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FIFA World Cup 2026: ARD and ZDF on using teamwork to make the dream work with their smallest ever production footprint on a World CupGerman broadcasters ZDF and ARD - the joint organisation of Germany’s regional public service broadcasters - have a unique and highly collaborative relationship which sees them working hand-in-hand for all major tournaments, including the FIFA World Cup 2026. Deutsche Telekom...
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FIFA World Cup 2026: ARD on the technicalities of bringing the biggest global football tournament to life in sight and soundGerman broadcasters ARD and ZDF will broadcast 60 of the 104 FIFA World Cup 2026 matches live, with each channel showing 30 games. While the opening match was shown live on ZDF and the final will also be, all matches...
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FIFA World Cup 2026: Behind the ZDF production to bring the German broadcast homeGerman broadcaster ZDF has the rights for 30 FIFA World Cup 2026 matches, alongside ARD which also has 30 games. The two rights holders are working both separately and together on this World Cup. They each have separate crews on...
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ARD and SES extend satellite distribution agreementSES and ARD, Germany’s largest public broadcasting network, have agreed a long-term extension of their partnership. Under the renewed agreement, ARD’s regional broadcasting organisations will continue transmitting their TV programmes via SES’s prime video neighbourhood at 19.2 degrees East in...
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UEFA Women’s Euro 2025: Inside European broadcaster remote production setups with ZDF, ARD, RTVE, NRK, ITV Sport and BBC SportAt the Women’s Euro 2025, rights holding broadcasters from around Europe favoured a remote approach to their productions as they bought all the action from the pitch to fans in their home countries. Particularly during the early knockout stages of...
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Live from UEFA Women’s Euro 2025: Inside German broadcaster ZDF’s remote production from the National Broadcast CentreFor the UEFA Women’s Euro 2025, German public service broadcaster ZDF is sharing the rights with ARD, the joint organisation of Germany's regional public-service broadcasters. While there is significant crossover between the two broadcasters on their workflow in Switzerland and...
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Live from UEFA Women’s Euro 2025: German broadcaster organisation ARD on being live from Switzerland in an integrated remote productionThe joint organisation of Germany's regional public-service broadcasters, ARD, is providing comprehensive, cross-media coverage of the UEFA Women’s Euro 2025 from the ARD SportHub at the Sportschau Campus in Cologne. While ARD is working alongside ZDF to share rights for...
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Paris 2024: How ARD and ZDF connected the dots to bring the Olympics and next the Paralympics to German viewersWhile the Olympics is now over, the Paralympics is set to begin on 28 August and German regional broadcaster, NDR, is ready. Working as part of the German broadcast conglomerate ARD alongside public service television broadcaster, ZDF, NDR’s Felix Ruhberg,...
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Paris 2024: ARD and ZDF to share Seine studio for Olympics coverageARD and ZDF will together broadcast around 240 hours live on their linear channels and about 1,500 hours of streamed content over 17 days of the Olympics. The German public broadcasters secured sublicensing agreements with Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) to...
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Knockout competition: Behind the ZDF and ARD production of the Women’s World Cup 2023 using SRTGerman broadcasters ZDF and ARD are producing the Women’s World Cup using secure reliable transport (SRT) streams for the first time ever for a major sports event. While ZDF used SRT for the audio description for the European Championships 2022...
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ZDF all set to broadcast Beijing Winter Olympics across Germany in tandem with ARDZDF is all set to bring coverage of the Beijing Winter Olympics to fans across Germany. It will broadcast on nine of the 17 broadcast days for the Games, with Das Erste – fellow German broadcaster ARD’s flagship national television...
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ZDF uncovers its Tokyo Olympic centralised production at the new German National Broadcast CentreGerman broadcaster ZDF is bringing the excitement of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics to viewers in Germany, using its new centralised production facility, the National Broadcast Centre (NBC), based at its headquarters in Mainz. ZDF and ARD are producing 17 hours...
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ARD and ZDF upgrade to full IP for production of Euro 2020 and Olympics 2021German broadcasters ARD and ZDF have upgraded their technical subsidiary shared by both companies, Mobile Produktions Einheit (MPE), which translates to Mobile Production Unit, to full IP for production of Euro 2020 and Olympics 2021. With help from German systems...
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Live from Paris: ARD and ZDF share resources and coverage for FIFA Women’s World CupARD and ZDF are sharing the German rights package for the FIFA Women’s World Cup France 2019. As part of that deal, the two broadcasters have also agreed to share broadcasting resources. This agreement allows each broadcaster to cover every...
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