Television in Austria was introduced in 1955. The country uses DVB-T for

broadcasting Broadcasting is the distribution of audio or video content to a dispersed audience via any electronic mass communications medium, but typically one using the electromagnetic spectrum ( radio waves), in a one-to-many model. Broadcasting beg ...

. Analog television was completely shut down on 7 June 2011.

Austria Austria, , bar, Östareich officially the Republic of Austria, is a country in the southern part of Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine states, one of which is the capital, Vienna, the most populous ...

television Television, sometimes shortened to TV, is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound. The term can refer to a television set, or the medium of television transmission. Television is a mass medium for advertisin ...

was monopolised by government-owned television stations until 1996. The first private television station in Austria was ATV.

List of channels

Public

ORF 1 ORF 1 (''ORF eins'') is an Austrian public television channel owned by ORF. It was the first television channel in Austria, started in 1955. ORF 1 is one of four public TV channels in Austria. It is funded by a mixture of advertising revenue an ...

(also in HD) *

ORF 2 ORF 2 (''ORF zwei'', formerly FS2) is an Austrian public television channel owned by ORF. It was launched on 11 September 1961 as a technical test programme. Today it is one of the four public TV channels in Austria. ORF 2 is available ...

(also in HD) *

ORF 2 Europe ORF 2 Europe is a free-to-air version of the Austrian TV channel ORF 2. The service differs from the Austrian version in that some programs are replaced with a video simulcast of Ö1 International Radio Austria 1 International (Ö1 Internation ...

ORF III ORF III (''ORF drei''), sometimes called ORF 3 is an Austrian television channel owned by the Austrian national broadcaster, Österreichischer Rundfunk (ORF). The channel launched on 26 October 2011 at 14:00 CEST, and replaced TW1. ORF III too ...

ORF Sport + ORF Sport + is an Austrian sports channel owned by the public service broadcaster, ORF. The channel is available via satellite Astra 1KR, on 19.2°E, cable and DVB-T, in Austria and parts of Europe. History Before the launch of ORF Sport Plus on ...

3sat In logic and computer science, the Boolean satisfiability problem (sometimes called propositional satisfiability problem and abbreviated SATISFIABILITY, SAT or B-SAT) is the problem of determining if there exists an interpretation that satisfies ...

- public channel in association with

ORF ORF or Orf may refer to: * Norfolk International Airport, IATA airport code ORF * Observer Research Foundation, an Indian research institute * One Race Films, a film production company founded by Vin Diesel * Open reading frame, a portion of the ...

, ARD,

ZDF ZDF (, short for Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen; ; "Second German Television") is a German public-service television broadcaster based in Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate. It is run as an independent nonprofit institution, which was founded by all fe ...

and SRF

Commercial

* ATV *ATV II ( DE) *

Puls 4 Puls 4 is a terrestrial television channel in Austria. As its name implies, it is the fourth Austrian-wide full-service television channel, behind ORF eins, ORF 2, and ATV. History Puls 4 began as a local Vienna television station called "Puls ...

*Puls 24 ( DE) * Servus TV *Geo Television ( DE) *Kanal Telemedial ( DE) *Melodie Express ( DE) *

Sky Krimi Sky Krimi is a German television channel dedicated to crime series. It mostly features original German language productions. It started out as "Krimi & Co" on the DF1 satellite platform when it launched. DF1 had several channels dedicated to ...

Non-Commercial

*Okto ( DE) *

FS1 Fox Sports 1 (FS1) is an American pay television channel owned by the Fox Sports Media Group, a unit of Fox Corporation. FS1 replaced the motorsports network Speed on August 17, 2013, at the same time that its companion channel Fox Sports 2 ...

*dorf ( DE)

Affiliates of German TV Channels

* ProSieben Austria * Sat.1 Österreich * Kabel eins Austria *

MTV Austria MTV Austria was an Austrian free-to-air television channel, launched as a localised subfeed of MTV Germany MTV Germany is a German language free-to-air television channel operated by Paramount Global. The channel launched on 7 March 1997 as ...

(only local advertisement-break aways) * Nick Austria * RTL2 Austria (only local advertisement-break aways) * RTL Austria (only local advertisement-break aways) * Comedy Central Austria (only local advertisement-break aways) * Vox Austria (only local advertisement-break aways) * N-tv Österreich (only local advertisement-break aways) * RTLup Österreich (only local advertisement-break aways) * sixx Austria (only local advertisement-break aways) *Sky Österreich ( DE) (only local advertisement-break aways)

Local

*LT1 ( DE) (

Linz Linz ( , ; cs, Linec) is the capital of Upper Austria and third-largest city in Austria. In the north of the country, it is on the Danube south of the Czech border. In 2018, the population was 204,846. In 2009, it was a European Capital ...

) *Innsat.TV ( DE) (

Upper Austria Upper Austria (german: Oberösterreich ; bar, Obaöstareich) is one of the nine states or of Austria. Its capital is Linz. Upper Austria borders Germany and the Czech Republic, as well as the other Austrian states of Lower Austria, Styria, an ...

) *P3tv ( DE) (

St. Pölten ST, St, or St. may refer to: Arts and entertainment * Stanza, in poetry * Suicidal Tendencies, an American heavy metal/hardcore punk band * Star Trek, a science-fiction media franchise * Summa Theologica, a compendium of Catholic philosophy ...

) *Austria24 TV ( DE) (regional -

Perg Perg is a city in the Austrian state of Upper Austria, capital of the district of the same name. History Originally in the eastern part of the Duchy of Bavaria, Perg belonged to Austria from the 12th century on. In 1269 it received commercial p ...

) *LinzLand TV ( DE) (

Linz-Land Bezirk Linz-Land is a district of Upper Austria in Austria. Municipalities Towns (''Städte'') are indicated in boldface; market towns (''Marktgemeinden'') in ''italics''; suburbs, hamlets and other subdivisions of a municipality are indicated ...

) *M4 Mostviertelfernsehen ( DE) ( Amstetten) *Mühlviertel TV ( DE) (regional -

Freistadt Freistadt (, literally "Freetown") is a small Austrian town in the state of Upper Austria in the region Mühlviertel. With a population of approximately 7,500 residents, it is a trade centre for local villages. Freistadt is the economic centre of ...

) *RTS Regionalfernsehen Salzburg ( DE) (Salzburg) *RTV Regionalfernsehen OÖ ( DE) (

Garsten Garsten is a municipality in the district of Steyr-Land in the Austrian state of Upper Austria. History Garsten was first mentioned as Garstina in documentation around 990, and a monastery was founded there in 1082. After being fully rebuilt in B ...

) *Schau TV ( DE) (

Vienna en, Viennese , iso_code = AT-9 , registration_plate = W , postal_code_type = Postal code , postal_code = , timezone = CET , utc_offset = +1 , timezone_DST ...

Burgenland Burgenland (; hu, Őrvidék; hr, Gradišće; Austro-Bavarian: ''Burgnland;'' Slovene: ''Gradiščanska'') is the easternmost and least populous state of Austria. It consists of two statutory cities and seven rural districts, with a total of ...

, &

Lower Austria Lower Austria (german: Niederösterreich; Austro-Bavarian: ''Niedaöstareich'', ''Niedaestareich'') is one of the nine states of Austria, located in the northeastern corner of the country. Since 1986, the capital of Lower Austria has been Sankt P ...

; eventually

Centrope Centrope is an Interreg IIIA project to establish a multinational region in four Central European states: Slovakia, Austria, Hungary and the Czech Republic. The population of Centrope is 7,450,270. Centrope is a joint initiative of the Austrian f ...

) *Tirol TV ( DE) ( Innsbruck,

Tyrol Tyrol (; historically the Tyrole; de-AT, Tirol ; it, Tirolo) is a historical region in the Alps - in Northern Italy and western Austria. The area was historically the core of the County of Tyrol, part of the Holy Roman Empire, Austrian Emp ...

) *W24 ( DE) (Vienna) *WT1 ( DE) (regional -

Wels Wels (; Central Bavarian: ''Wös'') is a city in Upper Austria, on the Traun River near Linz. It is the county seat of Wels-Land, and with a population of approximately 60,000, the eighth largest city in Austria. Geography Wels is in the ...

) *RE eins ( DE) (

Reutte District The is an administrative district () in Tyrol, Austria. It borders Bavaria (Germany) in the north, the districts Imst and Landeck in the south, and Bregenz and Bludenz (both in Vorarlberg) in the west. The district is also referred to as . The d ...

) *Kanal3 ( DE) ( West Styria - West, West & Graz, Mur- Mürztal regional, & Mur- Mürztal regional cable)

Pay TV Pay television, also known as subscription television, premium television or, when referring to an individual service, a premium channel, refers to subscription-based television services, usually provided by multichannel television providers, b ...

* Sky Austria * AustriaSat * HD Plus Austria * UPC Austria * A1 TV

Most-viewed channels

The channels with the largest viewing share in 2022 are:

References

Bibliography

Bibliography Television in Austria (Site "Histoire de la télévision"
{{Television in Europe