tv.nrw
tv.nrw was a private regional television station for North Rhine-Westphalia .
development
tv.nrw started broadcasting on October 1, 2001 as the first private, regular state-wide program for North Rhine-Westphalia. According to tv.nrw, 20 employees worked at the Dortmund transmitter site , and over 170 people in total worked for the transmitter.
The station's shareholders were initially the WAZ group, each with 30 percent , the DuMont Schauberg publishing house and the lawyer Roger Schaack, and the television producer Theodor Baltz with 10 percent. On the day before broadcasting began, Schaack passed its shares on to the Rheinisch-Bergische Druckerei- und Verlagsgesellschaft ( Rheinische Post ), and a few hours before broadcasting began, Baltz retired as a partner. In June 2003 the WAZ group and the Rheinische Post got out of the station. The Cologne media agency APM, in which DuMont Schauberg was once involved, wanted to buy the shares.
From April 2001 to July 2002 the then quite popular cover program of Sun-TV was broadcast on tv.nrw. When Sun TV there was a television channel of the Kirch group , which his program spread exclusively through various metropolitan stations in Germany, making successful formats like Blondes Gift with Barbara Schöneberger and WIB-swing with Wigald Boning also in the transmission area were receivable. In the course of the insolvency of the Kirch Group, Sun-TV stopped its programs.
The station made losses during its broadcast operations. He reduced his self-produced programs, such as B. Only with a number with Michael Koslar , and for the most part took over programs from other television stations such as Bloomberg TV , B.TV and 9Live .
The North Rhine-Westphalian State Agency for Media (LfM) announced in December 2004 that it would withdraw tv.nrw's privilege as a "nationwide program" because the broadcaster's regional reporting was too small. This would have meant the loss of cable space in NRW cable television. However, the LfM gave the station a transition period until June 2005 in order to expand regional reporting. It did so on April 11th with the introduction of a four-hour breakfast television.
In January 2005, Karl-Ulrich Kuhlo , founder of the news channel n-tv , acquired the production company DFA together with business partners and converted it into DFA P (German television news agency production company). The DFA was bought by NBC Universal in 2003 . Subsequently, DFA P took over all shares in the regional broadcaster tv.nrw. On May 3, 2005, the broadcaster's managing director, Jörg Schütte, announced the cessation of broadcasting operations for May 31, 2005.
reception
tv.nrw was distributed via the analog cable network in North Rhine-Westphalia by ish and via a Hotbird satellite.