Speaker Andreas von der Meden (unfortunately died in 2017) was not only the yoice of David Hasselhoff but also of Kermit the frog: ruclips.net/video/lGqtyIklfPQ/видео.html As a kid of the 80s I grew up with Andreas von der Meden's voice on many radio plays (in this time still on tapes!). You often could hear him in "Die drei ???", "TKKG" and "5 Freunde" (all then and now very famous in Germany).
I can't understand that don't put the sound off or switch channels, when commercials are on. The biggest difference is that we don't let the TV going when having sex!
@@Wolfspaule At least they hate to do it for real movies. Animes, Comicseries etc. are no problem at all. Think about it: They remake the movies for "Ziemlich beste Freunde", "Honig im Kopf" nearly every successful horror movie from Japan/Korea (Ring, Grudge etc. etc.) and every one and another successful movie in Europe (like the Swedish crime trilogy from the book series, I forgot the name). They just remake it instead of putting in effort in a good dubbing.
Was für ein Stein is das in eurer Rosette & gefällt Euch das wirklich so sehr, dass ihr damit and die Öffentlichkeit gehen müsse ? WIE VERSAUT #Rosetta Stone ruclips.net/video/tbJSbgI426w/видео.html
@@Senzeni True but most of the time the game is played by rushing or passing the egg forward with the hands to the end zone. Feet used on some occasions. We can rename the sport to “Mostly Hands Sometimes Feet Egg” 😆
Als wir mit meinen Kids in Rom waren, haben wir uns nach dem ereignsreichen Tag am Ende immer Bernd das Brot reingezogen, jeden Tag, in mehreren Schleifen. Am Ende der Woche konnten wir die Folge mitsprechen. "Mehlcoctail gefällig?" Beste Erinnerung.
Don't forget about the international cooperations: ARTE (with France), 3Sat (with Switzerland and Austria), EUROVISION (all kinds of programmes and shows organised by the European Broadcasting Union)
Since I work for a broadcaster and I now build my own house, I don’t even have a tv cable going into my house because I know how crappy most of the shows are and how much is on constant repeat 😅 … still have to pay that darn BS Haushaltsangabe 🤮
Because it is less impactful on children. Like it or not, but exposing a child to a lot of sexual stuff in media can influence and disturb that child much more than a little violence.
Absolute bullshit. Nudity is a life requirement, violence is not. Then you get people that shoot up schools and don't know what goes where. I'm all in for a global comprehensive sex ed with live demos if necessary if it helps with teen insecurities.
@@Senzeni School shootings aren't an american "invention". The first ever recorded school shooting actually took place in the german city of Bremen in 1913.
@@tschaytschay4555 Ach ich nicht, hab ich nie gemocht. Ich vermisse "Wetten dass....?" Aus den alten Zeiten, als die ganzen Hollywoodstars aufgetreten sind und man manchmal das erste Mal Lieder von neuen Bands und Sängern im Fernsehen gesehen hat. Michael Jackson und Earth song war da so ein Beispiel, aber es gibt noch viel mehr.
I was extremely confused by the commercials in America, they just all seem like they want to scam you with anything they present you and in addition if its a commercial about a Medecin they read out loud the whole medication leaflet o_o
The long list of adverse reactions and side effects that go along with prescription drug advertising is mandated by the US government. Supposedly because of constitutional reasons they they have not been able to ban those ads but I think the requirements were meant to try and discourage that type of advertising (Who would want to say all those terrible things about their product on air) unfortunately it has not worked.
We visited a "Kläranlage" once and learned, that they need to turn up the available amount of water during the commercial break of popular shows because of all the bathroom visits and that their employees had to watch TV and develop special skills to predict the next commercial break so that there would be enough water in time for everyones pee break.
@@ramonarohnstock4142 Something similar happens in the UK during breaks, the power demand spikes due to so many kettles being turned on at the same time.
@Daddy Sage Exactly this. No show is EXACTLY 30, 60 90 minutes long. The ad blocks in between always round up the minutes to the next half or full hour in the USA. In Germany there is a law regulating how many ad-blocks there can be during a certain length of show, to NOT have a show or movie interrupted every five minutes by some kind of ad. That's basically the reason for the strange starting times. If you have a show that lasts 45 minutes, let's say you can have three ad-blocks of no more than 3 minutes each, for a total time of 54 minutes (plus or minus a few seconds of transition times each block). As such the starting times vary a lot more in Germany than in the USA.
@@RustyDust101 This is the correct reason for the strange starting times. And I think, that is beautiful. (Although I still get annoyed with all these commercials so I mostly watch DVD/Blu-Ray)
@@V100-e5q Yeah, it's easy to miss the show after watching an hour of US television. Sometimes the "show breaks" between ads are shorter than an average commercial 😑😭
@@swanpride I know. I'm in no way knocking our public channels and I'm actually a proponent of the current blanket GEZ for every household (as opposed to the prior rules where you kinda sorta had to pay if you had a TV - or a PC or a phone or a…). But I just don't understand why such a huge part of their daily programming is wasted on something with no real value and only a somewhat niche audience. If they want to do more non-educational, non-news programming they could at least try for some more variety to give people below the age of retirement something interesting to watch as well…
The most important things on German public broadcasting you didn‘t mention are those three: 1. Public broadcasting must serve, to a certain degree, an educational purpose. That‘s why there are so many documentations and science programs (like Terra X on ZDF). 2. There are also a lot of RUclips channels funded by public broadcast (namely via „funk“). Those channels are mainly journalistic (for example „Y-Kollektiv“) or educational (for example „MaiLab“). Those channels are not allowed to make revenue with RUclips, including a ban on any pre- or midroll commercials. 3. Speaking of commercials: While there are commercial breaks on German television, public broadcast is not allowed to do them between 8pm and 12am on workdays amd on sundays and public holidays (applying to ARD and ZDF, there are no commercials at all on the regional stations and the additional ZDF-stations like ZDFneo). Also, commercials on public broadcast may not exceed 20 minutes a work day (private stations may show up to 12 minutes of commercials an hour. This also is a cause for the weird schedule. I just saw you mention this later in the video). Edit: There is one more thing. The public broadcasting networks are required to provide their programs for streaming on the internet for free both live and on demand for a certain amount of time after they aired, ad free. The necessary server capacity and so on is also financed by those 17.50€ per month. Edit 2: Beacause of their independance from audience ratings, they can (and do) show a wider variety of older movies, of documentarys. Things with lower potential of high viewer levels. They also show (always depending on licences, but they do have money), summarys of Bundesliga football (and yes, THIS is football. Yours is pussy rugby). And there are hugely successful series also, namely Tatort, Lindenstraße (a daily soap started 1985 and ended 2020 after over 1700 episodes), and some others. Even the news, Tagesschau (ARD) and Heute (ZDF) are neutral, generally good journalism. There is no need to bind viewers, to accommodate them, to make them feel good or just show something shocking or something extremely cute, just that people come and watch (compare RTL or Sat1 news to tagesschau!). All in all, it is a great institution. And I haven't even started about radio broadcast!
Another fun fact I just remembered: the cause for prime time in Germany starting at 8:15 on is the aforementioned Tagesschau news program that airs daily at 8 pm sharp and takes 15 minutes, including the weather forecast. Since this is the most viewed program of all times on German tv, and so many people watch this news program daily, other stations don‘t want to interfere with this. So, most other station schedule their prime time evening programs to start afterwards, which means 8:15.
Unfortunately, the science editors of ZDF and WDR are specifically dominated by radical science-free materialists. This ideology is particularly evident in sects such as "CSI" (USA) or "GWUP" (Germany). The sociologist Dr. Edgar wonders wrote as whistleblower (he was with-founder of GWUP) a specialist Essay over the GWUP. This means "Das Skeptiker Syndrom". Definitely read. Depending on the reading speed, only lasts 15-30 minutes. Worth it. It is terrifying like these people think and act. It is absolutely comparable to Scientology. The physicist Auguste Meessen called these people vicious and a danger to democracy. The physicist Professor Ernst Senkowski called this ideology a "psychic problem". It would be great if US channels with the topic of Germany (like this here, or James Bray, etc.) also the negative things and human rights breaks (Criminal code 90, 90A, 90B, 166, 185 - 189, 192, dance ban) thematize and would criticize. It was e.g. Disgusting to see how a Chinese dissident in the lunch news of ARD or ZDF has cheered the German state without any criticism. What a disgusting hypocrite.
@@Ano-Nymos not sure if trolling or just stupid… And: if you really consider the laws you mentioned breaking human rights, you have far worse problems than this. I do admit that Germany does restrict some rights. These restriction are in place to ensure those rights for everyone, to save the democratic system and the constitution. Every individual freedom ends where another person‘s begins. Banning the disparagement of religion and religious beliefs ensures freedom of religion, for instance. And I think you don‘t really understand what a sceptic really is. Scepticism is blatantly the opposite of „science-free“. The fact that Wunder has parted with GWUP has nothing to do with that. And it is most certainly not a „sect“ and most definitely not comparable with Scientology. Please, get your facts straight. Or, if you really believe this nonsense you wrote, go get help.
But you have advertising/commercials right? So why wouldn’t they use the commercials to fill the space and make the schedule even the way they do in the US? Remember many of the shows you’re watching were produced in the United States and no they aren’t all the same length but we still maintain a regular TV schedule on the hour or half-hour.
@@pjschmid2251 Because there is a limitation for commercials. 60 minutes of playtime on air must not exceed 12 minutes of commercials. This limitations are stated by law.
@@ralfhtg1056 Fun fact: The commercial interruptions of a show count towards that show's runtime. That might be why you see more than 12 minutes of commercials in what seems to be a 1 hour show - the commercials may have stretched it just ever so slightly past the full hour mark. It's a really dumb loophole.
@@pjschmid2251 Funny enough some American shows are actually significantly longer in Europe than in the US. The Muppet Show for example. There is a whole segment of each Muppet show that American audience has never seen. ;)
I would call the example you showed a voice-over rather than dubbing. Voice-overs are cheep to produce because the interpreter doesn't aim for lip synchronisation and you can still hear the original voice. Real dubbing is high art: you need a good voice actor who is capable to make you believe that the original actor is speaking to you.
Agreed! But when I was editing I was painted in a corner because we said specifically „TLC“ and I had to find a popular show both Americans and Germans might know and that’s what I came up with 😂
And who actually can do that? I stopped watching German TV when I was young, over 20 years ago, because I couldn't stand the shitty dubbing anymore and how many jokes got lost or destroyed in translation.
@@TrangleC True. Dubbing - in most cases - cannot compare to the original. However, if you can't understand the language, subtitles are the only way to understand what's going on. Unfortunately, subtitles are often as bad as, often even worse than dubbing.
Your example wasn't a dubbing, it was a voice over. Proper dubbing is way more skilled. Maybe you should have picked an dubbed Korean show or something like this, to show how well it can work if you don't speak the original language.
In English a "voice over" means narration, not a character speaking. Dubbing is dubbing, good or bad. Classic postwar Italian films were all dubbed later because they didn't have sound stages, and even though I don't understand Italian it bothers me that the voices often don't match very well.
Several years ago several private TV channels tried to move Prime Time to 8 pm, but that utterly failed because the vast majority of their viewers still watches the news on ARD first and wouldn't switch to the private channels untill 8:15 pm when the news where over, so the private channels pretty much had no other choice but to move their Prime Time back to 8:15pm.
I remember the times when there were only three public broadcasting stations (and zero private ones) and they had a "Sendeschluss" and just a "Testbild" from late evening to next day's afternoon...
Telekolleg at Morning (Educational School like TV) then nothing till 4pm from 4 to 8pm mostly shows for Children (Wickie, Biene Maja, Seasamstraße,....) and at 8pm the NEWS after that entertaining or dokumentations etc.
The U.S. was similar until the mid 1980's. They only had three privately owned channels - and one not-for-profit channel, funded by public donations (its programming was focused on the theatre, arts, documentaries, health and learning, with no commercials). You only needed an antenna to watch all four....then came cable...
Dont forget the secret 4th Station called "Testbild" used to set up your television at any time. May it be for the technivian or the father that can fix everything *wink*
Some more differences: American TV ads are full of prescription medicine and have to mention all the side effects. Advertising prescription medicine is not allowed in Germany. News shows in America seem to be a lot more opinionated and agitated. German news shows have more international news.
A lot of people watch the agitated and opinionated news in the US for national politics, but for actual news, local news stations are more like what Germans would expect a news station to be like. 😊
The main intent of the US "news shows" honestly seems to be the fueling of social conflict. These aren't really even journalists on the screen, but merely opinion leaders (or rather social activists). Those people on the screen have a clear agenda - and it's primarily left-wing (with Fox News being the obvious exception and opposite, ofc).
@@martinusv7433 To people not in the US: National network, cable, or PBS news is of various qualities in the US, but the intent is not partisan and the national news people are generally journalists. Fox News is consistent right wing propaganda whether the supposedly news or opinion shows, and is only on their cable channel. Their broadcast network is just another network with Simpsons and Family Guy and a lot of trashy shows and series for example. Local TV news is the same kind of glossy over lit and over made up fires and car crashes etc. in big and small cities with little substance.
There are two main reasons why there is so widespread dubbing: 1. after WWII the German film industry (leading up until then) was destroyed and it was kept that way because Hollywood considered them to be "competitors". Well, the Germans still needed some entertainment during reconstruction so Hollywood conveniently said "why dont you take our movies instead?" The problem was hardly any German knew English so every movie was dubbed into German which created a whole professional dubbing industry in Berlin, Munich, and Hamburg. 2. The German-speaking market is roughly 100 mil speakers. Dubbing movies creates costs but with such a big market is profitable. Sweden has 8 mil people so dubbing just doesnt make sense there because costs outweigh possible profit. Because dubbing is profitable in such a big market as Germany's, there is also competition trying to win contracts by providing a quality product. Due to that, German dubbing has a higher quality standard than smaller countries that still do their own dubbing e.g. Spain. Greets!
I was about to say, "Wait a minute, there's only about 80 mil Germans, and are you counting infants there?" but then I remembered other countries also speaking German as their sole or main official language 🤣
True enough, but I still don't get it, why at least some movies are not aired in the original language. Or why the consumer can't decide: English original or with German dubbing.
@@herberthuber8500 actually it is done for some movies and shows, it used to be called "Zweikanalton" back in the old days, nowadays with digital broadcasting it's just a second audio stream being delivered
The thing about the TV commercials was such a culture shock for me, I'm from Austria and we basically have the same TV structure/experience as Germany. I often watch US music award shows and late night shows, since my favorite music group usually premieres their new songs on there. So imagine my shock when I was sitting here at 2am ready to watch the show only to have commercial interruptions every 5 minutes! It's horrible to sit through them every time, they're not even long enought to properly make yourself some snacks before it starts again, only to go back to commecials after 5 minutes. Another thing that was a culture shock to me about US TV, is how sensationalized and loud everything is, from commercials to the news, even the weather report sounded like they're trying to sell me something lmao. No wonder everyone is moving to streaming services. I can't imagine anyone wanting to watch movies that are supposed to be exciting and attention grabbing, only to get brutally pulled out of your thriller to get screamed at to buy some super amazing fries before you were even able to get your head back into the plot 😂 Edit: Also all the political ads! Not only do they sound sensationalized as fck, but they are also often worded like smear campaigns. It was really mind blowing when I first saw them. In Austria you'll see political ads as well, but only very close to election date and only very few and short ones, in a much calmer and neutral tone. As far as I can remember the only party to ever actually mention other parties (or the politicians they're competing against) in their commercials instead of just listing their goals and intentions, are the right wing parties.
True. In the US there are no regulations about truth or anything else with elections. If you watch commercial TV you will see hundreds of political commercials for months before elections. Except for national elections which are by state, and if you are somewhere that is sure to vote one way or another you will see few of them, and one after another in other places.
@@emjayay No regulations about truth? That sounds pretty dangerous. How are the politicians supposed to be held accountable if they don't even have to be honest?
It's just ridiculous that everyone uses the f-word all the time, sometimes even multiple times in one sentence, but censoring it on tv. And accepting the showing of violence more than nudity/sex/love gives some deep insights.
Growing up with German/European TV my friends and I actually often cringed at these typical American "Highschool dramas" where losing your virginity is often viewed as something that should not be done in Highschool. These messages sometimes are not even that explicit, but there is this trope where the main character (a girl) at first seems to want sex but then backs out of it and this is viewed as the good and right thing to do. In contrast a lot of German TV is very sex positive (often times even without explicit nudity!) and this in combination with our mandatory sex education is probably the reason why Germans are more likely to use condoms or talk openly about sex, STIs and everything related at a young age without feeling this huge embarassement. Even at a younger age you are through the media aware about sexuality and it is treated not as something that is threatening but something that can be explored once you are getting to a certain age and feel like it is appropriate. I feel like this is very important and gives girls and boys in their teenage years a lot of knowledge and autonomy about their decisions to explore their sexuality
Not to mention that kids can get contraceptives from doctors without parental consent. Teen pregnancies are VERY common here in the US, to the point where some cities (Salt Lake City for example, but also LA and I think New York?) have schools SPECIFICALLY for teens with kids.
@@MAEX25 Horrorfilms aside, it’s not about being „the easy girl“ with sex in Germany. It’s about your knowledge and your own freedom of decision making
Cendorship difference: Germans think curcing an nudetiy is is part of humen life US thinks violece against people is part of humen life. What you see on a regular baisis you think is the norm and it shapes your perspective of your enviroment.
what makes us movies worst when they come here they have no sex in em because of the american prudence ... and than our censors cut out the violence .... (without adding sex those grrrrrr)
I dont think Americans see or accept violence any more than other nationalities. They are more willing to stand up for what is right and not afraid of confrontation. Americans have higher tolerance to various and contradicting opinions.
@@pexxajohannes1506 I do not agree. In TV, for example ther is more violence, real an fictional. And violence on the steet are more. But I do not have the first hand information and depend on what others have experieced. It surely dependes on the place, but violent crimes are overall more in the US.
@@pexxajohannes1506 the most people from the us that talk that stand up for what is right talk .have belives i that are pure nonsence at best .... those proud boy idiots and what else ....
I know this isn't German specific but being Dutch I remember a national public broadcast here doing a 24 hour American style television programming in the late 1970s. This was in the pre-commercial television era here in the Netherlands. I remember people being shell-shocked at the amount of interruptions by ads.
That’s super interesting! I have no idea what the tv experience was like in the 1970‘s, but I can imagine the shock if you aren’t used to any interruptions 😂
Oh dear. The pre- private TV era...Only a few channels, the 3rd one differing so much regionally, that for a while you really only got your regional channel, like HR but not NDR... Little cartoons between the few commercials also differing regionally (Onkel Otto, Äffle und Pferdle ..:), announcers, Sendeschluss... ok..I'm old😎
OMG, that American myth about how David Hasselfoff is such a German thing again.... I doubt anyone younger than 25 or so even knows him, and anyone older has long forgotten about him.
I'd say it is the other way around. The majority of Germans have no idea of this stereotype even existing and vaguely remember that there was an American star by that name some decades ago, while the younger generation due to consuming internet contents, english contents and memes are probably more aware of him than the rest of our population
The new name "Beitragsservice" is a euphemism. Bad that the fee is per household. There is a shared apartment with 20 people paying the same as a single person. And companies have to pay the same fee for every car they own - even if the car isn't even equipped with a radio and the people driving it pay the fee for their household anyway.
Yeah, using a separate fee to pay for it instead of making it part of the annual government budget makes it way less depandant on the goodwill of government & parliament. They can ask the hard questions and deconstruct the lies of powerful politicians without suffering significant negative consequences. That's the difference between "state media" and "public media", basically.
I would be happier to pay it if they would promise to keep all the politicians out of the channel administrations - all the supervisory boards and management positions are stuffed with former politicians - it's a nice golden parachute for when you lose your Bundestagsmandat, but are a trusty little party line follower. I think Volker Pispers and Die Anstalt covered that. They are still mostly reliable, but they are not independent.
I remember when the voice actor that did all the dubbing for Johnny Depp died and everybody freaked out about how Captain Jack Sparrow consequently sounded completely different in Pirates of the Carribean 4.
Just for clarification he did not die xD his name is Marcus Off and he is still alive - there was just a disagreement between him and the studio so the studio decided to give the job to David Nathan (who usually is the set voice actor for Depp anyway) ^-^ but yeah it was really a thing :D
@@hopeakya The are, however, many examples of voice over actors actually dying and necessitating replacements. Gert Günter Hoffmann, for instance, who was Sean Connery's voice. More recently, Thomas Danneberg (Arnold, Sly Stallone, John Cleese, countless others). Arne Eltzholtz (Tom Hanks, Bill Murray etc.). Elmar Wepper (yep, one of the typical Bavarian character actors, but he also dubbed [in high German, while his other acting was mostly Bavarian accented] Mel Gibson or Pavel Chekov on Star Trek). Star Trek was hit pretty hard by such deaths, as a lot of stuff from the past needed to be dubbed very late (when the franchise became finally more successful). Hoffmann (the Connery guy) was also Kirk's voice. Herbert Weicker, Spock. The voices for McCoy and Scotty. They had all been dead when, for instance, the long, full version of the movie Star Trek VI was finally released in German.
@@MartinBeerbom sure that's a common thing - i was heartbroken because of it multiple times - I just wanted to make it clear that in this case he is still alive and in fact active
In defense of Americans: "Football" used to be a term for sports with a ball played on foot (to differentiate them from stuff like Polo). So football included things like Rugby (some "football clubs" are even older than what we now know as football because they were playing rugby) which is slightly closer to American football (a name that makes sense, it's both American and played on foot). Oh, and the term "soccer" is a British invention (short for "association football"), so they are not only the source of the "football" weirdness but also created the nowadays much disliked alternative word.
@@merobo5066 interessting information :) It never occured to me that football could mean a game with a ball which you play on foot. But it makes sense... Until you watch Tennis :D
@@Meckermaxxe The Ball is this size probably because it so can be carried and kicked, which would be problematic if it would be much smaller or larger.
People complaining anout the GEZ fee forget that they are not only paying for TV and radio but also for many RUclips channels, traffic information, orchestras, there are educational programs in schools, apps, weather forcasts and much more. Even people who claim they pay for nothing, because they don't watch TV will probably use services, that are financed or co-financed by GEZ. Movies and series on streaming platforms are often co-financed by ARD, too, like Babylon Berlin. Even if you don't watch news on TV you'll find that TV journalists have researched the news you find in other sources. Most programs on the public channels can be watched/listened to by the disabled (subtitles, audio descriptions). There's the idea of solidarity behind it, it's like a tax. I also find quite a few things I am not happy with, but in general I really like this system and whenever I watch TV (rather than Netflix and so forth) I choose public programs: news, documentaries etc.
if "entertainment" programs would be cut out, the needed budget would be a fraction of what it is now. Then I would not mind paying like 3-5€ a month. Better would be if they take the money from taxes so that it reflects the income better. 17€ a month is a lot of money for a person of low income.
Lylair Oder einen weiteren schlechten Tatort wo man nach fünf Minuten auf einen anderen Kanal oder Netflix schaltet. Ach ja, deutsches Kulturgut wo man besser die alten gucken sollte.
About the weird scheduling and starting times in germany: I think you gotta look at it differently. Why is it always half and full hours a show starts at in the US? It is because of the local channels and affiliates the networks have in the US. You need a highly modular interchangeable programm and schedule, so that each channel can build their daily schedule and prime time, provided by their prime time partner network, syndication deals and individual local programming. The German channels can schedule the whole day without thinking about external companies that fill many slots in their programming. The foreign shows might not provide enough run time to fill the whole hour, or sometimes HBO shows are longer than an hour. Usually they do not get cut. It could even be the case that a show is not popular enough to fill all the commercial slots.
On top of that, there are plenty of regulations on how many ads you are allowed to show. So either you have to fill the gap with actual conetent to line up or you start earlier. The answer then is simple - you start earlier. There are a few alignment points though - 20:15 being the major one.
There was frequently conflict between the US (international standard) and German time slots, in both ways. Famous educational children's show "Sendung mit der Maus" was shown in 30 min. For international release, it needed to be cut down to 23/22 min. Fortunately, since the structure of it in segments, the way they did it was that Germany got an additional short segment. Nowadays, the German and international version are the same, with padding (from the show's hosts) outside of the proper show to fill up the full half hour. Back in the day, runtime of US shows was much longer. Almost 50 min late 60s/early 70s, 46-48 min early 1980s, only reaching 45 min late 1980s. Many of those shows were shown on (back then, only public) German TV in time slots of HARD 45 min, no commercial breaks. Magnum, for instance, where they removed all his Vietnam flashbacks.
Very insightful. I love that you actually research everything first and then Form an opinion based on your research. Unlike most channels, you actually try to understand where each culture comes from. When I watched American television, I found the commercial breaks to be actually more intrusive, even though technically they amount to be less than in Germany, due to the fact that they occur more frequently. Longer commercial breaks allow the viewer to take a pee break or get some snacks, which of course defies the purpose of the commercial from the network's point of view, whereas shorter breaks, during which only one or two spots are shown, force the viewer to sit through them in order not to miss anything of the actual program. Keep up the positivity and the great content!
The thing to remember about swearing is that different languages have a varying emphasis. Germans are pretty casual about the F-word for various reasons: 1: It's an english swear and it being foreign means it just doesn't hit as hard. If anything, I think a lot of film makers are less hesitant to drop an F bomb compared to native german swears. 2: There is a difference in swear culture across languages. German swears tend to be more fecal whereas english swears are often more sexual in nature. 3: I think a lot of the american approach to avoiding swears (and nudity, for that matter) comes from religious conservatives, particularily the protestant evangelical ones. In germany, almost all christians are either roman catholics or lutheran protestants, both of which tend to be a lot more casual about those things and also both of which don't have all that much political sway. There's always some arguments on presentations of nudity in the media, but as I like to say: Most of us not only get to see but also interact with female breasts every day within the first few months of our lifes, so the assertion that they would somehow be unsuitable for younger audiences seems a bit far-fetched if you really think about it. After all, the reason clothing exists is not that people really didn't want others to see their naughty bits, but rather that it could get a bit drafty and that various dangling parts could get in the way.
The most prominent difference between american and German tv to me surely are the commercials for medical products. 😆 the listing of potential side effects in the us is downright scary to listen to, i prefer the disclaimer of 'fragen Sie ihren Arzt oder Apotheker'!
By now, with much protest from the conservative political side, changed to a more gender neutral conforming version. "Fragen Sie Ihre Ärztin, Ihren Arzt, oder in Ihrer Apotheke." Yes, apothecaries actually complained because they are not explicitly mentioned anymore, and some Doctor's association wondered if it's OK to mention the female doctor first.
Especially with elders it sometimes is impolite to call someone between 2000 and 2015, because the Tagesschau is on. Usually you would wait until 2015 to grab the phone. But that sort of politeness is not so common anymore.
The difference in length of these shows is quite common throughout Europe, and it's a fundamental cultural difference. The US is accustomed to "instant gratification" so they rush through the baking, dancing, and whatnot, to get to the point relatively fast, US tv also uses much faster cutting, try and count things like number of camera cuts, length of each camera stream being uninterrupted, and how often cuts are embellished (flashes, infocards, replays etc.) US tv is super scared of you being bored, so they bombard viewers with a constant stream of information, so it's hard to enjoy the actual show. in contrast you have the extreme norwegian slow tv, like 10 hour train trips, no comments, no breaks, only station names popping up.
Oh, late in the evening you can even watch soft porn on German TV. I remember my Grandmother telling me that she has finally seen "Tutti Frutti" (for those who don't know, that was a show which featured striptease) and was shocked that everyone was completely naked. When I looked up what she actually watched I figured it was the "masterpiece" "Ich glaub my Straps funkt SoS." ("I think my thong signals SOS.")
The main difference is, that you come cloth to the truth about the world, when you see German TV. Not so in the US, where you see 99 percent about the US and nearly nothing about the rest. Even after legends like Scholl Latour have died, you can still find high quality like "Le monde diplomatique" on the German/French station ARTE or documentations on PHOENIX.
20:15 is the time after the daily main news "Tagesschau" which runs from 20:00 to 20:15. It's the start of the late evening block. Starting times after that depend on the movie / show / documentary coming on then. Usual movie lengths are 90, 100, 120 minutes. Usually around 21:45, 22:00, 22:15 there was a second news / political opinion show, first mostly only on weekends. Those times and time blocks have historical reasons. The second state TV (ZDF) started having their news at 19:00 or 19:30 to avoid airing concurrently to the ARD Tagesschau.
The schedule of the daily program also is caused by this fact, so all programs of one station are in sync and they do not need a filler for a quarter of an hour or something like that. Also the amount of commercial breaks differ a little bit from the time slot a program got, a show aired at prime time has more and /or longer breaks, than its rerun in the night time
@@mfischer5084 , yes, I'm totally programmed for 8 pm news, too - even though I actually like heute on zdf better, by now, but I always miss 7 pm and have to watch them online later.
A really cool tv show was "Wetten dass...!?" which lasted the whole evening. I miss that show. I don't really watch tv anymore, but recently during the election I watched some US channels, and I couldn't stand the frequency of commercials and it was always the same spots, too :O
Private channels are NOT free. Why? I pay with my time, I pay with being targeted by special commerials, consumer analysis, etc. Nothing in life is free, not even death. You pay with your life.
They are free of immediate cost, i.e., you can watch their program without paying for it. (There are some exceptions, such as Sky, where you have to pay to view.) Also, what you describe is essentially the same „non-free“ as for the public channels, although they will run less commercials and none after 8PM.
When reading the comments I realized one thing which might be of importance: Many Germans said "I will never understand why nudity is worse than violence". (I share that thouhgt, I am German.) In the comments from Americans I saw that they mostly mean "having sex" when talking about nudity. In German eyes, nudity and sex are not the same. Nudity is a very natural thing. We are all born nude, this is how God created us. And yes, sure we may think about sex when seeing a nude person, because our society is not a naked one like some indigenous peoples are. I just want to stress out that "nudity" in German TV at prime time does not mean "sexual action". After 10pm there might be some "erotic action" but this is still not "porn" according to the German definition of porn. Porn is the most explicit showing of a sexual action thinkable. And still forbidden in the "öffentlich rechtliches Fernsehen" as well as in the "free" broadcaster's" shows. When we talk about "there is nudity in German TV at prime time" it means........maybe a naked body is found in a crime series........and one will see it lying half in a creek, half on a rock from some distance. Or maybe at the coroner's table. Not for long. Just because this is like it would be "in real". And yes, after 10pm there might be some stations airing what we call "Softporn". Where naked bodys can be shown having sexual actions, but where showing of genitals is not allowed. In the comments some Americans claim that nudity may affect their children more and worse than violence........and I would agree if we were talking about sexual actions, full porn like on x hamster or alike. Yesssss, yes yes. But we are just talking about nudity. Maybe about a woman being disturbed in her sleep by a doorbell, and filmed while she gets up (topless) and slips inside her shirt before opening the door. I am really convinced that THIS moment will never ever influence a child worse than any demons making bloody prey or phsychopaths slaughtering their neighbours one by one with a chainsaw!
Tagesschau is THE news broadcasting show in germany. It's the gold standard. Back in the day, EVERYONE gathered together to watch the news.... because there were just the ARD. Then the regional broadcasters started and instead of becoming some sort of "competitor", they just send the Tagesschau their channels. But why do other broadcasters and private broadcasters follow these rules even today? Because the Tagesschau are STILL the gold standard in news and the most trusted piece of TV event possible. Then the privat broadcasters started, they realized, that the majority of their viewers switched over to ARD to watch Tagesschau at 20:00. That's why nothing "important" or "expensive" will be aired during Tagesschau.... and Sportschau, esp. when during Olympic Games or FiFA/UEFA Championships.
And that’s so I retesting for us because instead in the US, every channel will have their own competing local news stations to give the updates on the day!
@@PassportTwo i already have written a long text as another comment. those stations "Die Dritten" each have the regional news, some of them have even more local splits to show really "very local" news (only for half an hour daily, directly before the 20.00 Tagesschau, which then is shown on ALL of those stations), eg RBB has two for Berlin and Brandenburg, BR has two for Nord and Süd, NDR and MDR each have four such "substations" for the different states that they cover, and WDR has even 10 or 11 such regional stations. usually sometime during the night all of those separate "very local" news broadcasts are repeated one after the other on that "Drittes". nowadays (receiving TV via internet) most people have access to all of those "Dritte" and even to all those regional substations. that's why it's also difficult to tell how many programs we can receive: do you count "Die Dritten" as one station (probably not), or as 9 (or only 7 if you consider RB=NDR and SR=SWR), or you count each of them to get maybe 30 "Dritte", and that doesn't yet include the two variants each of them has for picture quality SD and HD :-)
@@trueamnisias na ja, Fuck wird im englischen viel mehr im Sinne gebraucht wie "scheiße" bei uns. Also einfach nur als Schimpfwort und nicht als "ficken" im Sinne von Geschlechtsverkehr. Insofern kann ich nicht verstehen, wieso Fuck immer in den US Shows ausgeblendet wird. Zumal ja eh jeder weiß, was da gerade gesagt wurde und dann mit beeeb übertönt wurde.
We've got private TV stations only in the 80s - there was no private stations prior to that. Also, we only had terrestrial broadcasting using antennas to receive it. That's why we have so many regional "3rd" programs run by the different counties. Terrestrial broadcast has a limited physical range. Besides, we didn't have any funding by advertisements that interrupt the content - in fact, that concept was and still is highly annoying. We had advertisements in a separate 10-15 minute time block between major programme broadcasting blocks, but never interrupting content. Oh, and the fee you need to pay is for paying all the actors, film production, authors, reporters, journalists, and staff who all is involved in creating movies, shows, documentaries, and and and ... Really QUALITY content. No corporations get to influence the content that way.
The "3rd" programs were not invented because of the limited range of terrestrial broadcasting, but because there should be a program with more local aspects. Culture is the behalf of the Länder (federal states). Technically, since satellite and cable they can be received all over the country.
1.1.1984 to be exact. That was when Sat1 and RTL started broadcasting; and they remained dubious for quite some time. But that said, 24 hours TV program is also pretty new here.
@@HolgerJakobs Ever thought about the cold war era, when all our distributed federal systems were established? It wasn´t only in order to prevent a strong central governed country and to introduce more checks-and-balances to politics, but it was also in preparation for the "Ernstfall" - if half the country was nuked by the Soviets and you still have an independently working infrastructure on state level - including broadcast service.
@@HolgerJakobs Establishment of the 3rd TV programmes in West Germany was in 1964-1965 done by the regional public broadcasting services (Landesrundfunkanstalten) which were established right after WWII. Additional regional public broadcasting services were founded right after the German unification in 1990 and added into the preexisting ARD system. Sources: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landesrundfunkanstalt (German only) de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drittes_Fernsehprogramm (German only) The cold war era is "12 March 1947 to the dissolution of the Soviet Union on 26 December 1991" Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_War "Yes" to the first part of your sentence, definate "No" to the second
The reason you have to pay for TV licence is that you can watch all of the excellent content online on youtube or the station's websites. Excellent documentaries, educational TV, funny shows, etc. All for free online, sometimes geo-blocked. But that's why you can't hide behind "i own no tv".
that is just one reason to the damn fees. the other one is, that in it's infants, there weren't enough frequencies available, and so this fees became a criteria to sort out the competitors. since ARD feared, that their concept wouldn't hold up to other channels, they struck this licensing deal with German authorities.
I remember the time when the first commercial tv stations popped up in Germany, there was only one longer block of commercials during shows or movies, in the middle of the runtime. So whatever you were watching got basically split in half. But then it turned out that people were going to the toilet or to make some food or doing something else during the single break rather than watch commercials, so they changed it to two smaller blocks of commercials roughly a quarter and 3 quarters of the way in. But now it's mostly several blocks of ads spread out through the programming, depending on the time of day (more during prime time shows, only little ad breaks during nightly reruns). I am so happy for my pay tv without ads :-)
Private TV channels can only have 12 minutes of advertisements within 1 hour but "hour" does not mean "from one top of the hour to the next top of the hour". They can decide to start the hour whenever they want. If they have a very popular show from 2 pm to 3 pm then they start the first hour at 1.30 and show one block of ads at 2.10 pm, then start the next hour at 2.30 pm and show another block of ads at 2.45 pm.
And still sometimes I get the feeling, that the private stations are bending as much as possible. For example the last season of "The Masked Singer" the ads were very annoying. I did some time taking there for "fun": 11 minutes were assigned as "Werbung" with a short Start and End clip. Then there were 3 minutes of annoucements for coming up shows (including show specific sponsors => more ads), and then 2 more minutes of TMS specific sponsor ads (1 minute before the adverts, 1 minute before the next part of the show). And then now and then those small clips annotated with "only on clip" and a seconds countdown. I wouldn't be surprised, if everything is according to the rules, because there are only 11 minutes of advertising...
@@dutchgamer842 No. "The Masked Singer" is broadcast by ProSieben. RTL (Germany) started in Luxembourg, but moved 1988 to Cologne, Germany, and is under german law since then.
6:45 The example you showed with dubbing is frowned upon as "MTV dubbing", with the original audio not wiped away. Usually German TV is dubbed "clean", and German dubbing-studios will actually work for foreign language versions at times.
Bernd das Brot. -Now you are getting german. There was another thing before that with a guy standing around in a bathrobe in a grill-place chatting with the owner while another dude just stood around drinking beer. "Dittsche"
The TV license fee is also to support the fourth estate, and not only to help produce programs. Which is why you have to pay even if you don’t watch TV or listen to the radio.
I think it’s important to add that in our German public broadcasting system , we have a board of representatives of all ALL political parties to guarantee a non-biased agenda, especially when it comes to news: anything heinous like FOX NEWS would not be acceptable in Germany.
Bullshit, die gleichgeschalteten Lügen-Medien für betreutes Denken sind nicht neutral, das zeigt schon die Besetzung des Fernsehrats mit regierungsnahen Politikern und Gehirnwäsche ala Goebbels. Verlogener Dreck ist das. Korrupte Verbrecherbande. Deutschland ist Zensur-Weltmeister.
Ha! I used to live in Germany years ago, my father was stationed there during the cold war. Our first station was Berlin, during the time of "The Wall" British Forces Broadcasting Service were not broadcasting there but we had American Forces Network, that's where I had my first experience of "Sesame Street" (It took me ages to stop pronouncing "Z" as "zee" instead of "Zed"). On top of that we used to get East German TV (I still have fond memories of "The Sandman") When we returned to Germany again we were stationed in Nord-Rhine West Pfaltz (Near the Dutch Border) In the Netherlands they do not dub programmes , but use sub-titles, so we could watch English language programmes
Just for explanation... 20:15 is historical grown as there were no private tv channels. 20:00-20:15 was the time were families sat together and watch the news. Until today the „Tagesschau“ is one of the most viewed news. Other tv channels have adapted to it. No one switches to view a movie that is already running 15 minutes. So that time never changed and probably never will. Nice video and nice bloopers in the end :D
German smartass here. Getting my 2c in. in multiple parts 1. Public TV vs. Private TV. For quite a while after WW2 the german public was mostly content with having basically 3 TV channels. Yes, you read that right. 3....in writing three channels. Channel #1 was the ARD, mostly viewed as the "more conservative" (for german measures), while channel #2 was the ZDF (or second german TV), a little more leaning to the "left". Channel #3 had program slotswith info from the state you live in, but took most of its program from the ARD. Private TV started in the mid-80s and quickly gained ratings in the entertainment sector of broadcasting. Whereas the mission of Public TV was to not just entertain but to primarily educate. Hence there are Documentaries, political news shows, comedy shows (NOT the style of comedy you americans are used to but heavily critical political satire shows. "The Daily Show with John Steward" is a good example, but would be considered lighthearted compared to others. And no, we do not have standup.), nature films and whatnot all over the place. And like it or not, you HAVE to pay for it. There is (currently) NO way to avoid it. There have been and still are heated debates going on about the legalities and the moral obligation to pay. It went so far as there have been several appeals to the Bundesverfassungsgericht (our Supreme Court) to get rid of it completely or make paying optional. Bus so far to no avail. This is a biiiiiiiiiig can of worms. 2. Advertising on TV Public and Private TV stations both use adverts to make revenues. But the main difference is that Public TV may not show ads in the Prime Time TV slots. One reason is they are already publicly funded. Another is that Prime Time is not soley reserved for entertainment shows but for others as well and they cannot be interrupted by a commercial during a poltical debate. They kinda try to circumvent by having their shows sponsored by some company. Private stations can advertise around the clock. But there is a limit to how long and how often. As i recall the limit for longer shows and movies is that for every 45 minutes or fraction thereof of net running time you get a max of 15 minutes of commercial time. So a 45 minute show could extend to 1 hour. 3. When does Prime Time start and why? As you so keenly observed Prime time starts at 8:15 pm. Why? Because at that time most working people were home from shifts and they could catch the News at 8. This is important cos back in the days this was the ONLY news source they had. And the stations quickly noticed that people rather miss the first part of a show (even major movies) than miss the news. So they bumped up the Prime Time slot to 20:15. Incidentially the news show on the ZDF started at 19:00 and lasted about 20-25 minutes including the weather report. After that there are 2 "pre-primetime" shows and then the Big Thing at 20:15. And its the same for private TV as well. They discovered that people wanted to watch news at 20:00 so they jumped on the bandwagon. 4. Censorship The German Constitution clearly states that any form of governmental censorship is unconstitutional and forbidden. HOWEVER! German law also has the Jugendschutzgesetz (Child Protection Act). This set of laws regulates what can and cannot be shown to minors depending on their age. It regulates access for minors to all kinds of things, not just TV content. Access to tobacco, alcohol or erotic or pornografic content is limited by age. Regarding TV the time up to 20:00 is deemed "children's time" so children in the legal term (up to age 16) are considered to be watching and content not deemed appropriate to that age group cannot be shown. After 20:00 when the children are in bed it is believed that only adults and minors are watching. Minors in this case being age 16-18, anyone over the age of 18 is consdered an adult. After 22:00 usually the minors are in bed too to get up for school early in the morning. So with them out of the picture its a free for all. That is when the phone sex ads on tv start airing. 5. Sex, nudity, cursing and violence Lets start with cursing and the "7 Dirty Words". Thanks George Carlin. First and foremost there are NO dirty words. And therefore no bleeping. None, nada, zilch! If you wanna say Fuck you say Fuck. You don't say [CENSORED]. Also nobody has a problem with it. Nobody uses the phrase "The F-Word" or "The N-Word". No need to be a fucking pussy about it cos we already know what it means anyway. And we DON'T CARE! Its just words, for cryin out loud. Funny anecdote: A buddy of mine was stationed on guard duty at Rammstein Air Base. Cos he got along with the boys pretty nicely he got invited to beer and a movie after shift. The movie was Pulp Fiction. My buddy happened to know that movie by heart and he was ....SHOCKED as how the movie was butchered by the american censors. It was "bleep" "bleep" "bleep" "bleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep". Next day he brought a DVD and showed the boys how that movie really sounded. Needless to say their jaws ....dropped. Lets go to nudity now. Being nude is not a big deal in germany. Not at all. When you go to the beaches you see people going topless all the time on a hot summers day. And the girls do it too. Overall there is far less body shaming in germany than in the us. This is also why you can have nudity on TV. Tho not on small children's time, but close to prime time. The reasoning behind this is that youngsters watching are mature enough to understand. I'll talk about maturety levels in my next point. So on to sex on TV. Same with nudity there is no big deal with having sex. Be it in the bedroom or on (the) TV. It depends on the depiction of sex. You will NEVER find hardcore porn on german TV. Nope, njet, just feeeeeergeddid. Also you will not find porn sold in kiosks or bookstores. This is sold exclusively in Sexshops. Yes, that's what Adult Stores are called over here. Again, no pussyfooting, just callem what they are. Erotic books or girly mags like Playboy are sold over the counter in kiosks and bookstores, but cos of Jugendschutz (JuSchG) they are kept out of arm's and eye's reach of children. Erotic movies like "9 1/2 Weeks" or "Liebesgrüsse aus der Lederhose", "Basic Instinct", "Body of Evidence" and the like run at the 22:00 slot. And just for info, none of this is considered porn, softcore or otherwise. There is a clear definition of what is porn. Everything else is NOT. There is no such thing as "softcore pregnancy". Either you are pregnant or you are not. In the 20:15 time slot you won't find even that. Yes, there will be sex scenes in movies, speciall in german movies, but they are mostly on american romcom level....so only alluded to and very, veeeeeeery awkward. What's with the wrapping the sheets when she gets up the next morning? I mean what is she afraid of? That the guy will see her completely naked? Come oooon, they did have sex all night, he was inside of her, can't get any more intimate than that, can it? Or is it "I seen some boobs, i'm scarred for life"? "Wardrobe malfunction" anyone? You guys come across as incredibly prudish, you know? On the other hand, violence on TV. While germany does not have that much of a problem with a little skin we do however have when it comes to blood and gore. I'm not really sure how it came to be but germans in general have a bigger problem taking life than making it. Maybe we have seen enough of it after WW2 and the sentiment that violence is bad kinda stuck. Dunno, its just the way it is. This also kind of explains germany's strict gun laws. but that is a totally different can of worms i will not open.
@@NicholasCorvin I also don't have a car and yet I pay taxes from which roads are built. Who cares? Either we have a society or we live as egomaniacs in anarchy in which everyone is only interested in himself. This small-minded crying leads to nothing.
@@NicholasCorvin Yes sure I did. I thought this is one of those typical comments that cry terribly about it and therefore compare Germany with North Korea etc.😅
For the schedule: One thing you have to know is, that the amount of advertising time is limited per hour and per minute. So, if you have a movie which lasts 94 minutes, you just can't fill up with advertisements. For the public channels (those where you pay for), it is not allowed to have ads after 20:00 (8pm). So if a movie lasts 94 minutes, the next show starts 94 minutes after the previous one.
Donnie's very well aware of that as you can see from him winking. Plus: Soccer was the original Englisch term for the sports so actually the Americans aren't that far off.
@@midasflocht9761 No, the original name of the game is "football. " It is however true that the name "soccer" originated in England. At one point in the 19th century, the sport of football split into two versions: the version played by the "Football Association", called "Association Football", and the version called "Rugby Football" - from which American Football, Canadian Football and other "football" games developed. So "football" was an ambiguous term early on, so you'd sometimes have to specify which version you meant - association football or rugby football. The boys on the street would call them "asoccer" and "rugger" for short, with the initial "a" of "asoccer" eventually getting dropped. At the end of the day, the most popular "football" game always gets the "football" name. In England, "football" means association football. In the US, it means American football. In New Zealand, "football" means rugby football, etc
@@midasflocht9761 No. The original English term is Association Football, derived from The Football Association, to have a distinction from Rugby Football which again is split in Rugby League and Rugby Union. Soccer is just an abbreviated slang term for Association Football which didn't survive in Britain because Association Football became simply football and Rugby Football became simply rugby.
Yes, several countries have tv licence fees. The UK one is about $200 pa and pays for commercial-free BBC broadcasts on 13 national tv channels, 17 national radio channels, 9 national radio channels between Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, and 33 English local radio stations. In total, the BBC broadcasts in six languages on British tv, and in 60 languages on world radio. All is paid for by the licence fee.
Dubbing in Germany is so far evolved that it isn't rare to discusse which voice is better, the orignal or the dub version. Bruce Willis is a good excample, the german version is deffintely a better action star voice.
@@naughtygawd3269 A little bit of both I would say. Diffirent Factors are of course going to be considered, like is the joke important for the plot, is it understandable for the audience. But nomarly the german dub Version is at least as good as the original. Of course there are some cases where it isn't, like in the anime dubbing they deffintly still need improvement. But there also some cases where the dub version is even better then the original, like the TV-Serie 'Hogans Heroes'/'Ein Käfig voller Helden'.
@@xehanotmelodic7696 ...and not to forget "The Crusaders"/"Die Zwei", a boring show in English, the story doesn't improve but the dialogues in German were funny.
The ARD has a amazing network of correspondents and studios all over the world that report for news and documentaries. One good collection of their often very interesting background stories is shown in the program „Weltspiegel“.
But the quality and intensity of reporting does not really reflect that. 5 sentences about an active scene is not enough if they only describe what happened. Every other reporter is telling the same content. I want background and not the same pictures as everyone. And to tell me there was e.g. a shooting/explosion in Iran is all I get, so what. Happens thousand times everwhere.
Here i good as an example of the "high US standards" for international correspondents, a job description by the New York Times for a foreign correspondent position in Moscow. They hire the most brainwashed, and biased writers they can get. Those who tell any lie required to support the world view of their editors and media owners. And they are quite upfront about it: "Russia Correspondent Job Description Vladimir Putin’s Russia remains one of the biggest stories in the world. It sends out hit squads armed with nerve agents against its enemies, most recently the opposition leader Aleksei Navalny. It has its cyber agents sow chaos and disharmony in the West to tarnish its democratic systems, while promoting its faux version of democracy. It has deployed private military contractors around the globe to secretly spread its influence. At home, its hospitals are filling up fast with Covid patients as its president hides out in his villa. If that sounds like a place you want to cover, then we have good news: We will have an opening for a new correspondent as Andy Higgins takes over as our next Eastern Europe Bureau Chief early next year." You better don't expect unbiased information from this correspondent.
About the TV licence: Germany once had a system based on who has a TV, however that definition was getting extremely complicate and de facto only let people of the line, who have absolutely no media usage (and those isn't exactly the kind of lifestyle, you want to encourage…), so they switched to "everybody has to pay". The only exception left is when you are blind or deaf. If you life on welfare, it's just payed by the welfare system. For the commercial timing, only the advertising for other products is calculated, not the programming information -and also the channels constantly search for loopholes and from time to time just break those rules.
Today, a lot of people stream to computers or tablets, so they don't own a dedicated device for TV or radio programs. In the past, you could look into a household and count the number of radios and TVs (the inspectors for the TV licence were allowed to do that) and say 'you'll pay for that many devices,' but not any longer. That's why we now simply have that 'everyone pays the same amount' thing. They changed it when watching TV on smartphones or computers became more of a thing.
I always wonder if American parents blindfold their child when it needs to go potty or take a bath / shower? Seriously if nudity and sex are worse than violence, Americans should reconsider getting children especially when the time comes to explain to them how a baby is made!
Your videos are really picking up steam now! It's easy to find run-of-the-mill videos about food shopping, the coin in the shopping cart, etc - buy you guys are providing super interesting info. Thank you so much!
wow. thats cheap. In Austria we have to pay about twice of that for our public-service television channels.. (ORF1/ORF2).. Also our public-service channels are not allowed to interrupt shows for commercials, they are only aired between the shows. -The rest is - like you might have guessed - mostly the same as in germany.
@@eto6197 Now i just had to look it up. Yes, you are right. its a bit more in Vienna, but that seems right. I thought its double, because they charged me every two months for it.
What I like about ORF however is that you can often choose between watching the dubbing and the original. It is also funny when they air a movie one or two days apart from a German private tv channel or even at the same time. It is like "you can either go to them and waste your time with commercials ORRRR you could just watch it with us."
But this is ONLY due to the number of inhabitants. Around 9 million instead of 83 million. If all Germans had to pay for ORF, it would be just under €3 per month.
Why Germans love these police series? They are like church ceremony for elderly. Even if police cant do jack in the street, at least in fiction crime and violence gets "punished"
@@pexxajohannes1506 Do they? German TV producers are not very inventive. They fear to make something new which fails, so they stick to "well-established" stuff like crime fiction, political talk, folk music shows, game shows, soap, historical documentary etc. Everything else like science fiction, fantasy or sitcom is imported. BTW: my favourite crime fiction show is Columbo and no German crime fiction can compare to that.
One reason for the "weird" times is that you can shuffle around adtimes between shows. Like you said there are certain allowed lengths per hour, but if a show starts at lets say 18:45 and runs to 20:30 it can have an extra length adbreak just before 19:00 then 2 regular ones at 19:25 and 19:50 with the final break after 20:15. That way the channels can give a more popular show more time to generate revenue without breaking the rules.
I think the crooked start times on German television are mainly due to the fact that there is relatively little advertising on television. In the USA, the difference to the full hour is then simply filled up with advertising.
Interesting comparison! I think you have missed to point out the role of the ZDF, the second column of Germany's public broadcast system. (Or have I missed it?)
Because of two Americans I now know what ARD stands for... or maybe I have already forgotten it because the acronym is so long and cumbersome to remember ;)
Sometimes, when I don't know what to do but do not yet feel sleepy enough, I will just browse through the different channels and programs running. Usually - at the next advertisement break I will change the channel again. That goes on until I get "stuck" wit ARD, ZDF, 3SAT, or one of the "third programs" (BR, HR, SWR, NDR, MDR, ...) because I find something I like and I am not interrupted by commercials.
Wir streamen fast nur noch. Das passt besser zu einem individuellen Lifestyle. Aber wir streamen auch viel öffentlich-rechtlich wie Tatort und Dokus. Tolles Video von euch .... Dankeschön.
Before the movie starts (from 10 pm) there is always a warning: This film is not suitable for viewers under 16 or 18 years. If the program is to be broadcast earlier (before 10 pm), the scene must be cut out. ALL films that are not from the fsf are ALWAYS released from the age of 18.
This also applies to games (including video games) found, in German:found, in German: www.fsk.de/?seitid=508&tid=72 de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altersfreigabe
Did any German here mention the 90's? The good old times, where you have to RUN to the refrigerator and toilet because the commercials were only 5 minutes long? Anyone???
Well, I remember German TV like that and even much different in the late 1960's. We only had two TV channels. We mostly watched AFN-TV provided by the Americans.
That wasn't dubbing, that was a voice over. A voice over is without regards to lips moving, actions, etc. Dubbing is done by real actors, who know how to act. It's an important part of why German dubs are among the best (some say: ARE the best) of the world.
I don´t know how you watch TV, but I just witch my TV set on, select the channel of my choice and simply watch the program. And, yes, the content and structure may differ quite a lot to what is being force-fed to you guys! Btw - the monthly fee is quite a common thing throughout Europe - Germany is actually on the cheaper end!
Here in Finland, we also used to have a TV license that had to be paid by everyone who owned a TV. There were inspectors who went to visit people who hadn't paid it to make sure that they really don't have a TV. That got changed at some point because nowadays TV channels can be viewed through a number of different devices; now the money that is used to fund the National Broadcasting Company (YLE) is gathered as a tax from everyone. In addition to TV and radio channels, they have their own streaming service that is available to everyone, and lots of useful stuff on their web pages. The way I see it, the most important reason for the existence of tax-funded TV channels is that they provide content that commercial channels wouldn't. Things like news broadcasts in sign language and other minority languages. That sort of stuff doesn't make a profit, so commercial channels wouldn't do it. But they are very important for those groups of people who they concern. About 30 years ago, I was in California for about 5 months on a language course. What shocked me most about American TV back then were the news. All the news that I was able to find on TV were local news. They were always about some local crimes. During that five months, I had absolutely no idea what was going on in the rest of the world. Or even in the rest of the US. That was a very odd experience. It was also very odd to me that the news were always about crime, because here in Finland, crime is usually not even considered "news". Crimes make news headlines here only if there is something really unusual about them.
I think the reason for the weird timetable on german TV is that we use to show all shows or videos in their full length which isn't always in half hour steps and don't have many Commercial breaks in order to get back to timetable
For the record. "Dubbing" on TLC and alike keeps the original soundtrack in the background because it gives the show sort of an documentary style. That is btw. the way how many real documentaries are done: original voice and sound and a voice over on top. But fictional movies and tv-shows are generally just the dubbing, so you don't have this weird "echo" in a foreign language. The dubbing of Big Bang Theory led to a funny scene: In the episode in which they play Dungeons and Dragons, Howard is doing voices. In the original he impersonates Christopher Walken for a dragon. However in the German version, Howard's voice actor takes a break and Sheldon's voice actor steps in and speaks as Howard as ... the voice of Leonardo DiCaprio. Why? Because Sheldon's regular voice actor is performing for DiCaprio since Titanic as well. And that's even funnier for us Germans because Sheldon then states "The dragon is Leonardo DiCaprio" with the voice of Leonardo DiCaprio but not really sounding like DiCaprio more like Sheldon (because the actor sounds a bit different from actor to actor). It's a joke that only works in German though. 😉 But there you see the quality because you don't directly recognize that an actor has the same voice as an other. Like in The Expandables in which both Stallone and Schwarzenegger are voiced by the same man. And he did many of the big names for decades. But he never sounds the same because voice acting means to sound slightly different from another "voice" - it took decades for me to discover that some voices are actually the same actor. Some are/were more noticeable but still sounded different and just right for a specific actor.
I remember many things that works better in German TV. The Benjamin Blümchen joke In SpongeBob. Or that the Breaking Bad joke in Zootopia actual worked in German because they had the Voice actors of the show. I watch Simpson rather in German than in English. I heard a rumor that Clint Eastwood said he wished his voice was as good as the German voice actor.
One reason for the odd starting times - besides the basically mandatory short news shows that are broadcast (sometimes only 5 minutes or less) is something you already mentioned. Its the commercials. Since there are limits on how much advertizing can be done, it can not always be used to fill in the gaps between shorter shows. So a 42 minute show from the US cannot be filled up to a full hour with just advertisement - it will end up being maybe 50 minutes and then you have 10 minutes leftover, so the next show starts earlier than the full hour.
Nobody is so crazy to compete against the Tagesschau, a few channels tried that and failed, it's the most important and serious news show. The public channels have a Bildungsauftrag/ educational task and they are only allowed to make commercials between 6pm and 8pm. A kids show i really like and recommend is Die Sendung mit der Maus 🐭 It's very easy follow, they explain a lot and speak slowly. The channels i highly recommend are Arte a German/French connection and 3sat a German/Swiss and Austrian mixed channel both have some very good and interesting documentaries about different topics like traveling, music, history, sexuality, art and much more and very good movies you will not see on private channels. Know living in Vienna, i have so many TV channels with the digital box receiver that I don't need any online streaming. Very popular in Germany are quiz shows and crime series.
@@PassportTwo I second Die Sendung mit der Maus. It is my to go recommendation for people who want to learn German, because it is a children show (so complicated words are explains), but it isn't dumbed down at all. A lot of Germans adult like to watch the show once in a while because their explanations are really interesting and still educational. Btw, have you seen The Lives of Others/Das Leben der Anderen? The Movie is currently available on Netflix and easily one of the best German movies. I mean, it beat out Pan's Labyrinth at the academy award for best foreign picture, and it was a well deserved win. It shouold also be easy to understand for you, sence the characters speak most of the time very slow and deliberate.
Public broadcasting fees are common in almost every European country: UK, Germany, France, Switzerland, Austria. Btw, the prices in the UK and Germany are similar, Switzerland wants almost 400 euros each year and if you think German TV is bad, try Swiss TV.
The financing of Public television has an historic background after WW2. Neither the government (no tax background), nor the industry (commercial background) can control this information channel to the public. Real independent media. That's why u get an extra letter. It's the most important thing of public German television. To report the facts no matter how is in charge.
My girlfriend was so confused by our censorship rules, we were watching Tatort and they showed a s*x scene, my girlfriend was a bit in Shock and it was normal for me
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Speaker Andreas von der Meden (unfortunately died in 2017) was not only the yoice of David Hasselhoff but also of Kermit the frog: ruclips.net/video/lGqtyIklfPQ/видео.html
As a kid of the 80s I grew up with Andreas von der Meden's voice on many radio plays (in this time still on tapes!). You often could hear him in "Die drei ???", "TKKG" and "5 Freunde" (all then and now very famous in Germany).
I can't understand that don't put the sound off or switch channels, when commercials are on.
The biggest difference is that we don't let the TV going when having sex!
So in the USA nothing is dubbed in english?
@@Wolfspaule At least they hate to do it for real movies. Animes, Comicseries etc. are no problem at all.
Think about it: They remake the movies for "Ziemlich beste Freunde", "Honig im Kopf" nearly every successful horror movie from Japan/Korea (Ring, Grudge etc. etc.) and every one and another successful movie in Europe (like the Swedish crime trilogy from the book series, I forgot the name). They just remake it instead of putting in effort in a good dubbing.
Was für ein Stein is das in eurer Rosette & gefällt Euch das wirklich so sehr, dass ihr damit and die Öffentlichkeit gehen müsse ?
WIE VERSAUT #Rosetta Stone
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Football is an accurate description of the game. Americans should call their sport Hand Egg.
Because eggs are symmetrical and have pointy ends 😉😂
@@PassportTwo "Stick #em with the pointy egg."
I'm not entirely sure, but I think I've seen them kick the egg... while holding it of course, otherwise they'd miss it.
@@Senzeni True but most of the time the game is played by rushing or passing the egg forward with the hands to the end zone. Feet used on some occasions. We can rename the sport to “Mostly Hands Sometimes Feet Egg” 😆
Limb egg with the occasional sumo wretsling
"Bernd das Brot" killed everything 😂😂
Als wir mit meinen Kids in Rom waren, haben wir uns nach dem ereignsreichen Tag am Ende immer Bernd das Brot reingezogen, jeden Tag, in mehreren Schleifen. Am Ende der Woche konnten wir die Folge mitsprechen. "Mehlcoctail gefällig?" Beste Erinnerung.
War da nicht das Astrobrot?
Habt ihr auch mal die ganze Nacht durchgeschaut, um zu schauen, ob da mal was anderes kommt oder so? Lol
Ja ich habe es mal gemacht 😂
@@lunagrindelwald4834 you can watch These Clips also in RUclips because there get changed not often in TV
Don't forget about the international cooperations: ARTE (with France), 3Sat (with Switzerland and Austria), EUROVISION (all kinds of programmes and shows organised by the European Broadcasting Union)
"Arte Karambolage" is EPIC
Arte 🤤
@@xXDrocenXx arte for life
Eurovision feat. Australia 😂
@@fayeprime9631 Eurovision is not just the Eurovision Song Contest 😉
Being German is not owning a tv or watching tv but still starting your Netflix show at 8:15
No. You still watch the 8 o'clock tagesschau via live stream or you're not a real German.
Hahahah genau 🤣👌👌👌
Since I work for a broadcaster and I now build my own house, I don’t even have a tv cable going into my house because I know how crappy most of the shows are and how much is on constant repeat 😅 … still have to pay that darn BS Haushaltsangabe 🤮
Since 12 years no TV... bought a big electic kamin
Being german means that you pay GEZ even though you dont even have a TV.
I guess I'll never understand why nudity is supposed to be worse than violence 🤷🏻♀️
Because it is less impactful on children.
Like it or not, but exposing a child to a lot of sexual stuff in media can influence and disturb that child much more than a little violence.
@@TrangleC that's bullshit!
@@TrangleC citation needed
Absolute bullshit. Nudity is a life requirement, violence is not. Then you get people that shoot up schools and don't know what goes where. I'm all in for a global comprehensive sex ed with live demos if necessary if it helps with teen insecurities.
@@Senzeni School shootings aren't an american "invention". The first ever recorded school shooting actually took place in the german city of Bremen in 1913.
I remember there was a TV Live Show „Schlag den Raab“, and the episode took like over 6 Hours . 😂 It was fun.
i really miss Stephan Raab in the german tv...
@@scanalive same
Hach... Ich vermisse es :'(
Ring the Bull! unforgettable x)
@@tschaytschay4555 Ach ich nicht, hab ich nie gemocht. Ich vermisse "Wetten dass....?" Aus den alten Zeiten, als die ganzen Hollywoodstars aufgetreten sind und man manchmal das erste Mal Lieder von neuen Bands und Sängern im Fernsehen gesehen hat.
Michael Jackson und Earth song war da so ein Beispiel, aber es gibt noch viel mehr.
In Germany we play "Football" - you have a ball and you kick it with your foot.That American game obviously needs to be renamed to "Handegg".
American football is also known as "grid iron". So you don't have to make up a new name.
in American "football", the ball gets also kicked with the foot (for a field goal). ;-)
See here ruclips.net/video/X7BepDe6Zoc/видео.html
@@heiko3169 Foot&HandEgg > Gotta be the new name then :P
Or just -‘why am I wasting 4 hours of my life watching 30 minutes of actual playing time?’
thx u made 😂
I guess dubbing of an old Schimanski Tatort for US TV would be quite easy:
Markus Oberndörfer 😁😁😁😁 Great comment, so true.
Stimme ich zu. Ich bin froh das es noch so was gibt wie CAMERON PHILLIPS "WHEN BTS WAS DUBBED", lol
And the Boobles and another Interesting things in German TV.. 😱😂🤣🤣
The black beam have some work..
Bernd das Brot 👍
😂😂😂😂👍🏻 Scheiße
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I was extremely confused by the commercials in America, they just all seem like they want to scam you with anything they present you and in addition if its a commercial about a Medecin they read out loud the whole medication leaflet o_o
Hahahaha this is so true. Our medication commercials have such a long list of legal disclaimers to avoid lawsuits
Only two countries in the world allow commercials for prescribed pharmaceuticals, the US is one of them
@@DSiato I add New Zealand ;)
The long list of adverse reactions and side effects that go along with prescription drug advertising is mandated by the US government. Supposedly because of constitutional reasons they they have not been able to ban those ads but I think the requirements were meant to try and discourage that type of advertising (Who would want to say all those terrible things about their product on air) unfortunately it has not worked.
This is painfully accurate
The advertising breaks in Germany are longer so that one can go in peace on the toilet and get a new beer
We visited a "Kläranlage" once and learned, that they need to turn up the available amount of water during the commercial break of popular shows because of all the bathroom visits and that their employees had to watch TV and develop special skills to predict the next commercial break so that there would be enough water in time for everyones pee break.
German beer is much better than german tv. Id stay near fridge...
@@ramonarohnstock4142 Something similar happens in the UK during breaks, the power demand spikes due to so many kettles being turned on at the same time.
Lol 😆
das wort zum sonntag used to be Das Wort zum Bierholen
Maybe the reason that the schedule in USA is so regular, that they just fill up the gaps with annoying commercials.
I think it is the other way around: They fill the gaps between ads with shows.
a lot of them...
@Daddy Sage Exactly this. No show is EXACTLY 30, 60 90 minutes long. The ad blocks in between always round up the minutes to the next half or full hour in the USA.
In Germany there is a law regulating how many ad-blocks there can be during a certain length of show, to NOT have a show or movie interrupted every five minutes by some kind of ad.
That's basically the reason for the strange starting times. If you have a show that lasts 45 minutes, let's say you can have three ad-blocks of no more than 3 minutes each, for a total time of 54 minutes (plus or minus a few seconds of transition times each block).
As such the starting times vary a lot more in Germany than in the USA.
@@RustyDust101 This is the correct reason for the strange starting times. And I think, that is beautiful.
(Although I still get annoyed with all these commercials so I mostly watch DVD/Blu-Ray)
@@V100-e5q Yeah, it's easy to miss the show after watching an hour of US television. Sometimes the "show breaks" between ads are shorter than an average commercial 😑😭
Don't forget that ARD and ZDF are not there for entertainment but for the Bildungsauftrag! I often learned a lot of stuff from some of the shows.
Yeah, that's why they have five different soap operas each… >.>
@@entropyzero5588 They also have a number of educational shows. Even their game shows are often very interesting.
@@swanpride I know. I'm in no way knocking our public channels and I'm actually a proponent of the current blanket GEZ for every household (as opposed to the prior rules where you kinda sorta had to pay if you had a TV - or a PC or a phone or a…).
But I just don't understand why such a huge part of their daily programming is wasted on something with no real value and only a somewhat niche audience. If they want to do more non-educational, non-news programming they could at least try for some more variety to give people below the age of retirement something interesting to watch as well…
Not sure if ARD and ZDF remember that themselves...
That is not true. Entertainment is parf of their mandate.
The most important things on German public broadcasting you didn‘t mention are those three:
1. Public broadcasting must serve, to a certain degree, an educational purpose. That‘s why there are so many documentations and science programs (like Terra X on ZDF).
2. There are also a lot of RUclips channels funded by public broadcast (namely via „funk“). Those channels are mainly journalistic (for example „Y-Kollektiv“) or educational (for example „MaiLab“). Those channels are not allowed to make revenue with RUclips, including a ban on any pre- or midroll commercials.
3. Speaking of commercials: While there are commercial breaks on German television, public broadcast is not allowed to do them between 8pm and 12am on workdays amd on sundays and public holidays (applying to ARD and ZDF, there are no commercials at all on the regional stations and the additional ZDF-stations like ZDFneo). Also, commercials on public broadcast may not exceed 20 minutes a work day (private stations may show up to 12 minutes of commercials an hour. This also is a cause for the weird schedule. I just saw you mention this later in the video).
Edit: There is one more thing. The public broadcasting networks are required to provide their programs for streaming on the internet for free both live and on demand for a certain amount of time after they aired, ad free. The necessary server capacity and so on is also financed by those 17.50€ per month.
Edit 2: Beacause of their independance from audience ratings, they can (and do) show a wider variety of older movies, of documentarys. Things with lower potential of high viewer levels. They also show (always depending on licences, but they do have money), summarys of Bundesliga football (and yes, THIS is football. Yours is pussy rugby). And there are hugely successful series also, namely Tatort, Lindenstraße (a daily soap started 1985 and ended 2020 after over 1700 episodes), and some others. Even the news, Tagesschau (ARD) and Heute (ZDF) are neutral, generally good journalism. There is no need to bind viewers, to accommodate them, to make them feel good or just show something shocking or something extremely cute, just that people come and watch (compare RTL or Sat1 news to tagesschau!). All in all, it is a great institution. And I haven't even started about radio broadcast!
Another fun fact I just remembered: the cause for prime time in Germany starting at 8:15 on is the aforementioned Tagesschau news program that airs daily at 8 pm sharp and takes 15 minutes, including the weather forecast. Since this is the most viewed program of all times on German tv, and so many people watch this news program daily, other stations don‘t want to interfere with this. So, most other station schedule their prime time evening programs to start afterwards, which means 8:15.
Unfortunately, the science editors of ZDF and WDR are specifically dominated by radical science-free materialists.
This ideology is particularly evident in sects such as "CSI" (USA) or "GWUP" (Germany).
The sociologist Dr. Edgar wonders wrote as whistleblower (he was with-founder of GWUP) a specialist Essay over the GWUP.
This means "Das Skeptiker Syndrom".
Definitely read. Depending on the reading speed, only lasts 15-30 minutes.
Worth it. It is terrifying like these people think and act.
It is absolutely comparable to Scientology.
The physicist Auguste Meessen called these people vicious and a danger to democracy.
The physicist Professor Ernst Senkowski called this ideology a "psychic problem".
It would be great if US channels with the topic of Germany (like this here, or James Bray, etc.) also the negative things and human rights breaks (Criminal code 90, 90A, 90B, 166, 185 - 189, 192, dance ban) thematize and would criticize.
It was e.g. Disgusting to see how a Chinese dissident in the lunch news of ARD or ZDF has cheered the German state without any criticism. What a disgusting hypocrite.
@@Ano-Nymos not sure if trolling or just stupid…
And: if you really consider the laws you mentioned breaking human rights, you have far worse problems than this. I do admit that Germany does restrict some rights. These restriction are in place to ensure those rights for everyone, to save the democratic system and the constitution. Every individual freedom ends where another person‘s begins. Banning the disparagement of religion and religious beliefs ensures freedom of religion, for instance.
And I think you don‘t really understand what a sceptic really is. Scepticism is blatantly the opposite of „science-free“. The fact that Wunder has parted with GWUP has nothing to do with that. And it is most certainly not a „sect“ and most definitely not comparable with Scientology.
Please, get your facts straight. Or, if you really believe this nonsense you wrote, go get help.
@@Ano-Nymos I don't think you can compare that.
I also think those rights aren't being broken.
"MaiLab"🤣🤣🤣
konditionierung in Reinkultur!🤣
The reason for the irregular timetable is: every show has a different length
But you have advertising/commercials right? So why wouldn’t they use the commercials to fill the space and make the schedule even the way they do in the US? Remember many of the shows you’re watching were produced in the United States and no they aren’t all the same length but we still maintain a regular TV schedule on the hour or half-hour.
@@pjschmid2251 Because there is a limitation for commercials. 60 minutes of playtime on air must not exceed 12 minutes of commercials. This limitations are stated by law.
@@ralfhtg1056 Fun fact: The commercial interruptions of a show count towards that show's runtime. That might be why you see more than 12 minutes of commercials in what seems to be a 1 hour show - the commercials may have stretched it just ever so slightly past the full hour mark. It's a really dumb loophole.
@@pjschmid2251 Funny enough some American shows are actually significantly longer in Europe than in the US. The Muppet Show for example. There is a whole segment of each Muppet show that American audience has never seen. ;)
@@pjschmid2251 you manage to get
brainwashed by commercials. To consume more and more useless products you don’t need.
I would call the example you showed a voice-over rather than dubbing. Voice-overs are cheep to produce because the interpreter doesn't aim for lip synchronisation and you can still hear the original voice. Real dubbing is high art: you need a good voice actor who is capable to make you believe that the original actor is speaking to you.
Agreed! But when I was editing I was painted in a corner because we said specifically „TLC“ and I had to find a popular show both Americans and Germans might know and that’s what I came up with 😂
And who actually can do that?
I stopped watching German TV when I was young, over 20 years ago, because I couldn't stand the shitty dubbing anymore and how many jokes got lost or destroyed in translation.
@@TrangleC True. Dubbing - in most cases - cannot compare to the original. However, if you can't understand the language, subtitles are the only way to understand what's going on. Unfortunately, subtitles are often as bad as, often even worse than dubbing.
@@TrangleC C'mon it's the best possible dubbing with lip sync.
@@Pabakus And subtitles take your eyes away from the picture. So you might miss something. I always find it bothersome to read.
Your example wasn't a dubbing, it was a voice over. Proper dubbing is way more skilled. Maybe you should have picked an dubbed Korean show or something like this, to show how well it can work if you don't speak the original language.
Or Breaking Bad ... I cannot watch the show in german, because the voices are so different. 🖖😊
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In English a "voice over" means narration, not a character speaking. Dubbing is dubbing, good or bad. Classic postwar Italian films were all dubbed later because they didn't have sound stages, and even though I don't understand Italian it bothers me that the voices often don't match very well.
The example was really bad. Real dubbing is great in germany.
@@Meckermaxxe True! For example a 007 movie…
Several years ago several private TV channels tried to move Prime Time to 8 pm, but that utterly failed because the vast majority of their viewers still watches the news on ARD first and wouldn't switch to the private channels untill 8:15 pm when the news where over, so the private channels pretty much had no other choice but to move their Prime Time back to 8:15pm.
I remember the times when there were only three public broadcasting stations (and zero private ones) and they had a "Sendeschluss" and just a "Testbild" from late evening to next day's afternoon...
Telekolleg at Morning (Educational School like TV) then nothing till 4pm from 4 to 8pm mostly shows for Children (Wickie, Biene Maja, Seasamstraße,....) and at 8pm the NEWS after that entertaining or dokumentations etc.
The good old times... ;-)
The U.S. was similar until the mid 1980's. They only had three privately owned channels - and one not-for-profit channel, funded by public donations (its programming was focused on the theatre, arts, documentaries, health and learning, with no commercials). You only needed an antenna to watch all four....then came cable...
Und Keena lernte...
Dont forget the secret 4th Station called "Testbild" used to set up your television at any time. May it be for the technivian or the father that can fix everything *wink*
Some more differences: American TV ads are full of prescription medicine and have to mention all the side effects. Advertising prescription medicine is not allowed in Germany.
News shows in America seem to be a lot more opinionated and agitated. German news shows have more international news.
A lot of people watch the agitated and opinionated news in the US for national politics, but for actual news, local news stations are more like what Germans would expect a news station to be like. 😊
Prescription meds are also not allowed 🚫 in Canada.
But lots of opinions are.
I like watching German new for their world 🌎 news.
The main intent of the US "news shows" honestly seems to be the fueling of social conflict. These aren't really even journalists on the screen, but merely opinion leaders (or rather social activists). Those people on the screen have a clear agenda - and it's primarily left-wing (with Fox News being the obvious exception and opposite, ofc).
@@martinusv7433 To people not in the US: National network, cable, or PBS news is of various qualities in the US, but the intent is not partisan and the national news people are generally journalists. Fox News is consistent right wing propaganda whether the supposedly news or opinion shows, and is only on their cable channel. Their broadcast network is just another network with Simpsons and Family Guy and a lot of trashy shows and series for example. Local TV news is the same kind of glossy over lit and over made up fires and car crashes etc. in big and small cities with little substance.
There are two main reasons why there is so widespread dubbing: 1. after WWII the German film industry (leading up until then) was destroyed and it was kept that way because Hollywood considered them to be "competitors". Well, the Germans still needed some entertainment during reconstruction so Hollywood conveniently said "why dont you take our movies instead?" The problem was hardly any German knew English so every movie was dubbed into German which created a whole professional dubbing industry in Berlin, Munich, and Hamburg. 2. The German-speaking market is roughly 100 mil speakers. Dubbing movies creates costs but with such a big market is profitable. Sweden has 8 mil people so dubbing just doesnt make sense there because costs outweigh possible profit. Because dubbing is profitable in such a big market as Germany's, there is also competition trying to win contracts by providing a quality product. Due to that, German dubbing has a higher quality standard than smaller countries that still do their own dubbing e.g. Spain. Greets!
I was about to say, "Wait a minute, there's only about 80 mil Germans, and are you counting infants there?" but then I remembered other countries also speaking German as their sole or main official language 🤣
True enough, but I still don't get it, why at least some movies are not aired in the original language. Or why the consumer can't decide: English original or with German dubbing.
@@herberthuber8500 actually it is done for some movies and shows, it used to be called "Zweikanalton" back in the old days, nowadays with digital broadcasting it's just a second audio stream being delivered
Closed-captioning seems like it might be cheaper than dubbing. Am I right?
@@1VaDude It would indeed be cheaper, but on the other hand you're looking at the subtitles, not the video.
The thing about the TV commercials was such a culture shock for me, I'm from Austria and we basically have the same TV structure/experience as Germany. I often watch US music award shows and late night shows, since my favorite music group usually premieres their new songs on there. So imagine my shock when I was sitting here at 2am ready to watch the show only to have commercial interruptions every 5 minutes! It's horrible to sit through them every time, they're not even long enought to properly make yourself some snacks before it starts again, only to go back to commecials after 5 minutes.
Another thing that was a culture shock to me about US TV, is how sensationalized and loud everything is, from commercials to the news, even the weather report sounded like they're trying to sell me something lmao.
No wonder everyone is moving to streaming services. I can't imagine anyone wanting to watch movies that are supposed to be exciting and attention grabbing, only to get brutally pulled out of your thriller to get screamed at to buy some super amazing fries before you were even able to get your head back into the plot 😂
Edit: Also all the political ads! Not only do they sound sensationalized as fck, but they are also often worded like smear campaigns. It was really mind blowing when I first saw them. In Austria you'll see political ads as well, but only very close to election date and only very few and short ones, in a much calmer and neutral tone. As far as I can remember the only party to ever actually mention other parties (or the politicians they're competing against) in their commercials instead of just listing their goals and intentions, are the right wing parties.
True. In the US there are no regulations about truth or anything else with elections. If you watch commercial TV you will see hundreds of political commercials for months before elections. Except for national elections which are by state, and if you are somewhere that is sure to vote one way or another you will see few of them, and one after another in other places.
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No regulations about truth? That sounds pretty dangerous. How are the politicians supposed to be held accountable if they don't even have to be honest?
@@zhouwu-- Well, if they were honest about their intentions, nobody would vote for them.
It's just ridiculous that everyone uses the f-word all the time, sometimes even multiple times in one sentence, but censoring it on tv. And accepting the showing of violence more than nudity/sex/love gives some deep insights.
We all know that nipples are way more dangerous than loaded guns. 🤣🤣
There's an interesting sentence on that topic in the movie Bohemian Rhapsody: "Puritans to the outside, pervs to the inside"
Growing up with German/European TV my friends and I actually often cringed at these typical American "Highschool dramas" where losing your virginity is often viewed as something that should not be done in Highschool. These messages sometimes are not even that explicit, but there is this trope where the main character (a girl) at first seems to want sex but then backs out of it and this is viewed as the good and right thing to do. In contrast a lot of German TV is very sex positive (often times even without explicit nudity!) and this in combination with our mandatory sex education is probably the reason why Germans are more likely to use condoms or talk openly about sex, STIs and everything related at a young age without feeling this huge embarassement. Even at a younger age you are through the media aware about sexuality and it is treated not as something that is threatening but something that can be explored once you are getting to a certain age and feel like it is appropriate. I feel like this is very important and gives girls and boys in their teenage years a lot of knowledge and autonomy about their decisions to explore their sexuality
Not to mention that kids can get contraceptives from doctors without parental consent. Teen pregnancies are VERY common here in the US, to the point where some cities (Salt Lake City for example, but also LA and I think New York?) have schools SPECIFICALLY for teens with kids.
The badest Thing, this Virgins became really a orgasm🤦
I just never got the obsession with teenage sexuality in movies. Seems kinda gross to me
Good luck making it in a horror movie if you are not a virgin. The „easy to have“ girl always dies right after the black dude.
@@MAEX25 Horrorfilms aside, it’s not about being „the easy girl“ with sex in Germany. It’s about your knowledge and your own freedom of decision making
Cendorship difference: Germans think curcing an nudetiy is is part of humen life
US thinks violece against people is part of humen life.
What you see on a regular baisis you think is the norm and it shapes your perspective of your enviroment.
what makes us movies worst when they come here they have no sex in em because of the american prudence ... and than our censors cut out the violence ....
(without adding sex those grrrrrr)
Abso-fucking-lutly!
I dont think Americans see or accept violence any more than other nationalities. They are more willing to stand up for what is right and not afraid of confrontation. Americans have higher tolerance to various and contradicting opinions.
@@pexxajohannes1506 I do not agree. In TV, for example ther is more violence, real an fictional. And violence on the steet are more. But I do not have the first hand information and depend on what others have experieced. It surely dependes on the place, but violent crimes are overall more in the US.
@@pexxajohannes1506 the most people from the us that talk that stand up for what is right talk .have belives i that are pure nonsence at best .... those proud boy idiots and what else ....
I know this isn't German specific but being Dutch I remember a national public broadcast here doing a 24 hour American style television programming in the late 1970s. This was in the pre-commercial television era here in the Netherlands. I remember people being shell-shocked at the amount of interruptions by ads.
That’s super interesting! I have no idea what the tv experience was like in the 1970‘s, but I can imagine the shock if you aren’t used to any interruptions 😂
Oh dear. The pre- private TV era...Only a few channels, the 3rd one differing so much regionally, that for a while you really only got your regional channel, like HR but not NDR... Little cartoons between the few commercials also differing regionally (Onkel Otto, Äffle und Pferdle ..:), announcers, Sendeschluss... ok..I'm old😎
Op Nederland 1?
@@Xnhl _"Little cartoons between the few commercials"_ : the ZDF still has the Mainzelmännchen ...
@@Anson_AKB The one survivor, yes
OMG, that American myth about how David Hasselfoff is such a German thing again.... I doubt anyone younger than 25 or so even knows him, and anyone older has long forgotten about him.
I'd say it is the other way around. The majority of Germans have no idea of this stereotype even existing and vaguely remember that there was an American star by that name some decades ago, while the younger generation due to consuming internet contents, english contents and memes are probably more aware of him than the rest of our population
never forget, never forgive ;-)
Ich bin 18 und Hasselhoff ist einer der ersten, an denen ich denken muss, wenn ich an TV-Stars denke
@@xslashx1908 das tut mir ehrlich leid für dich... Sag bescheid, wenn man dir damit irgendwie helfen kann, okay 😁👍🏻
@@Taunus-Tim Ich gebe zu, dass es nur wegen Knight Rider so ist ;) Ich bin absolut keine Serienschauer, aber Knight Rider gefiel mir immer
I think it is important to know that the GEZ is also there for independence news and correspondence journalist in different countries
@sheik DE *YAWN* 💩💩💩
The new name "Beitragsservice" is a euphemism. Bad that the fee is per household. There is a shared apartment with 20 people paying the same as a single person. And companies have to pay the same fee for every car they own - even if the car isn't even equipped with a radio and the people driving it pay the fee for their household anyway.
Yeah, using a separate fee to pay for it instead of making it part of the annual government budget makes it way less depandant on the goodwill of government & parliament. They can ask the hard questions and deconstruct the lies of powerful politicians without suffering significant negative consequences. That's the difference between "state media" and "public media", basically.
I would be happier to pay it if they would promise to keep all the politicians out of the channel administrations - all the supervisory boards and management positions are stuffed with former politicians - it's a nice golden parachute for when you lose your Bundestagsmandat, but are a trusty little party line follower. I think Volker Pispers and Die Anstalt covered that. They are still mostly reliable, but they are not independent.
I remember when the voice actor that did all the dubbing for Johnny Depp died and everybody freaked out about how Captain Jack Sparrow consequently sounded completely different in Pirates of the Carribean 4.
Just for clarification he did not die xD his name is Marcus Off and he is still alive - there was just a disagreement between him and the studio so the studio decided to give the job to David Nathan (who usually is the set voice actor for Depp anyway) ^-^ but yeah it was really a thing :D
@@hopeakya Close enough 😂
@@hopeakya The are, however, many examples of voice over actors actually dying and necessitating replacements. Gert Günter Hoffmann, for instance, who was Sean Connery's voice. More recently, Thomas Danneberg (Arnold, Sly Stallone, John Cleese, countless others). Arne Eltzholtz (Tom Hanks, Bill Murray etc.). Elmar Wepper (yep, one of the typical Bavarian character actors, but he also dubbed [in high German, while his other acting was mostly Bavarian accented] Mel Gibson or Pavel Chekov on Star Trek).
Star Trek was hit pretty hard by such deaths, as a lot of stuff from the past needed to be dubbed very late (when the franchise became finally more successful). Hoffmann (the Connery guy) was also Kirk's voice. Herbert Weicker, Spock. The voices for McCoy and Scotty. They had all been dead when, for instance, the long, full version of the movie Star Trek VI was finally released in German.
@@MartinBeerbom sure that's a common thing - i was heartbroken because of it multiple times - I just wanted to make it clear that in this case he is still alive and in fact active
I always find it strange that the Americans call a game where a 'ball' is mostly carried or thrown and the foot hardly ever touches is called football
In defense of Americans: "Football" used to be a term for sports with a ball played on foot (to differentiate them from stuff like Polo). So football included things like Rugby (some "football clubs" are even older than what we now know as football because they were playing rugby) which is slightly closer to American football (a name that makes sense, it's both American and played on foot). Oh, and the term "soccer" is a British invention (short for "association football"), so they are not only the source of the "football" weirdness but also created the nowadays much disliked alternative word.
@@merobo5066 interessting information :)
It never occured to me that football could mean a game with a ball which you play on foot. But it makes sense...
Until you watch Tennis :D
The length of a football is about 1 foot. So maybe thats the reason.
@@Meckermaxxe The Ball is this size probably because it so can be carried and kicked, which would be problematic if it would be much smaller or larger.
People complaining anout the GEZ fee forget that they are not only paying for TV and radio but also for many RUclips channels, traffic information, orchestras, there are educational programs in schools, apps, weather forcasts and much more. Even people who claim they pay for nothing, because they don't watch TV will probably use services, that are financed or co-financed by GEZ. Movies and series on streaming platforms are often co-financed by ARD, too, like Babylon Berlin.
Even if you don't watch news on TV you'll find that TV journalists have researched the news you find in other sources.
Most programs on the public channels can be watched/listened to by the disabled (subtitles, audio descriptions). There's the idea of solidarity behind it, it's like a tax.
I also find quite a few things I am not happy with, but in general I really like this system and whenever I watch TV (rather than Netflix and so forth) I choose public programs: news, documentaries etc.
That's correct and it's not popular. But I think it's worth it.
It should by 1/3 by it, paid by taxes and not leftwing political ideology.
if "entertainment" programs would be cut out, the needed budget would be a fraction of what it is now. Then I would not mind paying like 3-5€ a month. Better would be if they take the money from taxes so that it reflects the income better. 17€ a month is a lot of money for a person of low income.
@@TheAkbar23 leftwing political ideology? So, are you rooting for more TV like the US FOX Channel?
@@Cera3 There are a few possibilities to have the GEZ checked and, if necessary, to apply for an exemption or reduction.
I haven't watched TV in about 17 years and I still get excited when I see it's 20:15 cause now I could maybe catch a good movie.
Lylair Oder einen weiteren schlechten Tatort wo man nach fünf Minuten auf einen anderen Kanal oder Netflix schaltet. Ach ja, deutsches Kulturgut wo man besser die alten gucken sollte.
About the weird scheduling and starting times in germany:
I think you gotta look at it differently. Why is it always half and full hours a show starts at in the US? It is because of the local channels and affiliates the networks have in the US. You need a highly modular interchangeable programm and schedule, so that each channel can build their daily schedule and prime time, provided by their prime time partner network, syndication deals and individual local programming.
The German channels can schedule the whole day without thinking about external companies that fill many slots in their programming.
The foreign shows might not provide enough run time to fill the whole hour, or sometimes HBO shows are longer than an hour. Usually they do not get cut. It could even be the case that a show is not popular enough to fill all the commercial slots.
On top of that, there are plenty of regulations on how many ads you are allowed to show. So either you have to fill the gap with actual conetent to line up or you start earlier. The answer then is simple - you start earlier. There are a few alignment points though - 20:15 being the major one.
There was frequently conflict between the US (international standard) and German time slots, in both ways. Famous educational children's show "Sendung mit der Maus" was shown in 30 min. For international release, it needed to be cut down to 23/22 min. Fortunately, since the structure of it in segments, the way they did it was that Germany got an additional short segment. Nowadays, the German and international version are the same, with padding (from the show's hosts) outside of the proper show to fill up the full half hour.
Back in the day, runtime of US shows was much longer. Almost 50 min late 60s/early 70s, 46-48 min early 1980s, only reaching 45 min late 1980s. Many of those shows were shown on (back then, only public) German TV in time slots of HARD 45 min, no commercial breaks. Magnum, for instance, where they removed all his Vietnam flashbacks.
Very insightful. I love that you actually research everything first and then Form an opinion based on your research. Unlike most channels, you actually try to understand where each culture comes from.
When I watched American television, I found the commercial breaks to be actually more intrusive, even though technically they amount to be less than in Germany, due to the fact that they occur more frequently. Longer commercial breaks allow the viewer to take a pee break or get some snacks, which of course defies the purpose of the commercial from the network's point of view, whereas shorter breaks, during which only one or two spots are shown, force the viewer to sit through them in order not to miss anything of the actual program.
Keep up the positivity and the great content!
"Tatort" started in 1970,
"The Simpsons" in 1998!
Calling something "old" is kind of "relative" as Einstein would say...
The first episode of The Simpsons aired in 1989, but yes, still relative! 😅
But than a again, Tatort doesn't have the same cast each episode. It's much, much more episodic than the run-off-the-mill show.
@@Tybalt-si9wf kind of the same. Same in Hamburg, same in Münster, and so on.
With exceptions to retirement. That's real life.
Die Simpsons gibt es seit 1991 in Deutschland.
@@leuchte82 Du kennst Dich aus! Top!👍
German television is a big part of how I learned to speak German as a child.
The thing to remember about swearing is that different languages have a varying emphasis. Germans are pretty casual about the F-word for various reasons:
1: It's an english swear and it being foreign means it just doesn't hit as hard. If anything, I think a lot of film makers are less hesitant to drop an F bomb compared to native german swears.
2: There is a difference in swear culture across languages. German swears tend to be more fecal whereas english swears are often more sexual in nature.
3: I think a lot of the american approach to avoiding swears (and nudity, for that matter) comes from religious conservatives, particularily the protestant evangelical ones. In germany, almost all christians are either roman catholics or lutheran protestants, both of which tend to be a lot more casual about those things and also both of which don't have all that much political sway.
There's always some arguments on presentations of nudity in the media, but as I like to say: Most of us not only get to see but also interact with female breasts every day within the first few months of our lifes, so the assertion that they would somehow be unsuitable for younger audiences seems a bit far-fetched if you really think about it.
After all, the reason clothing exists is not that people really didn't want others to see their naughty bits, but rather that it could get a bit drafty and that various dangling parts could get in the way.
The most prominent difference between american and German tv to me surely are the commercials for medical products. 😆 the listing of potential side effects in the us is downright scary to listen to, i prefer the disclaimer of 'fragen Sie ihren Arzt oder Apotheker'!
Fressen sie den Beipackzettel und im Fall von Nebenwirkungen schlagen sie Arzt und Apotheker!
@@brittakriep2938 👍🤣
By now, with much protest from the conservative political side, changed to a more gender neutral conforming version. "Fragen Sie Ihre Ärztin, Ihren Arzt, oder in Ihrer Apotheke." Yes, apothecaries actually complained because they are not explicitly mentioned anymore, and some Doctor's association wondered if it's OK to mention the female doctor first.
Especially with elders it sometimes is impolite to call someone between 2000 and 2015, because the Tagesschau is on. Usually you would wait until 2015 to grab the phone. But that sort of politeness is not so common anymore.
The difference in length of these shows is quite common throughout Europe, and it's a fundamental cultural difference. The US is accustomed to "instant gratification" so they rush through the baking, dancing, and whatnot, to get to the point relatively fast, US tv also uses much faster cutting, try and count things like number of camera cuts, length of each camera stream being uninterrupted, and how often cuts are embellished (flashes, infocards, replays etc.) US tv is super scared of you being bored, so they bombard viewers with a constant stream of information, so it's hard to enjoy the actual show. in contrast you have the extreme norwegian slow tv, like 10 hour train trips, no comments, no breaks, only station names popping up.
Offended by nudity in german TV? That's nothing compared to french (or scandinavian) telesivion... 😁
Its strange nacked bodys are bad but violance is good. I prefer a nice naked body over a murder...
@@grandloser28 That's simply puritanian legacy... 😣
@@petereggers7603 Yeah a Nation founded by religios extremists...
@@grandloser28 looks like... 😊
Oh, late in the evening you can even watch soft porn on German TV. I remember my Grandmother telling me that she has finally seen "Tutti Frutti" (for those who don't know, that was a show which featured striptease) and was shocked that everyone was completely naked. When I looked up what she actually watched I figured it was the "masterpiece" "Ich glaub my Straps funkt SoS." ("I think my thong signals SOS.")
The main difference is, that you come cloth to the truth about the world, when you see German TV. Not so in the US, where you see 99 percent about the US and nearly nothing about the rest. Even after legends like Scholl Latour have died, you can still find high quality like "Le monde diplomatique" on the German/French station ARTE or documentations on PHOENIX.
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"Tagesschau" was originally named for "Wochenschau", the weekly newsreel that was still common in cinemas in the era when television began.
You missed the Sex-Toy commercials being broadcasted at every time of the day.
Es rappelt im Karton, Ton, Ton, Ton, Ton.
@@MissDatherinePierce oh shut up please. I hate These comercials
Ich hasse diese Werbungen...
@@MissDatherinePierce das fiel mir gerade ein. Furchtbar!!!
20:15 is the time after the daily main news "Tagesschau" which runs from 20:00 to 20:15.
It's the start of the late evening block.
Starting times after that depend on the movie / show / documentary coming on then.
Usual movie lengths are 90, 100, 120 minutes.
Usually around 21:45, 22:00, 22:15 there was a second news / political opinion show, first mostly only on weekends.
Those times and time blocks have historical reasons.
The second state TV (ZDF) started having their news at 19:00 or 19:30 to avoid airing concurrently to the ARD Tagesschau.
The schedule of the daily program also is caused by this fact, so all programs of one station are in sync and they do not need a filler for a quarter of an hour or something like that. Also the amount of commercial breaks differ a little bit from the time slot a program got, a show aired at prime time has more and /or longer breaks, than its rerun in the night time
Tagesschau still has highest viewer quota every day. So no TV Channel dares to mess with the Tagesschau.
@@mfischer5084 Except for some, who are cheeky enough to start their news at 19:55, in the hope of scooping the Tagesschau on important issues 😄
@@lenkacfk7155 Yep. It didn't work, though. Tagesschau is still the most viewed news broadcast.
@@mfischer5084 , yes, I'm totally programmed for 8 pm news, too - even though I actually like heute on zdf better, by now, but I always miss 7 pm and have to watch them online later.
A really cool tv show was "Wetten dass...!?" which lasted the whole evening. I miss that show. I don't really watch tv anymore, but recently during the election I watched some US channels, and I couldn't stand the frequency of commercials and it was always the same spots, too :O
Private channels are NOT free. Why? I pay with my time, I pay with being targeted by special commerials, consumer analysis, etc.
Nothing in life is free, not even death. You pay with your life.
They are free of immediate cost, i.e., you can watch their program without paying for it. (There are some exceptions, such as Sky, where you have to pay to view.)
Also, what you describe is essentially the same „non-free“ as for the public channels, although they will run less commercials and none after 8PM.
You also pay when shopping. All the money spent on advertising for brand names is put on the price tag on the shelves.
When reading the comments I realized one thing which might be of importance:
Many Germans said "I will never understand why nudity is worse than violence". (I share that thouhgt, I am German.) In the comments from Americans I saw that they mostly mean "having sex" when talking about nudity. In German eyes, nudity and sex are not the same. Nudity is a very natural thing. We are all born nude, this is how God created us. And yes, sure we may think about sex when seeing a nude person, because our society is not a naked one like some indigenous peoples are. I just want to stress out that "nudity" in German TV at prime time does not mean "sexual action". After 10pm there might be some "erotic action" but this is still not "porn" according to the German definition of porn. Porn is the most explicit showing of a sexual action thinkable. And still forbidden in the "öffentlich rechtliches Fernsehen" as well as in the "free" broadcaster's" shows.
When we talk about "there is nudity in German TV at prime time" it means........maybe a naked body is found in a crime series........and one will see it lying half in a creek, half on a rock from some distance. Or maybe at the coroner's table. Not for long. Just because this is like it would be "in real".
And yes, after 10pm there might be some stations airing what we call "Softporn". Where naked bodys can be shown having sexual actions, but where showing of genitals is not allowed.
In the comments some Americans claim that nudity may affect their children more and worse than violence........and I would agree if we were talking about sexual actions, full porn like on x hamster or alike. Yesssss, yes yes. But we are just talking about nudity. Maybe about a woman being disturbed in her sleep by a doorbell, and filmed while she gets up (topless) and slips inside her shirt before opening the door. I am really convinced that THIS moment will never ever influence a child worse than any demons making bloody prey or phsychopaths slaughtering their neighbours one by one with a chainsaw!
So true. I never understood the "nudity equals sex" school of thought, that seems to be standard in the USA.
Tatort has been running 16 years longer than the Simpsons and has been on air each Sunday for 48 years now.
With the same theme music and prelude ...
About commercial breaks timing: 12 minutes refer only to the commercials that are paid for. You cannot count the promos for their own programming.
Tagesschau is THE news broadcasting show in germany. It's the gold standard. Back in the day, EVERYONE gathered together to watch the news.... because there were just the ARD. Then the regional broadcasters started and instead of becoming some sort of "competitor", they just send the Tagesschau their channels.
But why do other broadcasters and private broadcasters follow these rules even today? Because the Tagesschau are STILL the gold standard in news and the most trusted piece of TV event possible. Then the privat broadcasters started, they realized, that the majority of their viewers switched over to ARD to watch Tagesschau at 20:00. That's why nothing "important" or "expensive" will be aired during Tagesschau.... and Sportschau, esp. when during Olympic Games or FiFA/UEFA Championships.
And that’s so I retesting for us because instead in the US, every channel will have their own competing local news stations to give the updates on the day!
Most channels DO have their own news station... but still, Tagesschau are the gold standard. Noone is able to reach the importance of that.
@@PassportTwo i already have written a long text as another comment. those stations "Die Dritten" each have the regional news, some of them have even more local splits to show really "very local" news (only for half an hour daily, directly before the 20.00 Tagesschau, which then is shown on ALL of those stations), eg RBB has two for Berlin and Brandenburg, BR has two for Nord and Süd, NDR and MDR each have four such "substations" for the different states that they cover, and WDR has even 10 or 11 such regional stations. usually sometime during the night all of those separate "very local" news broadcasts are repeated one after the other on that "Drittes".
nowadays (receiving TV via internet) most people have access to all of those "Dritte" and even to all those regional substations. that's why it's also difficult to tell how many programs we can receive: do you count "Die Dritten" as one station (probably not), or as 9 (or only 7 if you consider RB=NDR and SR=SWR), or you count each of them to get maybe 30 "Dritte", and that doesn't yet include the two variants each of them has for picture quality SD and HD :-)
You will see all the movies in the private programs begin at 20:15
Disagree. The Tagesschau is not politically neutral any more.
I never get why the F-Word is considered so bad in the US, that it has to be censored or R-rated.
You can just say Fuck in stead of "the F-word"
Saying Fuck in English sounds to them like saying FIcken in German - you rarely hear that on TV.
That's because US tv is f***ed up itself.
@@trueamnisias na ja, Fuck wird im englischen viel mehr im Sinne gebraucht wie "scheiße" bei uns. Also einfach nur als Schimpfwort und nicht als "ficken" im Sinne von Geschlechtsverkehr. Insofern kann ich nicht verstehen, wieso Fuck immer in den US Shows ausgeblendet wird. Zumal ja eh jeder weiß, was da gerade gesagt wurde und dann mit beeeb übertönt wurde.
@@trueamnisias Here you can hear it on TV: just listen to Manuel Neuer : ruclips.net/video/b87DL7XREU4/видео.html
We've got private TV stations only in the 80s - there was no private stations prior to that.
Also, we only had terrestrial broadcasting using antennas to receive it. That's why we have so many regional "3rd" programs run by the different counties. Terrestrial broadcast has a limited physical range.
Besides, we didn't have any funding by advertisements that interrupt the content - in fact, that concept was and still is highly annoying.
We had advertisements in a separate 10-15 minute time block between major programme broadcasting blocks, but never interrupting content.
Oh, and the fee you need to pay is for paying all the actors, film production, authors, reporters, journalists, and staff who all is involved in creating movies, shows, documentaries, and and and ... Really QUALITY content.
No corporations get to influence the content that way.
The "3rd" programs were not invented because of the limited range of terrestrial broadcasting, but because there should be a program with more local aspects. Culture is the behalf of the Länder (federal states).
Technically, since satellite and cable they can be received all over the country.
1.1.1984 to be exact. That was when Sat1 and RTL started broadcasting; and they remained dubious for quite some time.
But that said, 24 hours TV program is also pretty new here.
@@HolgerJakobs Ever thought about the cold war era, when all our distributed federal systems were established? It wasn´t only in order to prevent a strong central governed country and to introduce more checks-and-balances to politics, but it was also in preparation for the "Ernstfall" - if half the country was nuked by the Soviets and you still have an independently working infrastructure on state level - including broadcast service.
@@johannesheinsohn6956 The "3rd" programs were introduced long after the federal system was established and not related to the cold war.
@@HolgerJakobs
Establishment of the 3rd TV programmes in West Germany was in 1964-1965 done by the regional public broadcasting services (Landesrundfunkanstalten) which were established right after WWII. Additional regional public broadcasting services were founded right after the German unification in 1990 and added into the preexisting ARD system.
Sources:
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landesrundfunkanstalt (German only)
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drittes_Fernsehprogramm (German only)
The cold war era is
"12 March 1947 to the dissolution of the Soviet Union on 26 December 1991"
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_War
"Yes" to the first part of your sentence, definate "No" to the second
The reason you have to pay for TV licence is that you can watch all of the excellent content online on youtube or the station's websites. Excellent documentaries, educational TV, funny shows, etc. All for free online, sometimes geo-blocked. But that's why you can't hide behind "i own no tv".
that is just one reason to the damn fees.
the other one is, that in it's infants, there weren't enough frequencies available, and so this fees became a criteria to sort out the competitors.
since ARD feared, that their concept wouldn't hold up to other channels, they struck this licensing deal with German authorities.
Very similar to Greece: cursing and nudity are not uncommon.
I remember the time when the first commercial tv stations popped up in Germany, there was only one longer block of commercials during shows or movies, in the middle of the runtime. So whatever you were watching got basically split in half. But then it turned out that people were going to the toilet or to make some food or doing something else during the single break rather than watch commercials, so they changed it to two smaller blocks of commercials roughly a quarter and 3 quarters of the way in. But now it's mostly several blocks of ads spread out through the programming, depending on the time of day (more during prime time shows, only little ad breaks during nightly reruns). I am so happy for my pay tv without ads :-)
Funnily enough, GEZ also pays for quite a few RUclips channels.
Private TV channels can only have 12 minutes of advertisements within 1 hour but "hour" does not mean "from one top of the hour to the next top of the hour". They can decide to start the hour whenever they want. If they have a very popular show from 2 pm to 3 pm then they start the first hour at 1.30 and show one block of ads at 2.10 pm, then start the next hour at 2.30 pm and show another block of ads at 2.45 pm.
Ah! That’s maybe us thinking in our American TV scheduling mindset again that the hour has to mean the top of the hour. Thanks! 😃
Didn't Brussels change the rules to 17 mins can be commercials per 60 min?
And still sometimes I get the feeling, that the private stations are bending as much as possible. For example the last season of "The Masked Singer" the ads were very annoying. I did some time taking there for "fun": 11 minutes were assigned as "Werbung" with a short Start and End clip. Then there were 3 minutes of annoucements for coming up shows (including show specific sponsors => more ads), and then 2 more minutes of TMS specific sponsor ads (1 minute before the adverts, 1 minute before the next part of the show). And then now and then those small clips annotated with "only on clip" and a seconds countdown. I wouldn't be surprised, if everything is according to the rules, because there are only 11 minutes of advertising...
@@ChristophWerner1975LX was it on one of the RTL channels? Aren't they on Luxemburg law?
@@dutchgamer842 No. "The Masked Singer" is broadcast by ProSieben.
RTL (Germany) started in Luxembourg, but moved 1988 to Cologne, Germany, and is under german law since then.
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The example you showed with dubbing is frowned upon as "MTV dubbing", with the original audio not wiped away.
Usually German TV is dubbed "clean", and German dubbing-studios will actually work for foreign language versions at times.
Bernd das Brot. -Now you are getting german. There was another thing before that with a guy standing around in a bathrobe in a grill-place chatting with the owner while another dude just stood around drinking beer. "Dittsche"
I love it when people notice those little Easter eggs we edit into our videos 😊
@@PassportTwo Oh... Make a "special" about Bernd das Brot.
I mean ... can you describe German humor better than with Bernd?
@@ulliulli Alle zusammen tanzt das Brot! ruclips.net/video/lQ7gDjcTsQI/видео.html
But "Dittsche" was a real show. Wasn't it? Berndt is more like a extra long break filler on permanent loop.
The funny thing is that Bernd is a puppet on a children channel but the main target audience are adults.
The TV license fee is also to support the fourth estate, and not only to help produce programs. Which is why you have to pay even if you don’t watch TV or listen to the radio.
I think it’s important to add that in our German public broadcasting system , we have a board of representatives of all ALL political parties to guarantee a non-biased agenda, especially when it comes to news: anything heinous like FOX NEWS would not be acceptable in Germany.
Bullshit, die gleichgeschalteten Lügen-Medien für betreutes Denken sind nicht neutral, das zeigt schon die Besetzung des Fernsehrats mit regierungsnahen Politikern und Gehirnwäsche ala Goebbels. Verlogener Dreck ist das. Korrupte Verbrecherbande. Deutschland ist Zensur-Weltmeister.
BILD TV
Ha! I used to live in Germany years ago, my father was stationed there during the cold war. Our first station was Berlin, during the time of "The Wall" British Forces Broadcasting Service were not broadcasting there but we had American Forces Network, that's where I had my first experience of "Sesame Street" (It took me ages to stop pronouncing "Z" as "zee" instead of "Zed"). On top of that we used to get East German TV (I still have fond memories of "The Sandman") When we returned to Germany again we were stationed in Nord-Rhine West Pfaltz (Near the Dutch Border) In the Netherlands they do not dub programmes , but use sub-titles, so we could watch English language programmes
Just for explanation... 20:15 is historical grown as there were no private tv channels. 20:00-20:15 was the time were families sat together and watch the news. Until today the „Tagesschau“ is one of the most viewed news. Other tv channels have adapted to it. No one switches to view a movie that is already running 15 minutes. So that time never changed and probably never will. Nice video and nice bloopers in the end :D
German smartass here. Getting my 2c in. in multiple parts
1. Public TV vs. Private TV.
For quite a while after WW2 the german public was mostly content with having basically 3 TV channels. Yes, you read that right. 3....in writing three channels. Channel #1 was the ARD, mostly viewed as the "more conservative" (for german measures), while channel #2 was the ZDF (or second german TV), a little more leaning to the "left". Channel #3 had program slotswith info from the state you live in, but took most of its program from the ARD.
Private TV started in the mid-80s and quickly gained ratings in the entertainment sector of broadcasting. Whereas the mission of Public TV was to not just entertain but to primarily educate. Hence there are Documentaries, political news shows, comedy shows (NOT the style of comedy you americans are used to but heavily critical political satire shows. "The Daily Show with John Steward" is a good example, but would be considered lighthearted compared to others. And no, we do not have standup.), nature films and whatnot all over the place. And like it or not, you HAVE to pay for it. There is (currently) NO way to avoid it. There have been and still are heated debates going on about the legalities and the moral obligation to pay. It went so far as there have been several appeals to the Bundesverfassungsgericht (our Supreme Court) to get rid of it completely or make paying optional. Bus so far to no avail. This is a biiiiiiiiiig can of worms.
2. Advertising on TV
Public and Private TV stations both use adverts to make revenues. But the main difference is that Public TV may not show ads in the Prime Time TV slots. One reason is they are already publicly funded. Another is that Prime Time is not soley reserved for entertainment shows but for others as well and they cannot be interrupted by a commercial during a poltical debate. They kinda try to circumvent by having their shows sponsored by some company.
Private stations can advertise around the clock. But there is a limit to how long and how often. As i recall the limit for longer shows and movies is that for every 45 minutes or fraction thereof of net running time you get a max of 15 minutes of commercial time. So a 45 minute show could extend to 1 hour.
3. When does Prime Time start and why?
As you so keenly observed Prime time starts at 8:15 pm. Why? Because at that time most working people were home from shifts and they could catch the News at 8. This is important cos back in the days this was the ONLY news source they had. And the stations quickly noticed that people rather miss the first part of a show (even major movies) than miss the news. So they bumped up the Prime Time slot to 20:15. Incidentially the news show on the ZDF started at 19:00 and lasted about 20-25 minutes including the weather report. After that there are 2 "pre-primetime" shows and then the Big Thing at 20:15. And its the same for private TV as well. They discovered that people wanted to watch news at 20:00 so they jumped on the bandwagon.
4. Censorship
The German Constitution clearly states that any form of governmental censorship is unconstitutional and forbidden. HOWEVER! German law also has the Jugendschutzgesetz (Child Protection Act). This set of laws regulates what can and cannot be shown to minors depending on their age. It regulates access for minors to all kinds of things, not just TV content. Access to tobacco, alcohol or erotic or pornografic content is limited by age. Regarding TV the time up to 20:00 is deemed "children's time" so children in the legal term (up to age 16) are considered to be watching and content not deemed appropriate to that age group cannot be shown. After 20:00 when the children are in bed it is believed that only adults and minors are watching. Minors in this case being age 16-18, anyone over the age of 18 is consdered an adult. After 22:00 usually the minors are in bed too to get up for school early in the morning. So with them out of the picture its a free for all. That is when the phone sex ads on tv start airing.
5. Sex, nudity, cursing and violence
Lets start with cursing and the "7 Dirty Words". Thanks George Carlin. First and foremost there are NO dirty words. And therefore no bleeping. None, nada, zilch! If you wanna say Fuck you say Fuck. You don't say [CENSORED]. Also nobody has a problem with it. Nobody uses the phrase "The F-Word" or "The N-Word". No need to be a fucking pussy about it cos we already know what it means anyway. And we DON'T CARE! Its just words, for cryin out loud. Funny anecdote: A buddy of mine was stationed on guard duty at Rammstein Air Base. Cos he got along with the boys pretty nicely he got invited to beer and a movie after shift. The movie was Pulp Fiction. My buddy happened to know that movie by heart and he was ....SHOCKED as how the movie was butchered by the american censors. It was "bleep" "bleep" "bleep" "bleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep". Next day he brought a DVD and showed the boys how that movie really sounded. Needless to say their jaws ....dropped.
Lets go to nudity now. Being nude is not a big deal in germany. Not at all. When you go to the beaches you see people going topless all the time on a hot summers day. And the girls do it too. Overall there is far less body shaming in germany than in the us. This is also why you can have nudity on TV. Tho not on small children's time, but close to prime time. The reasoning behind this is that youngsters watching are mature enough to understand. I'll talk about maturety levels in my next point. So on to sex on TV. Same with nudity there is no big deal with having sex. Be it in the bedroom or on (the) TV. It depends on the depiction of sex. You will NEVER find hardcore porn on german TV. Nope, njet, just feeeeeergeddid. Also you will not find porn sold in kiosks or bookstores. This is sold exclusively in Sexshops. Yes, that's what Adult Stores are called over here. Again, no pussyfooting, just callem what they are. Erotic books or girly mags like Playboy are sold over the counter in kiosks and bookstores, but cos of Jugendschutz (JuSchG) they are kept out of arm's and eye's reach of children. Erotic movies like "9 1/2 Weeks" or "Liebesgrüsse aus der Lederhose", "Basic Instinct", "Body of Evidence" and the like run at the 22:00 slot. And just for info, none of this is considered porn, softcore or otherwise. There is a clear definition of what is porn. Everything else is NOT. There is no such thing as "softcore pregnancy". Either you are pregnant or you are not. In the 20:15 time slot you won't find even that. Yes, there will be sex scenes in movies, speciall in german movies, but they are mostly on american romcom level....so only alluded to and very, veeeeeeery awkward. What's with the wrapping the sheets when she gets up the next morning? I mean what is she afraid of? That the guy will see her completely naked? Come oooon, they did have sex all night, he was inside of her, can't get any more intimate than that, can it? Or is it "I seen some boobs, i'm scarred for life"? "Wardrobe malfunction" anyone? You guys come across as incredibly prudish, you know?
On the other hand, violence on TV. While germany does not have that much of a problem with a little skin we do however have when it comes to blood and gore. I'm not really sure how it came to be but germans in general have a bigger problem taking life than making it. Maybe we have seen enough of it after WW2 and the sentiment that violence is bad kinda stuck. Dunno, its just the way it is. This also kind of explains germany's strict gun laws. but that is a totally different can of worms i will not open.
I have not owned a television for about 12 years. My computer and internet access is all I need.😄
I want to get to know you and marry you
*Even if you don't have a television, you have to pay the GEZ.*
@@NicholasCorvin I also don't have a car and yet I pay taxes from which roads are built.
Who cares? Either we have a society or we live as egomaniacs in anarchy in which everyone is only interested in himself. This small-minded crying leads to nothing.
@@yasminesteinbauer8565 *So you have paid the GEZ, right? Sorry, if I misunderstood your first statement...*
@@NicholasCorvin Yes sure I did. I thought this is one of those typical comments that cry terribly about it and therefore compare Germany with North Korea etc.😅
For the schedule: One thing you have to know is, that the amount of advertising time is limited per hour and per minute. So, if you have a movie which lasts 94 minutes, you just can't fill up with advertisements. For the public channels (those where you pay for), it is not allowed to have ads after 20:00 (8pm). So if a movie lasts 94 minutes, the next show starts 94 minutes after the previous one.
Its NOT SOCCER!!!!! Its Football. Dammit!
Fußball /Fussball
Donnie's very well aware of that as you can see from him winking.
Plus: Soccer was the original Englisch term for the sports so actually the Americans aren't that far off.
@@midasflocht9761 No, the original name of the game is "football. " It is however true that the name "soccer" originated in England.
At one point in the 19th century, the sport of football split into two versions: the version played by the "Football Association", called "Association Football", and the version called "Rugby Football" - from which American Football, Canadian Football and other "football" games developed.
So "football" was an ambiguous term early on, so you'd sometimes have to specify which version you meant - association football or rugby football. The boys on the street would call them "asoccer" and "rugger" for short, with the initial "a" of "asoccer" eventually getting dropped.
At the end of the day, the most popular "football" game always gets the "football" name. In England, "football" means association football. In the US, it means American football. In New Zealand, "football" means rugby football, etc
100% of the Brits would agree on that.
@@midasflocht9761 No. The original English term is Association Football, derived from The Football Association, to have a distinction from Rugby Football which again is split in Rugby League and Rugby Union. Soccer is just an abbreviated slang term for Association Football which didn't survive in Britain because Association Football became simply football and Rugby Football became simply rugby.
Yes, several countries have tv licence fees. The UK one is about $200 pa and pays for commercial-free BBC broadcasts on 13 national tv channels, 17 national radio channels, 9 national radio channels between Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, and 33 English local radio stations. In total, the BBC broadcasts in six languages on British tv, and in 60 languages on world radio. All is paid for by the licence fee.
Dubbing in Germany is so far evolved that it isn't rare to discusse which voice is better, the orignal or the dub version.
Bruce Willis is a good excample, the german version is deffintely a better action star voice.
In comedy do germans translate jokes or they use german pop culture references?
@@naughtygawd3269 A little bit of both I would say.
Diffirent Factors are of course going to be considered, like is the joke important for the plot, is it understandable for the audience.
But nomarly the german dub Version is at least as good as the original. Of course there are some cases where it isn't, like in the anime dubbing they deffintly still need improvement. But there also some cases where the dub version is even better then the original, like the TV-Serie 'Hogans Heroes'/'Ein Käfig voller Helden'.
@@xehanotmelodic7696 ...and not to forget "The Crusaders"/"Die Zwei", a boring show in English, the story doesn't improve but the dialogues in German were funny.
The first regular broadcasting was in Germany. It starts at Berlin in 1936 for the olympic games
The ARD has a amazing network of correspondents and studios all over the world that report for news and documentaries. One good collection of their often very interesting background stories is shown in the program „Weltspiegel“.
diese woche im weltspiegel: usa der wahlkampf geht weiter - uae marsmission der frauen - et hiopia der kampf um tigray - indonesien corona auf bali
But the quality and intensity of reporting does not really reflect that. 5 sentences about an active scene is not enough if they only describe what happened. Every other reporter is telling the same content. I want background and not the same pictures as everyone. And to tell me there was e.g. a shooting/explosion in Iran is all I get, so what. Happens thousand times everwhere.
Here i good as an example of the "high US standards" for international correspondents, a job description by the New York Times for a foreign correspondent position in Moscow. They hire the most brainwashed, and biased writers they can get. Those who tell any lie required to support the world view of their editors and media owners. And they are quite upfront about it:
"Russia Correspondent Job Description
Vladimir Putin’s Russia remains one of the biggest stories in the world.
It sends out hit squads armed with nerve agents against its enemies, most recently the opposition leader Aleksei Navalny. It has its cyber agents sow chaos and disharmony in the West to tarnish its democratic systems, while promoting its faux version of democracy. It has deployed private military contractors around the globe to secretly spread its influence. At home, its hospitals are filling up fast with Covid patients as its president hides out in his villa.
If that sounds like a place you want to cover, then we have good news: We will have an opening for a new correspondent as Andy Higgins takes over as our next Eastern Europe Bureau Chief early next year."
You better don't expect unbiased information from this correspondent.
lmao omg i love the nytimes now
About the TV licence: Germany once had a system based on who has a TV, however that definition was getting extremely complicate and de facto only let people of the line, who have absolutely no media usage (and those isn't exactly the kind of lifestyle, you want to encourage…), so they switched to "everybody has to pay". The only exception left is when you are blind or deaf. If you life on welfare, it's just payed by the welfare system.
For the commercial timing, only the advertising for other products is calculated, not the programming information -and also the channels constantly search for loopholes and from time to time just break those rules.
and I'm quite sure that only real ads are counted - not program previews.
Today, a lot of people stream to computers or tablets, so they don't own a dedicated device for TV or radio programs. In the past, you could look into a household and count the number of radios and TVs (the inspectors for the TV licence were allowed to do that) and say 'you'll pay for that many devices,' but not any longer. That's why we now simply have that 'everyone pays the same amount' thing. They changed it when watching TV on smartphones or computers became more of a thing.
I always wonder if American parents blindfold their child when it needs to go potty or take a bath / shower?
Seriously if nudity and sex are worse than violence, Americans should reconsider getting children especially when the time comes to explain to them how a baby is made!
Your videos are really picking up steam now! It's easy to find run-of-the-mill videos about food shopping, the coin in the shopping cart, etc - buy you guys are providing super interesting info. Thank you so much!
Thanks so much for that 😃
wow. thats cheap. In Austria we have to pay about twice of that for our public-service television channels.. (ORF1/ORF2)..
Also our public-service channels are not allowed to interrupt shows for commercials, they are only aired between the shows.
-The rest is - like you might have guessed - mostly the same as in germany.
According to Wikipedia, you pay (on average) 23€ per month. And at least you don't have to pay at all (or just for radio) if you don't own a TV.
@@eto6197 Now i just had to look it up. Yes, you are right. its a bit more in Vienna, but that seems right. I thought its double, because they charged me every two months for it.
What I like about ORF however is that you can often choose between watching the dubbing and the original. It is also funny when they air a movie one or two days apart from a German private tv channel or even at the same time. It is like "you can either go to them and waste your time with commercials ORRRR you could just watch it with us."
But this is ONLY due to the number of inhabitants.
Around 9 million instead of 83 million.
If all Germans had to pay for ORF, it would be just under €3 per month.
Tatort ist on the 29. November 2020 exactly 50 years on air.
Why Germans love these police series? They are like church ceremony for elderly. Even if police cant do jack in the street, at least in fiction crime and violence gets "punished"
@@pexxajohannes1506 Do they? German TV producers are not very inventive. They fear to make something new which fails, so they stick to "well-established" stuff like crime fiction, political talk, folk music shows, game shows, soap, historical documentary etc. Everything else like science fiction, fantasy or sitcom is imported.
BTW: my favourite crime fiction show is Columbo and no German crime fiction can compare to that.
One reason for the "weird" times is that you can shuffle around adtimes between shows.
Like you said there are certain allowed lengths per hour, but if a show starts at lets say 18:45 and runs to 20:30 it can have an extra length adbreak just before 19:00 then 2 regular ones at 19:25 and 19:50 with the final break after 20:15.
That way the channels can give a more popular show more time to generate revenue without breaking the rules.
I think the crooked start times on German television are mainly due to the fact that there is relatively little advertising on television. In the USA, the difference to the full hour is then simply filled up with advertising.
"Schlag den Raab/Star" has had 5.5h episodes 😂
This Thing with the whierd Times is because of work and School Times here in Germany its so layed that you can begin a New Show when you come Home.
Interesting comparison! I think you have missed to point out the role of the ZDF, the second column of Germany's public broadcast system. (Or have I missed it?)
Your channel is actually the best video Germany guide..... so detailed and soooooo much knowledge, it is incredible!
Because of two Americans I now know what ARD stands for... or maybe I have already forgotten it because the acronym is so long and cumbersome to remember ;)
Sometimes, when I don't know what to do but do not yet feel sleepy enough, I will just browse through the different channels and programs running. Usually - at the next advertisement break I will change the channel again. That goes on until I get "stuck" wit ARD, ZDF, 3SAT, or one of the "third programs" (BR, HR, SWR, NDR, MDR, ...) because I find something I like and I am not interrupted by commercials.
Wir streamen fast nur noch. Das passt besser zu einem individuellen Lifestyle. Aber wir streamen auch viel öffentlich-rechtlich wie Tatort und Dokus. Tolles Video von euch .... Dankeschön.
Before the movie starts (from 10 pm) there is always a warning: This film is not suitable for viewers under 16 or 18 years.
If the program is to be broadcast earlier (before 10 pm), the scene must be cut out.
ALL films that are not from the fsf are ALWAYS released from the age of 18.
This also applies to games (including video games)
found, in German:found, in German: www.fsk.de/?seitid=508&tid=72
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altersfreigabe
Did any German here mention the 90's?
The good old times, where you have to RUN to the refrigerator and toilet because the commercials were only 5 minutes long?
Anyone???
Nope
Well, I remember German TV like that and even much different in the late 1960's. We only had two TV channels. We mostly watched AFN-TV provided by the Americans.
That wasn't dubbing, that was a voice over. A voice over is without regards to lips moving, actions, etc.
Dubbing is done by real actors, who know how to act. It's an important part of why German dubs are among the best (some say: ARE the best) of the world.
I don´t know how you watch TV, but I just witch my TV set on, select the channel of my choice and simply watch the program. And, yes, the content and structure may differ quite a lot to what is being force-fed to you guys!
Btw - the monthly fee is quite a common thing throughout Europe - Germany is actually on the cheaper end!
Here in Finland, we also used to have a TV license that had to be paid by everyone who owned a TV. There were inspectors who went to visit people who hadn't paid it to make sure that they really don't have a TV. That got changed at some point because nowadays TV channels can be viewed through a number of different devices; now the money that is used to fund the National Broadcasting Company (YLE) is gathered as a tax from everyone. In addition to TV and radio channels, they have their own streaming service that is available to everyone, and lots of useful stuff on their web pages.
The way I see it, the most important reason for the existence of tax-funded TV channels is that they provide content that commercial channels wouldn't. Things like news broadcasts in sign language and other minority languages. That sort of stuff doesn't make a profit, so commercial channels wouldn't do it. But they are very important for those groups of people who they concern.
About 30 years ago, I was in California for about 5 months on a language course. What shocked me most about American TV back then were the news. All the news that I was able to find on TV were local news. They were always about some local crimes. During that five months, I had absolutely no idea what was going on in the rest of the world. Or even in the rest of the US. That was a very odd experience. It was also very odd to me that the news were always about crime, because here in Finland, crime is usually not even considered "news". Crimes make news headlines here only if there is something really unusual about them.
As a German who pays GEZ every 3 months. I didn't know what ARD meant. I do know all the other ones I think...
In the Netherlands we pay it through our regular (annual) taxes. So, no need to look after that.
I think the reason for the weird timetable on german TV is that we use to show all shows or videos in their full length which isn't always in half hour steps and don't have many Commercial breaks in order to get back to timetable
For the record. "Dubbing" on TLC and alike keeps the original soundtrack in the background because it gives the show sort of an documentary style. That is btw. the way how many real documentaries are done: original voice and sound and a voice over on top.
But fictional movies and tv-shows are generally just the dubbing, so you don't have this weird "echo" in a foreign language.
The dubbing of Big Bang Theory led to a funny scene:
In the episode in which they play Dungeons and Dragons, Howard is doing voices. In the original he impersonates Christopher Walken for a dragon. However in the German version, Howard's voice actor takes a break and Sheldon's voice actor steps in and speaks as Howard as ... the voice of Leonardo DiCaprio. Why? Because Sheldon's regular voice actor is performing for DiCaprio since Titanic as well. And that's even funnier for us Germans because Sheldon then states "The dragon is Leonardo DiCaprio" with the voice of Leonardo DiCaprio but not really sounding like DiCaprio more like Sheldon (because the actor sounds a bit different from actor to actor). It's a joke that only works in German though. 😉
But there you see the quality because you don't directly recognize that an actor has the same voice as an other. Like in The Expandables in which both Stallone and Schwarzenegger are voiced by the same man. And he did many of the big names for decades. But he never sounds the same because voice acting means to sound slightly different from another "voice" - it took decades for me to discover that some voices are actually the same actor. Some are/were more noticeable but still sounded different and just right for a specific actor.
Other great german dubs: hogan's heroes, basically everything Bud Spencer and Terrence Hill... and quite a bit more.
quite different than alfs voice actor. he couldn't do another voice acting, without slapping the Alf label on that actor. xD
I remember many things that works better in German TV. The Benjamin Blümchen joke In SpongeBob. Or that the Breaking Bad joke in Zootopia actual worked in German because they had the Voice actors of the show. I watch Simpson rather in German than in English.
I heard a rumor that Clint Eastwood said he wished his voice was as good as the German voice actor.
One reason for the odd starting times - besides the basically mandatory short news shows that are broadcast (sometimes only 5 minutes or less) is something you already mentioned. Its the commercials. Since there are limits on how much advertizing can be done, it can not always be used to fill in the gaps between shorter shows. So a 42 minute show from the US cannot be filled up to a full hour with just advertisement - it will end up being maybe 50 minutes and then you have 10 minutes leftover, so the next show starts earlier than the full hour.
Nobody is so crazy to compete against the Tagesschau, a few channels tried that and failed,
it's the most important and serious news show.
The public channels have a Bildungsauftrag/ educational task and they are only allowed to make commercials between 6pm and 8pm.
A kids show i really like and recommend is
Die Sendung mit der Maus 🐭
It's very easy follow, they explain a lot and speak slowly.
The channels i highly recommend are Arte a German/French connection and 3sat a German/Swiss and Austrian mixed channel both have some very good and interesting documentaries about different topics like traveling, music, history, sexuality, art and much more and very good movies you will not see on private channels.
Know living in Vienna, i have so many TV channels with the digital box receiver that I don't need any online streaming.
Very popular in Germany are quiz shows and crime series.
Thanks so much for the very informative and helpful comment! We will check out your suggestions 😊
3Sat did broadcast some very fine live music on holidays, anything from AC/DC, Neil Young to Beyoncé.
@@PassportTwo I second Die Sendung mit der Maus. It is my to go recommendation for people who want to learn German, because it is a children show (so complicated words are explains), but it isn't dumbed down at all. A lot of Germans adult like to watch the show once in a while because their explanations are really interesting and still educational.
Btw, have you seen The Lives of Others/Das Leben der Anderen? The Movie is currently available on Netflix and easily one of the best German movies. I mean, it beat out Pan's Labyrinth at the academy award for best foreign picture, and it was a well deserved win. It shouold also be easy to understand for you, sence the characters speak most of the time very slow and deliberate.
Public broadcasting fees are common in almost every European country: UK, Germany, France, Switzerland, Austria. Btw, the prices in the UK and Germany are similar, Switzerland wants almost 400 euros each year and if you think German TV is bad, try Swiss TV.
Our commercial breaks are made to prepare and have a great dinner with invited guests, before the show goes on.
The financing of Public television has an historic background after WW2. Neither the government (no tax background), nor the industry (commercial background) can control this information channel to the public. Real independent media. That's why u get an extra letter. It's the most important thing of public German television. To report the facts no matter how is in charge.
My girlfriend was so confused by our censorship rules, we were watching Tatort and they showed a s*x scene, my girlfriend was a bit in Shock and it was normal for me