As one of the largest industrial nations and with the largest population in the European Union, Germany today offers a vast diversity of television stations.
Public channels
ARD
ARD, consortium of German public broadcasting services, consisting of the following public stations (which also provide regional programming in separate channels):
- Das Erste (The First) (ARD)
- ARD-alpha — German education channel, with TV courses
- One
- tagesschau24
- Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR)
- Hessischer Rundfunk (HR)
- Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk (MDR)
- Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR)
- Radio Bremen (RB)
- Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (RBB; established on 1 May 2003 from a merger of the former Sender Freies Berlin and Ostdeutscher Rundfunk Brandenburg)
- Saarländischer Rundfunk (SR)
- Südwestrundfunk (SWR; established on 1 October 1998 from a merger of the former Südwestfunk and Süddeutscher Rundfunk)
- Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR)
ZDF
ARD & ZDF
- KiKA Der Kinderkanal — public, non-commercial children's TV, with support of ARD and ZDF
- Arte — public Franco-German culture channel from ARD, ZDF and France Télévisions
- 3sat — cultural network from the ARD, ZDF, ORF (Austrian Broadcasting), and SRG (Swiss Broadcasting).
- Phoenix — public - with information, documentaries, news, jointly operated by ARD and ZDF
DFF (defunct)
- Deutscher Fernsehfunk or "Fernsehen der DDR" operated the two (now defunct) television networks of East Germany
Private channels (Free-TV)
RTL Deutschland
ProSiebenSat.1 Media
Paramount Global
Warner Bros. Discovery EMEA
- DMAX
- Eurosport 1
- TLC
- HGTV
- Tele 5
WeltN24
High View Group
- Crime Time
- Deluxe Music
- Deluxe Dance by Kontor
- Deluxe Flashback
- Deluxe Rap
- Deluxe Rock
- Hip Trips
- Just Cooking
- Just Fishing
- Serien+
- Schlager Deluxe
- Xplore
Others
Pay television channels
Sky
- Sky Cinema Premieren
- Sky Cinema Premieren +24
- Sky Cinema Action
- Sky Cinema Best Of
- Sky Cinema Classics
- Sky Cinema Family
- Sky Cinema Fun
- Sky Cinema Special
- Sky Cinema Thriller
- Sky Crime
- Sky Documentaries
- Sky Krimi
- Sky Nature
- Sky One
- Sky Replay
- Sky Showcase
- Sky Sport News
- Sky Sport Top Event
- Sky Sport Bundesliga 1 - 10
- Sky Sport Premier League
- Sky Sport F1
- Sky Sport Tennis
- Sky Sport Golf
- Sky Sport Mix
- Sky Sport UHD
- Sky Sport Bundesliga UHD
- Sky Sport 1 - 11
RTL Deutschland
ProSiebenSat.1 Media
Mainstream Media
Warner Bros. Discovery Germany
- Animal Planet Germany
- Discovery Channel Germany
- Eurosport 2
- Eurosport 2 Xtra
- Cartoonito
- Cartoon Network
- WarnerTV Comedy
- WarnerTV Film
- WarnerTV Serie
Paramount Global
NBCUniversal
High View Group
A&E Networks
- Crime + Investigation
- History
DAZN Group
Others
- Spiegel Geschichte (DE)
- Curiosity Channel (DE)
- Beate-Uhse.TV
- Kinowelt TV
- Motorvision+ (DE)
- Sportdigital
- Sportdigital EDGE
- Stingray Classica
- Blue Movie (DE)
- National Geographic Channel
- Nat Geo Wild
- Sport1+ (DE)
- eSports1 (DE)
Regional channels
- Baden TV
- HD Campus TV
- filstalwelle
- KraichgauTV
- L-TV
- Regio TV Bodensee
- Regio TV Schwaben
- Regio TV Stuttgart
- Rhein-Neckar Fernsehen
- RTF.1
- augsburg.tv
- Niederbayern TV Deggendorf-Straubing
- Franken Fernsehen
- Herzo.TV
- intv
- Niederbayern TV Landshut
- ITV Coburg + ITV info
- Kulmbach TV
- münchen.tv
- münchen2
- Oberpfalz TV
- Regionalfernsehen Oberbayern
- Niederbayern TV Passau
- allgäu.tv
- TV Oberfranken
- TV Mainfranken (tvm)
- TVA - TVAktuell
- Alex Offener Kanal Berlin (Wedding)
- Spreekanal
- BFtv
- Elbe-Elster-Fernsehen
- jüterbog-tv:
- KW-TV
- Lausitz TV
- luck-tv:
- Neiße Welle Guben (NWG)
- Oderland.TV
- Oder-Spree Fernsehen (OSF)
- Fernsehen für Ostbrandenburg (ODF)
- OHV TV
- PotsdamTV
- Usedom TV
- rangsdorf-tv:
- sabinchen-tv:
- SKB Stadtfernsehen Brandenburg
- Strausberg TV
- teltOwkanal
- tv-lu
- WMZ TV
- Radio Weser.TV
- Hamburg 1
- Tide (Bürger- und Ausbildungskanal)Tide TV
- noa4
- Offener Kanal Fulda
- Offener Kanal Gießen
- Offener Kanal Kassel
- Offener Kanal Offenbach/Frankfurt
- OF-TV
- rheinmaintv
- Rok-tv - FiSCH - TV Fernsehen in Schwerin
- Greifswald-TV
- Grevesmühlen-TV
- MV1
- neu'eins
- rok-tv
- Rügen TV & Stralsund TV
- tv.rostock
- TV-Schwerin
- Vorpommern TV
- Wismar TV
- Ems TV
- Friesischer Rundfunk
- H1 (Fernsehen)
- oldenburg eins
- os1.tv
- Radio Weser.TV
- regiotv
- TV38
- CityVision
- nrwision
- Studio 47
- :OKTV Südwestpfalz
- naheTV
- Offener Kanal Kirchheimbolanden
- RheinLokal
- OK Weinstraße
- OK-KL
- OK:TV Mainz
- OK54 Bürgerrundfunk
- OK-TV Ludwigshafen
- OK4
- rheinahr.tv
- Rhein-Neckar Fernsehen
- TV Mittelrhein
- wwtv
- Coswiger Infokanal K3
- Dresden Fernsehen
- Dresdeneins
- eff 3
- Elsterwelle
- eRtv - euro-Regional tv
- Infokanal Crimmitschau
- Kabeljournal Flöha
- KabelJournal Chemnitzer-Land
- kanal 8 dresden
- kanal 8 sport
- Kanal 9 Erzgebirge
- Kanal Eins
- Leipzig Fernsehen
- Mittel Erzgebirgs Fernsehen
- Mittelsachsen TV
- mwdigital
- Nordsachsen TV
- Pirna TV/Prohlis TV
- punkteins oberlausitz TV
- Regio TV Borna
- Riesa TV
- Sachsen Fernsehen
- TV Westsachsen (TV W)
- Torgau TV
- TV Zwönitztal/tele-Journal
- TV-Laußig
- tvM Meissen Fernsehen
- Vogtland Regional Fernsehen (VRF)
- kulturmdTV
- MDF.1
- Offener Kanal Magdeburg
- Offener Kanal Merseburg-Querfurt
- Offener Kanal Wettin
- punktum
- RAN1
- Regionalfernsehen Bitterfeld-Wolfen (RBW Regionalfernsehen)
- Regionalfernsehen Harz (RFH)
- TV Halle
- Kiel TV
- Offener Kanal Flensburg
- Bad Berka TV
- JenaTV
- Kabel Plus
- Rennsteig.TV
- Saale-Info-Kanal
- salve.tv
- Stadtkanal Steinach
- Südthüringer Regionalfernsehen (SRF)
- Telemedien Rudolstadt
- tv.altenburg
Defunct television channels
- 9Live
- Bild TV
- Das Vierte
- Disney Junior
- Disney XD
- Düzgün TV
- EinsPlus
- Fox Channel
- GIGA Television
- Junior
- K1010
- MTV2 Pop
- MTV Music
- MTV Brand New
- Musicbox
- Onyx.tv
- Sky Comedy
- Terranova
- TIMM
- TM3
- Toon Disney
- VH-1 Deutschland
- VIVA
- VIVA Plus
- VIVA Zwei
- XXP
- ZDFdokukanal
- ZDFkultur
- ZDF Musikkanal
- ZDFtheaterkanal
See also
| List of television stations in Europe | |
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