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| TV station ( private law ) | |
| Program type | Non-commercial, participatory, regional 24 hour program |
| reception | Antenna , cable , live stream , digital |
| Image resolution | ( Entry missing ) |
| Start of transmission | November 28, 2005 |
| owner | Community TV GmbH |
| executive Director | Christian Jungwirth |
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The television channel Okto is a participatory television broadcaster in Vienna , which is committed to the idea of citizen television . Legally speaking, it is a private television broadcaster.
founding
Okto is the first non-commercial television broadcaster in Austria . In 2010, a similar broadcaster, DORF , started in Upper Austria , and in 2012 Community TV FS1 began broadcasting in Salzburg . The forerunner was the transmitter TIV .
Okto was brought into being as part of the so-called red-green projects and was founded by the association for the establishment and operation of open television channels in Vienna in 2005. After a nine-month build-up period, it went on the air on November 28 at 8 p.m. of the same year with the show Afrika TV .
Organization and financing
The media owner is Community TV-GmbH . The board of directors includes a. Mag.a Nina Horaczek, Ute Fragner, Dr. Maria Windhager, Dr. Edith Bachkönig, Dr. Helga Schwarzwald, Joanna Liu (MA), Otalia Sacko (MMA), Dr. Vedran Dzihic and Mag. Dr. Tassilo Pellegrini. Honorary members are: emer. O. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Thomas Alfred Bauer, Armin Thurnher and Dr. Peter Huemer.
There is no advertising on Okto , the station is financed through grants from the municipality of Vienna . Individual programs could be co-financed by EU funding.
program
The program is geared towards groups who, according to the broadcaster, are “underrepresented in the Austrian media landscape”. The Okto program guidelines serve as the basis for this. Participation in programming as a volunteer producer is not paid. Since the station is intended as a communication platform for Vienna, anyone who wants to participate and can present a program concept for a serial production over a period of about 1/2 year after completing the basic workshop and production produce a "zero number".
The regulatory authority KommAustria approved “a non-commercial, participatory, regional 24-hour program in accordance with the principles of the Charter for Community Television in Austria”. It is therefore regionally oriented with a focus on art and culture. In the approval notice for the operator of the digital terrestrial transmitter operator ORS , KommAustria describes Okto as a “non-commercial, participatory full program . It sees itself as a complementary offer in the public-non-profit interest to the existing programs of the public service ORF and the private-commercial competitors. ”In a proceeding against the previous MUX C operator who wanted to remove the program from the broadcasting offer, the regulatory authority praised In November 2012, expressly stated that the Viennese regional broadcaster “was seen as an important part of the program bouquet with regard to the diversity of opinion.” The program organizer writes about himself: “Okto focuses on diversity instead of division and, with its program, forms urban society in all its diversity from."
broadcasts
The station also shows productions that were produced in or for German open channels, e.g. For example, the series productions by Andreas Weiß , such as Montagskinder or Berlin Bohème and the Rostock soap Platz der Freund .
The Okto show Mulatschag , TV show by "General Huto" from Vienna, with rock / talk / comedy elements, has been broadcast on Hamburger Kabel (Tide TV) since October 2006. Further items on the program are the program " Oktoskop ", which is dedicated to Austrian film, and the full-length program " Oktofokus ", which is designed with the involvement of so-called curators. The curators should contribute know-how on special topics.
Awards
The program " Oktoskop " was awarded the television prize of the Austrian adult education in 2006, in 2007 and 2014 the programs " next door " and " Zitronenwasser ".
An editorial team from Okto, ROH , was awarded the Alternative Media Prize in April 2008 .
Transmission area and reception
Okto can currently receive cable TV and Magenta TV throughout Austria via A1 .
In Lower Austria and Burgenland, Okto can also be seen in the digital program bouquet from Kabelplus . In addition, simpliTV Okto delivers in the greater Vienna area as well as in parts of Lower Austria and Burgenland . Apart from cable and DVB-T2 , the program runs worldwide via live stream . Anyone who has missed a program can "look up" it at any time and from any location in the [1] Oktothek .
Digital technology
Since the beginning of broadcasting in 2005, Okto has been working purely digitally, from video recording to playout . The same codec is used for recording as for the subsequent transmission process (DV25). This and the well-thought-out workflow mean that there is no generation loss (loss of quality) due to tape copies etc. Hard disk and permanent storage recorders are used. The raw material ends up for editing on a large central mass storage device that can be accessed from all editing stations. Finished contributions are submitted via the network so that they are only available a little later for the technical and content approval as well as the program evaluation. Each broadcast is recorded in a database, which in turn feeds the playout control. A connected non-linear archive system enables a program that was first broadcast before the start of broadcast to be retransmitted within a few minutes.
Partnerships
The broadcaster is a member of the Association of Community Television Austria (VCFÖ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Last notification of approval from the regulatory authority KommAustria for Okto as a program organizer in “MUX C” (Vienna) ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. - November 19, 2012. (Note: An official categorization as full or specialty program was not made here.)
- ↑ Funding for non-commercial broadcasting - three TV broadcasters receive a total of 525,460 euros. RTR broadcast, October 29, 2010
- ↑ Notification of approval for ORS, the operator of MUX C in Vienna. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. RTR, October 17, 2012
- ↑ Notice of notification by Tele1Vision Video- und Fernsehproduktion GmbH. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. RTR, September 21, 2010 (regional broadcaster p. 2; diversity of opinion p. 4)
- ↑ Octo: We're watching TV. ( Memento of the original from March 24, 2013 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. (PDF; 231 kB) Info folder, Community TV - GmbH, July 2011
- ↑ See Chronicle 2008 ( Memento of the original from March 25, 2009 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. , Website of the Alternative Media Prize
- ^ Wiener community broadcaster Okto starts a media library. The Standard, November 28, 2011
- ^ Association of Community Television Austria. fs1.tv
