Joint morning program from ARD and ZDF

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The joint morning program of ARD and ZDF emerged on January 3, 1966 through the participation of ZDF from the morning program of ARD that had been broadcast since 1961 . As a competing offer, this was aimed at viewers in East Germany (“Shift Worker Television”). Part of this common morning program still exists today. It is broadcast on Erste and ZDF and produced by both channels on a weekly basis.

ARD program in the “zone edge” 1961–1966

Rough representation of the ARD range in the GDR area with transmitter locations

The morning program of the ARD started on September 4, 1961 by the Sender Freies Berlin (SFB) in cooperation with the other ARD stations "for the residents of the Soviet occupation zone and the Soviet sector of Berlin". It was only broadcast on the stations of the SFB and the North German Radio (NDR) ( Torfhaus , Bungsberg ) as well as the border stations of the Hessischer Rundfunks (HR) ( Meißner , Rimberg ) and the Bayerischer Rundfunks (BR) ( Kreuzberg , Ochsenkopf ), which were all close to the inner-German border (the "zone border"). Initially, about 140 minutes were broadcast per day, 90 percent of which were repetitions. The rest of the time, special productions, especially current news programs, were broadcast. The program began Monday to Saturday at 10 a.m. with a five-minute news program, followed by a repetition of the daily news from the previous day, then various repetitions, mostly a feature film, and at 11:45 a.m. or 12 noon, the program Current Magazine including the press review . From 9 a.m. to 10 a.m., school radio was broadcast in some cases via various ARD stations . On Sundays, the morning program was initially broadcast as described from 10 a.m. At 11 a.m. the nationwide television program began with the half-hour program preview for taking notes from the WDR . The international morning pint followed from Cologne at twelve o'clock .

ZDF joined in 1966

At that time, ZDF was not generally available in the GDR . The ARD had therefore offered the ZDF to participate in the morning program in 1965, initially under the premise that the ARD would retain sole responsibility. The two broadcasters then agreed on a joint editorial team. The program share of the ZDF in the entire community program of almost 200 minutes was initially 37 percent, but increased to 50 percent by the 1980s. Due to the ZDF share, the joint program ran from 10 a.m. with the Tagesschau, followed by the Today or Tagesthemen broadcast from the previous day until the final press review at 12:50 p.m. or 12:55 p.m. and the Tagesschau from 13 : 12:00 am to 1:15 pm.

Nationwide distribution since 1981

The morning program has been broadcast nationwide since January 2, 1981. The program share of the ZDF fell again in 1991 to 43.9 percent. Since October 2, 1989, the ARD and ZDF midday magazine, which has been produced alternately by ARD and ZDF on a weekly basis, has ended the joint morning program on weekdays. Since July 13, 1992, the ARD and ZDF morning magazine , which has also been produced alternately, has started at 6 a.m., and later at 5:30 a.m. Since January 1, 1999 and until December 30, 2011, in addition to the morning and noon magazine, only the news at nine, ten and twelve o'clock ( daily news at twelve or today noon ) was broadcast together on both channels . At the beginning of 2012, the cooperation with the news ended, as the ZDF now produces its own news programs at 9 a.m. and 12 noon and the ARD then also announced its own news programs during this period. Thus, in the program times from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., in which only the messages have been broadcast jointly since 1999, broadcasts are now completely independent.

Within the station, a distinction was made between ARD and ZDF weeks in the joint program area, in which the respective station took over the joint part of the morning program. Since 2018, one of the two broadcasters has been responsible for the morning magazine, while the other contributes the midday magazine. In the following week, responsibility for morning and lunchtime magazine usually changes, so that the program share in the common area is the same. These two programs are also the only ones that are left of the joint morning program after the cooperation in the news area came to an end in 2012. Both broadcasters have their own editorial offices for news, morning and midday magazine. Should one of the responsible broadcaster broadcast a different program in the morning (e.g. special programs or sports broadcasts), the joint broadcasts will still be produced by the responsible broadcaster and made available to the other broadcaster.

For ARD, WDR produces the ARD morning magazine in Cologne , while ZDF broadcasts its ZDF morning magazine from the capital city studio in Berlin . The ARD-Mittagsmagazin has been producing the rbb in Berlin since 2018 (from 1989 to 2017 the BR in Munich was responsible for it). At ZDF, the production of the ZDF lunch magazine also takes place in the Berlin capital studio, with rbb and ZDF sharing a studio there. However, the editorial offices are still separate. ZDF Morgenmagazin and ZDF Mittagsmagazin are responsible for a single editorial team. The news overview for both ARD formats is produced by ARD-aktuell in Hamburg , the news overview for the ZDF broadcasts comes from Mainz .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Statistical Yearbook of ARD 1962, p. 28.
  2. morning program. Retrieved June 25, 2019 .
  3. ZDF will show more "Today" news from 2012 onwards , on horizont.net
  4. Compact: Compact features section II. In: welt.de . December 14, 2011, accessed October 7, 2018 .
  5. Thanks to a scheme change - the "ZDF-Mittagsmagazin" is also moving to Berlin on DWDL.de