(; literally "Saxon Mirror") is a news programme on
MDR Fernsehen
MDR Fernsehen is a regional public service television channel owned and operated by Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk (MDR) and serving Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia. It is one of the seven regional "third programmes" that are offered within the fed ...
, the regional television station of the German
Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk.
The programme is shown from 7:00 to 7:30 p.m. and has been transmitted in the German state of
Saxony
Saxony, officially the Free State of Saxony, is a landlocked state of Germany, bordering the states of Brandenburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia, and Bavaria, as well as the countries of Poland and the Czech Republic. Its capital is Dresden, and ...
since January 1992. For the first few years, the programme was only shown from Monday to Saturday but since 1997 it has also been on Sunday.
''Sachsenspiegel'' features daily regional news on the topics of politics, the economy, sport, science and culture. Major national or international news is also reported at the beginning of the programme.
The thirty-minute programme usually has three or four major items as well as additional minor items and an overview of the news. There is a separate sports section, which precedes the weather report.
The predecessor of ''Sachsenspiegel'' was ''Bei uns in Sachsen'', which, from 1988 to 1991, used to air at 6:45 to 7:00 p.m. on the former East German station
Deutscher Fernsehfunk
Deutscher Fernsehfunk (DFF; German for "German Television Broadcasting") was the state television broadcaster in the German Democratic Republic (GDR or East Germany) from 1952 to 1991.
DFF produced free-to-air terrestrial television programmin ...
.
The programme is produced in the Saxon capital of
Dresden
Dresden (; ; Upper Saxon German, Upper Saxon: ''Dräsdn''; , ) is the capital city of the States of Germany, German state of Saxony and its second most populous city after Leipzig. It is the List of cities in Germany by population, 12th most p ...
. Since 21 July 2008, the programme has been made completely in a "virtual studio". The installation of the necessary tracking and rendering technology and the creation of the virtual studio world took almost one year to complete.
The programme is repeated during the night.
MDR ''Sachsenspiegel'' can be received via the following systems:
DVB-T
DVB-T, short for Digital Video Broadcasting – Terrestrial, is the DVB European-based consortium standard for the broadcast transmission of digital terrestrial television that was first published in 1997 and first broadcast in Singapore in Fe ...
, on the Internet via
Zattoo, analog by cable and digital by cable and
DVB-S
Digital Video Broadcasting – Satellite (DVB-S) is the original DVB standard for satellite television and dates from 1995, in its first release, while development lasted from 1993 to 1997. The first commercial applications were by Canal+ in ...
. When
Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk is received analog by satellite , the MDR news programme ''
Länderzeit'', transmitted from 7:00 to 7:30 p.m. includes a number of items from the regional programmes ''Sachsenspiegel'', ''
Sachsen-Anhalt heute'' and ''
Thüringen Journal''. ''Sachsenspiegel'' is transmitted via DVB-S on the regional channel ''MDR Sachsen''.
It is also streamed live on the MDR Web site.
Presenters
Over the last 15 years, the studios and the presenters have changed. Beate Werner, who presented ''Sachsenspiegel'' for many years, as well as presenting its predecessor, is the most famous presenter of the show.
The current presenters are:
* Uta Georgi - Presenter
* Anja Koebel - Presenter
* Andreas F. Rook - Presenter
* Ramon Mirfendereski - Presenter
* Anna Funck - Presenter / reporter
* Almut Rudel - Sports presenter
* Sven Böttger - Sports presenter
* Susanne Langhans - Weather presenter
* Stephanie Meißner - Weather presenter
* Maira Rothe - Weather presenter
* Duy Tran - Weather presenter
References
External links
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German television news shows
1992 German television series debuts
2000s German television series
2010s German television series
German-language television shows
Das Erste original programming
Mass media in Saxony