Parliamentary television of the German Bundestag

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The parliamentary television of the German Bundestag is the in-house television channel of the German Bundestag . Parliamentary television was set up after a Bundestag resolution in 1991 and began broadcasting in 1995 as a parliamentary documentation channel. All plenary debates, as well as public meetings and committee hearings, are broadcast live, without comment and in full. Parliamentary television can be received publicly via the internet and via the internet-based TV service " freenet TV connect " and in the digital cable network in Berlin and Cologne.

history

The deliberations on parliamentary television in the ad hoc parliamentary reform commission, the committee for election scrutiny, immunity and rules of procedure and the council of elders of the German Bundestag go back to 1985. In its session on June 19, 1991, the Bundestag decided to set up a federal television network. Broadcasting began in Bonn on April 26, 1995 on an in-house channel with the first self-broadcast plenary session. With the move from Bonn to Berlin, parliamentary television also relocated and has been broadcasting from Berlin since 1999. The studio technical facilities are located in the Jakob-Kaiser-Haus in the immediate vicinity of the Reichstag building .

distribution

The parliamentary television of the German Bundestag was initially broadcast exclusively in the properties of the Bundestag, in the highest federal authorities , in the Bundesrat and in the federal press conference.

Today, the most important distribution channel is the Internet . Since 2000, all plenary debates have been offered as live stream . Scrap broadcasts also take place in the livestream, sometimes simultaneously on two channels. The live stream is also available via the free “Deutscher Bundestag” app for iOS , Android and Windows 8 operating systems and via the Bundestag's mobile website, which is optimized for mobile devices. In the media library, all plenary sessions and productions since the beginning of the 17th electoral term in October 2009 can be viewed as video-on-demand .

channel Stream address resolution Codec Web player
1 TV1 (HLS) 1920 × 1080 H.264 https://www.bundestag.de/mediathek
2 TV2 (HLS) 1920 × 1080 H.264 https://www.bundestag.de/mediathek

The live stream is also available via the free “Deutscher Bundestag” app for iOS , Android and Windows 8 operating systems and via the Bundestag's mobile website, which is optimized for mobile devices. In the media library, all plenary sessions and productions since the beginning of the 17th electoral term in October 2009 can be viewed as video-on-demand .

Since January 2011, the channel has been broadcast unencrypted (previously encrypted) via satellite via Astra 3B at the orbital position 23.5 ° East. On April 30, 2018, distribution via satellite was discontinued as part of austerity measures. In Berlin and Cologne, parliamentary television can also be received free of charge in the digital broadband cable network of Vodafone Kabel Deutschland and NetCologne .

In addition to broadcasting via the Internet, satellite and cable television, the German Bundestag is obliged to make parliamentary television broadcast material available to other broadcasters free of charge. In the so-called post transfer room in the Reichstag building, the signals are transferred to third parties, e.g. B. public broadcasters or private broadcasters and agencies.

Transfers

The main focus of the broadcast operations are the live broadcasts of the plenary debates of the German Bundestag as well as the broadcasts of the public committee meetings and hearings. In addition, special events such as B. the day of remembrance for the victims of National Socialism , the simulation game “ Youth and Parliament ” and science forums of the Bundestag broadcast. These transmissions are also carried out without comment and in full. There is no editorial processing. Offered a additionally teletext , the above dates, agendas, lists of speakers and speaking times and upcoming polls informed. The production volume of parliamentary television was around 790 hours in 2012. Of this, a good 505 hours of broadcasting plenary sessions, around 253 hours of broadcasting committee meetings, just under 28 hours of broadcasting special events and a good 3 hours of editorial articles and interviews, which are not broadcast on parliamentary television, but can only be accessed online via the Bundestag website.

Technical Equipment

Parliamentary television has two television studios and permanently installed cameras at a total of six venues in the Bundestag. In addition to the debates in the plenary hall in the Reichstag building, meetings and events can also take place in the two parliamentary groups of the CDU / CSU and SPD as well as the Europa hall in the Paul-Löbe-Haus , the Enquetesaal in the Jakob-Kaiser-Haus and the hearing hall in the Marie-Elisabeth-Lüders -House to be transferred directly. A total of four events can be produced in parallel using four control rooms.

User numbers

Parliament television's live stream recorded around 1.6 million hits in 2012. The recordings and videos in the media library were viewed around 3.5 million times in 2012.

criticism

There is occasional public debate about whether parliamentary television of the German Bundestag is broadcasting within the meaning of the State Broadcasting Treaty or whether it is a form of public relations work by parliament. This question is important because the principle that broadcasting is remote from the state is anchored in the Basic Law . The broadcasting freedom in the Federal Republic of response to the steering expression and information by the propaganda the Nazis a particularly high Protected. According to Section 20a (3) of the Interstate Broadcasting Treaty, legal entities under public law may not be granted permission to broadcast broadcasting.

In a statement from March 2011, the Commission for Approval and Supervision of the State Media Authorities (ZAK) took the view that parliamentary television in its form at that time was broadcast because, in addition to the plenary debates, contributions, for example, about exhibitions and the work and functioning of committees were broadcast , and that a broadcasting license is therefore necessary, which the Bundestag as a constitutional organ cannot, however, be granted. The criticism was directed towards the growing number of editorial contributions, according to the ZAK. According to the Bundestag, the proportion of these contributions, measured against the total production volume, was around 0.6 percent. After the articles criticized by the ZAK were only made available for retrieval via the media library and were no longer broadcast linearly, the ZAK assessed parliamentary television as a telemedia service that does not require a broadcasting license. In contrast to the view of the ZAK, a scientific study commissioned by the German Bundestag in 2007 came to the conclusion that parliamentary television was not an illegal state radio, but a legitimate public relations work. Legitimation for parliamentary television results from the Bundestag's authority to present itself. A further development of the station into a national political information channel with interviews and roundtables is possible as long as there is a direct link to the German Bundestag.

Web links

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Hubertus Gersdorf (2008). Parliamentary television of the German Bundestag. P. 17
  2. ↑ Data handbook of the Bundestag 1990–2010
  3. ↑ Data handbook of the Bundestag 1990–2010
  4. ↑ - ( Memento of the original from February 15, 2014 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bundestag.de
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  6. ↑ http://www.bundestag.de/dokumente/textarchiv/2011/33183583_kw04_parlamentsfernsehen/index.html
  7. ↑ INFODIGITAL - Parliament television sets satellite broadcasting on Astra 23.5 ° East
  8. ↑ https://www.infosat.de/news-archiv/netcologne-erweitert-tv-angebote-parlamentsfernsehen-und-sieben-weiter-sky-hd-programme
  9. ↑ Data handbook of the Bundestag 1990–2010
  10. ^ Hubertus Gersdorf (2008). Parliamentary television of the German Bundestag. P. 19f
  11. ↑ www.bundestag.de/mediathek
  12. ↑ Der Spiegel of August 12, 2013: Bundestag sends black, page 132
  13. ^ Hubertus Gersdorf (2008). Parliamentary television of the German Bundestag. P. 17f
  14. ↑ http://www.bundestag.de/dokumente/textarchiv/2013/43242534_kw10_zahlen_akte/index.html
  15. ↑ http://www.die-medienanstalten.de/presse/pressemitteilungen/kommission-fuer-zulassung-und-aufsicht/detailansicht/article/zak-pressemitteilung-082011-derzeitige-rechtslage-laesst-parlamentsfernsehen-des-deutschen-bundest .html
  16. ^ Hubertus Gersdorf (2008). Parliamentary television of the German Bundestag. P. 63