hr-fernsehen is the regional television channel of

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for the

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Overview

The channel focuses on regional reporting. In addition to the afternoon programme ''hallo hessen'' and the weeknightly

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maintower ''maintower'' is the tabloid magazine of the Hessischer Rundfunk broadcast on hr-fernsehen from Monday to Friday at 6:00 pm. The 25-minute programme covers tabloid topics with a focus on crime and accidents as well as other police and fire brig ...

as well as a compact late edition of the regional news, ''hessenschau kompakt'' (both Monday to Friday), the daily hessenschau at 7:30 p.m. has above all consolidated the channel as a permanent institution and the aforementioned programmes have the highest ratings. Other programmes include the regional

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''defacto'', the

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''strassenstars'' and ''Wer weiss es?'', the business and

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magazine ''mex'' and the cultural magazine ''hauptsache kultur''. Currently the most successful format is the Sunday ''hessenQuiz'' with Jörg Bombach.

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shows are often broadcast in which the "most popular" or "most beautiful" rivers, castles, mountains in or celebrities from

are presented. From 1990 to 1993, the channel broadcast the weekly

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and from 1999 to 2004 from Monday to Friday the ''Late Lounge'' moderated by Roberto Cappelluti from 10:00 p.m. on. Further stopped but occasionally successful formats were the two political talk shows ''3-2-1'' and ''Vorsicht! Friedman'', the first literary programme on German television ''bücher, bücher'', the animal programme ''herrchen gesucht'', the ''Stadtgespräch'' and the ''c't magazine''.

History

The third "television programme" of

was founded on 5 October 1964 under the name ''Hessisches Fernsehprogramm''. Its registered office is in

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. In the last few decades, the name, logo and appearance of the program have changed several times. Between 1983 and 1997 the programme was called ''Hessen Drei'' and from 1997 to 2004 ''hessen fernsehen''. Since 3 October 2004 it has been called ''hr-fernsehen''. ''Hessen 3'' was the only ''third programme'' to broadcast

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from January 1985 to December 1992. The proceeds were intended to finance hr's fourth radio station ( hr4). Initial revenues of around DM 15 million a year were generated, most recently they amounted to around DM 12 million. In the 1987 Interstate Broadcasting Treaty ''(Rundfunkstaatsvertrag)'', however, the states agreed that no more

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should be broadcast in ''Hessen 3'' as soon as the funds required for hr4 from broadcasting fees were available. In 1988 a passage was included in the HR-law, after which the hr was only allowed to broadcast advertising in ''Hessen 3'' until the end of 1992.

Distribution

Hr-fernsehen began broadcasting in HD on 5 December 2013, however it was broadcast in upscaled format until 26 January 2015. During Easter 2014, the documentary ''Hessen von oben'' was broadcast in native HD as a test.

Logos

Hessen Fernsehen alt Logo.svg, 1997 to 2000 ehemaliges Logo hessen fernsehen.svg, 2000 to 2004 Hr-fernsehen-logo.svg, 2004 to 2015 Hr-fernsehen_Logo_2015.svg, 2015–present Hr-fernsehen HD.svg, Since 5 December 2013

Programming

Entertainment

*'' Wer weiss es?'' (2009–present)

Information

*'' alle wetter!'' (2001–present) *'' hallo hessen'' (2012–present) *'' Hessenschau'' (1964–present) *''

'' (2001–present) *'' Tagesschau''

Sport

*'' heimspiel!'' (2005–present)

References

External links

* {{Authority control Hessischer Rundfunk ARD (broadcaster) Television stations in Germany Television channels and stations established in 1964 1964 establishments in West Germany Mass media in Frankfurt German-language television stations