Das aktuelle sportstudio

Günther Jauch

Johannes B. Kerner

Dieter Kürten

das aktuelle sportstudio is a weekly sport magazine show on the German TV channel ZDF, broadcast late on Saturday evenings. The program is repeated later on the same dayight on 3sat. It was first broadcast on 24 August 1963.^[1] From 1999 to 2005 the program was called ZDF SPORTstudio.

According involved sources in the negotiations, ZDF paid € 88 million - € 92 million for a package of Bundesliga TV-broadcasting rights for the four seasons from 2013/14 to 2016/17.

History

When ZDF started in 1963, it had a modest budget and it was decided to try to attact an audience using sport. This was the beginning of an unusually large sports editorial team of 42 employees, who actually succeeded in overcoming the ARD for a whole time with the visual participation. This project favored the recently introduced soccer league, which made soccer more attractive with its point system. To this end, a tailor-made program was created.

The original name Das aktuelle Sport-Studio was changed to ZDF SPORTstudio on 4 December 1999 and the time slot was permanently moved to 11p.m. in 2004. The reason for this: so far, the studio had always been broadcast live, which was expressed by the word "aktuell" in the title. Now it was only a question of a consignment previously recorded for reasons of cost. From 6 August 2005, the program was broadcast live and under the name das aktuelle sportstudio on the old broadcasting station at 10 pm. At the start of broadcasting after 10 pm, das aktuelle sportstudio was sent in a time-delayed manner in exceptional cases. Since 11 September 2010, das aktuelle sportstudio is usually recorded on Saturdays from about 22:30 hrs (live on tape) and is broadcast from 11 pm onwards.

According to negotiating circles for the four seasons 2013/14 to 2016/17, ZDF is paying between 88 and 92 million euros for the package of Bundesliga broadcasting rights on which the broadcast is based. The sender does not give any information on the amount of expenditure. According to ZDF, the 46 to 48 average 75-minute shipments per year on average cost about 150,000 euros per issue.

Presenters

Some of the presenters were athletes before joining the program, such as figure skaters (Rudi Cerne), footballers (Michael Steinbrecher) or athletes (Wolf-Dieter Poschmann and Bernd Heller).

Carmen Thomas became the first female presenter of the show (and the first female presenter of a sports show on German television) on February 3, 1973. Her tenure is connected with two other events in German television history: in her second program, she was able to present the picture of the Bild am Sonntag newspaper of the following day and to read the criticism of their broadcast. On July 21, 1973, however, she made a much more prominent appearance on the slogans "Schalke 05", to which she is addressed almost every week. Thirty years later, at the home match on 28 August 2004 against FC Hansa Rostock, she excused herself in the arena for her lapsus officially with all Schalke fans present.

(*) For Werner Schneider, see de:Werner Schneider (Moderator) Not to be confused with Werner Schneyder (Kabarettist und Sportkommentator).

External links

• Das aktuelle Sportstudio.de

References

1. ↑ sueddeutsche.de:Der Erfinder der ZDF-Torwand ist tot, 2011