N24 (Germany)

N24
Launched 24 January 2000 (2000-01-24)
Owned by WeltN24 GmbH
Picture format 576i (16:9 SDTV)
1080i (16:9 HDTV)
Audience share 1.1% (March 2017 (2017-03), KEK)
Slogan Werden sie Augenzeuge. (German)
Become your Eyewitness. (English)
Country Germany
Broadcast area National; also distributed in Austria and Switzerland
Headquarters Berlin, Germany
Sister channel(s) N24 Austria
N24 Doku
Website N24.de
Availability
Terrestrial
DVB-T2 (Germany) Various; region dependent (HD / encrypted)
Satellite
Astra 1KR 10773 H, SR 22000, FEC 3/4 (HD)
Astra 1L 12545 H, SR 22000, FEC 5/6 (SD)
Sky Deutschland (Germany/Austria) Channel 711 (SD) / Channel 701 (HD)
Cable
Kabel Deutschland (Germany) Channel 553 (SD) / Channel 573 (HD)
Unitymedia (Germany) Channel 310 (SD) / Channel 93 (HD)
NetCologne (Germany) Channel 52 (SD)
UPC Austria (Austria) Channel 166 (SD)
UPC Switzerland (Switzerland) Channel 70 (HD)
IPTV
Telekom Entertain (Germany) Channel 13 (SD/HD)
A1 TV (Austria) Channel 37 (SD)
Streaming media
n24.de n24.de
former Logo

N24 is a television news channel and website based in Germany and owned by WeltN24 GmbH. It also provides regular news updates to ProSiebenSat.1 Media properties like ProSieben and kabel eins.

History

In the late 1990s, in the heat of the dot-com bubble ProSieben Media Group, then consisting of two TV channels (ProSieben and Kabel 1) whose programming largely consisted of US movies, sitcoms and series, tried to take over German television news channel n-tv, then owned by Handelsblatt and CNN. After the attempt failed, ProSieben Media purchased German newswire ddp (now dapd) and announced the launch of its own news channel soon afterwards, by consolidating ProSieben's news department. The channel was launched on 24 January 2000 at noon, from ProSieben Media's headquarters in Unterföhring near Munich. In collaboration with Bloomberg Television, N24 provided live coverage of financial markets around the world. Apart from running its own network, N24 also provided ProSieben and Kabel 1 with newscasts.

In the same year, ProSieben Media AG purchased rival channel Sat.1, located in Berlin, which had a news department of its own and ran a number of factual programmes. ProSieben Media AG renamed itself ProSiebenSat1 Media AG afterwards. After the merger, N24 moved from Unterföhring to Sat1's headquarters in Berlin in July 2001, and the news departments of Sat1 and N24 were combined.

In 2002, ProSiebenSat1's majority owner, KirchMedia, filed for bankruptcy. While ProSiebenSat1 itself was not broke, an extended search for a buyer, during which ProSiebenSat1 was effectively owned by KirchMedia's banks, created uncertainty at the company. This combined with the market crisis after the end of the dotcom bubble and 9/11, caused ProSiebenSat1 to cut costs. It replaced a number of newscasts on N24, especially in the afternoons, the evenings and on the weekends, with cheaper documentaries. Business and stock market coverage was also cut dramatically, and remaining business reports were bought from CNBC Europe instead of producing them in-house.[1] The reports featured CNBC's proprietary graphics. In 2007, N24 strengthened its business coverage, introducing daily programmes such as Börse am Mittag ["Stock Market Afternoon"] and Börse am Abend ["Stock Market Evening"]. The channel moved its headquarters in October 2008.[2]

In 2008, ProSiebenSat1 sold its property in Berlin and announced that Sat1 would move to Unterföhring, where ProSieben and Kabel 1 were already based. N24 would relocate within Berlin. In 2010, ProSiebenSat1 sold N24 to a group of private investors, led by former Der Spiegel editor Stefan Aust. N24 was contracted by ProSiebenSat1 to continue providing Sat1, ProSieben and Kabel 1 with newscasts at least until 2016. In 2013, N24 was acquired by Axel Springer SE and combined with Die Welt to form Welt N24.

On 17 September 2016, a sister channel called N24 Doku launched free to air, which is a one-hour delayed timeshift channel of N24 in the afternoon and replaces some news broadcasts by documentaries in the morning.

Programming

N24 previously broadcast a variety of programming, with more than seven hours of live programming per business day. CNBC correspondents Silvia Wadhwa, Patricia Szarvas, Roland Klaus, Michael Mross and Bruni Schubert report live from the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, the LSE and the NYSE throughout the day. Since August 2010, news programming has been cut back, with no program lasting more than 15 minutes.

Previous N24 newscasts:

CET Program Hosts Description
7.00–9.00
Frühreport
 Christina Prüver, Thomas Spahn an early morning news program with pre-market business headlines
9.00-12.00
Morgenreport
 Tatjana Ohm, Thomas Klug a morning news program with comments from talk show hosts such as Hajo Schumacher, Claus Strunz and Michel Friedman
12.00-13.00
Mittagsreport
 Alexandra Karle, Alexander Privitera a mid-day news program
13.00-13.30
Börse am Mittag
 Dietmar Deffner a business and financial news program in the afternoon
18.15-18.30
Börse am Abend
 Thomas Schwarzer a business and financial news program in the evening
13.00-6.00 (at the top of the hour)
N24 Nachrichten
 N24 Anchors regular news updates between two minutes and a half-hour, no live-programming overnight

Currently, N24 runs news on the hour, every hour.

Anchors and Reporters

N24 reporter Steffen Schwarzkopf in Cologne, reporting about the collapse of the Historical Archive of the City of Cologne
  • Pia Ampaw
  • Robert Annetzberger
  • Dietmar Deffner
  • Marc Dickgreber
  • Ralf Finke
  • Michel Friedman
  • Astrid Frohloff
  • Petra Glinski
  • Hans-Hermann Gockel
  • Carsten Hädler
  • Hans-Peter Hagemes
  • Alexandra Karle
  • Andrea Kempter
  • Thomas Klug
  • Dieter Kronzucker
  • Peter Limbourg (chief editor)
  • Michaela Mey
  • Wenzel Michalski
  • Tatjana Ohm
  • Florian Otto
  • Gaby Papenburg
  • Petra Papke
  • Inge Posmyk
  • Milena Preradovic
  • Alexander Privitera
  • Christina Prüver
  • Julia Scherf
  • Katrin Sandmann
  • Sandra Schiffauer
  • Hajo Schumacher
  • Thomas Schwarzer
  • Steffen Schwarzkopf
  • Alexander Simon
  • Thomas Spahn
  • Stephan Strothe
  • Claus Strunz
  • Bruder Paulus Terwitte
  • Hans-Hermann Tiedje
  • Marcus Tychsen
  • Claudia von Brauchitsch
  • Alexander von Roon
  • Verena Wriedt

Programming

Talk

N24 Austria

Since 27 April 2012 the SES Astra satellite platform has been showing an Austrian program version of N24 (transponder 3, 11,244 GHz horizontal, SR 22,000, FEC 5/6). Nothing has been reported to the press about the launch of the station. A few days later, the transmitter was switched off again. On 16 July 2012 the broadcasting code N24 HD Austria was launched. On 2 April 2016, N24 Austria started the broadcast via Astra 1N.

N24 Doku

On 9 June 2016, WeltN24 announced to launch N24 Doku as the timeshift branch of N24 in autumn 2016. The new station waits in the morning for the takeover of the message rail of N24 and radiates always from 14 clock the program of N24 by one hour time offset. In addition, the treadmill known from N24 is dispensed with. Whether N24 Doku maintains the word mark N24 also after the conversion of N24 into WELT, is according to WeltN24 not yet decided. On 20 July 2016, it was announced that the broadcaster would start on 17 September 2016.

Station logos

References

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