heute (news show)

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heute (German for today) is a news show on the German television channel ZDF. The main show is broadcast at 7PM, consisting of news of the day, weather forecasts and sports.

[edit] History

News broadcasts were made from the day the ZDF went operational, the name heute was decided upon by February 8, 1963.

heute was originally broadcast from 7:30 to 8 PM; on February 1, 1965 the show was split up into two parts - heute (7:30 to 7:45 PM) and themen des tages (7:45 to 8 PM). From January 1, 1969 the themen des tages was dropped to let the evening programs start earlier.

In 1973, the program moved to 7 PM, where it is still seen today.

[edit] Programming today

The main show is seen at 7PM and usually has a length of 20 minutes (including weather forecast).

Around 9:45PM, a longer, in-depth show called heute-journal is broadcast, similar to Tagesthemen on Das Erste.

[edit] Trivia

Since the 1970s' heute's title tune contains the letters h-e-u-t-e in morse code.