Süddeutsche Zeitung Became the Go-To Place for Leaks Like the Paradise Papers

Re:Süddeutsche Zeitung Became the Go-To Place for Leaks Like... by raphman on Monday November 13, 2017 @12:59AM (#15684596)

I'd like to object. True, the mainstream channels ARD and ZDF show a little bit too many quiz shows and music shows - and the main local radio stations are very lean on interesting content. But there is a bunch of public TV channels and radio stations that provide high-quality content - 3sat, arte (culture), ARD-alpha (science, education), Phoenix (politics, documentaries), Deutschlandfunk, Bayern 2, Bayern 5, and many more.

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Re:Süddeutsche Zeitung Became the Go-To Place for Leaks Like... by Semaphor on Monday November 13, 2017 @02:25AM (#15684851)

And yet most of the money I pay the GEZ, sorry, for the Rundfunkbeitrag, goes to exactly ARD/ZDF. I have neither TV nor Radio, but I'd happily pay what I do to the stations you mentioned. But between quiz shows, reality tv, football licenses and badly researched shows like Frontal 21 I hate paying.

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Re:Süddeutsche Zeitung Became the Go-To Place for Leaks Like... by fbender on Monday November 13, 2017 @07:24AM (#15685959)

These stations are all part of ARD (actually a "conglomerate" of Rundfunkanstalten der Länder) and ZDF (except Deutschlandfunk, which is a separate entity). So yeah, you already pay for these stations. If you'd watch / listen to them, they'd probably get more attention from the managers and thus the content will be pushed more into the mass channels. Actually, some of the stations are more like incubators for new concepts and shows that they hope to put into the main/mass channels (though others are special interest channels).

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