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| TV station ( registered association ) | |
| Program type | Citizen TV |
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Cable (analog), |
| Image resolution | ( Entry missing ) |
| business | January 10, 1991 to December 31, 2008 |
| executive Director | Heike Klaes |
| List of TV channels | |
The Offene Kanal Essen ( OK43 ) was a citizen television broadcaster operated by a sponsoring association of the same name. The program was fed analogously into the cable network of the city of Essen (channel S21), the range was last around 190,000 households.
The Open Channel Essen belonged beside the open channel Dortmund to the two largest open-ended channels in North Rhine-Westphalia (Category A).
On January 1, 2009, the open channel ceased operations. This includes the TV broadcaster and the offering of seminars or the rental of technology and editing suites. At the suggestion of the LfM NRW , the state media commission decided not to continue promoting open channels in their previous form.
The program ended on New Year's Eve 2008 with a 4-hour live broadcast (“The last one turns off the light!”), Which looked back on almost 18 years of OK43 and also through numerous conversations, e.g. B. with the managing director and producers or users, gave an overview of the current situation. After the actual live broadcast, the broadcast technology switched off the live TV program on television. An information board has been on display since then.
OK43
The abbreviation OK43 was often used for the program , an acronym that stands for Open Channel , as well as the first two digits of the postcode of Essen when it was founded: 4300. In the course of a partial reorientation and restructuring of the program scheme in January 2008, the Update appearance ( CI ). The previous figurative mark moved more into the background and the statement “TV for food” became part of the logo.
TV program
OK43 could be received 24 hours a day, and a large part of the program consisted of contributions from producers. During the rest of the time, information boards (see below) and articles in the series were sent to: stadt .
When the program schedule was changed in 2008, there were two main types of broadcasting blocks that were unique in this form in North Rhine-Westphalia:
- Contributions from editorial groups were broadcast Monday to Friday from 7 p.m. and Saturday from 8 p.m. and had a different focus every day. Here users met regularly to plan and organize the sequence of the broadcast block. In addition to the joint planning, an exchange of experiences and learning to watch television could take place.
- Posts in open space . Producers who did not want to plan and broadcast contributions within the editorial groups could use the classic open access and send their contributions Monday to Friday from midnight and Saturday from 10pm.
Premieres
| Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday | Sunday | |
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| 19-20 h | Editing (sports lesson) |
Editing (School & Integration) |
Editing (local appointment) |
Editorial office (culture-good) |
Editing (Essen KOMPAKT) |
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| 8-10 p.m. | Editing (OK mobile) |
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| 0-1 h | Free space (in real) |
Free space (sidelong glances) |
Free space (color television) |
Free space (clip culture) |
Free space (turned off) |
The transmission blocks were repeated several times at different times during the week.
Program branches
In order to be able to structure the program better and to make it clearer, sections have been introduced that deal with certain topics and are broadcast at regular broadcast times whenever possible. Most recently there were the following branches:
- Editorial
- Sports lesson (local sport )
- School & integration (school, training, integration)
- Local appointment (politics, society)
- Kultur-gut (cinema, music, theater, feature film, theme evenings, events, city festivals)
- Essen KOMPAKT (news, trailers, short reports, NiF, event tips)
- OK mobile (event, talk)
- free space
- inEcht (documentation and reports)
- Side glances (program exchange with other open channels)
- Color television (entertainment and lifestyle)
- Clipculture (music clips)
- shot (series, short films)
- to: stadt (impressions of the everyday)
Regular broadcasts
A series of regular programs created by editorial groups were broadcast on OK43. These included B.
- Berlin Bohème and Monday children - gay and lesbian soaps by Andreas Weiß
- City Talk - reports from Essen events, Essen squares, Essen citizens
- Der Literaturkaffee - The only program on German television that deals exclusively with German crime novels.
- fifteen - The magazine by young people for young people.
- Apprenticeships TV reports on all aspects of training and teaching.
- Music Cult Ruhr - pop music show with artists and newcomers mainly from the Ruhr area
- HAPPENS - Weekly city magazine produced by interns
- Powerplay - Weekly sports magazine with local games e.g. B. the ESC mosquitoes eat
- Stadtgeflüster - Weekly one-on-one conversation with caller participation on local topics
- Walter Late Night - 14-day late night format with talk guests, newcomer bands and clips (comedy, current reports)
Training and qualification
OK43 saw itself not only as a pure citizen broadcaster - on the one hand, Offene Kanal Essen trained four trainees as media designers for picture and sound up to the end (partly in cooperation with the LfM ), on the other hand OK43 offered editorial group support and numerous seminars that enabled a qualification in dealing with the medium of television, be it from a technical or editorial point of view.
Many of the OK43 qualified are regularly present in the media to this day. The best known include Hans-Werner Fittkau (n-tv, PHOENIX), Tom Briele (WDR, Deutsche Welle TV, Kanal4 / RTL), Dirk Stolzenberg (Radio Essen, N-Joy-Radio), Manuel Neukirchner (Radio Essen, DFB , German Football Museum), Christian Schreckeneder (WDR), Michael Tobias (Radio Essen, Radio NRW, Radio RSG) and Matthias Walter (RTL Explosiv).
Information platform
Information boards
Outside of the broadcasting times for user contributions, the Essen Open Channel broadcast information boards that informed viewers about the TV program, news from the city (e.g. traffic information, weather, events) and the seminar offers. In addition, users could book their own boards, which were then designed according to their own wishes and z. B. drew attention to their own events. These boards were also the responsibility of the respective user.
Teletext
From 2005 OK43 broadcast a teletext in which the current TV program, seminar information but also z. B. the cinema program were to be found. For the 2006 World Cup, it was even possible to have the current goals displayed in the current picture during live matches.
Website
Since 1999 OK43 has also offered information about the program and seminars on its own website. Since the restart in 2005, the website, which has meanwhile been recognized as the best OK website in NRW, has offered a large amount of information about the station and the association. The domain ok43.de belongs to another owner today.
Internet TV
Started in 2003 as a pilot project, OK43 was the only open channel in Germany to offer a broadband live stream around the clock, through which viewers who are not connected to the Essen cable network could also follow the program.
Individual evidence
- ^ Citizens' television in North Rhine-Westphalia: Development Plan III for the period 2003 to 2007
- ^ "Chronicle OK43" ( Memento from October 16, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Annual report 2008 of the State Media Agency North Rhine-Westphalia (LfM)
- ↑ "The last one turns off the light!" ( Memento from February 8, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Transmission schedule ( Memento of February 8, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Program categories ( Memento from February 9, 2009 in the Internet Archive )