The weather channel

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The weather channel (weather and travel TV) was a German-language television station based in Düsseldorf , which broadcast a 24-hour program on the subject of " weather " and "travel".

The channel was on the air from June 3, 1996 to January 29, 1998. The shareholders were the US American The Weather Channel with 45%, the publishing group Georg von Holtzbrinck with 25%, the German television news agency with 15%, the Gesellschaft für Telekommunikation with 10% and others. The program director was Jörg Kachelmann at the beginning . However, this was replaced after about six months by Andreas Fischer, as was the founding managing director Markus Breitenecker , who was followed by Christian Böhmer. Based on the model of the successful US broadcaster The Weather Channel, regional weather forecasts built into the program for the individual regions of Germany were also introduced in Germany . The DFA founder and then managing director Helmut Keizer is considered to be the originator of the idea .

It was distributed via the satellite Kopernikus 1 (23.5 ° East), which has a weak range, and in the cable networks - but there often only part-time for a few hours.

Because of the poor distribution in the cable, there were higher start-up losses than originally planned, which the shareholders did not want to continue to carry, so that at the end of January 1998 broadcasting was stopped. The Weather Channel had stopped operating channels in Great Britain, Italy and the Netherlands in parallel to the discontinuation of the German weather channel and withdrew completely from Europe.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Der Wetterkanal - presentation of weather information , PDF file, Meteorological Institute of the University of Bonn
  2. ↑ Lightning and thunder hit the weather channel , kress.de
  3. ↑ http://wirtschaftsblatt.at/archiv/werbung/984650/index ( Memento from March 18, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Media: Pieseln vom Himmel , Der Spiegel 16/1996
  5. ↑ [1]
  6. ↑ The day after tomorrow, the Berliner Zeitung will close on broadcast , January 27, 1998