tm3 (2019)

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Infobox radio tower icon
tm3
Station logo
TV station (private law)
Program type Special-interest program (entertainment)
reception digital: cable , IPTV , internet television
Image resolution 576i ( SDTV )
business January 4, 2009 to March 31, 2019
language German
Seat Augsburg , GermanyGermanyGermany 
owner ITV Media Interactive eK
executive Director Timo C. Storost
List of TV channels

tm3 was a German-speaking private broadcaster operated by Timo C. Storost, who operated under the name ITV Media Interactive eK . In addition, a sister station was operated as an internet station, blizz or tm3 +. Both programs have been discontinued.

history

Family logo
blizz logo

Tm3 was founded under the name Family TV. It is said to have been a successor channel to the former call-in profit radio station 7live , which started operating as an Internet radio station in mid-June 2008. Timo Storost, then 18-year-old managing director and main presenter of five presenters, expanded the station into Internet television with a changed program schedule and a new name in September 2008, before starting the new station as a full program with an official license from the media authorities. Despite the similarity of the organizer's name, there was no affiliation with the British ITV . In the 2015 financial year, the ITV Media Group, which stands behind Family TV, reported a profit of € 174,528.33 before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization for the first time in its history. The total costs should have been € 930,841.07 and the gross profit € 1,105,370.57. For 2016, sales of 1.5 million euros were expected and a profit target of around 200,000 euros was set. The information turned out to be a lie in November 2017. In the decision of the VGH Munich, the court irrevocably determined that the ITV Media Group had made a loss in both 2015 and 2016. In the more than 10 year history only losses were made and never reached the profit zone. The court process in March 2019 revealed that an appraiser appointed by the court had certified the media company as insolvent since 2014. Between March 2016 and the beginning of 2017, the program was downgraded to the division program. Before the Astra connection to 19.2 °, Family TV could be received via the Hotbird satellite. Originally it was planned that the women's channel blizz, which also belongs to the ITV Media Group, should take the former Hotbird site. At short notice, however, a decision was made against it. The main station was temporarily broadcast via the multithek and, for a longer period, via other IPTV providers such as Zattoo . In September 2016, Oli.P became a brand ambassador at the station together with its title As before - the sender's claim . A little later, it was replaced by “Runs with us!”.

On June 1, 2017, the ITV Media Group wanted to start a new channel under the name “tm3” - initially only via Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) and as an HD variant; a broadcast via Astra 19.2 ° East was planned. However, the start had to be postponed. It was reported that the station was in the approval process. The official press release stated that the new channel tm3 would be a documentary and series channel for the core target group of 25–69 years, male / female. The focus should be on series from the 1990s. In the area of ​​documentaries / magazines, the station wants to concentrate on older material. In mid-2018, however, almost half of the 24-hour program consisted of teleshopping formats from third-party providers. Apart from that, Family TV only broadcast three series in a loop, enriched with travel documentaries. On January 12, 2019, the live show 10 Years of Family TV announced that the brand would be rededicated in tm3 on January 13, 2019 . It only started broadcasting on January 13, 2019 when Family TV was renamed tm3. Blizz has been renamed tm3 + and will be discontinued until March 7, 2019, with the main program on March 31, 2019.

The organizer company FBT Deutschland GmbH was responsible for tm3 + and the internet presence including social networks of both broadcasters .

Criticism of Family TV

In March 2012, there was a lawsuit between the operator of the Internet magazine and blog Fernsehkritik TV Holger Kreymeier and the operator of the television station Timo C. Storost. So Storost wanted to get an injunction against a contribution by the television critic. This project mostly failed. For example, the judge had taken the television critic's statement that the Family TV program was "garbage" as free expression. In addition, the court considered it just as likely that Storost published unrealistic viewership figures (up to an average of 900,000 viewers on the website, which was the only distribution channel at the time).

Program content

Family TV's programming consisted primarily of classic series, feature films, shows, documentaries and magazines. In 2016, the media group acquired a film package that was intended to upgrade Family TV's programming for Christmas 2016 and throughout 2017. According to the broadcaster, it included free TV premieres and more recent films. As an Internet broadcaster, Internet broadcasting was part of the purchased film rights from the very beginning, so that the entire program was streamed on the Internet without any interruptions.

The program content was initially adopted under the new name tm3, but then greatly reduced. Most recently there was only teleshopping during the day and an editorial program at 8:15 p.m.

License withdrawal proceedings

In July 2017 it became known that the Commission for Approval and Supervision (ZAK) had revoked the broadcasting license of Family TV and blizz on June 28th. The responsible State Agency for Communication (LfK) stated on July 27th that Family TV had committed “repeated copyright violations” and also several “violations of media law”. Broadcasting must therefore be stopped. This process is one-time for transmitters during operation. The operator had announced an appeal against the decision and continued broadcasting beyond the renaming in January 2019.

On March 12, 2019, the owner of the station, Timo C. Storost, was sentenced to three individual sentences by the Augsburg district court, all of which were suspended: one year and six months, ten months and one year, three years and four months in total. He was convicted of driving without a driver's license , fraud , forgery of documents and for not registering bankruptcy and, according to the judgment, has to do 200 social hours and a compensation of 194,000 euros in addition to the suspended sentence on probation . The chairman of the jury made it clear that with the probation not only "a sword of Damocles hangs over him", but "a big machete on a silk spider thread"; he was "a hair's breadth" missed a prison sentence ; The Bavarian State Center for New Media (BLM) also commented that his "unusually persistent refusal [...] to behave in accordance with the law puts the rule of law [...] to the test."

Storost then announced in the courtroom that it would cease operations of its channels at the end of March 2019 and file for bankruptcy for the company and for itself. According to his own statements, he wanted to gain some distance for health reasons. He later added in a statement that the cessation of broadcasting operations had nothing to do with the withdrawal of the license or the verdict and that it was allegedly done voluntarily.

Program offer

  • Acapulco HEAT
  • Bubble Gum TV
  • Conan, the adventurer
  • cult @ thecity
  • The tm3 car magazine
  • Golden Globe - The travel film series
  • This is how the world tastes
  • Tarzan: The Epic Adventures
  • tm3 travel dream
  • Teleshopping window from third party providers (in four blocks, together approx. 9 hours a day)
  • World Wide Fails

Formerly:

reception

The station was most recently available on the station's website as a live stream and in several smaller cable networks. The other reception channels (satellite and IPTV and individual cable networks) had already been switched off.

Web links

  • tm3 - last version of the website from April 1st, 2019 (in the web archive)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sender entry ( Memento of the original from March 4, 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. at vision-connect.de (service at die-medienanstalten.de) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / mdbkekonline.www1.vision-connect.de
  2. ↑ a b Imprint of tm3.tv
  3. ↑ to change the name by September 21, 2008 at the latest, cf. my7live.de with a note on the discontinuation ( memento from September 21, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ a b on the continuity of the two transmitters cf. Offline information at my7live.de ( Memento from October 21, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ Reference to an anniversary show "7Live is 100 days old ..." ( Memento from September 10, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) with a broadcast date of September 23 on the broadcaster's website
  6. ↑ Short text on the person ( memento from June 14, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) on the website of the station, in the web archive
  7. ↑ cf. Program information at my7live.de ( Memento from September 10, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ↑ vision-connect.de: Family TV ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  9. ↑ a b Chaff sent | Mass Taste TV Blog. (No longer available online.) In: massengeschmack.tv. Archived from the original on April 29, 2016 ; Retrieved April 29, 2016 . 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 / massengeschmack.tv
  10. ↑ ITV Media Verwaltungs GmbH continues to grow - 1.5 million euros in sales were generated between January 2015 and March 2016! (No longer available online.) In: itv-group.de. Archived from the original on August 14, 2016 ; accessed on August 14, 2016 . 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 / itv-group.de
  11. ↑ Decision of November 6, 2017 - 7 CS 17.1899. Retrieved January 13, 2019 .
  12. ↑ vision-connect.de: Family TV ( Memento from January 13, 2017 in the Internet Archive )
  13. ↑ Blizz does not switch to satellite for the time being. In: www.digitalfernsehen.de. Retrieved May 7, 2016 .
  14. ↑ Family TV wins Oli Petszokat as a new testimonial & brand ambassador - new image campaign with “As before”. ( Memento of the original from October 4, 2017 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. Family TV press release, September 28, 2016  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.familytv.de
  15. ↑ tm3 must postpone the start of broadcasting , on: wunschliste.de, from April 30, 2017, accessed September 10, 2017
  16. ↑ a b tm3 »The new TV station , on: tm3tv.de, accessed September 10, 2017
  17. ↑ Over 20 free TV premieres: Family TV secures new feature film package. ( Memento of the original from February 25, 2017 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. Family TV, September 21, 2016 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.familytv.de
  18. ↑ Timo Niemeier: ZAK withdraws Family TV from internet stations and blizz the license . In: dwdl.de . July 12, 2017. Retrieved July 12, 2017.
  19. ↑ Broadcasting license revoked: Family TV and blizz have to switch to black . In: quota meter . July 27, 2017 ( quotenmeter.de [accessed July 27, 2017]).
  20. ↑ Timo Niemeier: Family TV and blizz have to stop broadcasting. dwdl.de, July 27, 2017
  21. ↑ For the first time in Germany: two television stations lose their license and have to stop broadcasting. chip.de, August 28, 2017
  22. ↑ a b c chd / mef: Entrepreneurs in court: out for German free TV stations - operator says goodbye with an emotional statement . In: tz Munich , Merkur tz Redaktions GmbH & Co. KG, March 14, 2019. Accessed December 16, 2019. 
  23. ↑ https://azol.de/53764046
  24. ↑ tm3: Operator condemned, broadcasting is stopped. In: DWDL.de. March 13, 2013, accessed March 13, 2019 .