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ORF 2 began broadcasting three days a week as a "Technical Test Program" (Technisches Versuchsprogramm) on UHF frequencies on 11 September 1961.In 1967, the Versuchsprogramm was renamed as FS 2 (Fernsehprogramm 2; 'Television programme 2'), and its broadcasting days were increased to five days a week, which remained the case until 1 September 1970 when it began broadcasting daily.
ORF Landesstudio NÖ. Radio Niederösterreich is the regional radio for Lower Austria, and is part of the Österreich 2 group. It is broadcast by the ORF, and the programs from Radio Niederösterreich are made in the ORF Niederösterreich Studio. The radio is mostly heard by the 60+ age group and has a traditionally high listenership in Vienna.
ORF confirmed its intentions to participate at the 2025 contest on 7 September 2024. [3] From 2011 to 2013 as well as in 2015 and 2016 , ORF set up national finals with several artists to choose both the song and performer to compete at Eurovision for Austria, with both the public and a panel of jury members involved in the selection.
Even though the ORF Center is located in Vienna, Vienna also has its own independent studio, which is located in the Funkhaus Wien. Every regional office has a regional director, and all regional studios and offices were built by the same architect, Gustav Peichl, so all buildings look similar. Logos of the ORF regional studios (2015)
Since 1 February 2000 FM4 has broadcast its programmes 24/7, when the station was merged with Blue Danube Radio (resulting in the English programmes being broadcast today). At launch, FM4 was known as an underground radio station, but full-time broadcasting has increased its popularity and listening figures considerably.
Two years later, a legal regulation of a nonpartisan broadcasting was passed by the National Council parliament, entailing a relaunch of the ORF radio stations. Ö1 was designated to comply with the public educational mandate ( Bildungsauftrag ) and to offer a broadly cultural program for an artistically inclined audience.
The ORF's first corporate logo, called the 'ORF eye', was designed by the Austrian illustrator and cartoonist Erich Sokol in 1968, who also served as ORF's chief graphics artist and later as art director from 1967 until 1992. The 'ORF eye' logo is often compared to the 'CBS Eye' logo used by the American commercial broadcaster CBS.
ORF confirmed their intentions to participate at the 2023 contest on 9 June 2022. [6] From 2011 to 2013 as well as in 2015 and 2016 , ORF set up national finals with several artists to choose both the song and performer to compete at Eurovision for Austria, with both the public and a panel of jury members involved in the selection.