Televoting

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Televoting ( ancient Greek τῆλε tele "fern"; English voting "vote") or telephone voting or televoting is a voting process in which everyone (for example television viewers ) within a certain period of time by dialing a telephone number (often these are value-added numbers ) or the Sending a Short Message Service (SMS) message can cast his or her vote. The calls are recorded and automatically evaluated.

Televoting is mostly used in television programs such as the Eurovision Song Contest .

Televoting in Germany

The forerunners of the first televoting were the so-called " light tests ", in which television viewers in a larger city were asked to measurably increase their power consumption by switching on the lights for voting purposes. The first televoting process in Germany was the Tele-Dialog (TED) presented in 1979 by ZDF and the Deutsche Bundespost . The process was developed with the help of the inventor Oskar Vierling . In 1997, TED was replaced by a more modern process called T-VoteCall. In addition to Deutsche Telekom , other companies have also been allowed to offer paid televoting services since the summer of 2002 . As a result of this, votes, opinion polls and competitions on German television increased by leaps and bounds, because they represent a profitable source of income. Televotings often represent a not insignificant share of the income from programs in addition to advertising income.

In the past, it came in the RTL telecast Germany Idol problems with the televoting. Viewers questioned the accuracy of the results and hackers came forward claiming to have tampered with the system. Another problem of televoting via telephone calls is the very frequent overloading of the televoting center, so that not all callers can be counted in the period that is too short, at least for large live broadcasts. This problem can be countered with the provider-side use of mass call services. On the other hand, multiple calls or even call centers can be used for manipulation.

There are also votes on current (often political or polarizing) topics in the teletext of some broadcasters.

It is now also possible to carry out votes with Web 2.0 services via SMS.

literature

  • Lee Dryburgh, Jeff Hewett: Signaling System No. 7 (SS7 / C7). Protocol, Architecture, and Services, Cisco System Inc, Indianapolis 2005, ISBN 1-58705-040-4 .
  • Stefan Bolay: Telephone and SMS competitions subject to VAT. Universitätsverlag Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe 2008, ISBN 978-3-86644-259-7 .
  • Shahid Mumtaz, Jonathan Rodriguez, Marcos Katz, Chonggang Wang, Alberto Nascimento (eds.): Wireless Internet. Springer Verlag, Berlin / Heidelberg 2015, ISBN 978-3-319-18801-0 .
  • Anke Giffhorn: Success factors of major multimedia events. Grin Verlag, Norderstedt 2016, ISBN 978-3-9609-5001-1 .

Individual evidence

  1. Secret weapons from the castle dungeon. In: einestages.spiegel.de. Retrieved January 20, 2013 .

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