ORB aquarium

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ORB Aquarium was a television program of the ORB , which was broadcast from 1992 to 2004 in the night program of the ORB television . The ORB Aquarium served as the night loop of the Third Program , which went on air on January 1, 1992 . The broadcast was discontinued with the merger of the ORB television with the SFB to form rbb television . It was based on a concept that received a positive response from audiences in Norway in the 1970s .

concept

The camera filmed an aquarium with ornamental fish . The recording was broadcast as a 30-minute clip in a loop. For this purpose, the radio program was broadcast by Radio Brandenburg .

reception

Audience ratings

The show reached up to 10,000 viewers and in September 1992 a market share of 37.5 percent, the highest value in the history of the station.

Similar formats - predecessor and successor

The concept of the ORB Aquarium has a forerunner not only on Norwegian but also on German television in the form of the walrus Antje ; From 1978 onwards, it had not only been popular with viewers as a break filler on NDR, but was also part of the NDR logo for 18 years (1984–2001).

As a result, other German television stations also adopted this format.

  • The first showed recordings from locomotive driver's cabs in the night program from September 1995 to October 2013, thus showing Germany's most beautiful railway lines .
  • Super RTL sometimes broadcast an open fire at night.
  • The BR TV and ARD-alpha radiation in their night programs since 1994 the mission of Space Night from; it shows recordings from space with music , which were mainly recorded by the International Space Station ISS .
  • The Children's Channel ( KiKA ) shows at night 21:00 to 6:00 every day an endless loop with Bernd the bread .
  • VOX brought beaches with the sound of the sea in the night program of the 1990s. Here you can see a film from 1994.
  • The ZDF showed the street sweeper in the 1990s. Here recordings of car trips from all over Germany were shown through the windshield. The program from DeutschlandRadio Berlin could be heard .

Parodies

  • In the radio show Mike Lehmann of the ORB youth radio Fritz there was a section in which Lehmann appeared as the "fish feeder of the ORB aquarium".
  • In Harald Schmidt's WDR broadcast Schmidt each other , an empty aquarium was a running gag and an allusion to the popular ORB aquarium.
  • The local broadcaster TV.Berlin showed a continuous loop with bare-breasted swimmers in its night program, alluding to the ORB Aquarium .

Web links / sources

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Elke Wittich: Moving photo wallpapers ( Memento of the original from October 1, 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. Jungle World No. 16 on April 14, 1999; Retrieved online on September 30, 2016. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / jungle-world.com
  2. ↑ a b c d e ORB Aquarium on quotenmeter.de , accessed on September 30, 2016.
  3. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0R0VQCkF-g
  4. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GTuTEyKWlY