Bible TV

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Bible TV
Station logo
TV station ( foundation under private law in the form of a non-profit GmbH )
Program type Specialized program (religion)
Motto: I believe. I see.
reception Antenna , cable , satellite , digital, live stream
Start of transmission October 1, 2002
language German
Seat Hamburg
owner Bible TV Foundation gGmbH
executive Director Matthias Brender
List of TV channels
Website

Bible TV is a German-language television station with a 24-hour program, which is based in Hamburg and is mainly financed by donations . Henning Röhl was the managing director until the beginning of 2013 . Matthias Brender has been the sole managing director of Bibel TV since the beginning of 2013 .

Program content

Bible TV's 24-hour program consists of reports, documentaries, Bible readings, sermons and advice programs as well as roundtables and talk shows that cover topics from all Christian areas. In addition, children's series, television and feature films are broadcast (mostly from Italian and German, partly from US production) as well as Christian music programs from classical to pop. There are only a few in-house productions, such as Bible TV the conversation. Most of the contributions can be purchased cheaply or free of charge. Individual programs are produced with partners.

The standard program includes the two Jesus films based on Luke (1979) and based on Matthew (South Africa 1993, in four parts).

The members of Bibel TV represent different denominations and theological views. In order to avoid resulting conflicts, it was initially decided not to broadcast services. Regular recordings of church services have only been part of the program since March 2009 and are currently being carried out by the Zieglerschen Anstalten (with translation into German sign language ), ERF Medien , the Evangelical Media House and the Hour of Power . A large part of the program is contested by various small program partners, some with a popular church and a free church background. The Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD) provides a larger number of program contributions.

In addition, there are contributions from Catholic production companies. Since 2016 Bibel TV cooperates with the Catholic Domradio and broadcasts live every weekday at 8 am the morning Mass in the cathedral , as well as other Catholic services live from the Münster Cathedral in Muenster and Cologne Cathedral. The remaining services are broadcast as recordings. The annual thanksgiving services for the anniversary of Bibel TV are also broadcast live.

Other program related services

Bible TV offers its own teletext as well as an EPG . A program booklet is offered on the broadcaster's website and can be sent monthly free of charge upon request. The circulation in May 2018 was 273,500. It is part of the “ambassador package” that the broadcaster sends to viewers who advertise the broadcaster by displaying information material at community book tables and other events.

The symbolism of the individual elements is explained as follows: The color blue stands for the size and breadth of God and the orange for the people and the desert through which the people of God passed; the shades of color for the variety of programs on the broadcaster. The star symbolizes the morning star of the prophets and the star navigation of the seafarers. The twelve wavy lines stand for the twelve tribes of Israel and in a figurative sense for God's entwined “ways with his people and with us”.

The dot in the spelling "bibel.tv" is only part of the logo and not the name of the program or the organizer.

Media portal and streaming service

In order to reach more young people, the “Bible Lab” of the Bible TV Foundation developed the “GoodBuzz” platform. The portal designed with Listicles , which deals with life issues and gives tips from a Christian perspective, has been online since March 2018.

In June 2019, the streaming service “Yesflix” was started, which is supposed to transmit “the message of Christian values ​​in innovative ways into the young media world” and thus create “new ways for value-conservative, non-violent entertainment”. Films and series are offered as video-on-demand in a subscription and can be accessed via the web or app.

history

Bible TV goes back to an initiative of the publisher Norman Rentrop . The station was founded on January 11, 2001 in Bonn - Bad Godesberg by 15 shareholders. Since May 2001 it has been based in Hamburg. It started broadcasting in October 2002. Bible TV is the first digital channel in Germany with a Christian program, as the older K-TV only started digital broadcasting a month later. The first program booklet appeared in February 2003 with a circulation of 2,000 copies.

From 2004 to 2006, together with the television work of the Protestant and Catholic Churches and the Christian aid organization World Vision Germany , Bibel TV awarded the Gospel Award on television. As early as 2004, parts of it (the final with the vote) were broadcast live on Bibel TV for the first time.

The former chairman of the program advisory board Bernd Merz (former media officer of the EKD) was appointed as additional managing director for two years from October 1, 2007. Röhl and Merz headed Bible TV on an equal footing until September 2009. During this time, Merz was responsible, among other things, for setting up the youth channel Tru Young Television .

In June 2006, the Hamburg Institute for New Media , which is responsible for Bibel TV, extended the station's approval in December 2001 by five years until the end of 2011. According to the media company, Bibel TV has a differentiated program scheme.

In May 2007 the Medienanstalt Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein Bibel TV granted the license for another broadcaster. In 2007, the former co-managing director Bernd Merz saw a need in the age group of ten to 29 year olds, who made up around 37 percent of the regular Bible TV viewers. The youth channel (see main article Tru Young Television ) went live on December 26, 2009. Since then, the proportion of live broadcasts in the main program has also been expanded. Tru can now only be received as a live stream and since the end of 2009 has been broadcasting regular live broadcasts on Bibel TV with Catholic services from Cologne Cathedral.

In 2010, according to the broadcaster, 27 million households in Germany, Austria and Switzerland could receive Bible TV. In addition to the distribution channel via satellite and IP-TV, the live stream on the company's website was also included from the start, as well as terrestrial distribution via DVB-T, which was promoted by Röhl. Since the start of DVB-T2 on March 29, 2017, the station has been part of the (unlike other private broadcasters) free program offer.

In January 2011, the Commission for Approval and Supervision objected to surreptitious advertising in the format “The Healthy Way” moderated by Hademar Bankhofer in programs from September 2010. The interviews broadcast are secondary uses of the program “Einfach Bankhofer” on the private broadcaster Austria 9 TV . Bible TV denied the allegations. The producer and Mr. Bankhofer had expressly assured that they had not received any benefits, favors or benefits for this series. The broadcaster did not take action against the complaint only for cost reasons and continued to broadcast the series.

On June 14, 2012 Matthias Brender was unanimously elected as Röhl's successor. Röhl asked not to extend his contract, which expired in January 2013. Brender became co-managing director in November 2012 and Röhl's successor in February 2013.

On October 14, 2013, Astra 19.2 ° Ost Bibel TV HD was activated. By March 2014, the program booklet had reached the limit of 200,000 copies.

In spring 2020, the church union filed a criminal complaint with the public prosecutor's office against Bibel TV for preventing a works council election (Section 119 BetrVG). Two works council initiators had previously been dismissed in December 2019.

reception

Bible TV can be received via satellite, as a live stream ( IPTV ), DVB-T or cable TV, depending on the location .

technology

Bible TV can be received digitally via the Astra 1H satellite on transponder 108 with the frequency 12.552 MHz in vertical polarization (after a frequency change on September 30, 2009), as well as in numerous digital cable networks, e.g. B. at Vodafone Kabel Deutschland and Unitymedia . Throughout Germany, Bibel TV can also be received in all metropolitan areas via the digital aerial television DVB-T2. Bible TV HD started a (according to the display) test operation on November 22nd, 2013 with regular programs via Astra 1L at 11.244 MHz horizontal, 22,000 k symbols, FEC 5/6. The transmission takes place in DVB-S so that the station on the computer can also be received with old DVB-S cards if HD-capable software is used.

The station's program has been broadcast online via a live stream since May 2007 , but with interruptions for licensing reasons. During the transmission breaks, reference is made to the archive (video-on-demand area). Although the first live broadcast has been documented since 2004, Bibel TV only started broadcasting live programs regularly in December after the start of the new playout automation system from Tru TV and gradually took over more live broadcasts in the main program.

A live stream of the entire program is offered via Zattoo . Since May 2008, Bibel TV can also be recorded on OnlineTVRecorder .

Range

The total technical reach is stated by Bibel TV with approx. 36 million households in DA-CH . According to the broadcasting director Röhl, there are over 20 million in Germany, including twelve million via satellite, six million via analogue and digital cable, two million via DVB-T (as of 2010) and 0.7 million via IPTV.

The shareholders' meeting stated the actual reach in 2016 with 192,000 viewers daily.

The audience is estimated at 300,000 daily in 2017 and over 500,000 on Good Friday 2017.

Transmission technology

By 2008, a list with the sequence of the programs was sent together with the video tapes to the Luxembourg company BCE, which carried out the playout (broadcasting to the Astra satellite) independently. 1000 hours of broadcasting time were rented from BCE, which was also sufficient to keep the online archive ready. This simple process resulted in only low costs and high reliability. Bible TV has been transferring the broadcast material via a dedicated line since October 2008 and programs and monitors the broadcast servers in Luxembourg and Vienna itself.

financing

The one-time start-up financing from the shareholders was used up in 2006. In this initial phase, Bibel TV was one of the TV channels with the lowest budget, according to its own statements. The donation volume in 2005 was 1.4 million euros, compared to 757,000 euros in 2004. According to the station, this means that it has achieved cost coverage. Advertising is handled by Digital Marketing , which specializes in digital television.

In 2006, the station said it was in the black for the first time. Since then, the Bibel TV Stiftung gGmbH has been financed mainly through donations from friends and viewers. The channel's expenditure and income volume in 2007 was around 4.5 million euros. The volume of donations rose by 52 percent to 2.08 million euros; advertising, sponsorship and other sources of income generated 517,000 euros and sales increased to 2.6 million euros. 17,000 donors made contributions between 1 and 30,000 euros. The share of donations thus rose faster than advertising income and was 80.1 percent.

The budget of Bibel TV for 2008 approved by the shareholders provides for income and expenditure of 5.5 million euros. Around 80 percent of this sum was to be raised in 2008 through donations from viewers, the remaining 20 percent through advertising and other income. In 2010 the station was financed 90 percent by donations and 10 percent by advertising. A substantial part of the annual budget in 2010 was spent on terrestrial broadcasting via DVB-T. 3.3 million euros were budgeted for the three distribution channels satellite, cable and aerial television alone. With the elimination of some terrestrial locations, more funds are now available again for program content.

In 2015, audience donations increased by 0.9 million to 7.1 million euros compared to 2014. In 2019, the income from advertising and donations rose to a total of 12.9 million euros, 9.9 million euros of which came from donations from around 67,000 supporters.

Organizational form

The Bibel TV Foundation is a non-profit GmbH based in Hamburg.

The Catholic Church and the Evangelical Church each hold 12.75 percent of the shares in the Bibel TV Foundation via the respective film and television companies Astratel Radio- und Televisions-Beteiligungsgesellschaft and Orbitel Medien GmbH , which is owned by EKD Media Blocking minority, as, according to the statutes, important decisions must be made with a majority of 75 percent of the votes.

Shareholder

Around half of the shares are owned by the Norman Rentrop Foundation, named after the founder of Bibel TV. The Protestant and the Catholic Church together hold 25.5% through in-house media companies. In addition, mission organizations, free church organizations and Christian media companies are among the shareholders.

The shareholders appoint the management. They supervise the management and support the broadcaster in structuring the content of the program.

Program Advisory Board

The shareholders' meeting elects "experienced experts from the media and churches" to the Bible TV program advisory board. The honorary members advise the management of Bibel TV on all programming issues. In doing so, they pay particular attention to compliance with the statutory purpose of the company.

The Bible TV program advisory board is elected by the shareholders every four years. Since 2011, an Austrian and a Swiss have also been part of the advisory board for the first time. Members of the program advisory board are currently (2019): Ulrich Heckel , Lars Tutt, Albert Biesinger , Melanie Carstens, Wolf-Dieter Kretschmer, Bernd Merz , Hans-Peter Mumssen, Johannes Pricker, Helmut Rakowski and Joachim Zöller.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bibel TV - station entry at the Commission for the Determination of Concentration in the Media Sector (KEK), accessed on August 24, 2019 (therein Bibel TV is described as a special-interest program)
  2. ↑ Katrin Wilkens: Portrait: The hard is stuck to it. In: zeit.de. Die Zeit , 2002, accessed on May 24, 2011 (edition 51/2002).
  3. ^ Video on demand on the homepage of Bibel TV ( Memento from January 31, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), accessed September 4, 2009.
  4. ↑ a b c d e f g Birgitta Derenthal: Media responsibility from a Christian perspective: a contribution to practical theological media ethics. LIT Verlag Münster, 2006, ISBN 978-3-8258-9409-2 , p. 114.
  5. ^ A b c Cathrin Gutwald: Religious Wellness: Salvation Today. Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2005, ISBN 978-3-7705-4028-0 , p. 114.
  6. ↑ Thomas Langkau: Film star Jesus Christ: the latest Jesus films as a challenge for theology and religious education. LIT Verlag, Münster 2007, ISBN 978-3-8258-0196-0 , p. 20.
  7. ↑ a b c Bible TV continues to grow. IdeaSpektrum , issue 24 of June 15, 2016, p. 10; Online June 10, 2016.
  8. ↑ Worship services on Bible TV. Church services overview on the Bible TV website
  9. ↑ Information according to Imprint in the magazine for May 2018.
  10. ↑ Become a Bible TV ambassador.
  11. ↑ And what do you think of that? Bible TV Newsletter No. 35, Aug. 30, 2013.
  12. ↑ cf. Landesmedienanstalt ( station entry ( memento of April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) and list of stations ( memento of April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive )), as well as the station's imprint
  13. ↑ BibelTV with new platform “GoodBuzz” , pro-medienmagazin.de, article from May 4, 2018.
  14. ↑ Bibel TV starts streaming service , pro-medienmagazin.de, article from June 14, 2019.
  15. ↑ a b edition 200,000. (See title topic in the editorial, exact edition in the imprint.) Bible TV program booklet, March 2014.
  16. ↑ The Gospel Award goes into the third round. 2006, archived from the original on July 8, 2010 ; Retrieved July 8, 2010 .
  17. ↑ Gospel Award - entry in the Gospel Lexicon at gospelszene.de, accessed on April 2, 2018
  18. ↑ Bible TV: Biggest growth rate in Austria ( Memento from May 2, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  19. ↑ Bibel TV: Biggest growth rate in Austria. Bible TV Press Release, 2007. Retrieved April 2, 2018
  20. ↑ Bible TV live from Cologne Cathedral. Press release, Bibel TV, approx. November / December 2009
  21. ↑ Digitalfernsehen.de: More Controllers: Bible TV increases program advisory board from May 4, 2011, accessed on October 8, 2011.
  22. ↑ ZAK press release 02/2011: Again fines imposed on Sport 1 / surreptitious advertising on Bibel TV objected. In: die-medienanstalten.de. Authorization and Supervision Commission, January 19, 2011, accessed on May 24, 2011 .
  23. ↑ Spiegel-online: Medienwächter: Bible TV reprimanded for surreptitious advertising from January 19, 2011.
  24. ↑ Marcus Anhäuser: Bankhofer broadcast: "... violate the ban on surreptitious advertising" (Addendum 5.2.) ( Memento from May 16, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) January 20, 2011.
  25. ↑ Medienmagazin pro: television. In: pro-medienmagazin.de. January 19, 2011, accessed May 24, 2011 .
  26. ↑ http://kress.de/mail/tagesdienst/detail/beitrag/116597-henning-roehl-will-nicht-verlaengern-matthias-brender-wird-neuer-geschaeftsfuehrer-bei-bibel-tv.html
  27. ↑ digitalfernsehen.de: Bible TV HD new on Astra 19.2
  28. ↑ René Martens: From the employer's bible . In: The daily newspaper: taz . March 12, 2020, ISSN  0931-9085 , p. 41 ePaper 21 North ( taz.de [accessed on March 12, 2020]).
  29. ^ Announcement of BibelTV at OnlineTVRecorder .
  30. ↑ Bible TV Impact Report 2018 with annual financial statements, p. 7
  31. ↑ Bibeltv.de: Mobile reception enables completely new ways of using ( Memento from May 27, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (press article from August 11, 2010)
  32. ^ Greetings from Matthias Brender in the thanksgiving service on September 30, 2017, St. Michaeliskirche Hamburg
  33. ↑ Digitalfernsehen.de: Bible TV improves broadcast quality. October 1, 2008.
  34. ^ Diana Schild: The Evangelical Church and Media in Germany since 1945. 2010, ISBN 978-3-640-54342-7 , p. 87.
  35. ^ Jesus.ch: Bibel TV has been on the air for two years
  36. ^ Daniel J. Schnitzler: Digital television market: opportunities and potentials for special interest channels. Diplomica Verlag, 2008, ISBN 978-3-8366-6318-2 , p. 80.
  37. ↑ www.transponder-news.de: Bibel TV is in the black
  38. ↑ David Brunner: Bernd Merz changes to “Bibel TV” ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), report on Sound7.de from June 27, 2007.
  39. ↑ Bible TV program presentation. (PDF; 7.3 MB) TV channel presentation of the Bible TV. In: bibelfernsehen.de. Bible TV, April 12, 2011, accessed May 24, 2011 .
  40. ^ Program booklet of the station, July 2010 edition.
  41. ↑ Bible TV also in 2019 with stable growth , press release from June 19, 2020.
  42. ↑ Livenet.de: Bibel TV on October 2, 2002.
  43. ^ A b Cathrin Gutwald: Religious Wellness: Salvation Today. Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2005, ISBN 978-3-7705-4028-0 , p. 112.
  44. ^ Bible TV Advisory Board . In: bibeltv.de. May 23, 2011, archived from the original on May 23, 2011 ; Retrieved May 23, 2011 .
  45. ↑ Livenet.ch: On the upswing in the Alpine countries: “Bibel TV” increases its program advisory board from May 7, 2011, accessed on October 8, 2011.
  46. ^ Bible TV program advisory board . Retrieved April 8, 2019 .