Roman Rafreider (born 22 November 1969) is an Austrian television host and journalist.

Life

Rafreider studied

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and

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and

Innsbruck Innsbruck (; bar, Innschbruck, label=Bavarian language, Austro-Bavarian ) is the capital of Tyrol (state), Tyrol and the List of cities and towns in Austria, fifth-largest city in Austria. On the Inn (river), River Inn, at its junction with the ...

. During his studies, he worked at different newspaper companies. He started his journalistic career in 1995 at the ORF-Landesstudio Vorarlberg, where he worked as an editor and radio host. In 1998, he also hosted the show ''Vorarlberg heute''. In 1999, he switched over to

ORF ORF or Orf may refer to: * Norfolk International Airport, IATA airport code ORF * Observer Research Foundation, an Indian research institute * One Race Films, a film production company founded by Vin Diesel * Open reading frame, a portion of the ...

's main news programme

Zeit im Bild ''Zeit im Bild (ZiB)'' is the name for the television news broadcasts of ORF, running since December 1955. History The first ''Zeit im Bild'' was broadcast on December 5, 1955; two editions were broadcast that day, at 5pm and 7:30pm. The forma ...

at their corporate headquarters in Vienna. There, he worked as host and chief editor of ''ZiB 3''. In 2002, Rafreider became host of ''Thema''. Furthermore he hosted ORF's consumer magazine ''Gut beraten Österreich''. Since April 2007, Rafreider has been the anchorman and chief editor of the new ''ZiB 20'' and the ''ZiB 24'' (at midnight) on

ORF eins ORF 1 (''ORF eins'') is an Austrian public television channel owned by ORF. It was the first television channel in Austria, started in 1955. ORF 1 is one of four public TV channels in Austria. It is funded by a mixture of advertising revenue an ...

. After a temporary special leave of absence due to a conflict with his former partner – which was mainly taken up in an unobjective way by tabloid media – he was responsible for the development of new information programmes on ''ORF eins'' from February 2019. Since 12 March 2020, he has again hosted the news programmes ''ZIB 18'', ''ZIB 20'', ''ZIB Nacht'' and ''ZIB Flash'' and is also head of news programmes at ORF.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Rafreider, Roman 1969 births Living people Austrian television presenters Austrian journalists ORF (broadcaster) people People from Bregenz