Window program
In German broadcasting law, a window program means a time-limited broadcast program ( radio or television broadcast ) within the framework of a broader program (main program) with more or less different program responsibility. The Rundfunkstaatsvertrag (RStV) has differentiated regional and satellite window programs since the Third Amendment Treaty (1996). In the private television sector , the window broadcaster regularly works under its own license.
Regional window program
A regional window program is a temporally and spatially limited broadcast program with essentially regional content within the framework of a main program (Section 2 (2) No. 6 RStV). With regional window programs, the legislature wanted to ensure that regional news coverage is also offered on radio and that diversity of opinion is ensured. Regional windows are compulsory in the two nationwide private full television programs with the highest reach (Section 25 (4) RStV).
The regionalization of a nationwide broadcasting channel chain brings technical problems with it, because the overall program for the window program has to be separated. This means that different window programs can be received at the same time in different regions.
A regional window program has to be distinguished from the main program surrounding it by reporting focused on regional topics, so that the main program is more comprehensive and less specific in terms of content; the regional themes must shape the program of the regional window.
Well-known examples in the television sector are the regional magazines on RTL , Sat.1 and most third-party programs ; Incidentally, also on ORF 2 . Until the end of 1992, the evening program in the first was also designed as a regional window; Until the end of 2015, the advertising there was still divided into 10 regions, some with their own advertising separators .
Public radio programs with regional windows are Bavaria 1 (5 regions) and Bavaria 2 (2 regions), Antenne Brandenburg (5 regions), hr4 (3 regions), MDR 1 (4 regions each in Saxony , Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia ), NDR 1 (5 regions each in Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein, 4 in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania), SWR4 (8 regions in Baden-Württemberg, 5 in Rhineland-Palatinate) and WDR 2 (8 regions); also Radio SRF 1 (7 regions).
There are also regional windows in private radio; Examples: radio ffn (7 regions), BB Radio (6), Hit Radio FFH (6), Antenne Niedersachsen (5), RPR1 (5), Antenne Thuringia (5), Radio 7 (4), Radio Regenbogen (3) , Baltic Sea wave (3).
Satellite window program
A satellite TV program is a time-limited broadcast program with nationwide distribution within the framework of a main program (Section 2 (2) No. 5 RStV).
Supraregional external provider windows, also known as third-party windows, serve the internal plurality of private television. According to the Interstate Broadcasting Treaty, individual stations with a market share of more than 10% or groups of stations with a market share of more than 20% (Section 26 (5) RStV) must broadcast at least 260 minutes of window offers per week from independent third parties (television providers without their own stations), of which 75 minutes are must be prime time; Regional window programs are partially counted towards this (Section 31 (2) RStV). In the past, disputes between program providers and state media authorities about third-party providers' windows came up in court.
Well-known examples are programs such as Spiegel TV Magazin , Stern TV and Focus TV Reportage as well as other culture magazines from dctp . Another example are teleshopping channels.
Delimitations
Local and conurbation programs such as TV Berlin , Hamburg 1 or Munich TV are not regional windows within the meaning of the Interstate Broadcasting Treaty, as they are not integrated into a main program. Rather, they are regarded as independent branch or full programs .
So-called frequency splitting does not in itself constitute a window program if no program is subordinate to the other in the sense of a “time limit”.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Online edition of the State Broadcasting Treaty
- ↑ see also TV Window Directive (FFR)
- ↑ Julia Niebler, The Strengthening of Regional Window Programs in Private Broadcasting as a Means of Securing Diversity of Opinion through the Eighth Broadcasting Amendment , 2008, p. 50.
- ↑ ARD evening program ; TV programs ; to Bremen until the end of 2004: buten un inside
- ↑ The federal states decide to ban regionalized advertising in television programs broadcast nationwide ; Art. 7 para. 11 RStV in the version of the 18th State Treaty on Broadcasting as a reaction to ECLI : DE: BVerwG : 2014: 171214U6C32.13.0
- ^ Regional advertising in the First ( Memento from March 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ BR: Livestreams
- ^ Antenna Brandenburg: Downloads
- ↑ hr4: Podcasts
- ^ NDR: Livestreams ; see. § 3 NDR-StV
- ↑ SWR: Livestreams
- ^ WDR: Livestreams
- ^ Radio SRF 1: Downloads
- ↑ radio ffn: Downloads ; see. Section 15 (3) of the Media Act
- ^ MABB: BB Radio ; see. Section 3 (3) of the MStV-BB
- ↑ § 12 Paragraph 4 HPRG and LPR - Frequency Statute
- ↑ Antenne Niedersachsen: Podcasts ; see. Section 15 (3) of the Media Act
- ↑ RPR1: news ticker ; see. Section 29 (2) LMG
- ^ Antenna Thuringia: contact details of the studios ; see. Section 17 (1) No. 3 ThürLMG
- ↑ Radio 7: Livestreams ; see. Section 18 (3) LMedienG
- ↑ Radio Regenbogen: Livestreams ; see. Section 18 (3) LMedienG
- ^ Baltic Sea Wave: Frequencies
- ↑ see also third-party broadcasting time guideline (DSZR)
- ↑ Nds. OVG , decision of July 11, 2014, 10 ME 99/13 (window on RTL )
- ↑ OVG RP , decision of July 14, 2017, 5 L 312 / 17.NW (window on Sat.1 )
- ↑ Julia Niebler, The Strengthening of Regional Window Programs in Private Broadcasting as a Means of Securing Diversity of Opinion through the Eighth Broadcasting Amending State Treaty , 2008, p. 57.