Leipzig television

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Leipzig television
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TV station ( private law )
Program type local TV information program
reception digital terrestrial and cable (analog / digital)
Start of transmission October 23, 1995
owner videowerkstatt.net GmbH
executive Director Jan Kaufhold
List of TV channels
Website

Leipzig television ( LF abbreviation ) is a private Leipzig television station. Jan Kaufhold is the managing director. The studios and broadcasting center are located at Peterssteinweg 19 in 04107 Leipzig. Until June 2016, the owner was Sachsen Fernsehen GmbH & Co. Fernseh-Betriebs KG. With the merging of the formerly independent program info tv leipzig of the videowerkstatt with Leipzig television, the videowerkstatt has become the organizer of the joint program.

General

A daily news program with news from the city of Leipzig and its surroundings (“ turntable ”) as well as reports on social, cultural and sporting events underlines the claim to local television. In addition, numerous service and information magazines, such as those available from other (local and regional) TV stations, round off the program. Students from the University of Technology, Economics and Culture Leipzig and the University of Leipzig help shape the program in the form of their own magazines, but these have only very little current relevance due to their only one-month broadcast.

A whole series of these magazines are produced by Leipzig TV itself, such as Am Tresen with the former editor-in-chief of the Leipziger Volkszeitung , Hartwig Hochstein , or Lust auf Genuss with the moderator Florian Funk.

On the website of Leipzig Fernsehen, news from Leipzig and many programs can be accessed in their complete form via streaming regardless of the installed operating system and without specific media software. The program Drehscheibe is always held for a week in retrospect, the other programs are only available as a current (mostly monthly) issue.

Leipzig television is financed exclusively through advertising income. In order to generate additional income to ensure broadcasting operations, program windows lasting several hours were rented to various shopping channels or the former competition channel 9Live at an early stage .

From May 1, 2006 to July 31, 2006, Leipzig TV broadcast LF digital for three months , a channel specially created for the World Cup with background information on Leipzig as the venue for the World Cup. LF digital was broadcast via DVB-T .

With a program reform in September 2008, more current news from Leipzig and, among other things, live broadcasts of sports events were intended to sharpen the station's profile. This goal could only be partially achieved. The program continues to this day with many repetitive loops and commercials for the local economy. The station's reputation continues to be shaped by the main news program “Drehscheibe”.

After the station was originally planned to be discontinued in May 2013 - just like that of Sachsen Fernsehen - at the end of September 2013 for economic reasons, it was announced on August 11 that the operation of both stations was now secured with the support of Haeswe GmbH in Dresden . For this purpose, the production company FiS Fernsehen in Sachsen GmbH was founded, which is now producing the Sachsen Fernsehen program in Leipzig and Chemnitz.

The background to this is that the - exclusively local - advertising income is not sufficient to maintain operations without regular subsidies from the shareholders and / or the personal exploitation of employees. The structural problems have not changed, but a slimming down of the staff is to be expected and the broadcasters are hoping for the “Bavarian model”, especially with the public co-financing of the line costs.

In June 2015, the industry service " Flurfunk Dresden " reported the move of the entire station to the main building of the Leipziger Volkszeitung in Petersteinweg 19 and the takeover of the production of all video content of the LVZ online presence by Leipzig TV from mid-2015.

Prizes and awards (selection)

The Leipzig TV team often takes part in television industry competitions. This participation has been rewarded several times with renowned prizes.

  • SLM Television Prize 2003 , awarded by the Saxon State Authority for Private Broadcasting and New Media: 1st Prize in the category "Commercial Organizers - Individual Contribution"
  • German Regional Television Award 2005: 1st prize in the "Best Contribution" category
  • German Regional Television Award 2007: 1st prize in the "Best Contribution" category
  • German Regional Television Award 2008: 1st prize in the "Best Contribution" category
  • German RegioStar 2010: 1st prize in the "Best Contribution" category
  • Saxon performance award for local TV 2011: Special award for reporting "Snow chaos in Leipzig 2010"
  • Broadcasting Prize Central Germany 2011: 1st prize in the category "State Prize Saxony"
  • Erzgebirge TV Prize "Grenzgänger" 2011: 1st prize in the category "Reportage up to 15 minutes"
  • Erzgebirge TV Prize "Grenzgänger" 2011: 2nd prize in the special category "Tradition and Customs"
  • Erzgebirge TV Prize "Grenzgänger" 2011: 1st prize in the special category "Tradition and Customs"
  • German RegioStar 2012: 1st prize in the category "Best contribution up to 6 minutes"
  • Rundfunkpreis Mitteldeutschland Fernsehen 2017 : "Best Contribution"
  • Rundfunkpreis Mitteldeutschland Fernsehen 2017 : "Best Advertising"
  • German RegioStar 2019 : 1st prize in the "Best Moderator" category for Norman Baumgartner

Reception and range

Leipzig television has been digitally receivable via antenna since March 17, 2008 - as the first local television broadcaster in Germany . This was made possible by a DVB-T pilot project, initially limited to three years, by the Saxon State Authority for Private Broadcasting and New Media (SLM). This means that the program is digitally available throughout the city at a data rate of approx. 3 Mbit / s. Previously, the program was broadcast analogue via channel 60 from the telecommunications tower Leipzig-Holzhausen . In addition, Leipzig TV is fed into the Leipzig TV cable networks of PrimaCom, Kabel Deutschland and HL Komm (an!).

Digital terrestrial reception data for the urban area
Channel: 37
Frequency: 602 MHz

According to the broadcaster, the technical range of the program is around 600,000 households.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Terminus cf. Web link slm-online.de
  2. ↑ Merger: Leipzig TV & info tv Leipzig go together. ( Memento of the original from July 4, 2016 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. Leipzig television, July 1, 2016 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sachsen-fernsehen.de
  3. ↑ Spiesser founders join broadcasters in Leipzig and Chemnitz
  4. ↑ LEIPZIG TELEVISION before the end. May 30, 2013
  5. ↑ REBUILDING AT LVZ.DE: HOLGER HERZBERG WEG, LEIPZIG FERNSEHEN MOVES INTO HOUSE June 19, 2015
  6. ↑ REGIOSTAR - Winner. Retrieved September 14, 2019 .