Berlin
Berlin ( ; ) is the Capital of Germany, capital and largest city of Germany, by both area and List of cities in Germany by population, population. With 3.7 million inhabitants, it has the List of cities in the European Union by population withi ...
is a major
media
Media may refer to:
Communication
* Means of communication, tools and channels used to deliver information or data
** Advertising media, various media, content, buying and placement for advertising
** Interactive media, media that is inter ...
centre in
Germany
Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea to the north and the Alps to the south. Its sixteen States of Germany, constituent states have a total popu ...
and Europe.
Broadcasting
It is home to many international and regional television and radio stations. The public broadcaster
RBB has its headquarters in Berlin next to commercial broadcasters
MTV Europe,
VIVA and
N24. German international public broadcaster
Deutsche Welle
(; "German Wave"), commonly shortened to DW (), is a German state-funded television network, state-owned international broadcaster funded by the Federal Government of Germany. The service is available in 32 languages. DW's satellite tele ...
has its TV production unit in Berlin, and most national German broadcasters have a studio in the city including
RTL.
Print
Berlin has Germany's largest number of daily newspapers, with numerous local
broadsheet
A broadsheet is the largest newspaper format and is characterized by long Vertical and horizontal, vertical pages, typically of in height. Other common newspaper formats include the smaller Berliner (format), Berliner and Tabloid (newspaper ...
s (''
Berliner Morgenpost'', ''
Berliner Zeitung'', ''
Der Tagesspiegel''), and three major
tabloids, as well as national dailies of varying sizes, each with a different political affiliation, such as ''
Die Welt'', ''
Junge Welt'', ''
Neues Deutschland
(, , abbr. nd) is a left-wing German daily newspaper, headquarters, headquartered in Berlin.
For 43 years it was the official party newspaper of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED), which governed East Germany (officially known as the ...
'', and ''
Die Tageszeitung''. The ''
Exberliner'', a monthly magazine, is Berlin's English-language periodical focusing on arts and entertainment. Berlin headquarters two major German-language
publishing house
Publishing is the activities of making information, literature, music, software, and other content, physical or digital, available to the public for sale or free of charge. Traditionally, the term publishing refers to the creation and distribu ...
s
Walter de Gruyter and
Springer
Springer or springers may refer to:
Publishers
* Springer Science+Business Media, aka Springer International Publishing, a worldwide publishing group founded in 1842 in Germany formerly known as Springer-Verlag.
** Springer Nature, a multinationa ...
, each of which publish books, periodicals, and multimedia products.
Film
The European and
German film industry is present, hosting more than 1000 film and television production companies, 270 movie theaters. Some 300 national and international co-productions are filmed in the region every year.
The historic
Babelsberg Studios and the production company
UFA are located in nearby
Potsdam.
Rise FX has its headquarters in Berlin.
The city is home to the
European Film Academy and the German Film Academy, and hosts the annual
Berlin Film Festival. Founded in 1951, the festival has been celebrated annually in February since 1978. With over 430,000 admissions it is the largest publicly attended film festival in the world.
See also
*
Media of Germany
References
Further reading
*
External links
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