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Phoenix
Launched	7 April 1997; 21 years ago (1997-04-07)
Owned by	ARD, ZDF
Picture format	576i (16:9 SDTV) 720p (1080p (DVB-T2 only)) (HDTV)
Audience share	1.0% (April 2018 (2018-04), KEK)
Country	Germany
Language	German
Broadcast area	Germany, also distributed nationally in: Austria Switzerland Liechtenstein Luxembourg Netherlands Belgium France Portugal Czech Republic Slovenia
Headquarters	Bonn, Germany
Availability
Terrestrial
DVB-T	different federal channels (FTA)
DVB-T2	different federal channels (FTA)
Satellite
Astra 1L (19.2°E)	10743.75 H 51 22000 5/6 (DVB-S)
Astra 1M (19.2°E)	11582.25 H 25 22000 2/3 (HDTV DVB-S2)
Cable
Kabel Deutschland (Germany)	Channel 552 (SD) / Channel 575 (HD)
Unitymedia (Germany)	Channel 313 (SD) / Channel 97 (HD)
UPC Switzerland (Switzerland)	Channel 73 (HD)
IPTV
Telekom Entertain (Germany)	Channel 15 (SD/HD)
A1 TV (Austria)	Channel 43 (SD)
Streaming media
phoenix.de	Watch live

Phoenix (stylised as phoenıx) is a publicly funded television station in Germany which is produced jointly by public broadcasting organizations ARD and ZDF. It broadcasts documentaries, news, special events coverage and discussion programmes. Phoenix's headquarters are in Bonn, the former West German capital.

Programming

Phoenix broadcasts a deaf-subtitled version of the Tagesschau, ARD's flagship news broadcast, and ZDF's premier news broadcast Heute-Journal, in German Sign Language.

The channel's flagship news broadcast is Der Tag ("The Day"), which airs from 11:00 pm to midnight. Its length enables extended reports and interviews to be included.

The show Vor Ort ("On Scene") includes live coverage of political events, public lectures by important personalities, press conferences and assemblies of the Bundestag and Bundesrat.

Daily talk shows like Phoenix Runde (Phoenix Roundtable) with Pinar Atalay or Alexander Kähler, Unter den Linden with Michaela Kolster or Michael Hirz, discuss current topics with experts or politicians.

As a benchmark in coverage, a "Meet the Press"-like show, Internationaler Frühschoppen is broadcast Sunday at 12 noon when the ARD's Presseclub is not broadcast.

The series "Historische Debatten" ("Historical Debates") and "Historische Ereignisse" ("Historical Events"), with journalist Helmut Illert, examine important topics relating to the development of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Phoenix is comparable to the American channel C-SPAN or the British BBC Parliament, because they also cover government and national politics.

Creation

The creation of Phoenix is credited to the former chancellor Helmut Kohl, who wanted to create a "European Parliamentary Channel". However, the idea was rejected due to criticism by the public channels (ARD and ZDF) and suspicion that political pressure from Kohl could lead to a "Helmut-Kohl-Channel".

The real idea for "Phoenix - Der Ereignis- und Dokumentationskanal" ("Phoenix - the current affairs and documentary channel") came from viewers of ARD and ZDF, who wanted a "media-political correction of faults in the system of information transfer".^{[clarification needed][citation needed]} This created the opportunity to create a "Parliamentary Channel", with the aim of increasing credibility and satisfying consumer demand.

Private channels (RTL and Sat. 1) criticized the creation of Phoenix because they were at the time creating their own news channels (n-tv and N24 respectively).

The headquarters of Phoenix were provisionally situated in Cologne. However, in 2000, the headquarters were relocated to studios in Bonn.

Phoenix's highest ratings to date were in August 2006, when it had 1.0% viewer share. With about 4.5 million viewers, it had more viewers than N-TV and N24.^[1]

Alignment of programming

Phoenix's stated aim is it to create "balance of the shortening of information, which are seen in news and magazines on television". The programming should be a "truthful illustration of the reality in correspondence with the constitutional order of the publicly-funded broadcast and television stations in Germany". The target is fulfilled with current reportages and documentaries from the vast archive of ARD and ZDF, as well as international productions from Discovery Channel and the BBC, dubbed into German.

Availability

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  Digital terrestrial television
  
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    DVB-T - SD version
  
  
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    DVB-T2 - HD version
  
  


• analogue cable


• Digital cable (DVB-C)


• Digital satellite television
  
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    DVB-S - SD version
  
  
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    DVB-S2 - HD version
  
  


• livestream (only a few shows are streamed online)

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  Logo of Phoenix from 2008 to April 2012
  

  
  

  
  


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  Logo of Phoenix since April 2012 to June 3rd 2018
  

  
  

  
  


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  Logo of Phoenix HD from April 2012 to June 3rd 2018
  

  
  

  
  


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  Station-Logo since June 4th 2018
  

  
  

  
  


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  OnAir-Logo of Phoenix SD & HD since June 4th 2018
  

  
  

  
  

Audience share

Germany

	January	February	March	April	May	June	July	August	September	October	November	December	Annual average
1997[2]	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1998[3]	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.3%
1999[4]	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	0.4%
2000[5]	0.4%	0.4%	0.4%	0.4%	0.3%	0.4%	0.4%	0.4%	0.4%	0.3%	0.4%	0.4%	0.4%
2001[6]	0.5%	0.4%	0.4%	-	0.4%	0.4%	0.4%	0.5%	-	0.5%	0.5%	0.5%	0.5%
2002[7]	0.4%	0.5%	0.5%	-	0.5%	-	0.6%	-	-	-	-	-	0.5%
2003[8]	0.6%	0.6%	0.7%	0.6%	0.4%	0.5%	0.5%	0.6%	0.5%	0.5%	0.5%	0.6%	0.5%
2004[9]	0.6%	0.5%	0.5%	0.6%	0.5%	0.4%	0.6%	0.6%	0.5%	0.4%	0.5%	0.6%	0.5%
2005[10]	0.5%	0.5%	0.6%	0.7%	0.5%	0.5%	0.7%	0.8%	0.7%	0.6%	0.6%	0.6%	0.6%
2006[11]	0.6%	0.5%	0.6%	0.7%	0.6%	0.7%	0.8%	1.0%	0.7%	0.7%	0.7%	1.0%	0.7%
2007[12]	0.9%	0.8%	0.7%	1.0%	0.8%	0.8%	1.0%	1.1%	0.8%	0.8%	0.8%	1.0%	0.9%
2008[13]	0.9%	0.9%	1.0%	0.8%	0.8%	0.7%	1.0%	1.0%	0.9%	0.9%	1.0%	1.1%	0.9%
2009[14]	1.1%	0.9%	0.9%	1.1%	0.9%	0.9%	1.1%	1.1%	1.0%	0.9%	0.9%	1.1%	1.0%
2010[15]	1.0%	0.9%	0.8%	0.9%	0.9%	0.9%	1.0%	1.2%	0.9%	1.0%	1.0%	1.3%	1.0%
2011[16]	1.0%	1.1%	1.2%	1.2%	1.0%	1.1%	1.1%	1.2%	1.0%	1.0%	1.0%	1.2%	1.1%
2012[17]	1.1%	1.0%	0.9%	1.1%	1.2%	1.0%	1.1%	1.2%	1.0%	1.0%	1.0%	1.3%	1.1%
2013[18]	1.1%	1.1%	1.0%	1.0%	1.0%	1.1%	1.1%	1.2%	1.2%	1.1%	1.1%	1.3%	1.1%
2014[19]	1.1%	1.0%	1.1%	1.1%	1.0%	1.0%	1.1%	1.3%	1.1%	1.1%	1.1%	1.3%	1.1%
2015[20]	1.1%	1.2%	1.2%	1.1%	1.2%	1.1%	1.1%	1.1%	1.0%	1.0%	1.0%	1.2%	1.1%
2016[21]	1.0%	1.0%	1.1%	1.0%	1.1%	1.0%	1.1%	1.1%	1.0%	1.0%	1.1%	1.2%	1.1%
2017[22]	1.1%	1.0%	1.0%	1.1%	1.0%	1.1%	1.2%	1.2%	1.0%	1.0%	1.0%	1.2%	1.1%
2018[23]	1.1%	0.9%	1.1%	1.0%

References

External links

• Official site


• DWDL.de: „10 Jahre Phoenix - Von schwarzen Koffern bis zum Papst“