3sat

**3sat** is German culture television network owned by ARD, ZDF, ORF and SRG SSR. The channel broadcasts arts and culture programmings.

## History

**3sat** was established to broadcast cultural programmes, originally by satellite. The network was founded as a cooperative network by Germany's ZDF, Austria's ORF and Switzerland's SRG SSR (formerly **SRG SSR idée suisse**). **3sat** began broadcasting on 1 December 1984. ZDF leads the cooperative, though decisions are reached through consensus of the cooperative's partners.

In 1990, DFF, television broadcaster of the German Democratic Republic became a cooperative member of **3sat**, and a name change to **4sat** was considered. Eventually it was decided to keep the original **3sat** name. DFF's membership of **3sat** was dissolved on 31 December 1991, as DFF itself ceased to exist, in accordance with Germany's Unification Treaty.

On 1 December 1993, ARD joined **3sat** as a cooperative member. This followed ARD's creation of its own satellite channel, Eins Plus. **3sat** broadcasts programming 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. **3sat** is available on the European Astra satellites at 19.2° east, on cable television, and in Austria and Germany on digital terrestrial television.

On 2003, **3sat** was available in 40 million households in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, and 85.5 million households across Europe. Since June 2003, **3sat** has been using a new on-air look and logo. The logo has a red rectangle surrounding a number three.

In 2005, **3sat** and n-tv were critisized for broadcasting programmes which had been funded by relief organizations such as *World Vision Deutschland* and Christoffel Blindenmission.

In 2008, the programs ***Nano*** and ***Kulturzeit*** received a new on-air look and a new studios. At the "Eyes & Ears of Europe Awards", the design of ***Kulturzeit**'*s studio was awarded first prize in the category "Best Study Design" at Medientage München in 2008.

In 2009 **3sat** had a market share of 1.1% in Germany, 1.9% in Austria and 1.2% in Switzerland.

As a result of ZDF's spending for the then-new ZDFkultur, 2011 saw the end of many long-term **3sat** broadcasts such as ***3satbörse***, *Foyer*, the computer and internet magazine ***Neues***, the animal show ***Arche Noah***, the legal magazine ***Recht brisant***, ***Vivo*** and others.

On 1 April 2017, the **Direktion Europäische Satellitenprogramme**, which was responsible for **3sat** and Arte programs, was dissolved. It was replaced by joint editorial teams with the other ZDF channels.

## Programmings

* ***3satfestival***
* ***3sat Thementage***
* ***Alpenpanorama***
* ***Auslandsjournal extra***
* ***Bauerfeind***
* ***Der andere Blick***
* ***Hitec***
* ***Kulturzeit***
* ***Ländermagazin***
* ***Makro***
* ***Monothema***
* ***Museums-Check***
* ***Nano***
* ***Olaf TV von Schubert zu Mensch***
* ***Schätze der Welt***
* ***Schweizweit***
* ***Scobel***
* ***Tonspur***
* ***über:morgen***
* ***Wissen aktuell***

## Logos

First logo (1984-1993)Second logo (1993-2003)Third logo (2003-2019)HD logo (2012-2019)Current logo (2019-present)HD logo (2019-present)
## External links

* Official website

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