In 1959, the government of Konrad Adenauer began preparations to form a second nationwide television network with the intention of competing with ARD. Thomas Bellut, ZDF's director general, was elected by the ZDF Television Council in 2011.
The broadcaster is well known for its famous programmes heute, a newscast established in 1963, and Wetten, dass.?, an entertainment show that premiered in 1981, and ended in 2014. ZDF is financed by television licence fees and advertising revenues. It is run as an independent nonprofit institution, which was founded by all federal states of Germany ( Bundesländer). ZDF ( German pronunciation: ( listen), stylized as 2DF, short for Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen German pronunciation: ( listen) "Second German Television") is a German public-service television broadcaster based in Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate. (downscaled to 16:9 576i for the SDTV feed) For other uses, see ZDF (disambiguation).
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