RBB Brandenburg (until May 2003 ORB-Fernsehen) was the third television channel for

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, (Germany) from January 1992 to March 2004. Until May 2003, it was organized by Ostdeutscher Rundfunk Brandenburg (ORB), then by its successor,

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(RBB). On 1 March 2004, the two regional television channels of RBB – ''RBB Brandenburg'' and '' RBB Berlin'' – were integrated into the new rbb Fernsehen.

History

The programme was launched on 1 January 1992 under the name ''Fernsehen Brandenburg''. In the initial build-up phase, the then ARD cultural television programme Eins Plus was taken over from 3 p.m. to 5.15 p.m. and after 9 pm, and for cost reasons there were initially only a few programmes of its own in the programme. For example, the fact that the news programme was broadcast at 8:45 p.m. and the ''Brandenburg Journal'' at 7 p.m. was unusual for viewers in

. Especially after the fall of

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, many

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had oriented themselves to the beginning time of the main news programme of

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(DFF) at 7:30 pm. In general, the cooperation with Eins Plus did not lead to any high viewer acceptance. This was soon followed by a programme reform on 1 May 1992. The main news programme

Brandenburg aktuell rbb24 Brandenburg aktuell (until 27 March 2022 ''Brandenburg aktuell'') is the television magazine of Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (rbb) for the state of Brandenburg. The programme is broadcast daily on rbb Fernsehen at 7:30 p.m., while the v ...

received its slot at 7:30 pm, which is still valid today in the rbb Fernsehen programme. Later, further programmes with a regional character were added to the programme, such as the popular live programme with local audience participation. The ''ORB Aquarium'' was broadcast in the night programme from 1992 to 2004. Beginning in July 1993, the station cooperated for several years with N3, the third television channel of

Norddeutscher Rundfunk (; "North German Broadcasting"), commonly shortened to NDR (), is a public broadcasting, public radio and television broadcaster, based in Hamburg. In addition to the city-state of Hamburg, NDR broadcasts for the German states of Lower Saxony, ...

(NDR) and

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(RB) for

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programming.Chronik der ARD
''N3 und Fernsehen Brandenburg mit gemeinsamem Tagesprogramm''
/ref> One of the formats that has received a lot of attention and that still exists today at the RBB is Kowalski trifft Schmidt, a German-Polish programme that was created by

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and

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for mutual understanding. The programme, hosted by

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and Max Ruppert, was awarded the German-Polish journalism award in 2001 (hosted at the time by Anna Posnanska and Fabian Maier). From 1 January 1998, the programme was broadcast in analogue form via the

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satellite and could thus be received throughout Europe. From May 2003 (merger of SFB and ORB to RBB) until the end of March 2004, the programme was broadcast under the name ''RBB Brandenburg''.

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{{ARD/ZDF Ostdeutscher Rundfunk Brandenburg Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg ARD (broadcaster) Defunct television channels in Germany Television channels and stations established in 1992 Television channels and stations disestablished in 2004 1992 establishments in Germany 2004 disestablishments in Germany Mass media in Potsdam German-language television stations