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I'm a bit obsessed with the German third channels. The idea that those areas can maintain a full schedule every day and do some really good stuff while contributing to ARD as well is pretty cool. And I'll wager the system's overall budget is less than the BBC's.
Well to be honest the thirds are mainly repeats, very little programming outside of news is actually new and hasn't been shown on one of national channels already.
In the case of money ARD alone actually has a bigger budget than the BBC. According to their own website* in 2018 ARD had an anual income of 6.6 billion Euro which is just under 6 billion pounds. And that's only ARD and it's members. ZDF and Deutschlandradio are missing from that figure and they carry advertising on the main channels.
Meanwhile the BBC hovers at "just" around 5 billion pounds in revenue if you include things like BBC Worldwide.
The German public broadcasters are generally regarded as the most expensive public broadcasters in the world.
* https://www.ard.de/home/die-ard/fakten/Gesamtertraege_der_ARD/1015672/index.html
I'm a bit obsessed with the German third channels. The idea that those areas can maintain a full schedule every day and do some really good stuff while contributing to ARD as well is pretty cool. And I'll wager the system's overall budget is less than the BBC's.
Well to be honest the thirds are mainly repeats, very little programming outside of news is actually new and hasn't been shown on one of national channels already.
In the case of money ARD alone actually has a bigger budget than the BBC. According to their own website* in 2018 ARD had an anual income of 6.6 billion Euro which is just under 6 billion pounds. And that's only ARD and it's members. ZDF and Deutschlandradio are missing from that figure and they carry advertising on the main channels.
Meanwhile the BBC hovers at "just" around 5 billion pounds in revenue if you include things like BBC Worldwide.
The German public broadcasters are generally regarded as the most expensive public broadcasters in the world.
* https://www.ard.de/home/die-ard/fakten/Gesamtertraege_der_ARD/1015672/index.html