ZDFkultur (stylized as zdf.kultur) was a German

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television channel owned by

ZDF ZDF (, short for Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen; ; "Second German Television") is a German public-service television broadcaster based in Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate. It is run as an independent nonprofit institution, which was founded by all fe ...

. It was launched on 7 May 2011, replacing ZDF theaterkanal. It mainly broadcast music shows, such as '' Later... with Jools Holland'', pop concerts and series from the ZDF archive, but also movies and theatre plays. On 1 May 2012, a high-definition

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was launched on satellite. On 22 February 2013,

director Thomas Bellut announced that ZDFkultur would close in the near future, due to cost-saving measures at ZDF. The channel council agreed Bellut's proposal on 8 March 2013. The programming after the closure announcement consisting mostly of old ZDF archive content from the 1970s and 80s, with an annual budget of around €2 million. The channel was finally closed down on 30 September 2016.

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* Publicly funded broadcasters Defunct German television channels Television channels and stations established in 2011 Television channels and stations disestablished in 2016 2011 establishments in Germany 2016 disestablishments in Germany Mass media in Mainz ZDF {{Germany-tv-stub