WDR Fernsehen

WDR Fernsehen
Country	Germany
Broadcast area	North Rhine-Westphalia, also distributed nationally
Headquarters	Cologne, Germany
Programming
Picture format	1080p HDTV; (downscaled to 720p HDTV and 16:9 576i for the DTT and SDTV feeds, respectively)
Ownership
Owner	Westdeutscher Rundfunk
History
Launched	17 December 1965
Former names	Westdeutsches Fernsehen (1965–1988); West 3 (1988–1994)
Links
Website	http://www.wdr.de/tv/
Availability
Terrestrial
Digital terrestrial television	North Rhine-Westphalia:; Channel 3
Cable
UPC Cablecom (Switzerland)	Mediabox:; Channel 54 (HD, Mediabox); Channel 54 (SD, DigiCard); Channel 94 (HD, DigiCard)
Ziggo (Netherlands)	Channel 56 (SD)
Caiway (Netherlands)	Channel 43 (SD)
DELTA (Netherlands)	Channel 452 (SD)
Kabel Noord (Netherlands)	Channel 113 (SD)
Satellite
Astra 19.2°E (Europe)	12422 H 27500 3/4 (HD/SD) Bielefeld, Dortmund, Düsseldorf, Essen, Köln, Münster & Essen; 12604 H 22000 5/6 (HD/SD) Aachen, Bonn, Duisburg & Wuppertal; 11836 H 27500 3/4 (SD) Köln
Canal Digitaal (Netherlands)	Channel 134 (HD); Channel 662 (SD)
IPTV
Telekom Entertain (Germany)	Channel 39 (HD)
A1 TV (Austria)	Channel 53 (SD) ; Channel 353 (HD)
KPN (Netherlands)	Channel 48 (HD)
T-Mobile (Netherlands)	Channel 393 (SD)
Streaming media
WDR.de	Watch live
Ziggo GO (Netherlands)	ZiggoGO.tv (Europe only)
Horizon	Horizon.tv (Switzerland only)

WDR Fernsehen is a German free-to-air television network owned and operated by Westdeutscher Rundfunk and serving North Rhine-Westphalia. It is one of the seven regional "third programmes" television stations that are offered within the federal ARD network. The station began broadcasting on 17 December 1965, as Westdeutsches Fernsehen (WDF), changing its name to West 3 in 1988, before settling for WDR Fernsehen in 1994.

Originally airing only in North Rhine-Westphalia, the channel has become available across Germany with the advent of cable and satellite television. The station is also available free-to-air across Europe via Astra 19.2°E.

In November 2013, the channel faced a graphical rebrand.

News sub-regions

WDR Fernsehen operates eleven sub-regional opt-out services, each broadcasting a 30-minute local news programme entitled Lokalzeit at 19.30 each Monday to Saturday evening together with a shorter, 5-minute bulletin at 18.00 on Mondays to Fridays:

Aachen: Lokalzeit aus Aachen
Wuppertal: Lokalzeit Bergisches Land
Bonn: Lokalzeit aus Bonn
Dortmund: Lokalzeit aus Dortmund
Duisburg: Lokalzeit aus Duisburg
Düsseldorf: Lokalzeit aus Düsseldorf
Cologne: Lokalzeit aus Köln
Münster: Lokalzeit Münsterland
Bielefeld: Lokalzeit OWL aktuell
Essen: Lokalzeit Ruhr
Siegen: Lokalzeit Südwestfalen

Programmes[1]

Children

Die Sendung mit dem Elefanten (2007–present)
Die Sendung mit der Maus (1971–present)

Entertainment

Die Wiwaldi-Show (2012-2016)
Zimmer frei (1996-2016)

Information

Aktuelle Stunde (1983–present)
Frau tv (1997–present)
Lokalzeit (1996–present)
Westpol (1992–present)

Series

Eyewitness (Øyevitne) (2017)
In aller Freundschaft (2003–present)
Lindenstraße (1997–present)
Phoenixsee (2016–present)
Prey (Prey - Die Beute) (2015-2016)
Rote Rosen (2007-2009)
Sturm der Liebe (2005-2009)
Schimanski (1998–2016)
Tatort (2006–present)
The Game (2015)

Sport

Sport Inside (2007–present)
Zeiglers wunderbare Welt des Fußballs, hosted by Arnd Zeigler (2007–present)

Talk

B. trifft..., hosted by Bettina Böttinger (1993-2004)
Domian, hosted by Jürgen Domian (1995-2016)
Kölner Treff, hosted by Bettina Böttinger (2006–present)

Logos

Logo of the predecessor of WDR Fernsehen called West 3
(1988–1994)
Used from 1994 until 2013
Alternative logo, 1994–2013
Used from 1994 until 2013
Used from 2013 until 2016
HD logo used from 2013 to 2016
Used from 2016
Used from 2016
HD logo used from 2016

References

"Wunschliste". wunschliste.de. Retrieved 29 May 2017.

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[1] "Wunschliste". wunschliste.de. Retrieved 29 May 2017.