Burgenland leisure
| Burgenland Leisure Time (BF)
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| description | Regional newspaper Burgenland |
| First edition | November 1921 |
| Frequency of publication | Fortnightly |
| Range | 0.077 million readers |
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| Editor-in-chief | Thomas Orovits |
| editor | Medienbeteiligungs GmbH Burgenland |
| Web link | www.bf-online.at |
The BF (Burgenland Freedom or Burgenland Leisure Time) was a Burgenland newspaper. Until the end of 2006, the BF was the party newspaper of the SPÖ Burgenland. BF and Burgenländische Volkszeitung (BVZ) (until 2004 party newspaper of the Burgenland ÖVP ) were for many years the dominant regional weekly newspapers in the easternmost Austrian state.
The "BF" was founded in November 1921 under the name "Burgenland Freedom". It was the year that Burgenland (former German West Hungary) was accepted as an independent federal state in the Austrian Republic.
The newspaper was banned during the time of Austrofascism . The Burgenland Freedom started a new beginning on February 21, 1946. On February 10, 1967, the Burgenland Freedom was renamed "BF-Zeitung für das Burgenland". The newspaper has appeared weekly since the 1960s in small format (95 × 258 mm).
After the newspaper was taken over by Medienbeteiligungs GmbH Burgenland in 2006, the BF was renamed "Burgenland Freizeit" and was only published every 14 days as a free paper. In January 2009 it ceased operations for cost reasons.
Media owner and publisher
The media owner is Medienbeteiligungs GmbH Burgenland in the state capital Eisenstadt . The owners are Intermedias Verlags - GmbH Nfg. & Co KG (74%) and the SPÖ-affiliated association "Freunde der BF" (26%).
distribution
According to the Austrian Media Analysis 2006, the BF had 77,000 readers in Austria. This corresponds to a coverage of 1.1% in Austria (Burgenland: 30.1%). The total circulation in 2007 was 116,587 copies.
Content and editorial policy
Burgenland Freizeit reported on politics, culture, economy, local events and sports from Burgenland and its communities.
According to its own definition, the newspaper is “journalistically independent” and “committed to the basic values of parliamentary democracy, the republican form of government and the rule of law and rejects political extremism and totalitarianism”.
BF archive online
With the help of the Burgenland state government and EU regional funding, it was digitized as a cultural project. All editions of the BF from 1922 onwards have been available online free of charge since September 2010. A full text search has been possible in all copies since February 2011. It is the first newspaper in a German-language archive in which the entire archive can be searched online.