Television in Austria

Television in Austria is a central part of the media landscape in Austria; both from a cultural as well as from social, political and economic perspective. While there were 193 046 registered participants television in 1960, the number increased in 2010 to 3,251,697.

• 3.1 journalism
• 3.2 entertainment programs 3.2.1 series, serials, soap operas
• 3.2.2 shows
• 3.2.3 children's programs
• 3.2.4 Sport

• 4.1 presenters, journalists and Showmaster
• 4.2 speakers
• 4.3 Intendant
• 4.4 Actors

History

Transmitter

Currently exist in Austria, depending on how you count, more than 160 television stations. Most of them are commercial in nature. The market is about half of public broadcasters determined (eg one ORF, ORF 2, ORF III). The other half of "belongs" to the private channels.

Public- service broadcasters

The originally intended as information public broadcasters supply the population, in addition to the basic supply of knowledge, to an increasing extent of entertainment. The program is financed mainly with the revenues that are known to consumers as GIS fees. Also, by advertising revenue costs will be covered.

Daily at 19 clock, the Austrian regional program of the state broadcaster is broadcast. The central element of the program window is the mission of state today, which deals with news, issues and events from the respective state. From Monday to Friday the Tyrol issue of state is supplemented today with the mission of South Tyrol today. Various magazines are incorporated into the window regularly to the regional weather forecast. An example of this is Servus, Srečno, Ciao in ORF 2 Kärnten.

Together with the SRF, ARD and ZDF, ORF operates the ad-free and initiated in 1984, culture-oriented TV station 3sat.

ORF einshd • ORF ORF 2 Europe 2hd • • • ORF III ORF SPORT • ORF Studios

3sathd • Austria • ALPHA artehd

ORF TV • TW1

• Hit Radio Ö3 Austria 1dd • FM4

• Radio Radio Burgenland Carinthia Lower Austria • Radio • Radio • Radio Upper Austria Salzburg Styria • Radio • Radio • Radio Tirol Vorarlberg Wien • Radio

OE1 Campus

OE1 International

Radio AGORA

Austria 2 • Radio Austria International • Blue Danube Radio • Radio 1476 • Radio OE1 info

Hd: Also available in HDTV • dd: Also available in Dolby Digital

Commercial television stations

The private TV station in Austria is relatively strongly influenced by the company ProSiebenSat.1 Media and RTL Group. In free- to-air television is available in Austria in addition to the public broadcasters, a large number of private television channels, which do not benefit from the GIS income and therefore are financed exclusively by advertising revenue and competitions. For this reason, the amount of advertising is significantly higher than that of the ORF.

The main channels of ProSiebenSat.1 Media, so Sat.1 Austria, ProSieben Austria, kabel eins austria and pulse 4 had 2010 total market share of approximately 18%.

There are also special-interest channels such music channels (eg gotv ), information channels (eg Servus TV) and regional stations (eg tirol tv, RE one, Innsat.TV, LT1, October ).

ProSiebenhd Sat.1hd • • • cable einshd sixxhd • Gold • ProSieben Sat.1 Maxxhd

ProSieben Sat.1 Österreichhd Austriahd • • kabel eins Austriahd • Pulse 4hd • sixx Austria

ProSieben Sat.1 Schweizhd Schweizhd • • kabel eins Schweizhd • sixx Schweizhd

Sat.1 emotionshd • • ProSieben, kabel eins classicshd Funhd • Deutsches Wetter Fernsehen

ProSiebenSat.1 Welt

Maxdomehd

Hd: Also available in HDTV

Pay TV / Pay TV

The main providers of pay television is next to Sky Austria also the younger competitor AustriaSat. Pay TV for Austrians living abroad does not exist, but the ORF broadcasts the program of ORF 2, ORF unencrypted over satellite and since 2004 on the follow- ORF 2 Europe, the only broadcasting the Teletext during a broadcast without pan-European rights.

Market shares

Percentages for Austria as a whole, full day, viewers aged 12 years, German channels, if present, takes into account both the Austria - Germany version and the version.

Shipments

Journalism

The central mission of both ORF full programs is the message format time in the image. 26 correspondents in 16 offices worldwide active for the ORF. The largest private news network is that of Austria News, will be broadcast at the thirteen daily newscasts. It puts less emphasis on correspondents, the journalistic level, however, is comparable with that of the ORF.

Entertainment programs

Nowadays the range of Austrian entertainment formats is wide. Are particularly popular quiz shows, crime shows and magazines. At the time of opening of the Iron Curtain Talk shows were extremely successful. Particularly emphasized formats are listed here:

Series, serials, soap operas

• SOKO Kitzbühel, broadcast since 2001, also in Germany
• SOKO Donau, since 2005, awarded the Romy in 2008, also broadcast in Germany as SOKO Wien
• Scene, since 1972 with Austrian participation
• A real Wiener goes under, 1975-1979
• Quick determined, awarded since 2007 by Romy
• Doctor's Diary, 2007-2010, was created in collaboration with RTL Television
• Located in the 8s, 2007 only Austrian soap opera from the near past

Shows

• The millions show, since 2000, offshoots of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?
• The Barbara Karlich show, since 1999
• Vera, replaced exclusively by Vera since 1995, one of the most successful talk shows of the ORF
• Talk im Hangar -7 Sport and Talk at Hangar- 7
• Pros and Cons, since 2011, live broadcast

Children's programs

Significant Austrian children's programs include:

• Explorer Express: Knowledge mission since 2004, awarded the Romy 2004
• Tom Turbo: 1993, Fantasy series broadcast with the character of a thriller, even in Germany
• Puppet Theater: since 1957, the world's oldest children's TV show
• 1, 2 or 3: since 1977, quiz show for children, created in collaboration with the SF and ZDF

Sports

Major sport events like the FIS Ski World Cup and the Olympics are almost completely broadcasted by the Austrian Broadcasting. However, more and more private channels secure the rights to several major events. So snatches Puls 4 ORF the rights to the Champions League in 2012, also begins with the Servus Servus TV Hockey Night Live with the broadcasting of sports.

Various fringe sports are broadcast on ORF SPORT . Lately, however, there was confusion as to which events of the ORF may show in this division channel and which are not, since the ORF Act does not provide for the transfer of " Premium Sports " on ORF SPORT. Therefore, the National Council adopted a new regulation, which states that sports events where the premium character is not clear, the ORF should offer the private broadcasters ' rights. Avoid this, the ORF may send.

People

For the world of television in Austria include the following persons of great importance:

Presenters, journalists and Showmaster

• , Armin ( born June 7, 1964): ORF Sport, The Millionaire show
• Oliver Baier ( born December 4, 1965): What's new?
• Thomas Brezina (born 30 January 1963): okidoki
• Christian Clerici (* November 26, 1965 )
• Florian Danner ( born June 3, 1983): Café Puls, Austria News, City Report, Talk of Town
• Doris Golpashin (born 17 August 1980): PINK, direct - The Magazine!
• Alfons Haider (* November 24, 1957 ): Dancing with the Stars, Life Ball
• Oliver Hoffinger ( born October 30, 1970): cook with! Oliver
• Gerhard Jelinek ( born October 13, 1954)
• Barbara Karlich ( born January 7, 1969): The Barbara Karlich Show
• Fabian Kissler (born 15 June 1981): Café Puls, Austria News, City Report
• Andi Knoll ( born June 11, 1972)
• Robert Kratky (born 16 May 1973): Ö3, K.R.A.T.K.Y.
• Roman Rafreider ( born November 22, 1969): CIA - editors
• Peter Rapp ( born February 14, 1944): The Brieflosshow
• Vera Russwurm ( born November 7, 1959)
• Bianca Schwarzjirg (born 23 September 1980): Café Puls, City Report, PINK!
• Andreas Seidl (* May 30, 1972 ): Café Puls
• Johanna Setzer (born 29 October 1979): Café Puls, millionaire looking for Women
• Christian Stephan (born 23 October 1980): Café Puls
• Barbara Stöckl ( born April 2, 1963)
• Ingrid Thurnher ( born July 6, 1962): CIA - editors
• Marcus Wadsak ( born October 5, 1970): CIA - editors
• Mirjam Vistula Brown (born 27 September 1981): Dancing with the Stars, Life Ball
• Armin Wolf ( born August 19, 1966): CIA - editors; several times with the Golden Romy excellent, as well as with the Concordia Prize for Freedom of the Press

Speaker

• Hans Georg Heinke (born 4 January 1945)

Directors

• Alexander Wrabetz ( born March 21, 1960): ORF - director
• Gerhard Zeiler ( born July 20, 1955): Predecessor of Alexander Wrabetz
• Gerhard Weis ( born October 1, 1938): predecessor Gerhard Zeiler

Actor

• Roland Düringer ( born October 31, 1963)
• Hansi Hinterseer ( born February 2, 1954)
• Harald Krassnitzer ( born September 10, 1960)
• Michael Niavarani ( born April 29, 1968)
• Gregor Seberg (born 24 July 1967)
• Romy Schneider (1938-1982)
• ( * October 4, 1956 ) Christoph Waltz

Technology

The most frequently used routes of transmission are satellite and cable networks. Even terrestrial distribution is common, but only digitally. The conversion to these digital DVB -T standard was completed in 2011. The digital satellite broadcast via DVB -S has already established itself successfully. In Cable TV DVB -C is only little use, as well as television over the Internet. Although all standards to be used practically, but not each transmitter in all modes. Since a fairly long period of time sends the ORF, as will various other channels, in high-definition quality. Many of the broadcast formats are, however, still only PAL and must be scaled up. Few programs are produced in native HD. Many private channels use platforms such as HD Austria to transfer your high definition program. Many productions of the public broadcasters are also bilingual.

Financing

Every Austrian citizen with an operational television or radio is, with few exceptions, required to pay license fees. The revenue goes to the charges Info Service mbH (abbreviated GIS) which are used primarily for the financing of public service television and radio programs.

Commercial broadcasters hold largely sustained by television advertising. Other financing options are call-in competitions, donations, selling products (home shopping channel ) or phone value-added services (eg astrology stations).

TV Awards

The best-known television prices are next to Axel Corti price and the Erich Neuberg price of the television Prize of the Austrian Adult Education and Romy, which is awarded annually by the newspaper Kurier.

Consumption

Nearly 3.27 million reported television subscribers in Austria were recorded for the year 2011; Accordingly, 89.4 % of households had a valid TV license, the receiving density in Vienna with 77.6 TV licenses per 100 households in the lowest and Burgenland (99.7%) was the highest. Approximately two-thirds of Austrians see every day more than 120 minutes away. The cable operator UPC Austria speaks here of a peak; only French, Dutch and Belgian radio listeners would watch TV longer. 16 % of the population in Austria does not sit daily in front of the TV, for the majority of people ( 84%), it is inconceivable to do without for a day out; However, only one in every 50 would stay home so as not to miss a certain program. About half of all households owned a second TV, approximately one-fifth has three cameras, one in ten households at least four.

Others

• Austria is Euro Vision subscribers.
• Every great Austrian transmitter provides teletext, EPG and VIDEO Plus numbers.
• Outside of the transmission activity, at least the nationwide active transmitters are represented with sites that accompany the program partly very detailed.