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RBB Berlin (formerly B1 and SFB1) was the ''third television channel'' for Berlin, Germany from October 1992 until March 2004. Until May 2003 it was owned by Sender Freies Berlin (SFB), then by its successor, Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (RBB), under the provisional name ''RBB Berlin''. On 1 March 2004, the two previous regional television channels ''RBB Berlin'' and ''RBB Brandenburg'' were replaced by the new rbb Fernsehen.
After the ''B1 startet am 16. April analogen Testbetrieb auf Astra''.
SatelliFax, 12. April 2001 One reason for the renaming was that many inhabitants of Berlin had not associated the abbreviation ''B1'' with the SFB. From May 2003 onwards (merger of SFB and ORB to rbb), the programme was broadcast as ''rbb Berlin''. At the end of March 2004, it was broadcast on the new rbb Fernsehen channel together with ''rbb Brandenburg''. Since then, only the evening shows on Berlin's regional programme (
History
In 1965Norddeutscher 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), Radio Bremen (RB) and Sender Freies Berlin (SFB) founded a joint third television programme, the ''Nordkette'' (later: Nord 3, N3 and today: NDR Fernsehen). NDR was in charge of the ''Nordkette''. The SFB remained involved in the ''Nordkette'' until 1992.
After the German reunification
German reunification (german: link=no, Deutsche Wiedervereinigung) was the process of re-establishing Germany as a united and fully sovereign state, which took place between 2 May 1989 and 15 March 1991. The day of 3 October 1990 when the Ge ...
, which also reunited both parts of Berlin, the SFB decided to launch its own regional television channel with a vision to create private regional programmes for Berlin in the near future. This program was called ''B1'' (which stood for ''Berlin 1'') and replaced the Berlin version of N3.
On 21 April 2001, the programme was renamed ''SFB1'' at the same time as being broadcast on an analogue Astra satellite channel (daily from 6 p.m. to 2 a.m.).SatelliFax, 12. April 2001 One reason for the renaming was that many inhabitants of Berlin had not associated the abbreviation ''B1'' with the SFB. From May 2003 onwards (merger of SFB and ORB to rbb), the programme was broadcast as ''rbb Berlin''. At the end of March 2004, it was broadcast on the new rbb Fernsehen channel together with ''rbb Brandenburg''. Since then, only the evening shows on Berlin's regional programme (
Berliner Abendschau
Berliner is most often used to designate a citizen of Berlin, Germany
Berliner may also refer to:
People
* Berliner (surname)
Places
* Berliner Lake, a lake in Minnesota, United States
* Berliner Philharmonie, concert hall in Berlin, Germany
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) and Brandenburg's regional 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 ...
) have been broadcast separately every day for 30 minutes from 7.30 p.m. onwards.
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