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The ARD ZDF Deutschlandradio Beitragsservice (English: ARD ZDF Deutschlandradio contribution service [2]), commonly referred to simply as GEZ, is the organization responsible for collecting the television and radio fee (Rundfunkbeitrag) from private individuals, companies and institutions in Germany.
ZDF (German: [ˌtsɛt.deːˈʔɛf] ⓘ), short for Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen [1] (German: [ˈtsvaɪtəs ˈdɔʏtʃəs ˈfɛʁnzeːn] ⓘ; lit. ' Second German Television ' ), is a German public-service television broadcaster based in Mainz , Rhineland-Palatinate .
As part of the German Hartz concept to increase employment and to decrease welfare costs, the aim of these working opportunities is to aid the long term unemployed in becoming accustomed to regular work again and thus increase their chances of securing paid employment. [citation needed] In accordance with this aim there are four main conditions.
KiKA Der Kinderkanal — public, non-commercial children's TV, with support of ARD and ZDF; Arte — public Franco-German culture channel from ARD, ZDF and France Télévisions; 3sat — cultural network from the ARD, ZDF, ORF (Austrian Broadcasting), and SRG (Swiss Broadcasting).
Funk is a German video-on-demand service, operated by the public broadcasters ARD and ZDF. SWR, a regional ARD member, is responsible for the service. [1] Funk describes itself as a "content network". The target group is people between the age of 14 and 29. [2]
Unlike ARD, which was regionalized and had its roots in radio, ZDF was a centrally organized channel devoted solely to television. On 25 August 1967, at 9:30 a.m. on both ARD and ZDF, vice chancellor Willy Brandt started the era of colour TV in West Germany by pressing a symbolic launch button at the International Radio and TV Fair in West Berlin.
ZDFinfo is a German free-to-air documentary television channel owned by ZDF. It was launched on 27 August 1997 as ZDFinfokanal, [1] and it became ZDFinfo on 5 September 2011. [2] On 1 May 2012, a high-definition simulcast the channel was launched. [3] [4] ZDF offered another documentary channel, ZDFdokukanal, between 2000 and 2009.
ZDFneo is a German free-to-air television channel, programmed for an audience aged 25 to 49 [1] to complement the primarily older-skewing main channels of public broadcasters ZDF and ARD. It replaced ZDF's documentary channel ZDFdokukanal on 1 November 2009.