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ZDF

July 26, 2023

For other uses, see ZDF (disambiguation).

ZDF (pronounced [ˌtsɛt.teːˈʔɛf] (listen)), short for Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen[1] (pronounced [ˈtsvaɪtəs ˈdɔʏtʃəs ˈfɛʁnzeːn] (listen); "Second German Television"), is a German public-service television broadcaster based in Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate. Launched on 1 April 1963, it is run as an independent nonprofit institution, and was founded by all federal states of Germany (Bundesländer). ZDF is financed by television licence fees and advertising revenues.[2]

ZDF
Logo used since 2001
CountryGermany
Broadcast areaGermany
HeadquartersMainz, Germany
Programming
Language(s)German
Picture format
Ownership
Key peopleNorbert Himmler (director)
Sister channels
History
Launched1 April 1963; 60 years ago (1963-04-01)
ReplacedARD 2 (1961–1963)
Links
Websitewww.zdf.de
Availability
Terrestrial
Digital terrestrial televisionVaries by location
Streaming media
ZDF.deWatch live (Germany only)
FilmOnWatch live
ZiggoGOZiggoGO.TV
Canaldigitaal Live AppWatch Live

The broadcaster is well known for its famous programmes heute, a newscast established in 1963, and Wetten, dass..?, an entertainment show that premiered in 1981, with a suspension from 2014 to 2021.[3] Norbert Himmler, ZDF's director general, was elected by the ZDF Television Council in 2021.[3]

History

 
The ZDF administrative headquarters in Mainz
 
The ZDF broadcasting centre in Mainz
 
Historic logos

In 1959, the government of Konrad Adenauer began preparations to form a second nationwide television network with the intention of competing with ARD. Adenauer perceived ARD's news coverage to be too critical of his government, and believed that two of the organizations primarily responsible for its news reporting – the Deutsche Presse-Agentur and Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk, which produced the nightly Tagesschau – were too close to the opposition Social Democratic Party (SPD) to ever be able to report neutrally on his Christian Democratic Union government. The new television company, called the Freies Fernsehen Gesellschaft (Free Television Society) but derisively called Adenauer-Fernsehen by critics, was founded on 25 July 1960.

The Deutsche Bundespost began constructing a second transmitter network on UHF channels, which required new reception equipment. For older receivers, a converter was sold for about 80 DM (equivalent to €195 in 2021). As with the earlier ARD television network, the location of the transmitters was carefully planned to ensure the entire country would be able to receive the programming.

To test the transmitters and encourage the public to purchase UHF receivers, the federal government allowed the ARD network to create a temporary secondary channel, ARD 2, which was broadcast daily from 8 to 10 pm. ARD 2 began broadcasting on 1 May 1961 in the transmission area of Hessischer Rundfunk and a month later expanded nationwide.

Interstate agreement

The SPD-led states of Hamburg, Bremen, Lower Saxony, and Hesse appealed to the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany, which on 28 February 1961 in the First Broadcasting Judgment blocked the plan. While building and maintaining telecommunications infrastructure, such as television transmitters, is a responsibility of the federal government under article 87f of the Basic Law, the constitution does not extend these duties to running a television or radio broadcaster. Under article 30, any power or duty not explicitly assigned to the federal government is reserved for the states. Therefore, the court ruled only the states had the right to set up a television broadcaster. (Conversely, the same decision supported new longwave broadcaster Deutschlandfunk, which had been established by the federal government in November 1960; its focus was on external broadcasting and therefore under the federal government's remit to conduct foreign relations.)

After this decision, in March 1961, the states decided to establish a central nonprofit public television network independently of Adenauer's effort. On 6 June 1961, the state premiers signed at a premiers' conference in Stuttgart the interstate agreement on the "establishment of the public institution Second German Television". On 1 December 1961, though not all states had ratified the agreement, it went into force in the states that had done so (Baden-Württemberg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate). The last state, Bavaria, filed the instrument of ratification on 9 July 1962.

Launch

The station began broadcasting from Eschborn near Frankfurt am Main on 1 April 1963, with a speech by the first director general (Intendant), Karl Holzamer. The channel broadcast its first programme in colour in 1967. In 1974, ZDF moved its base of operations to Mainz-Lerchenberg, after briefly being located in Wiesbaden. Since 5 October 1996 ZDF has broadcast 24 hours a day.

Finances

ZDF is financed by a license fee of €18.36 per month, which must be paid by all households in Germany, except handicapped people and persons on social aid. ZDF shares the income with ARD and Deutschlandradio. The fees are not collected directly by ZDF, but by the Beitragsservice (more commonly known by its former name of GEZ) a common organization of the ARD member broadcasters, ZDF, and Deutschlandradio. ZDF also has income from sponsorships and programming and advertising sales.

Transmission and reception

Terrestrial

As ZDF is a station, not a network, the station is broadcast throughout Germany, with no regional variations or affiliates, using a number of signal repeaters. ZDF transmitters broadcast a digital signal. Analog signals were gradually phased out, a process which lasted from 2002 to 2008.[4] ZDF does not run any transmitters itself. Throughout the analogue days, all ZDF transmitters were run by the Deutsche Bundespost which was later privatised as Deutsche Telekom's subsidiary T-Systems Media Broadcast. (This is in contrast to the other public German broadcaster, ARD, which owns its main transmitters.) ZDF was not previously allowed to use ARD's transmitters. ZDF has used both ARD and Telekom transmitters since changes to the law in the 1990s, and since the digital switchover.

Cable

ZDF has also been relayed by cable since the days of the first cable pilot projects.

Satellite

The first Europe-wide satellite broadcast via Astra 1C began in August 1993 during the Internationale Funkausstellung Berlin (IFA – "International Broadcasting Exhibition") in Berlin. In the same decade, these new technologies were used to enable digital broadcasting of ZDF. Today, ZDF is available free-to-air throughout Europe on Astra 19.2°E.

Other channels

ZDF operates two digital channels: ZDFneo (aimed at 18- to 45-year-olds) and ZDFinfo (documentaries). Both are transmitted in SD and HD. A commercial subsidiary called ZDF Enterprises GmbH manages programme sales, acquisitions, international coproductions, and a growing number of important activities in new media. ZDF Enterprises owns a Dutch TV production and distribution company, Off the Fence.[5] ZDF also operates various channels in cooperation with other networks: Arte, 3sat, KI.KA, and Phoenix.

Design

ZDF's animated station-identity mascots, the Mainzelmännchen (a play on the words "Mainz" and "Heinzelmännchen"), created by Wolf Gerlach for the channel's launch in 1963, quickly became popular and are still shown between commercials.[6] In 1976, Otl Aicher, a graphic designer, created ZDF's corporate design.[7] A new design for ZDF was created by Lee Hunt in February 2000.[8]

Administration

Director general

 
Norbert Himmler

Administratively, ZDF is headed by a director general (Intendant), who is elected by the ZDF Television Council, the composition of which is in turn determined by "societally relevant groups" named in the ZDF Treaty.

Directors General since the start of ZDF:

Supervising board

The supervising board supervises the work of the intendant. They pay special attention to the budget. The supervising board has 14 members:

  • Five representatives of the federal states
  • One representative of the federal republic of Germany
  • Eight independent members (not allowed to work for the government or other public entities)

Television board

The Television Board supervises ZDF and authorizes the budget. They also elect the Director General. The board has 60 members:

  • Sixteen representatives of the states of Germany
  • Two representatives of the federal republic of Germany
  • Two representatives of the Protestant churches
  • Two representatives of the Catholic Church
  • One representative of the Central Council of Jews in Germany
  • 21 representatives of selected civil society groups
  • 16 members nominated by the federal states, representing different social causes

Membership

ZDF became a full member of the European Broadcasting Union in 1963. It also has numerous individual cooperation agreements with broadcasters around the world. ZDF is a supporter of the Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV initiative which promotes the establishment of an open European standard for hybrid set-top boxes for the reception of broadcast TV and broadband multimedia applications with a single user interface.

Programming

Children

Culture

  • aspekte (1965–present)
  • Das Blaue Sofa (2003–present)
  • Das Literarische Quartett (1998–2006, 2015–present)

Documentaries

Clip of a Report from the program Terra X

Entertainment

Information

  • Aktenzeichen XY… ungelöst, hosted by Eduard Zimmermann/Sabine Zimmermann/Butz Peters/Rudi Cerne
  • auslandsjournal (1973–present)
  • Berlin direkt (1999–present)
  • Bonn direkt (1987–1999)
  • Chronik der Woche (1965–1984)
  • Die Drehscheibe (1964–1982)
  • drehscheibe (1998–present)
  • Frontal, hosted by Bodo H. Hauser and Ulrich Kienzle (1993–2000)
  • Frontal21 (2001–present)
  • hallo deutschland (1997–present)
  • heute (newscast) (1963–present)
  • heute aus den Ländern (newscast) (1983–1992)
  • heute journal (newscast) (1978–present)
  • heute mittag (newscast) (1998–2009)
  • heute nacht (newscast) (1994–2015)
  • heute Xpress (newscast) (2015–present)
  • Kennzeichen D (1971–2001)
  • länderjournal (1991–1996)
  • Leute heute (1997–present)
  • ML Mona Lisa (1988–present)
  • Politbarometer (1977–present)
  • tele-illustrierte (1982–1991)
  • Volle Kanne – Service täglich (1999–present)
  • WISO (1984–present)
  • ZDF-abendmagazin (1996–1997)
  • ZDF-Magazin, hosted by Gerhard Löwenthal/Fritz Schenk/Wolfgang Weinert/Hans Scheicher (1969–1988)
  • ZDF-Mittagsmagazin (1989–present)
  • ZDF-Morgenmagazin (1992–present)
  • ZDFzoom (2011–present)

Series

Sport

Talk

  • Dunja Hayali, hosted by Dunja Hayali (2015–present)
  • Johannes B. Kerner, talk show hosted by Johannes B. Kerner (1998–2009)
  • live (1986–1997)
  • Markus Lanz, talk show hosted by Markus Lanz (2008–present)
  • Maybrit Illner, a political talk show hosted by Maybrit Illner (1999–present)
  • Peter Hahne, hosted by Peter Hahne (2010–2017)
  • Tacheles, hosted by Johannes Gross (1996)
  • Willemsens Woche, hosted by Roger Willemsen (1994–1998)
  • Zeugen des Jahrhunderts (1979–present)

Audience share

Germany

January February March April May June July August September October November December Annual average
1990[9] – – – – – – – – – – – – 28.8%
1991[10] – – – – – – – – – – – –   25.6%
1992[11] – – – – – – – – – – – –   22.0%
1993[12] – – – – – – – – – – – –   18.0%
1994[13] – – – – – – – – – – – –   17.0%
1995[14] – – – – – – – – – – – –   14.7%
1996[15] 14.7% 15.2% 13.6% 13.1% 13.6% 17.4% 15.8% 13.7% 13.1% 13.3% 14.8% 14.2%   14.4%
1997[16] 14.6% 14.6% 13.4% 12.4% 12.8% 12.9% 12.7% 13.2% 13.3% 12.4% 13.7% 14.4%   13.4%
1998[17] 13.9% 15.3% 13.0% 12.3% 12.5% 17.4% 14.2% 12.8% 12.1% 13.1% 13.1% 13.3%   13.6%
1999[18] 14.2% 14.3% 14.0% 12.4% 12.1% 12.6% 13.2% 12.6% 12.0% 13.0% 13.4% 13.8%   13.2%
2000[19] 14.2% 13.8% 13.4% 11.6% 12.3% 15.3% 13.7% 13.3% 13.0% 12.7% 12.8% 13.2%   13.3%
2001[20] 13.2% 13.3% 13.1% 11.3% 11.7% 12.2% 14.2% 13.7% 12.5% 13.5% 13.8% 13.8%   13.0%
2002[21] 14.4% 15.5% 13.4% 12.4% 12.7% 16.4% 13.9% 14.1% 12.3% 13.1% 13.2% 13.9%   13.8%
2003[22] 13.9% 13.6% 13.7% 12.5% 12.3% 12.5% 13.9% 13.5% 12.3% 13.0% 13.2% 13.7%   13.2%
2004[23] 14.1% 13.9% 12.9% 12.5% 12.5% 14.8% 15.1% 15.9% 12.8% 12.7% 12.9% 13.9%   13.6%
2005[24] 14.0% 14.2% 13.7% 13.4% 12.7% 13.7% 14.0% 13.2% 13.3% 12.9% 13.2% 13.6%   13.5%
2006[25] 13.2% 14.4% 13.6% 13.1% 12.3% 16.9% 15.7% 12.4% 12.4% 12.5% 13.3% 13.5%   13.6%
2007[26] 14.2% 13.5% 13.0% 12.0% 12.1% 12.5% 12.6% 12.3% 12.5% 12.8% 13.2% 13.4%   12.9%
2008[27] 13.5% 12.9% 13.4% 12.2% 11.6% 17.6% 12.1% 13.6% 12.3% 12.7% 12.8% 12.9%   13.1%
2009[28] 14.3% 13.2% 12.7% 12.0% 11.7% 12.5% 11.9% 12.6% 12.3% 12.2% 11.7% 12.6%   12.5%
2010[29] 13.1% 13.8% 12.5% 11.3% 11.9% 16.7% 13.7% 11.9% 11.4% 12.4% 11.7% 12.3%   12.7%
2011[30] 12.9% 13.0% 13.0% 11.7% 11.3% 12.0% 12.9% 10.7% 11.4% 11.7% 11.9% 12.5%   12.1%
2012[31] 12.6% 12.7% 12.5% 11.1% 12.1% 15.5% 12.8% 13.0% 11.3% 12.5% 12.0% 12.7%   12.6%
2013[32] 13.6% 13.5% 13.1% 12.9% 12.9% 12.0% 12.2% 12.5% 12.8% 12.7% 12.7% 12.5%   12.8%
2014[33] 13.4% 15.1% 12.3% 12.7% 12.0% 17.6% 14.8% 11.6% 12.5% 12.3% 12.3% 12.7%   13.3%
2015[34] 14.2% 12.9% 12.8% 12.2% 12.1% 12.7% 12.3% 12.1% 12.1% 12.0% 12.1% 12.3%   12.5%
2016[35] 13.2% 12.6% 12.9% 12.6% 12.0% 17.1% 13.3% 14.3% 11.9% 11.9% 12.4% 12.5%   13.0%
2017[36] 13.9% 13.3% 13.0% 12.5% 12.6% 13.2% 13.0% 13.1% 12.9% 12.4% 13.5% 13.1% 13.0%
2018[37] 14.1% 14.6% 13.9% 13.4% 13.1% 16.9% 15.5%

The average viewer age is 62 years (as of 2016).[38]

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For other uses see ZDF disambiguation ZDF pronounced ˌtsɛt teːˈʔɛf listen short for Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen 1 pronounced ˈtsvaɪtes ˈdɔʏtʃes ˈfɛʁnzeːn listen Second German Television is a German public service television broadcaster based in Mainz Rhineland Palatinate Launched on 1 April 1963 it is run as an independent nonprofit institution and was founded by all federal states of Germany Bundeslander ZDF is financed by television licence fees and advertising revenues 2 ZDFLogo used since 2001CountryGermanyBroadcast areaGermanyHeadquartersMainz GermanyProgrammingLanguage s GermanPicture format1080p HDTV downscaled to 16 9 576i for the SDTV feed OwnershipKey peopleNorbert Himmler director Sister channelsZDFneoZDFinfoHistoryLaunched1 April 1963 60 years ago 1963 04 01 ReplacedARD 2 1961 1963 LinksWebsitewww wbr zdf wbr deAvailabilityTerrestrialDigital terrestrial televisionVaries by locationStreaming mediaZDF deWatch live Germany only FilmOnWatch liveZiggoGOZiggoGO TVCanaldigitaal 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Adenauer perceived ARD s news coverage to be too critical of his government and believed that two of the organizations primarily responsible for its news reporting the Deutsche Presse Agentur and Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk which produced the nightly Tagesschau were too close to the opposition Social Democratic Party SPD to ever be able to report neutrally on his Christian Democratic Union government The new television company called the Freies Fernsehen Gesellschaft Free Television Society but derisively called Adenauer Fernsehen by critics was founded on 25 July 1960 The Deutsche Bundespost began constructing a second transmitter network on UHF channels which required new reception equipment For older receivers a converter was sold for about 80 DM equivalent to 195 in 2021 As with the earlier ARD television network the location of the transmitters was carefully planned to ensure the entire country would be able to receive the programming To test the transmitters and encourage the public to purchase UHF receivers the federal government allowed the ARD network to create a temporary secondary channel ARD 2 which was broadcast daily from 8 to 10 pm ARD 2 began broadcasting on 1 May 1961 in the transmission area of Hessischer Rundfunk and a month later expanded nationwide Interstate agreement Edit The SPD led states of Hamburg Bremen Lower Saxony and Hesse appealed to the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany which on 28 February 1961 in the First Broadcasting Judgment blocked the plan While building and maintaining telecommunications infrastructure such as television transmitters is a responsibility of the federal government under article 87f of the Basic Law the constitution does not extend these duties to running a television or radio broadcaster Under article 30 any power or duty not explicitly assigned to the federal government is reserved for the states Therefore the court ruled only the states had the right to set up a television broadcaster Conversely the same decision supported new longwave broadcaster Deutschlandfunk which had been established by the federal government in November 1960 its focus was on external broadcasting and therefore under the federal government s remit to conduct foreign relations After this decision in March 1961 the states decided to establish a central nonprofit public television network independently of Adenauer s effort On 6 June 1961 the state premiers signed at a premiers conference in Stuttgart the interstate agreement on the establishment of the public institution Second German Television On 1 December 1961 though not all states had ratified the agreement it went into force in the states that had done so Baden Wurttemberg North Rhine Westphalia Rhineland Palatinate The last state Bavaria filed the instrument of ratification on 9 July 1962 Launch Edit The station began broadcasting from Eschborn near Frankfurt am Main on 1 April 1963 with a speech by the first director general Intendant Karl Holzamer The channel broadcast its first programme in colour in 1967 In 1974 ZDF moved its base of operations to Mainz Lerchenberg after briefly being located in Wiesbaden Since 5 October 1996 ZDF has broadcast 24 hours a day Finances EditZDF is financed by a license fee of 18 36 per month which must be paid by all households in Germany except handicapped people and persons on social aid ZDF shares the income with ARD and Deutschlandradio The fees are not collected directly by ZDF but by the Beitragsservice more commonly known by its former name of GEZ a common organization of the ARD member broadcasters ZDF and Deutschlandradio ZDF also has income from sponsorships and programming and advertising sales Transmission and reception EditTerrestrial Edit As ZDF is a station not a network the station is broadcast throughout Germany with no regional variations or affiliates using a number of signal repeaters ZDF transmitters broadcast a digital signal Analog signals were gradually phased out a process which lasted from 2002 to 2008 4 ZDF does not run any transmitters itself Throughout the analogue days all ZDF transmitters were run by the Deutsche Bundespost which was later privatised as Deutsche Telekom s subsidiary T Systems Media Broadcast This is in contrast to the other public German broadcaster ARD which owns its main transmitters ZDF was not previously allowed to use ARD s transmitters ZDF has used both ARD and Telekom transmitters since changes to the law in the 1990s and since the digital switchover Cable Edit ZDF has also been relayed by cable since the days of the first cable pilot projects Satellite Edit The first Europe wide satellite broadcast via Astra 1C began in August 1993 during the Internationale Funkausstellung Berlin IFA International Broadcasting Exhibition in Berlin In the same decade these new technologies were used to enable digital broadcasting of ZDF Today ZDF is available free to air throughout Europe on Astra 19 2 E Other channels EditZDF operates two digital channels ZDFneo aimed at 18 to 45 year olds and ZDFinfo documentaries Both are transmitted in SD and HD A commercial subsidiary called ZDF Enterprises GmbH manages programme sales acquisitions international coproductions and a growing number of important activities in new media ZDF Enterprises owns a Dutch TV production and distribution company Off the Fence 5 ZDF also operates various channels in cooperation with other networks Arte 3sat KI KA and Phoenix Design EditZDF s animated station identity mascots the Mainzelmannchen a play on the words Mainz and Heinzelmannchen created by Wolf Gerlach for the channel s launch in 1963 quickly became popular and are still shown between commercials 6 In 1976 Otl Aicher a graphic designer created ZDF s corporate design 7 A new design for ZDF was created by Lee Hunt in February 2000 8 Administration EditDirector general Edit Norbert HimmlerAdministratively ZDF is headed by a director general Intendant who is elected by the ZDF Television Council the composition of which is in turn determined by societally relevant groups named in the ZDF Treaty Directors General since the start of ZDF 1963 1977 Karl Holzamer 1977 1982 Karl Gunther von Hase 1982 2002 Dieter Stolte 2002 2012 Markus Schachter 2012 2022 Thomas Bellut 2022 present Norbert HimmlerSupervising board Edit The supervising board supervises the work of the intendant They pay special attention to the budget The supervising board has 14 members Five representatives of the federal states One representative of the federal republic of Germany Eight independent members not allowed to work for the government or other public entities Television board Edit The Television Board supervises ZDF and authorizes the budget They also elect the Director General The board has 60 members Sixteen representatives of the states of Germany Two representatives of the federal republic of Germany Two representatives of the Protestant churches Two representatives of the Catholic Church One representative of the Central Council of Jews in Germany 21 representatives of selected civil society groups 16 members nominated by the federal states representing different social causesMembership EditZDF became a full member of the European Broadcasting Union in 1963 It also has numerous individual cooperation agreements with broadcasters around the world ZDF is a supporter of the Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV initiative which promotes the establishment of an open European standard for hybrid set top boxes for the reception of broadcast TV and broadband multimedia applications with a single user interface Programming EditChildren Edit 1 2 oder 3 1977 present ALF 1988 1993 Alfred J Kwak 1990 2003 Die Kinder von Bullerbu Alla vi barn i Bullerbyn Dog City 1995 1997 Fraggle Rock Die Fraggles 1983 1995 Fun with Claude 2009 2015 Hals uber Kopf 1987 1993 1997 Lowenzahn 1981 present Pablo the Little Red Fox 1999 2003 Pingu 1990 2004 Pippi Langstrumpf Pippi Langstrump 1969 present Rappelkiste 1973 1987 Tabaluga 1997 2007 Cosmic Quantum Ray 2009 Tabaluga tivi 1997 2011 The Muppet Show Die Muppet Show 1977 1989 Mia and Me 2012 present Culture Edit aspekte 1965 present Das Blaue Sofa 2003 present Das Literarische Quartett 1998 2006 2015 present Documentaries Edit source source source source source source source source source source Clip of a Report from the program Terra X37 Grad 1994 present Alexander the Great 2014 Die Deutschen 2008 2010 Terra X 1982 present Terra Xpress 2011 present ZDFzeit 2012 present ZDF History 2000 present Entertainment Edit Bares fur Rares hosted by Horst Lichter 2013 present Blond am Freitag 2002 2007 Blond am Sonntag 2001 Dance Academy 2010 Das grosse Los Die Show fur die Aktion Sorgenkind hosted by Dieter Thomas Heck 1996 2000 Die Anstalt comedy hosted by Claus von Wagner and Max Uthoff 2014 present Die Goldene Kamera 1973 1986 1989 1990 1992 1994 present Die goldene Stimmgabel hosted by Dieter Thomas Heck 1993 1995 1997 1999 2001 2007 Die grossten Musical Hits The Greatest Musical Hits Die Helene Fischer Show hosted by Helene Fischer 2013 present Die Pyramide German version of Pyramid hosted by Dieter Thomas Heck 1979 1994 Die Pyramide German version of Pyramid hosted by Micky Beisenherz and Joachim Llambi 2012 Die ZDF Hitparade hosted by Dieter Thomas Heck Viktor Worms Uwe Hubner 1969 2000 Die ZDF Kultnacht 2002 present Disco 1971 1982 Grand Prix der Volksmusik 1986 2010 heute show comedy hosted by Oliver Welke 2009 present Kerner kocht cooking show hosted by Johannes B Kerner 2005 2008 Lafer Lichter Lecker cooking show hosted by Johann Lafer and Horst Lichter 2006 2017 Mainz bleibt Mainz wie es singt und lacht Carnival 1973 present Melodien fur Millionen hosted by Dieter Thomas Heck 1985 2007 Musik liegt in der Luft hosted by Dieter Thomas Heck 1991 1998 Neues aus der Anstalt comedy hosted by Urban Priol 2007 2013 Nicht nachmachen 2012 2013 Rockpop 1977 1981 Rock Pop Music Hall 1984 1986 Show Palast hosted by Dieter Thomas Heck 1999 2000 Wetten dass hosted by Frank Elstner Thomas Gottschalk Wolfgang Lippert Markus Lanz 1981 2014 2021 present Willkommen bei Carmen Nebel hosted by Carmen Nebel 2004 present ZDF Fernsehgarten hosted by Andrea Kiewel 1986 present Information Edit Aktenzeichen XY ungelost hosted by Eduard Zimmermann Sabine Zimmermann Butz Peters Rudi Cerne auslandsjournal 1973 present Berlin direkt 1999 present Bonn direkt 1987 1999 Chronik der Woche 1965 1984 Die Drehscheibe 1964 1982 drehscheibe 1998 present Frontal hosted by Bodo H Hauser and Ulrich Kienzle 1993 2000 Frontal21 2001 present hallo deutschland 1997 present heute newscast 1963 present heute aus den Landern newscast 1983 1992 heute journal newscast 1978 present heute mittag newscast 1998 2009 heute nacht newscast 1994 2015 heute Xpress newscast 2015 present Kennzeichen D 1971 2001 landerjournal 1991 1996 Leute heute 1997 present ML Mona Lisa 1988 present Politbarometer 1977 present tele illustrierte 1982 1991 Volle Kanne Service taglich 1999 present WISO 1984 present ZDF abendmagazin 1996 1997 ZDF Magazin hosted by Gerhard Lowenthal Fritz Schenk Wolfgang Weinert Hans Scheicher 1969 1988 ZDF Mittagsmagazin 1989 present ZDF Morgenmagazin 1992 present ZDFzoom 2011 present Series Edit ALF 1988 1996 Bella Block 1994 present Blochin 2015 Borgia Borgia Faith and Fear co producers CANAL France and others 2011 2013 The Bridge 2011 co producers Sveriges Television and DR Cologne P D 2003 present Das Kriminalmuseum 1963 1973 Das Traumschiff 1981 present Der Adler Die Spur des Verbrechens Ornen 2005 2007 2009 2010 2012 2014 2017 Der Alte The Old Fox 1977 present Der Bergdoktor 2008 present Der kleine Doktor 1974 1981 1982 Der Kommissar 1969 1976 Der Kommissar und das Meer Kommissarien och havet 2007 present Der Kriminalist 2006 present Der Landarzt 1987 2016 Derrick 1974 1998 Die Bergretter 2009 present Die Chefin 2012 present Die Garmisch Cops 2012 2014 2016 Die Rosenheim Cops 2002 present Die Schwarzwaldklinik The Black Forest Clinic 1985 2013 Die Toten vom Bodensee 2014 present Diese Drombuschs 1983 1995 1998 2000 Dr Klein 2014 2016 Ein Fall fur Zwei 1981 2013 Ein starkes Team 1994 present Forsthaus Falkenau 1989 2016 Freunde furs Leben 1992 2005 2008 Friesland 2015 present Girl friends Freundschaft mit Herz 1995 2009 Helen Dorn 2014 present Herzensbrecher Vater von vier Sohnen 2013 2016 Highway to Heaven Ein Engel auf Erden 1987 1990 Hotel 1985 1988 Hotel Paradies 1990 1992 1995 1996 1998 2000 2001 2009 Ich heirate eine Familie 1987 1992 1998 2008 2013 In Plain Sight 2010 2013 2014 2016 Inga Lindstrom 2004 present Jack Holborn miniseries for Christmas 1982 Jack Taylor 2013 2017 Jede Menge Leben 1995 1996 Kidnap and Ransom Der Jager Geld oder Leben 2016 present Kommissarin Lucas 2003 present Kripo Holstein 2013 2015 Ku damm 56 2016 Kustenwache 1997 2016 Leipzig Homicide 2001 present Letzte Spur Berlin 2012 present Lotta amp 2010 present Magnum P I Magnum 2012 2015 Matlock 1998 1992 Midsomer murders Inspector Barnaby 2005 present Mino 1986 Christmas miniseries Mordkommission Konigswinkel 2017 present Morgen hor ich auf 2016 New Tricks New Tricks Die Krimispezialisten 2005 Notruf Hafenkante 2007 present Ray Donovan 2014 2016 Salto Kommunale 1998 2001 2002 Salto Postale 1993 1997 2002 2003 2006 Sibel amp Max 2015 2016 Siska 2002 2010 SOKO 5113 1978 present SOKO Donau SOKO Wien 2005 present SOKO Hamburg 2018 present SOKO Kitzbuhel 2003 present SOKO Rhein Main 2006 2008 2010 SOKO Wismar 2004 present Solo fur Weiss 2016 present Sperling 1996 2013 Star Trek Raumschiff Enterprise 1972 1982 Star Trek The Next Generation Raumschiff Enterprise Das nachste Jahrhundert 1990 1993 Stubbe Von Fall zu Fall 1995 2016 Stuttgart Homicide 2009 present The Bold and the Beautiful Reich und Schon 2002 2008 2010 2011 The Fall The Fall Tod in Belfast 2015 The Five 2017 The Muppet Show Die Muppet Show 1977 1989 The Simpsons Die Simpsons 1991 1993 The Young and the Restless Schatten der Leidenschaft 2008 Unser Charly 1995 2012 Unsere Mutter unsere Vater Generation War 2013 Veronica Mars 2006 2008 Welcome Back Kotter 1979 1980 Wilsberg 1999 present Sport Edit das aktuelle sportstudio 1963 present FIFA World Cup 1966 present UEFA European Championship 1964 present UEFA Champions League Final Only Talk Edit Dunja Hayali hosted by Dunja Hayali 2015 present Johannes B Kerner talk show hosted by Johannes B Kerner 1998 2009 live 1986 1997 Markus Lanz talk show hosted by Markus Lanz 2008 present Maybrit Illner a political talk show hosted by Maybrit Illner 1999 present Peter Hahne hosted by Peter Hahne 2010 2017 Tacheles hosted by Johannes Gross 1996 Willemsens Woche hosted by Roger Willemsen 1994 1998 Zeugen des Jahrhunderts 1979 present Audience share EditGermany Edit January February March April May June July August September October November December Annual average1990 9 28 8 1991 10 25 6 1992 11 22 0 1993 12 18 0 1994 13 17 0 1995 14 14 7 1996 15 14 7 15 2 13 6 13 1 13 6 17 4 15 8 13 7 13 1 13 3 14 8 14 2 14 4 1997 16 14 6 14 6 13 4 12 4 12 8 12 9 12 7 13 2 13 3 12 4 13 7 14 4 13 4 1998 17 13 9 15 3 13 0 12 3 12 5 17 4 14 2 12 8 12 1 13 1 13 1 13 3 13 6 1999 18 14 2 14 3 14 0 12 4 12 1 12 6 13 2 12 6 12 0 13 0 13 4 13 8 13 2 2000 19 14 2 13 8 13 4 11 6 12 3 15 3 13 7 13 3 13 0 12 7 12 8 13 2 13 3 2001 20 13 2 13 3 13 1 11 3 11 7 12 2 14 2 13 7 12 5 13 5 13 8 13 8 13 0 2002 21 14 4 15 5 13 4 12 4 12 7 16 4 13 9 14 1 12 3 13 1 13 2 13 9 13 8 2003 22 13 9 13 6 13 7 12 5 12 3 12 5 13 9 13 5 12 3 13 0 13 2 13 7 13 2 2004 23 14 1 13 9 12 9 12 5 12 5 14 8 15 1 15 9 12 8 12 7 12 9 13 9 13 6 2005 24 14 0 14 2 13 7 13 4 12 7 13 7 14 0 13 2 13 3 12 9 13 2 13 6 13 5 2006 25 13 2 14 4 13 6 13 1 12 3 16 9 15 7 12 4 12 4 12 5 13 3 13 5 13 6 2007 26 14 2 13 5 13 0 12 0 12 1 12 5 12 6 12 3 12 5 12 8 13 2 13 4 12 9 2008 27 13 5 12 9 13 4 12 2 11 6 17 6 12 1 13 6 12 3 12 7 12 8 12 9 13 1 2009 28 14 3 13 2 12 7 12 0 11 7 12 5 11 9 12 6 12 3 12 2 11 7 12 6 12 5 2010 29 13 1 13 8 12 5 11 3 11 9 16 7 13 7 11 9 11 4 12 4 11 7 12 3 12 7 2011 30 12 9 13 0 13 0 11 7 11 3 12 0 12 9 10 7 11 4 11 7 11 9 12 5 12 1 2012 31 12 6 12 7 12 5 11 1 12 1 15 5 12 8 13 0 11 3 12 5 12 0 12 7 12 6 2013 32 13 6 13 5 13 1 12 9 12 9 12 0 12 2 12 5 12 8 12 7 12 7 12 5 12 8 2014 33 13 4 15 1 12 3 12 7 12 0 17 6 14 8 11 6 12 5 12 3 12 3 12 7 13 3 2015 34 14 2 12 9 12 8 12 2 12 1 12 7 12 3 12 1 12 1 12 0 12 1 12 3 12 5 2016 35 13 2 12 6 12 9 12 6 12 0 17 1 13 3 14 3 11 9 11 9 12 4 12 5 13 0 2017 36 13 9 13 3 13 0 12 5 12 6 13 2 13 0 13 1 12 9 12 4 13 5 13 1 13 0 2018 37 14 1 14 6 13 9 13 4 13 1 16 9 15 5 The average viewer age is 62 years as of 2016 38 References Edit Facts and figures about ZDF www zdf de Retrieved 26 July 2020 European Benchmarking Public Service Broadcasters in the Digital Era PDF Circom Regional May 2002 p 46 Archived from the original PDF on 9 October 2009 Retrieved 19 July 2009 a b unternehmen zdf de www zdf de Facts and figures about ZDF www 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