themes are among the major opinion-shaping journalistic formats in Germany.
Through a variety of reasons - the shifting of the transmission in the late evening, the fact that there is change of presenters and the intensification of competition location - the issues of the day are caught in a rate crisis in 2007. The so-called market share at that time was partly below 10 percent.
Since the moderator change in 2007 and the newly appointed Realdeko from 2008 viewership took up speed again. In 2011, the market share was again relatively stable at 10 percent, but still had to deal with these numbers the competition program on ZDF, beaten clear the heute-journal led by Claus Kleber.
In 2012, the figures from the previous year continued, but it was easy to increase the quotas and thus reach the most viewers in 18 years. This has, according to NDR several reasons, not least because it now from Monday to Thursday reliably (with exceptions at football matches or the like ) sent at 22:15 clock since September 2011 as part of the reform program of the First German Television. Friday the transmission time of 30 minutes was reduced to 15 minutes for that you sent already from 21:45 clock, which is still before the start of today -journals on ZDF. On Saturdays there is still no set start time, while the use tagesthemen on Sunday now firmly on the talk show with Günther Jauch from Berlin at 22:45 clock. These initial periods are respected today.
In June 2013, Tom Buhrow as successor by Monika Piel, who had to give up their office due to illness, was elected director of the West German Radio, consequently he ended his career with the moderation tagesthemen. His office took over the August 5, 2013 by Thomas Roth, who was head of the ARD studio in New York City until then.
The program is produced by a team of twelve editors who Every two weeks, seven days working in rotation to 14 hours. The average age of the audience is 59 years ( as of 2013).
Moderators
Until 1 October 1985, issues of the day were presented by changing presenters. Since then, the first and second moderator change on a weekly basis from the presentation.
The texts write the presenters themselves and not read them exclusively of paper, but also from a teleprompter to give the moderator a looser and more personal style than when presented by speakers news.
In addition to the moderator is still a newscaster in the studio, which reads the compact message block, and especially on weekends, another presenter who presents the sports block.