Berlin is a major
media centre in
Germany and Europe.
Broadcasting
It is home to many international and regional television and radio stations. The public broadcaster
RBB has its headquarters in Berlin next to commercial broadcasters
MTV Europe,
VIVA
Viva may refer to:
Companies and organisations
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* VIVA Bahrain, a telecommunication company
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and
N24. German international public broadcaster
Deutsche Welle
Deutsche Welle (; "German Wave" in English), abbreviated to DW, is a German public, state-owned international broadcaster funded by the German federal tax budget. The service is available in 32 languages. DW's satellite television service con ...
has its TV production unit in Berlin, and most national German broadcasters have a studio in the city including
RTL.
Print
Berlin has Germany's largest number of daily newspapers, with numerous local
broadsheet
A broadsheet is the largest newspaper format and is characterized by long Vertical and horizontal, vertical pages, typically of . Other common newspaper formats include the smaller Berliner (format), Berliner and Tabloid (newspaper format), ta ...
s (''
Berliner Morgenpost'', ''
Berliner Zeitung'', ''
Der Tagesspiegel''), and three major
tabloid
Tabloid may refer to:
* Tabloid journalism, a type of journalism
* Tabloid (newspaper format), a newspaper with compact page size
** Chinese tabloid
* Tabloid (paper size), a North American paper size
* Sopwith Tabloid, a biplane aircraft
* ''Ta ...
s, as well as national dailies of varying sizes, each with a different political affiliation, such as ''
Die Welt'', ''
Junge Welt'', ''
Neues Deutschland'', and ''
Die Tageszeitung
''Die Tageszeitung'' (, “The Daily Newspaper”), is counted as being one of modern Germany's most important newspapers and amongst the top seven. taz is stylized as ''die tageszeitung'' and commonly referred to as ''taz'', is a cooperative-own ...
''. The ''
Exberliner'', a monthly magazine, is Berlin's English-language periodical focusing on arts and entertainment. Berlin headquarters two major German-language
publishing houses
Walter de Gruyter and
Springer, each of which publish books, periodicals, and multimedia products.
Film
The European and
German film industry is present, hosting more than 1000 film and television production companies, 270 movie theaters. Some 300 national and international co-productions are filmed in the region every year.
The historic
Babelsberg Studios and the production company
UFA are located in nearby
Potsdam.
Rise FX has its headquarters in Berlin.
The city is home to the
European Film Academy and the German Film Academy, and hosts the annual
Berlin Film Festival
The Berlin International Film Festival (german: Internationale Filmfestspiele Berlin), usually called the Berlinale (), is a major international film festival held annually in Berlin, Germany. Founded in 1951 and originally run in June, the festi ...
. Founded in 1951, the festival has been celebrated annually in February since 1978. With over 430,000 admissions it is the largest publicly attended film festival in the world.
See also
*
Media of Germany
References
Further reading
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External links
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