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Public Television inNorth Germany
Main TV Channels in North Germany managed by the NDR
Country	North Germany
HQ	Hamburg, North Germany
Language	German (Majority) Frisian (FrieslandTV, etc.) Low German (DithmarschenTV, etc.)
Owner	NDR

This article details the situation of Public Television in North Germany, primarily talking about the primary TV channels managed by the North Germany Broadcasting Agency (Norddeutscher Rundfunk), NDR for short. This article will detail primarily the only three national TV channels (NDR, NDR Kids, Nationalfernsehn), and the three most relevant and biggest / most well-funded regional TV channels (Pommern TV, Hamburg 1, FrieslandTV, DithmarschenTV).

National Stations

NDR

Logo of the NDR

The NDR, full name: Norddeutscher Rundfunk (English: North Germany Broadcasting Agency), is the main and largest TV channel in North Germany. The NDR TV channel is managed by the network of the same name, which also manages all other public broadcasting in North Germany, despite having the same name, they are not to be confused. The NDR is run out of two Hamburg offices, with additional offices being present in every major city of the country, the second largest office being located in the capital.

History

See also: Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk (1924-1955)

The NDR was first created in 1924 as the North German Broadcasting AG, it would later be incorporated into the Greater German Broadcasting Agency in 1934 by Joseph Goebbels's propaganda ministry under the name Reichssender Hamburg.

After World War II, the United Kingdom set up first a small radio station, and later the North-Western German Broadcasting Agency (NWDR), the only broadcaster in the British occupation zone. The NWDR would later be a founding member of the ARD, the public broadcasting station for all of Germany.

In February 1955, the state of North Rhine-Westphalia decided to create its own broadcasting agency, splitting off from the NWDR to found the WDR, while the states of Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein, and Lower Saxony renamed the remnants of the NWDR to NDR. On 1 January 1992, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, a stated formed out of the former German Democratic Republic, would join the NDR.

During the times of the Federal Republic of Germany, the NDR would broadcast and host many important events, be they political or cultural. The NDR was particularly known for its well-made documentaries, but later started degrading in quality through cheaply-produced entertainment content aimed at younger generations. This included, but is not limited to, being a major contributor to the German FUNK network, a publicly-financed internet broadcaster that would fund several German youtube channels and series. FUNK was nutritiously known for its extremely progressive bias and bad research when it came to political and/or societal topics. A majority of these bad FUNK channels emerged out of northern Germany in the FRG era, particularly Hamburg, were they were in whole or in part managed by the NDR.

During the German collapse, NDR stations were captured by separatists and severed from any connections to the ARD. During the time of the collapse, the NDR was primarily repurposed to spread separatist and nationalist propaganda, as well as occasionally hosting the news. Due to limited funding and an anarchic leadership however, most of the NDR's programming consisted of some North German Propaganda pieces being played on repeat for most of the day during the collapse era.

After the collapse and the construction of a fully organized and independent state government in North Germany, the NDR would officially be put under the hand of the state once again, becoming its main public broadcasting agency split into multiple channels. The biggest TV channel, of the same name, would continue to exist under the North German regime, gradually reducing and changing its programming. It it nowadays most well-known for the news, which most families sit down to watch together in the evening, preceded by its iconic opening sequence.

Opening sequence

Like most media in North Germany, the NDR TV channel isn't available all day, with it being offline during many parts of all days a week. Whenever the channel goes online for broadcasting, a certain and country-wide iconic, opening sequence plays. It showcases the beauty of the country and its nature, underlaid with the start of the national anthem, eventually being cut off by the Bell ringing in the news.

You can watch the opening sequence here:

Programming

The following plan describes the usual programming of the NDR TV channel, this schedule may be interrupted by important events or temporarily changed due to special circumstances.

TIME	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat	Sun
00:00	Documentaries
01:00
02:00	Not Online	Entertainment	Not Online	Educational	Not Online	Entertainment
03:00
04:00		Educational		Entertainment		Educational	Not Online
05:00	Morning News
06:00	Not Online		Entertainment	Documentaries	Educational		Not Online
07:00
08:00			Educational	Educational	Documentaries	Entertainment
09:00					Not Online
10:00			Not Online
11:00				Not Online
12:00
12:15	Lunch News
13:00	Documentaries	Entertainment				Not Online	Entertainment
14:00
15:00	Entertainment
16:00		Education
17:00							Not Online
18:00		Not Online
19:00	Not Online
20:00	Evening (Main) News
20:15
21:00							Not Online
22:00	Not Online
22:15	Night News
23:00	Not Online

Regional Stations

Other stations

Multiple very small regional stations, that operate in a radius of 50km or less, also exist and are officially managed by the NDR. De facto however, the NDR is concerned little with how these stations operate, and they revive little funding. Such very regional stations usually only serve a single city, town, or district (Landkreis) in order to provide local news, local political updates, local events, and rarely documentaries about local curiosities or traditions.