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The station began broadcasting on April 1, 1963 in Eschborn. In 1967 the first program was shown in color . The ZDF moved to Mainz-Lerchenberg in 1974, after briefly being located in Wiesbaden.
In its first decades, the ZDF exclusively broadcast via terrestrial antenna inside Germany. This is, unlike the stations of the ARD, run by T-Systems (daughter of Deutsche Telekom), and was formerly run by the German postal service . Like the ARD, the ZDF positioned many transmitters so that the channel could be received in vast parts of the GDR, where it had many viewers.
Since the first cable pilot projects, the ZDF is also fed into the cable television system. The first Europe-wide satellite broadcast via AstraIntroduction SES-Astra Societe Europeenne des Satellites-Astra is a Luxembourg-based corporation which owns and operates the Astra series of geostationary satellites, which transmit some 1100 analogue and digital television and radio channels via 176 tran 1C began in August 19931993 is a common year starting on Friday and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003 Events January January 1 Czechoslovakia divides. Establishment of independent Slovakia and Czech Republic. during the Internationale Funkausstellung (IFA - "International Broadcasting Exposition") in BerlinBerlin [ bɛrˈliːn ] is the national capital of Germany and its largest city, with 3,387,404 inhabitants (as of September 2004); down from 4. 5 million before World War II. Berlin is located on the rivers Spree and Havel in the northea. In the same decade, these new technologies were used to start digitalDigital television DTV uses digital modulation and compression to broadcast video, audio and data signals to television sets. Introduction A major use of DTV can be to carry more channels on the same amount of bandwidth. Another can be high-definition pro broadcasting of ZDF.
Since 2002, ZDF can be received digitally via DVB-T around Berlin. In order to favor this means of transmission, the analog transmission of the channel via antenna was discontinued in the capital in August 2003.
ZDF also operates the channels 3sat , PhoenixFor other uses of the name Phoenix, see Phoenix (disambiguation The phoenix (also rarely spelled phenix is a mythical bird, sacred in ancient Egypt. Said to live for 500 or for 1461 years, the phoenix is a solitary male bird with beautiful gold and red pl, arteArte is a French- German TV network which has the ambition of proposing quality programming related to the world of arts and culture. Because it is a joint international venture, programs are created in such a way as to be equally watchable from both coun and KiKaKiKa (Der Ki nder Ka nal) is a television channel based in Erfurt, Germany. It is owned and operated by Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen ( ZDF) and is targeted at children and youths. KiKa is broadcast on analogue satellite as well as digital services, both DV in cooperation with other networks. Included in its digital offering ZDFvision are the channels ZDF.infokanal , ZDF.dokukanal and ZDF.theaterkanal ..
The animated ZDF mascots, the Mainzelmännchen , created by Wolf Gerlach in 1963, became very popular and are still shown in between commercials.
Today the ZDF is the largest television network in Europe.
The ZDF is headed by a Director-General, who is elected by the ZDF Television Council. Since the founding of the station in 1963, the following people held this office:
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