World (TV station)

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world
Station logo
TV station ( private law )
Program type Sector program (news)
reception Cable , satellite , DVB-T2 HD & IPTV
Image resolution 576i ( SDTV )
1080i ( HDTV )
Start of transmission January 24, 2000
Seat Berlin , GermanyGermanyGermany 
owner WeltN24 GmbH
executive Director Torsten Rossmann
Program director Torsten Rossmann
Market share 0.8% (2019)
List of TV channels
Website

Welt (spelling: WELT or w e lt ), formerly N24 , is a German television broadcaster for news and current affairs based in Berlin and part of the Axel Springer Group . In addition to current news programs, documentaries, infotainment programs as well as reports and information programs from the areas of finance and lifestyle are offered. Stock market indices are displayed in real time and all other prices with a delay of 15 minutes in the form of scrolling text ( ticker ). Welt is also the news supplier for the three major ProSiebenSat.1 Media channels . For international events, Welt is also a supplier for the Austrian transmitter Puls 4 .

Until June 15, 2010 the station belonged to ProSiebenSat.1 Media, from June 16, 2010 to N24 Media , and since December 2013 via WeltN24 to the Axel Springer Group.

history

N24

The ProSieben Group gave up its plan to take over the news channel n-tv at the end of the 1990s because of the high purchase price. Instead, they pursued the goal of founding their own channel: On December 31, 1998, the ProSieben Group took over the ddp news agency and in February 1999 the N24 Gesellschaft für Nachrichten und Zeitgeschehen mbH was founded , which is wholly owned by the then ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG belonged. The broadcast license applied for at the Bavarian State Center for New Media (BLM) was initially valid for a period of eight years and was extended on December 14, 2006 for a further eight years. On January 24, 2000, at 12:00 p.m., N24 began broadcasting. In many cable networks , N24 took over the former frequency of the pay TV provider Premiere (analog). The stock market reporting was done in cooperation with Bloomberg Television . Market reporters were available in Frankfurt, London, New York and Singapore for the programs N24 Börsenreport and N24 Wallstreet-Report .

In July 2001 the station moved from Munich to Berlin. After three years of broadcasting, the station was reoriented in December 2002. In addition to news, N24 increasingly relied on documentaries and economic reporting was severely cut. In 2004 a new station logo was introduced and a new news studio was inaugurated, which is modeled on the style of major US news stations. In addition, the claim N24 - We get to the point was introduced. From January 2004 to December 2008, N24 cooperated with the international business broadcaster CNBC Europe for stock market and economic reporting . In February 2007, N24 expanded its stock market and economic reporting with the new formats Börse am lunch and Börse am Abend . Since January 2009, Der Aktionär TV (name until November 26, 2015: German Investor TV) has been a partner for stock market and economic reports.

Old logo on the portal of the news channel in the Atrium Tower on Potsdamer Platz in Berlin-Tiergarten

Since October 22nd, 2008 the debis-Haus at Potsdamer Platz has been broadcasting, the main news program has been switched to the 16: 9 television format . The station has created a newsroom , control rooms as well as moderation and talk show areas on a total of five floors, that is 7400 square meters . The ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG invested around ten million euros. In the new studio and editorial rooms, TV and online editorial teams have been merged and a total of 250 employees will work there. A glass news studio enables passers-by to watch the news being produced. The news formats from the channels Sat.1 , ProSieben and Kabel eins , which belong to the family of channels , will also be produced in the new studio.

On June 16, 2010 ProSiebenSat.1 sold all N24 shares to the newly founded N24 Media GmbH , which also includes Maz & More TV Produktion GmbH as a wholly-owned subsidiary that produces , among other things, the weekday Sat.1 breakfast television . The managing directors of N24 Media GmbH are Torsten Rossmann (Chairman of the Management Board), the former Spiegel editor-in-chief Stefan Aust (New Business division), Frank Meißner (Production & Technology division) and Karsten Wiest (Finance division). In addition to the aforementioned managing directors, the former Spiegel TV manager Thorsten Pollfuß and the managing director of Maz & More TV Produktion, Maria von Borcke, hold shares in N24 Media GmbH.

On December 9, 2013, the Springer Group announced that it wanted to take over 100% of N24 and integrate it into the global group. According to the group, N24 should become the central supplier for moving images. In February 2014, the Federal Cartel Office approved the takeover. Since January 1, 2015, a wholly-owned subsidiary, WeltN24 , has bundled the activities of Welt-Gruppe and N24.

At the beginning of July 2015, it was announced that ProSiebenSat.1 Media was negotiating a merger of the two companies with Springer. The goal is a purchase of Axel Springer by ProSiebenSat.1. In the event of such a merger, N24 would have returned to its old broadcasting group. However, on July 29, 2015, representatives of the two media groups announced that a merger would not be pursued.

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On July 7th, 2015 it was announced that N24 would be gradually unified with Die Welt under the brand umbrella Welt . At the end of the process, the N24 brand was completely replaced and the channel was renamed Welt on January 18, 2018 . The design of N24 was adapted to the world design on September 12, 2016 , whereby the station name N24 was retained for the time being. The slogan “Let's get down to business” has been replaced by “Check the world”.

On January 8, 2018, Springer started a major re-branding campaign to draw attention to the upcoming launch of Welt. Since January 18, 2018 at 3 a.m., the station has been called Welt .

Future of the TV channel

The TV broadcaster is also expected to move to the new Axel Springer SE building in 2020 . The building, designed by the Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas, is scheduled to go into operation in spring 2020. In addition to the WELT TV station, the entire WELT group will move into the new building. The new building is being built at Schützenstrasse 26 in Berlin .

program

December 2002 to July 2010

The program, as it aired from December 2002 to August 1, 2010, relied largely on documentaries and magazine programs. In August 2004, Dieter Kronzucker took over the Kronzuckers Welt format , which included a series of documentaries. He took over from Hans-Hermann Gockel , who until then accompanied the same programs under the name N24 Documentary Highlight . The magazine program Kronzuckers Kosmos followed in April 2005 . The documentation from N24 was mostly US productions that can be assigned to the infotainment area . N24 delivered continuous live reporting on weekdays until midday - similar to its competitor n-tv. The hourly news broadcasts that followed were between three minutes and half an hour long in the afternoon. After the 30-minute evening news at 6 p.m., the issues lasted two to five minutes and mostly only contained reports. N24 Nachrichten was broadcast live on weekdays between 1 p.m. and 11 p.m., during the night it was only recorded. At the weekend, the broadcaster waived live reporting for several hours, with the exception of the news programs, which were broadcast every hour between 9 a.m. and 11 p.m.

Early, morning and lunchtime reports provided regular business news . To do this, N24 used the correspondents of the economic and financial news channel CNBC Europe until the end of December 2008 . Silvia Wadhwa , Roland Klaus, Michael Mross , Linda Behringer and Patricia Szarvas reported from the Frankfurt Stock Exchange . Since January 2009, N24 has been using the correspondents of the special-interest channel German investor television for business news . At 10 p.m., N24 switched directly to Wall Street in New York, where correspondent Caroline Scherr gave a brief overview of the trading day in the USA. The broadcasts of the stock exchange at noon and stock exchange in the evening rounded off the economic reporting.

The weather forecasts were moderated Monday to Friday, and only set to music on the weekend. The weather was presented alternately by Miriam Pede and Anneke Dürkopp . Since July 1, 2006, N24 has broadcast the 90-second production EarthTV twelve times a day from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday to Friday and on weekends . In this broadcast you can see different cities live from a camera perspective. Weather information (e.g. temperature) and event tips are also displayed.

The N24 reporter Steffen Schwarzkopf reports live from the collapse of the historical archive of the city of Cologne (March 3, 2009)

Breaking news are generally shown on the treadmill at the bottom of the screen. The current program is interrupted in the event of particularly important events. Welt has been transmitting additional information on the current program via blucom since the end of January 2007.

Since August 2010

On August 2, 2010, N24 changed the program scheme. Since then, the early report , morning report and midday report formats have been a thing of the past. Instead, the station now uses formatted messages Monday through Friday between 7:00 a.m. and 12:45 p.m., each of which has a maximum duration of 15 minutes. In the course of this reform, double moderation was also abolished. The 15-minute messages were only moderated by one person, but special and special programs were deviated from and used double moderation. The moderators changed every hour. At 12:45 p.m. the exchange closed at noon . From 1 p.m. onwards, the information on the hour was limited to the five-minute N24 messages .

Recordings of the news broadcasts continued to be broadcast after 11 p.m. The gaps resulting from this programming were mainly filled with documentation. N24 only deviated from this program scheme for special, outstanding events. However, the broadcaster continued to broadcast press conferences independently of this. The program schedule for the weekend did not initially change.

In August 2010, N24 announced that as part of the austerity measures, the talk show Was allow Strunz? is discontinued. In addition, 68 employees had to leave the station, including journalists and reporters such as Katja Bettermann, Hans-Peter Hagemes, Michaela May, Katharina Mänz, Tanja Samrotzki and Anke Stessun. Furthermore, Thomas Spahn should return to the parliamentary editorial office and no longer work as a moderator and reporter.

On September 15, 2010, N24 introduced a new on-air design and, as a result, a slightly modified new logo.

On May 2, 2011, the broadcaster changed the program for prime time: at 8 p.m. the broadcaster broadcast a last 12-minute news program so that the main evening program could begin at 8:15 p.m., as with the major broadcasters. Afterwards, documentaries or reports ran until 6 a.m. In between there was no more news, but the news grew longer during the day.

Before the morning run from 7 a.m., news blocks ran from 6 a.m., each about 20 minutes long.

Since May 2019, the news has been moderated again between 7:00 a.m. and 12:45 p.m. by double moderation. The news at 3:00 p.m. will also be presented in double moderation.

Message formats

Welt sends the following message formats every working day:

Time program
6 o'clock news
7:00 am - 12:00 pm News, sports, business and stock markets, weather
1–8pm News (at approx. 1 p.m., 2 p.m., 3 p.m., 4 p.m., 5 p.m., 6 p.m., 7 p.m. and 8 p.m.)

At the weekend, Welt sends the following message formats:

Time program
8 o'clock Messages (5–10 minutes)
9 am to 3 pm News (at 9 a.m., 12 p.m. and 3 p.m.; 3–20 minutes)
6–8 p.m. News (at 6 p.m., 7 p.m. and 8 p.m.; 5–15 minutes)

Magazines

  • The food trucker : Food blogger Felicitas Then goes in search of the best and most sustainable food in Germany, speaks to chefs, farmers and breeders and shows how creative dishes are prepared in her mobile trailer kitchen.
  • Spacetime : Professor Ulrich Walter explains interesting facts about space travel.
  • WELT Drive : WELT Drive with Christoph Bauer is all about information, news and stories about the automobile.
  • Vision Gold : The sports magazine accompanies athletes who are preparing for the upcoming Olympic and Paralympic Games. In each program, the focus is not only on a well-known top athlete but also on a successful athlete from a fringe sport in the media.

Talk show formats

Documentation and reports

Monday to Friday from 1:05 p.m. and on weekends and public holidays also in the mornings, documentaries and reports on historical, technical and popular science topics are often shown in German for the first time. The documentaries and reports provide insights into the fields of nature, culture, science and technology. Examples of documentary and docutainment programs that are regularly broadcast are Auf Leben und Tod , Lost Places , Mayday - Alarm in the cockpit and Science of Stupid - Science of Mishaps with Jochen Schropp and Richard Hammond .

Former broadcasts

  • 4-Seasons - the globetrotter magazine
  • Pronounced - the talk with Markus Föderl
  • Bärbel Schäfer
  • Bellevue.tv
  • Berlin Intern
  • Stock exchange whispers
  • Capitalk
  • Cinemaxx TV
  • The political quartet
  • Deep TV
  • Germany acute - the talk with Friedemann Schmidt
  • European Parliament report
  • Early report
  • Koschwitz
  • Kronzucker: Europe's new frontiers
  • Kronzucker's cosmos
  • Left Right
  • Make Money - The Markus Frick Show
  • Early report
  • Morning report
  • Midday report
  • N24 active
  • N24 stock market report
  • N24 Cash & Service
  • N24 Cassini
  • N24 chat
  • N24 The New Market
  • N24 fact or fake
  • N24 Research & Flying
  • N24 Global
  • N24 Golf Journal TV
  • N24 Golf Journal tournament
  • N24 job and career
  • N24 cinema tip
  • N24 luxury
  • N24 Motor Motion

 

  • N24 MM-The men's magazine
  • N24 mystery
  • N24 news compact
  • N24 news broker
  • N24 lens
  • N24 press review
  • N24 special
  • N24 sports report
  • N24 sport
  • N24 dispute
  • N24 transport world
  • N24 trend check
  • N24 Wall Street Report
  • N24 world reporter
  • N24 knowledge
  • N24 time travel with Stefan Aust
  • Seligmann
  • Location Germany
  • Studio 24
  • Subject Germany
  • For God's sake - N24 ethics
  • What do Strunz allow
  • World of technology
  • World of wonders
  • World at twelve
  • World at three
  • World at six
  • World at nine
  • Business intern
  • World of Business

Moderators and reporters

Current moderators and reporters

* The shareholder TV

Former presenters and reporters

* The shareholder TV

Network of correspondents

Welt has permanent foreign studios in Moscow and Washington DC. Christoph Wanner (Moscow) as well as Steffen Schwarzkopf and Nancy Lanzendörfer (Washington) report from there . Welt also relies on several reporters who are sent to the respective locations in the event of a crisis. Michael Wüllenweber is the station's political correspondent . In addition, Welt can contact freelance journalists who enable the broadcaster to report almost anywhere in the world.

Market shares

Welt (then N24) has been on the air since 2000, for annual market shares since then see television in Germany # market shares . According to its own information, in 2005 the station became the market leader in the field of news channels for the first time and was able to extend its lead over 2006. The most watched program in the world was the live broadcast of the funeral service for Michael Jackson's death from the Staples Center in Los Angeles on July 7, 2009, which in itself reached a rate of 7.7 percent and 1.29 million viewers.

TV season Market share from 3 years Market share 14–49 years
2004/2005 0.5% 0.6%
2005/2006 0.7% 1.0%
2006/2007 0.8% 1.1%
2007/2008 0.9% 1.2%
2008/2009 1.0% 1.3%
2009/2010 1.0% 1.3%
2010/2011 1.0% 1.4%
2011/2012 1.0% 1.4%
2012/2013 1.1% 1.4%

ticker

The information offered by Welt is supplemented by a continuously displayed, single-line treadmill at the bottom of the screen. This is only hidden in the advertising blocks. News, sports news and stock prices are displayed alternately in the ticker. If breaking news is displayed, the treadmill turns orange. The current program is interrupted in the event of important events.

Website

On January 24th, 2008, N24 began aligning its website n24.de with multimedia reporting under the motto “Video first” . Compared to other news portals, the website should be a television news site. The focus was on videos from the entire N24 range. They could be seen in a so-called "media center" and under the associated articles. In addition, the current N24 program was available in a live stream and live broadcasts from stations in the ProSiebenSat.1 Group. There was a comment function for videos and contributions.

N24.de was incorporated into welt.de on December 28, 2016 .

N24 documentation

Logo from N24 Doku

On June 9, 2016, WeltN24 GmbH announced that it would start N24 Doku as a timeshift offshoot of N24 in autumn 2016. On July 20, 2016 it was announced that the station would start on September 17, 2016. The broadcaster does not take over the news from Welt in the mornings and always broadcasts Welt's program from 2 p.m. onwards by one hour. In addition, the well-known treadmill is not used.

N24 Documentation Austria

From April 27, 2012 a reference to an Austrian program version of N24 could be seen on the SES Astra satellite platform (transponder 3, 11.244 GHz horizontal, SR 22.000, FEC 5/6). Nothing has been announced to the press about the start of the station. A few days later the transmitter was switched off again. On July 16, 2012, the station identification N24 HD Austria was activated. On April 2, 2016, N24 Austria started broadcasting via Astra 19.2 °. On January 18, 2018, the station was replaced by N24 Doku Austria.

criticism

According to a study by the Cologne Institute for Empirical Media Research, documentaries and reports took up most of the broadcasting time (34 percent) at N24 in 2007. The news is given the same airtime as the magazines, namely 26 percent. It was also found that in a large number of contributions “the fascination of technology in general, but especially military technology, is used to offer the viewer excitement beyond the factual”.

In September 2007, Der Spiegel attested to the broadcaster questioning and glorifying documentaries on military-historical and military-technical topics (cf. Militainment ): “Sometimes the US Army is glorified in the licensed goods purchased from overseas, then again in the reappraisal of the battles of World War II Subtext through everything that would have been possible if Hitler had only listened to his capable military. ”The short hourly news was also criticized as“ boulevard-esque ”.

reception

The program of the world can be received as follows:

Station logos

In the Welt logo, the original spelling WeLT is used.

N24

HD version

N24 Austria

literature

Web links

Commons : World  album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Entry in the KEK database ( Memento from March 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  2. Market shares 2019. agf.de , 2019, accessed on July 22, 2020 .
  3. Aust and Rossmann take over: ProSiebenSat.1 gets rid of N24. , n-tv.de , June 16, 2010.
  4. "Welt" and N24 form multimedia editors. welt.de, December 9, 2013, accessed December 9, 2013 .
  5. "Competitive harmless": Cartel Office approves N24 takeover by Springer . , spiegel.de , February 7, 2014, accessed on March 8, 2015.
  6. Axel Springer and ProSiebenSat.1 talk about merger. DWDL.de , accessed on January 1, 2016 .
  7. Conversations ended: Pro Sieben and Springer merge is off the table. handelsblatt.com , accessed January 1, 2016 .
  8. WeltN24: Joint website, joint claim. DWDL.de, accessed on January 22, 2019 .
  9. Uniform brand umbrella: N24 becomes world. DWDL.de, accessed on January 22, 2019 .
  10. "The N24 brand cannot be an end in itself". DWDL.de, accessed on January 22, 2019 .
  11. Check the world: Axel Springer launches brand campaign for WeltN24. quotenmeter.de , September 8, 2016, accessed on January 22, 2019 .
  12. a b c N24.de becomes Welt.de: "1 + 1 cannot be 2 in this case". DWDL.de, accessed on January 22, 2019 .
  13. "Keep everything up to date": Welt starts XXL campaign to rename N24. DWDL.de, January 8, 2018, accessed January 9, 2018 .
  14. Departure into a new “world” era: Newsroom moves into Springer's new building ›Meedia. Retrieved April 15, 2020 .
  15. N24 starts on Monday with a new program schedule. , quotenmeter.de, July 31, 2010.
  16. Strunz leaves news channel: What do N24 allow? , sueddeutsche.de , August 5, 2010.
  17. Weg von N24: May, Hagemes and Co. , quotenmeter.de, August 11, 2010.
  18. Logo 2010 ( Memento from February 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  19. N24 shows "Welt der Wunder" instead of teleshopping. DWDL.de, accessed on January 22, 2019 .
  20. Jackson brings dream ratings to n-tv and N24. DWDL.de, July 8, 2009, accessed on August 23, 2011 .
  21. challenge: N24 documentary starts before K1 Doku. DWDL.de, accessed on January 22, 2019 .
  22. N24 Austria and Juwelo TV HD new on Astra. , digitalfernsehen.de, April 27, 2012.
  23. N24 will only focus on documentaries from 2018 in Austria. DWDL.de, accessed on January 22, 2019 .
  24. No more news: N24 becomes a pure document brand in Austria. quotenmeter.de, December 4, 2017, accessed on January 22, 2019 .
  25. N24 Austria will be replaced by N24 Doku Austria. derchotv.de, accessed on January 22, 2019 .
  26. Development and positioning of the two private news channels in the German television market ( Memento of August 4, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ), Media Perspektiven 1/2008, pp. 2–14.
  27. Division channel N24: Cheerfully into the tank battle. , spiegel.de, September 15, 2007.
  28. "Prepare carefully": N24 will only be launched in 2017. DWDL.de, accessed on January 22, 2019 .
  29. "Check die Welt": Welt / N24-Manager on the first JvM campaign and the redesign of N24. horizont.net , accessed January 22, 2019 .