Televoting

Televoting (Greek τῆλε tele, remote '; english voting, vote ') or telephone consultation or Tele voting is a voting system in which each (for example, television viewers ) within a specified period by dialing a phone number or sending a Short Message Service message (SMS) can vote. The calls are recorded and analyzed automatically.

Televoting are mostly in television programs such as the Euro Vision Song Contest applied.

Televoting in Germany

The first televoting process in Germany was in 1979 by ZDF and the German Federal Post Office presented TED. The method was developed using the inventor Oskar Vierling. TED 1997 was replaced by a more modern method called T- VoteCall. Since the summer of 2002, other companies may offer fee-based services in addition to televoting Deutsche Telekom. This circumstance polls, opinion polls and contests took on German television by leaps and bounds, because they represent a profitable source of income. Often televoting represent a non- negligible portion of the revenue from shipments in addition to advertising revenue dar.

In the past, it came in the RTL show Germany sucht den Superstar problems with the televoting. Audience questioned the accuracy of the results and hackers came forward, claiming to have manipulated the system. Another problem with the taking place by phone call televoting is the most frequently occurring overload the televoting headquarters so that all callers can not be in the too short plugged at least for major live broadcasts period counted. On the other hand can be used for the manipulation and multiple calls or even call center.

Also in the video text of some stations there are polls on current (often political or polarizing ) topics.

Meanwhile, it is also possible to carry out consultations with Web 2.0 services via SMS.