FF Franconia television

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Infobox radio tower icon
TV station ( private law )
Program type Specialized program (local television)
reception Antenna , cable , analog
Image resolution 576i / 25
business July 23, 1992 (RTL program
window) February 27, 1994 (full frequency) until the end of 2002
language German
Seat Erlangen , Bavaria
owner first Dietmar Straube, later Society New Media Franconia (parent company)
Broadcaster FF Franken Funk und Fernsehen GmbH (1981, 1994)
executive Director Dietmar Straube
List of TV channels

FF Franken Fernsehen was a private local television broadcaster in Erlangen . Its transmission area was the metropolitan region of Nuremberg. It was operated from 1991 to 2002 by Franken Funk- und Fernsehen GmbH under the responsibility of the investor and managing director Dietmar Straube, who founded the medical publisher Perimed in 1969 and the media company as a production company in 1981. a. for scientific and medical preproduction. Franken Fernsehen only broadcast locally produced contributions via a local program window on RTL and later an expanded range of programs with regional reference via its own full frequency. The program of its own full frequency also included regional news with regional windows for Fürth, Erlangen and Nuremberg, as well as game shows and magazines produced in-house with a local focus. Both transmission channels were implemented in analog terrestrial television (RTL windows K 36 and K 23 in the PAL standard) and in analog cable television and were later gradually taken over by today's Franconian television .

The responsible investor was Dietmar Straube, who organized local television in Franconia with “Drehscheibe Franken”, which was advertised as “Germany's most successful local television broadcaster” and wanted to expand into other regions of Germany as well. There have been "Drehscheibe" broadcasts since 1989 in Lower Bavaria, and later in Dresden, Leipzig and Chemnitz.

history

On September 21, 1988, two channels (RTL and Sat.1) went into operation in Nuremberg via the telecommunications tower , but initially with a transmission gap (test image) between 3:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m., which were intended for regional service providers . A final concept of the Bavarian State Center for New Media for regional television coverage was only developed with a delay . Initially, on November 2, 1990, the half-hour magazine Bayern Aktuell started on both local windows for a transitional period , which was later replaced by SAT.1 Bayern on Sat.1 .

Straube applied for the local program window on RTL and was awarded the RTL local window in 1991. He built a new office and studio building for his production company Franken Funk und Fernsehen GmbH and put together a team for a 30-minute program, which was broadcast from July 1992 as "Drehscheibe Franken" between 6:00 pm and 6:30 pm. In February 1994, the station also received its own full frequency. To this end, Straube and the managing director of the Nuremberg textile department store chain Wöhrl , Hans Rudolf Wöhrl , founded the broadcaster Franken-Fernsehen under the umbrella of Gesellschaft Neue Medien Franken . The “Drehscheibe” was broadcast in parallel on both slots during the previous evening's prime time, the late edition and the other programs together with the “Franken Zeitung” text panel program on its own full frequency. Moderators sometimes switched from local private radio stations, such as B. the first presenter of the "Drehscheibe" Bianca Bauer-Stadler (from Radio Charivari ) or the Franconian cabaret artist and songwriter Herbert Beck (from Charivari, previously Radio F ), who moderated a talk show as a Franconian songwriter.

At that time Straube was planning a dense network of local television stations as a “third force in the niche” alongside the media giants Bertelsmann and Kirch. Since the costs were unexpectedly high, he tried to push through cost reductions with "brutal means" and hid from the media authorities his dependence on the American investor group Central European Development Corporation (CEDC), which in the meantime had a share of eight million marks. When Spiegel reported about it in January 1995, Staube did not want to comment on the allegations and spoke of a "campaign ... in the interests of third parties", but trust in RTL, VOX and the media authorities was destroyed. There was a threat of the first license withdrawal proceedings in German private television.

Instead, things turned out differently: the license for the local RTL broadcasting window, which the "Drehscheibe Franken" broadcasted parallel to Franken Fernsehen and was licensed separately, was not extended towards the end of the regular approval period in 1995 and went to a new investor. From the start of broadcasting on November 1, 1995, Franken Live was its direct competitor in the important prime time between 6:00 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. He produced a 30-minute regional news program every working day, which was broadcast between 6 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. on the RTL frequency. The older turntable at the same time lost its more attractive broadcast slot. It was able to consolidate itself in the following years after a large drop in viewers, but in 1999 it was only 4 percent (instead of 12 percent in 1995) market share compared to Franken Live with 11.9 percent at the same time. The late edition, which was broadcast parallel to the “Rundschau”, was able to roughly catch up with the Bavarian radio .

In 1997, the American group of investors withdrew from their involvement with Straube. Straube was able to restart with Franken Fernsehen in 1998, almost debt-free. First he took over program parts of the daily program pool RTL City-TV at the time, which as a network broadcaster distributed program content via satellite to six local programs nationwide for free integration into its own program. But the new program could not prevail over the long term against the competing program on the RTL window program. After the then organizer Franken Funk und Fernsehen went bankrupt at the end of 2002, the station ceased operations. RTL Franken Life now also got the broadcast license for the full frequency of the former competitor and later also the naming rights for the renaming in Franken Fernsehen.

In June 2005 FF Franken Funk und Fernsehen was dissolved in Erlangen. Finally, in March 2018, the former Internet address Frankenfernsehen.de from Straube's medical specialist publisher was transferred to TVF Fernsehen in Franken Programmgesellschaft (Franken Fernsehen).

further activities

Together with Telemedia Franken Infowerbung ( Oschmann Group ) and other partners such as u. a. Radio AREF ("Christ aktuell") was the information and service channel (ISK, later Franken Info TV ) operated as a text panel channel in the Nuremberg cable network from November 1993 until the bankruptcy of Franconian television in 2000 .

Franken Fernsehen broadcast teletext until the end of broadcasting ("Franken Text"). In addition, the "Franken Zeitung" was an independent screen newspaper with text, images and moving images that was broadcast during the program breaks.

A frankenonline.deregional information portal had been available on the Internet at the web address since 1996. It bundled all the online activities of the Straubes media group and was expanded in the following years to a comprehensive range of news and services with a regional business directory. The online services can be used until mid-2002. The domain has belonged to Straubes Fachverlag since July 2012 and is no longer actively used.

On January 17, 2001, Straube's media company in Erlangen launched Franken Funk, a regional news radio station using the digital broadcasting channel DAB (Ensemble of Bayern Digital Radio from the Nuremberg Telecommunications Tower). The BLM approved the station in May 1999. The station achieved a market share of 0.4 percent (“Listener yesterday”). In comparison with the other stations in the DAB bouquet, it was more than average successful, but compared to FM stations it was limited to digital radio, which was hardly used at the time. Although the station was recorded in the databases until 2004, the lack of success of digital radio may have led to the program being discontinued by the end of 2002.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b The history of BLM: 1992. (blm.de)
  2. ↑ a b The history of BLM: 1994. (blm.de)
  3. ↑ a b c d e Andre Wiegand: Optimization of the profitability of regional and local television stations. Dissertation at the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the Free University of Berlin, 2004. S. 188/189, online
  4. ↑ Perimed (History) ( Memento of the original from May 14, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at perimed.de  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.perimed.de
  5. ↑ a b FF Franken Funk und Fernsehen GmbH ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. - Entry at nodemash (compaly.com) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / compaly.com
  6. ^ Mention of a film report on August 15, 1992 about an expedition in the transmitter on the private homepage of the organizer
  7. ↑ Fernsehturm - Telecommunications Tower Nuremberg. Entry at nuernberginfos.de
  8. ↑ The history of BLM: 1990. (blm.de)
  9. ↑ SAT.1 Bayern - station entry with the BLM
  10. ↑ Thomas Pintzke: Chances and Risks of Local Television in North Rhine-Westphalia: Case studies in the cities of Aachen, Bielefeld, Dortmund and Cologne. Series Media Research at the Media Authority of NRW, Volume 21, Springer-Verlag, 2013. ISBN 3322925722 , ISBN 9783322925725 , p 22 ( Online excerpts on Google Books )
  11. ↑ Atypically quiet. Spiegel 3/95, January 16, 1995
  12. ↑ The story of "Franken Fernsehen" at frankenfernsehen.tv
  13. ↑ cf. Ranges:
  14. ↑ RTL City-TV provides frames for six channels. ( Memento of the original from April 4, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. mediabiz.de, January 30, 1998 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mediabiz.de
  15. ↑ Denic entry for the domain “frankenfernsehen.de” from March 14, 2018, accessed on March 20, 2018
  16. ^ History on Radio AREF
  17. ↑ cf. First homepage version from December 18, 1996 ( Memento from December 18, 1996 in the Internet Archive ) in the web archive
  18. ↑ cf. Web link to the URL frankenonline.de and current entry at Denic.de
  19. ^ Marcel Maack: Digital Audio Broadcasting (DAB). Effects on users, providers and journalists. Student thesis at the Technical University of Dortmund (Institute for Journalism, as BoD). ISBN 3638954994 , ISBN 9783638954990 . P. 15 ( Excerpts online at Google Books )
  20. ↑ Press release 45/1999 of May 7, 1999
  21. ↑ Radio coverage 2002 (excerpt from Bavaria as a whole, Mon-Fri excluding VHF) Radio analysis Bavaria 2002
  22. ↑ Identification codes and data content for the service information in DAB (PDF file). Institute for radio technology, subject area information and data services
  23. ↑ cf. Entry at digitalradio-info.de on December 11, 2002 ( Memento from December 11, 2002 in the Internet Archive ) and removal of the entry by February 7, 2003 ( Memento from February 7, 2003 in the Internet Archive )