ZDFinfo is a German

free-to-air Free-to-air (FTA) services are television (TV) and radio services broadcast in unencrypted form, allowing any person with the appropriate receiving equipment to receive the signal and view or listen to the content without requiring a subscri ...

documentary television channel owned by

ZDF ZDF (), short for (; ), is a German public-service television broadcaster based in Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate. Launched on 1 April 1963, it is run as an independent nonprofit institution, and was founded by all federal states of Germany ( ...

. It was launched on 27 August 1997 as ZDFinfokanal, and it became ZDFinfo on 5 September 2011. On 1 May 2012, a high-definition

simulcast Simulcast (a portmanteau of "simultaneous broadcast") is the broadcasting of programs or events across more than one resolution, bitrate or medium, or more than one service on the same medium, at exactly the same time (that is, simultaneously) ...

the channel was launched. ZDF offered another documentary channel, ZDFdokukanal, between 2000 and 2009.

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* Publicly funded broadcasters German-language television networks Television stations in Germany Television channels and stations established in 1997 Mass media in Mainz info {{Germany-tv-stub