#B r mediathek series
#B r mediathek tv

#B r mediathek tv

There are also regional TV and radio studios in Nuremberg ('Studio Franconia'), Würzburg ('Regional Studio Franconia/ River Main') and Regensburg ('Regional Studio East Bavaria').īR provides programs to various TV and radio networks, some done in collaboration with other broadcasters, and others completely independently. Program sponsoring is not considered to be advertising, and is not subject to these restrictions.īR's headquarters in Munich Studios īR operates a main broadcasting facility in downtown Munich as well as studios in Munich's northern Freimann quarter and the nearby municipality of Unterföhring. On weekdays, only 20 minutes of advertising is permitted, split between breaks between programs. Advertising is also not permitted on ARD's ' Das Erste' or on ZDF on Sundays, national holidays, or on any day after 8:00pm.

Unter unserem Himmel ('Under our Skies')īR's TV channel, Bayerisches Fernsehen (Bavarian Television), as with all regional 'Third Channel' broadcasters (along with public specialty channels such as arte, 3Sat, KI.KA, Phoenix and ARD-alpha) carry no commercials.

#B r mediathek series

Television series produced by BR īR produces several series that are well known throughout Bavaria, and some of these are re-broadcast throughout other parts of Germany. 48.5% of this income was spent on programme production costs, 25.1% on staffing, and 26.4% on other operating expenses and fixed charges. In 2012, BR derived 85.3% of its income from viewer and listener licence fees, 12.6% from other sources such as product licensing and investments, and 2.1% from the sale of advertising time. The fee is collected by Beitragsservice von ARD, ZDF und Deutschlandradio. Every household in Germany is required by law to pay a Rundfunkbeitrag (broadcast contribution) of €18.36 per month as of August 2021, to finance the public broadcast system.

The broadcasting service is further backed by the relevant European legal bases as well as the media service convention, which contain regulations for the on-line offerings of Bavarian Broadcasting.īR is in part funded by commercial activity, including the limited sale of on-air commercial advertising time however, its principal source of income is the revenue derived from viewer and listener licence fees. Just as important for the work of Bavarian Broadcasting is the cooperation of the ARD consortium, consisting of nine other regional broadcasting corporates as well as Deutsche Welle. The broadcast law is supplemented by the so-called Broadcast State Contract (Rundfunkstaatsvertrag), a multilateral agreement between all 16 German Länder which regulates the relationship of public and private broadcast in the dual broadcast system and which contains fundamental regulations particularly for financing. Its functions are determined by a legal foundation which lays down the principles under which the broadcaster operates and the structure of its internal organization. Legal foundation īR is a statutory corporation established under the Bavarian Broadcasting Law (Bayerisches Rundfunkgesetz), originally passed in 1948, and updated in 1993 to take account of the demands of a changed media and political environment.

A station was added in Nuremberg in the early 1950s. In 1949, Radio Munich became Bayerischer Rundfunk, and in that year it established Europe's first VHF station.

Operating as Radio Munich, it broadcast, among other programming, live coverage of the Nuremberg trials and programs such as 'War Never Again' (' Nie wieder Krieg'). After the Allied victory over Nazi Germany, the American military occupation government took control of the station.

In 1933, shortly after the Nazi seizure of power, the station was put under the control of the Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda. 'Reichssender München' logo from 1934 to 1945ĭeutsche Stunde in Bayern became Bayerischer Rundfunk in 1931.