today plus
| Television broadcast | |
|---|---|
| Original title | today plus |
 | |
| Country of production | Germany |
| original language | German |
| Year (s) | 2011-2015 |
| Production company |
ZDF |
| length | 15-30 minutes |
| Broadcasting cycle |
weekly (friday) |
| genre | interactive broadcast , talk |
| Moderation | |
| First broadcast | September 7, 2011 on ZDFinfo |
heute plus was an interactive television program that was broadcast live on ZDFinfo at 7:30 p.m. on Fridays following the 7:00 p.m. today news. She excelled in engaging the audience. During the live broadcast, questions could be asked to the guests in the studio via chat and social networks. In addition, a selected person was initially connected to each issue via video telephony via Skype and was given the opportunity to express criticism and make suggestions for improvement. After the end of each mission, a member of the answer today editorial board nor to 20:00 audience questions in the chat.
Today plus was moderated alternately by Jessica Zahedi , Eric Marr and Yasmin Parvis . Some of the audience questions were selected before the broadcast or read out by the moderator from a tablet computer . These were mostly answered by the responsible final editor and the news anchor ( Petra Gerster , Christian Sievers or Barbara Hahlweg ) of the 7pm today edition. By importing short video clips and occasionally switching off the keying , a glimpse behind the scenes should be granted. Today plus , like most other ZDF news programs, was broadcast live from the studio opened in 2009 at Lerchenberg in Mainz . The talk ran on Wednesdays until December 2011.
On October 19, 2011, star guest Oliver Welke answered questions from the audience and spoke about his everyday life as a presenter of the heute-show .
At the beginning of the broadcast on March 30, 2012, the viewer got a glimpse of the editorial rooms of the newspaper heute news.
The format was aimed primarily at younger viewers who are interested in politics and journalism.
From October 5, 2012, today plus was broadcast with a darker background. This was based on that of the 7pm today news.
On January 18, 2013, innovations were announced at ZDFinfo. One of these is that the transmission time has been shortened to 15 minutes and the day before plus today was replaced by documentation. In addition, more news topics were dealt with during the week and there was more coverage of the reporter work. In online chat and on social networks such as Twitter , the shortening of airtime was repeatedly criticized.
In the following broadcast, the final editor of the broadcast explained that this was related to the ZDFinfo broadcast schedule ; the duration of the program will be extended to 30 minutes if necessary, if not enough content can be dealt with.
On April 24, 2015, the last show of heute plus was broadcast, in which viewers could ask questions about the successor format heute + , which is to replace the show tonight and represents a further development of heute plus , in which the element of dialogue between viewers and the newsmakers should be expanded. A test phase has been running in the social networks since April 21, 2015, and since May 18, 2015 today + has been broadcast on the ZDF main program.
Web links
- Channel overview today plus in the ZDF mediathek in the ZDFmediathek , accessed on January 27, 2014.
Individual evidence
- ↑ The reformed digital channel ZDFinfo goes live today and wants to be a "television to have a say" , Berliner Zeitung, September 5, 2011
- ↑ ZDF starts today plus via Skype , accessed on November 12, 2011
- ↑ ZDF Interaktiv Das Experiment , Tagesspiegel, November 22, 2011
- ↑ "today plus" and why messages in one thirty are no longer enough
- ↑ Host of the heute plus. January 31, 2012, accessed March 23, 2012 .
- ↑ Video heute plus from October 19, 2011 in the ZDFmediathek , accessed on November 12, 2011. (offline)
- ↑ Video heute plus from March 30, 2012 in the ZDFmediathek , accessed on March 30, 2012. (offline)
- ↑ Video heute plus from January 18, 2013 in the ZDFmediathek , accessed on January 27, 2014. (offline)
- ↑ Twitter / Tweet from @stefanmajewsky https://twitter.com/stefanmajewsky/statuses/292342367091044352 Retrieved January 19, 2013
- ↑ ZDF: "heute +" celebrates its premiere in May ( Memento of the original from April 26, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , DWDL.de, April 24, 2015
