9Live

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9Live
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TV station ( private law )
Program type Special-interest program ( entertainment )
reception Cable , satellite , DVB-T , IPTV
Image resolution ( Entry missing )
business September 1, 2001 to August 9, 2011
owner ProSiebenSat.1 Media SE
executive Director Ralf Bartoleit
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9Live was a private German-language television station that emerged from the private broadcaster tm3 on September 1, 2001 and ceased broadcasting on August 9, 2011.

The broadcaster was financed through so-called call-in competitions until May 31, 2011 . 9Live described itself as interactive television or Germany's first quiz broadcaster . In addition to its own shows, 9Live also produced call-in formats for other television stations.

As of June 1, 2011, 9Live was financed through infomercials and astrology programs. The last slogan of the station, whose market share in the last few years of its broadcast was around 0.1 percent, was “Today is my day” . As already announced on the evening of August 3, 2011, 9Live broadcasting was finally stopped on August 9, 2011. At 12 noon, the broadcaster replaced sixx in analogue cable and via satellite 9Live. An info card was activated in the digital cable, which informs about the shutdown of 9Live.

On August 1, 2011, the station sixx had already taken over the DVB-T frequencies from 9Live in several DVB-T areas (Berlin, Hamburg, Kiel, Lübeck & Bremen / Unterweser).

Many of the last presenters , who said goodbye with a live broadcast on May 31, 2011, are now moderating on various shopping channels , Jürgen Milski is again moderating call-in competitions with the sports quiz on Sport1 .

history

9Live emerged on September 1st, 2001 from the former special interest broadcaster tm3 . The former managing director Christiane zu Salm sold her shares to ProSiebenSat.1 Media SE in 2005 . 9Live was a wholly owned subsidiary of ProSiebenSat.1 Media SE. 9Live was licensed by the Bavarian State Center for New Media .

From January 1, 2007, 9Live was responsible for the entire value-added services business of the media group and the call-in formats at Sat.1 , ProSieben and kabel eins . Even Betty and Blucom be in iTV combined range of 9Live.

The turnover of 9Live was 60.6 million euros in 2002 and 78.7 million euros in 2003. According to the marketing partner IP Deutschland, 9Live achieved gross advertising revenues of 20.577 million euros in the 2006 financial year. In the first quarter of 2011 sales were 9.2 million euros. On October 21, 2010, 9Live changed its design to 16: 9 and introduced new color schemes for waistbands, notes and game graphics: yellow tones dominated midday, blue tones were used the evening before and red and blue-violet colors were decisive in prime time . Silver colors were used for special broadcasts. In addition, the broadcaster announced that it would cease analogue operations via Astra at the turn of 2010/11 . From 2011 on, 9Live could only be received digitally.

On May 31, 2011, 9Live discontinued its live program and only showed fictional programs; According to the broadcaster, the reason for this was a 34% decline in revenues compared to the same quarter of the previous year. The ProSiebenSat.1 Media SE separated so that all business activities in the call-in contests. From June 1, 2011, 9Live cooperated with Astro TV and broadcast infomercials , in the regular program the archive of ProSiebenSat.1 Media SE was used: Among other things, older series such as Kommissar Rex , For all cases Stefanie and Wer ist hier der Boss , but also free TV premieres such as Deadline - Every Second Counts and Practice - The Lawyers broadcast.

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Program window

  • From 10:00 to 11:00 and from 14:15 to 16:15 the program was taken over by Astro TV .
  • Infomercials were broadcast from 08:00 to 10:00, 11:25 to 13:25 and from 17:00 to 18:45 .

Erotic programs

At night, the show ran from 2:00 a.m. to 6:00 a.m. (often later than 2:00 a.m.): La Notte - Sexy clips in a night loop . The show consisted mainly of phone sex -Werbung and various soft porn Clips, mostly with female models as actors who undressed to background music. The clips were broadcast in seasons. The station started a new season at irregular intervals (roughly in quarterly to half-yearly mode), in which clips that had never been broadcast were shown. Each season, including the extensive telephone sex commercials, had a total duration of around three to four nights (i.e. a total of 12 to 16 hours per season, of which, however, pure clip broadcasting time no more than five to six hours). As soon as a new season was introduced on several consecutive nights, these clips were broadcast over and over again for months, sometimes in mixed order. Sometimes clips from the last and penultimate season were also interspersed. It was noticeable here that there were obviously different versions of many clips; on some nights the station broadcast the same clips in short versions of a maximum of two to three minutes in length (compared to the long versions of four to six minutes in length).

The program La Notte , which was shown on the night from Friday to Saturday from 11:30 p.m. to 2:00 a.m. with the presenters Jana Bach , Biggi Bardot , Tyra Misoux and Leonie Saint , was discontinued in mid-2008. After that, the program La Notte - Sexy Clips was shown daily from 2:00 a.m. to 6:00 a.m. From mid-2010 the erotic programs ChatStrip.tv and La Notte - Sexy Clips were shown between 1:35 and 6 a.m.

TV Shows

In addition, there were occasional repetitions of older and newer TV series , such as Mallorca - Search for Paradise , The Denver Clan , Hart but Cordially , A Colt for All Cases , MASH , For All Cases Stefanie , The Harald Schmidt Show , Miami Vice , Wolffs Revier , Quizfire or Quiz Taxi .

Moderators (selection)

Well-known moderators of call-in competitions were:

The presenter Max Schradin was given leave of absence until the end of the year in October 2007 because of insulting a presenter of the competition format Money Express . From December 1, 2007, after a five-week break, he was again regularly used as a moderator on 9Live and Sat.1. During the leave of absence, he could still be seen in the TV commercial for 9Live on the other ProSiebenSat.1 Media SE channels.

The presenter Juliane Ziegler was removed from the program at the end of January 2008 after she wanted to cheer up a caller in the ProSieben Night Loft with the slogan “ Arbeit macht frei ”.

World record as the longest television quiz

From August 29, 2003 at 8:15 pm to Monday, September 1, 2003 at 1 am, Alida Kurras, Anna Heesch, Jörg Draeger, Robin Bade and Thomas Schürmann alternately moderated a "birthday marathon" for 53 hours without interruption Made it into the Guinness Book of Records in 2005 as "Longest TV Quiz". There should be a video recording as evidence. The record is still valid today.

NeunTV

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nineTV
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TV station ( private law )
Program type Special program (entertainment for women)
reception Cable , satellite & DVB-T
Image resolution ( Entry missing )
business January 2, 2008 to October 31, 2009
owner ProSiebenSat.1 Media SE
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From January 2, 2008 to October 31, 2009, the 3-hour window nine TV was fed in on the 9Live frequency . This broadcast a television program aimed at women under the motto “Time for me”. Various episodes of the series Kommissar Rex , the telenovela Verliebt in Berlin , lifestyle programs, including with Margarethe Schreinemakers, were shown . The program was initially moderated by Sylvia Bommes and Kathie Kleff . Patricia Siegel joined them later . In July 2008 Siegel was the only moderator before the introductions were dropped at the end of August.

For a long time, the ratings of Neun TV were in the immeasurable range. Most recently, 30,000 spectators could be assumed. Sales of the controversial telephone quiz program had fallen dramatically.

Third-party productions

Sender group

9Live produced various quiz shows for the ProSiebenSat.1 Media family of channels. The NightLoft was broadcast every night on ProSieben and the film quiz was produced for kabel eins . As of January 2007, 9Live was responsible for all of ProSiebenSat.1 Media's value-added services (for example competitions for magazines, reports and shows).

International

9Live was also active abroad. Production was carried out for a broadcaster from Great Britain, and in mid-September 2006 9Live started a four-hour program window on the Arabic TV channel mLive. The station broadcast its program via Eutelsat and Arabsat in more than 22 countries (including Syria , Jordan , Iraq , Tunisia , Morocco and Egypt ). With “9Live Türkiye”, 9Live continued its expansion course abroad. The foreign Call TV format was shown on Euro D, a channel of the Turkish media group Dogan TV. The TV channel for Turkish-speaking TV viewers in Europe is received by 3.5 million Turks in Germany, France, Austria, the Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland and Great Britain. The two-hour live format was produced in Turkish in Unterföhring and broadcast from there.

In Croatia, 9Live signed a contract with RTL Televizija , which provides for two hours of live call TV programming in Croatian every day. As with previous collaborations, this window was also produced in Unterföhring and broadcast from there. The station is broadcast terrestrially and can be received via Eutelsat . RTL Televizija had an average market share of 29 percent in 2006, reaching around 975,000 Croatians.

criticism

9Live has repeatedly come under strong criticism because of the call-in competitions that were broadcast until May 2011 . For example, the competitions were not transparent enough, it was courted for players with questionable methods and an artificially built-up time pressure through countdowns and corresponding moderator behavior was intended to persuade the viewers to call, although in some cases there was no opportunity to win for hours.

While action is being taken against such quiz formats in Great Britain and the Netherlands , nothing similar happened in Germany.

According to its own statements, the broadcaster paid out monthly winnings of over one million euros, but this statement did not allow any conclusions to be drawn about the individual caller's chances of winning. According to the company, over 240,000,000 calls were processed annually at a cost of at least 50 cents. Even if part of the at least 120 million euros was transferred to the telephone companies, the profit rate was very low.

The station caused a stir in 2002 with the announcement of a so-called “unemployed show”, which the then Federal Labor Minister Walter Riester described in advance as “absurd and inhuman”. The program, which finally ran under the title “Job-Chance” and was discontinued after a short time, even officially cooperated with the Federal Employment Agency after two months of broadcasting around mid-2003 . In contrast to the “Unemployed Show”, “Job-Chance” was more of a service magazine in which job offers in Germany were presented and tips on applications and interviews were shown using video scenes.

On May 8, 2007, the ARD magazine Plusminus reported new allegations of fraud against the broadcaster. Two former 9Live employees reported that the broadcaster invented calls in some cases and that the so-called “hot button” was not triggered automatically, but by an editor himself. These allegations were later supported by video evidence. In the videos, the moderators can be heard giving advice to the director not to slam the hot button during such a high level of call activity. For this reason, the Bavarian State Media Authority requested the broadcaster to comment on May 21, 2007 within two days.

After receiving the statement, the Bavarian State Media Authority was of the opinion that the broadcaster had "plausibly refuted" the allegations.

In October 2009 the Commission for Licensing and Supervision imposed a fine of 95,000 euros on 9Live. The commission punished misleading statements, lack of transparency, the pretense of time pressure and missing information in seven lottery programs.

The ubiquitous criticism of the station's business conduct inspired the Wise Guys to write their song Neun Live . This thematizes the call-in broadcasts in a satirical way.

A multitude of examples that show how inconsistently 9Live interpreted its own rules and interpreted the legal requirements, as well as examples of some private individuals who ruined themselves financially through the toll calls, can be found on video platforms such as YouTube .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Jump up ↑ May 6, 2011
  2. ↑ audience share /quotemeter.de
  3. ↑ diepresse.com : transmission cessation on August 9, 2011 , August 4, 2011.
  4. ↑ And away! : 9live will be shut down next Tuesday
  5. ↑ sixx replaces 9live in Berlin on July 12, 2011 ( Memento from December 5, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ sixx replaces 9live on August 1, 2011 in Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein ( memento from November 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  7. ↑ sixx replaces 9live in Bremen / Unterweser on August 1, 2011 ( Memento from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 234 kB)
  8. ↑ 9live.de: The 9Live success story ( Memento from January 19, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  9. ↑ Ausgebuzzert: quiz channel 9 Live sets from one day to the series
  10. ↑ DWDL.de: Now in 16: 9 - 9Live: New design and off on Astra-Analog
  11. ↑ "Confirmed: 9Live discontinues live broadcasting". Accessed on May 5, 2011
  12. ↑ 9Live stops live
  13. ↑ Game over: 9Live will go live on May 31st DWDL.de from May 4th 2011
  14. ↑ The program of the new 9 Live
  15. ↑ Leave of absence until the end of 2007 Sueddeutsche.de (accessed on January 4, 2008)
  16. ↑ Active again since December 1st, 2007 official homepage (accessed on January 4th, 2008)
  17. ↑ quotemeter.de : 'Arbeit macht frei': TV ban after embarrassing derailment at ProSieben
  18. ↑ 9Live starts a world record attempt, quotenmeter.de, August 19, 2003 , accessed on November 28, 2014
  19. ↑ 9Live: Marathon broadcast recognized as a world record, dwdl.de, March 12, 2004 , accessed on November 28, 2014
  20. ↑ World record on guinnessworldrecords.de , accessed on November 28, 2014
  21. ↑ 9Live separated from Neun TV without being noticed by DWDL.de on January 20, 2011
  22. ↑ "ProSiebenSat.1: 9Live to become a competence center for interactive", January 8, 2007
  23. ↑ Critique of 9 Live ( Memento from June 5, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
  24. ↑ " Unemployed Show - The perverse game with misery " Article in the Mainz Report from July 15, 2002 (manuscript available by e-mail, broadcast on October 7, 2002)
  25. ↑ Press release: "'Job-Chance' is now cooperating with the Federal Employment Agency", June 13, 2003 ( Memento of October 4, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  26. ↑ Rip offs on TV Who stops dubious competitions? hr, May 8, 2007 ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  27. ↑ DWDL: Call-in fraud? Video evidence puts 9Live in trouble
  28. ↑ Media watchdogs set 9Live deadline by Wednesday noon
  29. ↑ ZAK press release ( Memento from March 10, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  30. ↑ Wise Guys: "Nine Live" ( Memento from April 30, 2009 in the Internet Archive )