RBB Brandenburg (until May 2003 ORB-Fernsehen) was the third television channel for Brandenburg, (Germany) from January 1992 to March 2004. Until May 2003, it was organized by

Ostdeutscher Rundfunk Brandenburg Ostdeutscher Rundfunk Brandenburg (ORB; ''East German Broadcasting Brandenburg''), based in Potsdam, was the public broadcaster for the German federal state of Brandenburg from 12 October 1991 until 30 April 2003. It was a member organization of ...

(ORB), then by its successor, Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (RBB). On 1 March 2004, the two regional television channels of RBB – ''RBB Brandenburg'' and '' RBB Berlin'' – were integrated into the new rbb Fernsehen.

History

The programme was launched on 1 January 1992 under the name ''Fernsehen Brandenburg''. In the initial build-up phase, the then ARD cultural television programme

Eins Plus ARD 1 Plus was a German cultural television channel, which was broadcast as an offshoot of Das Erste from 29 March 1986 to 30 November 1993. The program scheme was similar to Arte, except for bilingualism. 1 Plus also served as the test channel f ...

was taken over from 3 p.m. to 5.15 p.m. and after 9 pm, and for cost reasons there were initially only a few programmes of its own in the programme. For example, the fact that the news programme was broadcast at 8:45 p.m. and the ''Brandenburg Journal'' at 7 p.m. was unusual for viewers in Brandenburg. Especially after the fall of communism, many East Germans had oriented themselves to the beginning time of the main news programme of Deutscher Fernsehfunk (DFF) at 7:30 pm. In general, the cooperation with

did not lead to any high viewer acceptance. This was soon followed by a programme reform on 1 May 1992. The main news programme

Brandenburg aktuell rbb24 Brandenburg aktuell (until 27 March 2022 ''Brandenburg aktuell'') is the television magazine of Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (rbb) for the state of Brandenburg. The programme is broadcast daily on rbb Fernsehen at 7:30 p.m., while the v ...

received its slot at 7:30 pm, which is still valid today in the rbb Fernsehen programme. Later, further programmes with a regional character were added to the programme, such as the popular live programme with local audience participation. The ''ORB Aquarium'' was broadcast in the night programme from 1992 to 2004. Beginning in July 1993, the station cooperated for several years with N3, the third television channel of

Norddeutscher Rundfunk Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR; ''Northern German Broadcasting'') is a public broadcasting, public radio and television broadcaster, based in Hamburg. In addition to the city-state of Hamburg, NDR broadcasts for the German states of Lower Saxony, M ...

(NDR) and Radio Bremen (RB) for

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programming.Chronik der ARD
''N3 und Fernsehen Brandenburg mit gemeinsamem Tagesprogramm''
/ref> One of the formats that has received a lot of attention and that still exists today at the RBB is

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, a German-Polish programme that was created by Germans and

Poles Poles,, ; singular masculine: ''Polak'', singular feminine: ''Polka'' or Polish people, are a West Slavic nation and ethnic group, who share a common history, culture, the Polish language and are identified with the country of Poland in Ce ...

for mutual understanding. The programme, hosted by Ola Rosiak and

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, was

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the German-Polish journalism award in 2001 (hosted at the time by

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and

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). From 1 January 1998, the programme was broadcast in analogue form via the Astra 1B satellite and could thus be received throughout Europe. From May 2003 (merger of SFB and ORB to RBB) until the end of March 2004, the programme was broadcast under the name ''RBB Brandenburg''.

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{{ARD/ZDF Ostdeutscher Rundfunk Brandenburg Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg ARD (broadcaster) Defunct television channels in Germany Television channels and stations established in 1992 Television channels and stations disestablished in 2004 1992 establishments in Germany 2004 disestablishments in Germany Mass media in Potsdam German-language television stations