ATV is currently the largest commercial
television stationA television station is a type of broadcast station that broadcasts video and possibly audio to television receivers in a particular area. Traditionally, TV stations made their broadcasts by sending specially-encoded radio signals over the air, called terrestrial television...
in
AustriaAustria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.3 million people in Central Europe. It borders both Germany and the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west...
and was originally the first commercial station to be aired via transmitters after a long time when commercial broadcasts in Austria were only possible via satellite or cable and the national public broadcaster ORF held a monopoly of using the airwaves.
According to the current broadcasting legislation in Austria, ATV has to be transmitted nationwide alongside the two public channels
ORF1ORF 1 is an Austrian television channel. It was the first television channel in Austria, started in 1955.ORF 1 is one of three public TV channels in Austria. ORF1 broadcasts TV series and featured films, whereasORF2 focuses on cultural programming and information...
and
ORF2ORF2 is an Austrian television channel owned by ORF.ORF2 launched on 11 September 1961 as a technical test programm. Since 1970, ORF2 broadcasts on seven days a week. Today it is one of the three public TV channels in Austria.Whereas ORF1 focuses on tv series and movies, ORF2 broadcasts cultural...
via
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and satellite as well as all cable companies in Austria have to provide at least these three channels to their subscribers.
Satellite broadcasts are
encryptedConditional Access is the protection of content by requiring certain criteria to be met before granting access to this content...
as are the ORF channels but it is possible to watch ATV by using the decoding cards issued by ORF.
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ATV is currently the largest commercial
television stationA television station is a type of broadcast station that broadcasts video and possibly audio to television receivers in a particular area. Traditionally, TV stations made their broadcasts by sending specially-encoded radio signals over the air, called terrestrial television...
in
AustriaAustria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.3 million people in Central Europe. It borders both Germany and the Czech Republic to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west...
and was originally the first commercial station to be aired via transmitters after a long time when commercial broadcasts in Austria were only possible via satellite or cable and the national public broadcaster ORF held a monopoly of using the airwaves.
According to the current broadcasting legislation in Austria, ATV has to be transmitted nationwide alongside the two public channels
ORF1ORF 1 is an Austrian television channel. It was the first television channel in Austria, started in 1955.ORF 1 is one of three public TV channels in Austria. ORF1 broadcasts TV series and featured films, whereasORF2 focuses on cultural programming and information...
and
ORF2ORF2 is an Austrian television channel owned by ORF.ORF2 launched on 11 September 1961 as a technical test programm. Since 1970, ORF2 broadcasts on seven days a week. Today it is one of the three public TV channels in Austria.Whereas ORF1 focuses on tv series and movies, ORF2 broadcasts cultural...
via
digital terrestrial televisionDigital Terrestrial Television is the technological evolution and advance from analogue terrestrial television, which broadcasts land based signals...
and satellite as well as all cable companies in Austria have to provide at least these three channels to their subscribers.
Satellite broadcasts are
encryptedConditional Access is the protection of content by requiring certain criteria to be met before granting access to this content...
as are the ORF channels but it is possible to watch ATV by using the decoding cards issued by ORF. These cards can be obtained only by people living in Austria and paying the television license fees.
Other important Austrian commercial television stations available on digital terrestrial television, satellite and cable are Puls 4 and Austria 9 TV, although these have to arrange their broadcasting independently since they are not covered by the aforementioned Austrian television legislation regulating the two ORF channels and ATV.
History
From 1997 till 2000 the station was called
W1 (
Wien 1, named after the capital city
ViennaVienna is the capital of the Republic of Austria and also one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.7 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre. It is the 10th largest city by...
) which initially provided only regional broadcasting via the cable network in Vienna. Starting in the year 2000, the channel adopted nation-wide programming and entered all the other cable networks in Austria and was renamed ATV.
In 2003, the channel started nationwide broadcasts using analogue terrestrial transmitters. The
digital television transitionThe digital television transition is the process in which analog television broadcasting is converted to and replaced by digital television...
started in Austria in 2006 and since then, ATV has been available on digital terrestrial television. In the 2003-2006 period, the channel was called ATVplus.
The analogue channels used by ATV were already allocated in 1972 when the introduction of a third nationwide TV-channel (either by ORF or by a commercial company) was discussed in Austria. These discussions actually lasted from the 1970s until 2003.
Own Production
About 40% of ATV's programming are in-house productions, whereas the other 60% consist of acquired shows, movies and serials.
| Name |
Describtion |
| ATV Aktuell |
newscast |
| ATV Wetter |
weather |
| Hi Society |
magazine about celebrities |
| Bauer sucht Frau |
Farmer wants a wife |
| Die Lugners |
magazine dedicated to the live of Richard LugnerRichard Lugner is a successful Austrian entrepreneur in the construction industry, a Viennese society figure, and a former political candidate not affiliated with any of the Austrian political parties...
a famous owner of an Austrian building-company , living a celebrity lifestyle |
| Österreich isst besser! |
television show about healthy nutrition, hosted by Sasha Walleczek |
| Sing and Win! |
guessing of song lyrics, conducted by Rainhard FendrichRainhard Jürgen Fendrich is an Austrian singer, composer, entertainer, and actor. He is one of the most successful Austropop musicians. His lyrics are written in Viennese German, and he is very popular in Austria, but less in other German-speaking countries, and by far less known in non-German...
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| ATV Die Reportage |
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| Dokupedia |
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Sitcoms and other serials
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- Für alle Fälle Amy
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- Reich und Schön
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