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Country | Germany |
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Broadcast area | Germany |
Headquarters | Mainz-Lerchenberg, Germany |
Programming | |
Language(s) | German |
Picture format | 720p HDTV (downscaled to 16:9 576i for the SDTV feed) |
Ownership | |
Owner | ZDF |
Sister channels | ZDF ZDFneo ZDFinfo |
History | |
Launched | 7 May 2011 |
Replaced | ZDFtheaterkanal |
Closed | 30 September 2016 |
Links | |
Website | kultur |
Availability | |
Streaming media | |
ZDF.de | Watch live |
ZDFkultur (stylized as zdf.kultur) was a German free-to-air television channel owned by ZDF. It was launched on 7 May 2011, replacing ZDF theaterkanal. It mainly broadcast music shows, such as Later... with Jools Holland , pop concerts and series from the ZDF archive, but also movies and theatre plays. On 1 May 2012, a high-definition simulcast was launched on satellite. [1] [2] On 22 February 2013, ZDF director Thomas Bellut announced that ZDFkultur would close in the near future, due to cost-saving measures at ZDF. [3] [4] [5] The channel council agreed Bellut's proposal on 8 March 2013. [6] The programming after the closure announcement consisting mostly of old ZDF archive content from the 1970s and 80s, with an annual budget of around €2 million. The channel was finally closed down on 30 September 2016.
January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December | Annual average | |
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2011 [7] | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 0.0% |
2012 [8] | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.2% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.2% | ![]() |
2013 [9] | 0.1% | 0.2% | 0.2% | 0.2% | 0.2% | 0.2% | 0.2% | 0.2% | 0.2% | 0.2% | 0.2% | 0.2% | ![]() |
2014 [10] | 0.3% | 0.3% | 0.3% | 0.3% | 0.3% | 0.2% | 0.2% | 0.3% | 0.3% | 0.3% | 0.3% | 0.3% | ![]() |
2015 [11] | 0.3% | 0.3% | 0.4% | 0.4% | 0.4% | 0.3% | 0.4% | 0.4% | 0.4% | 0.3% | 0.4% | 0.4% | ![]() |
2016 [12] | 0.3% | 0.3% | 0.3% | 0.4% | 0.4% | 0.3% | 0.3% | 0.4% | 0.3% | - | - | - |