I noticed that in the US there are 30m time slots, so every show starts and ends at xx.00 or xx.30. Here it can be at any time. Also there are way more channels, but often there is still nothing on...

Ahhhh another video!!! They always make me so happy!

This is some serious positivity and excitement at 3am. Thanks Dana

Dana, your hair is so long now! It looks amazing! Big fan of the channel! Even have gone back & watched past videos. Thanks for all your hard work making interesting content!

You always make me smile with your positive and happy charisma. Thank you very much! I watch way less regular TV than lets say 10 years ago. I watch a lot Netflix and Amazon Prime Video. If I watch regular TV it are mostly sports-shows like Formula 1, documentations like on Arte, 3sat or ZDF Info or daily shows like "Das perfekte Dinner".

I think a big difference is the public service broadcasting and private tv. the public service broadcasting have no commercials after 8pm and no single one on sunday.

@JesseKuiper

6 жыл бұрын

Enra Mummi And the commercial break just before 8pm is extremely long isn't it?

@arneauskropp

6 жыл бұрын

Auch ARD und ZDF haben Werbung. Montag bis Samstag vor 20 Uhr

@marcusuhd7914

6 жыл бұрын

YTViewer No, there are breaks in the shows before 8pm.

@Traumglanz

6 жыл бұрын

They used to have no breaks. But I stopped watching TV basically since the internet. So maybe I am not 100% up-to-date to today's standards.

@Pewtah

6 жыл бұрын

No, on RTL, Pro7 and other PRIVATE TV channels there are ads all days and after 8 pm. on ARD and other PUBLIC channels there are ads, too, and not after 8 pm and not on Sundays. Maybe there are some tricks like very short mentions of a "sponsor" after 8 pm (typical:. a beer brand in a live soccer game) but those are not "advertisments" as the TV law defined them.

Thank you for being awesome Dunna! Your videos make me happy👍

@banchnotok

6 жыл бұрын

Dana

@nottony3959

6 жыл бұрын

Banch Dankeschön

I remember a couple of years ago some TV stations tried to change their prime time to 8 pm but obviously it didn't work out because people are to used to watch news at 8 pm and movies/shows at 8:15

I still really like your set up

As an American who is learning German I watch a lot of German shows on Netflix and what I have gathered so far is that American shows give more explanation for the scenes going on in the show while German ones expect you to get it. That’s just been my experience could be totally off. Also American shows if it’s a long running series have a lot of recaps like “ previously on” type of openings while German series don’t

@SnorriSnibble

6 жыл бұрын

what kind of explanation do you mean? Like a narrator or something?

@yeoldegamer5112

6 жыл бұрын

That's how they pad the running time to reach the duration required for multiple ad breaks, for example 45 minutes of content + 15 minutes of ads. Especially noticeable in so-called documentaries where after each break they basically spend the next 1 or 2 minutes repeating what had been told in the previous segment. Anything to pad the running time.

@noneofyourbusiness4294

6 жыл бұрын

Superior Vigil trust me... If you want to be a bit entertained while learning, watch american shows with german dub, instead of going straight for german shows. We have very few good ones. And for the hell of it: avoid any shows that are produced by RTL, especially "reality TV". They're made by idiots for idiots. There's 1 German show on Netflix that's quite good though, "Dark"

@Twigxz

6 жыл бұрын

Kristina Ma I think she/he means that you typically have one character who explains everything. CSI does this extensively. German tv shows would just say „I’ve run this through this machine and it says so and so“ and move on. In CSI one would play dumb and explain the whole thing after one scientist already said it. US shows don’t expect you to have a certain basic knowledge of things and German shows just don’t care 😂 Same with the whole recap on how the murder actually went down. US shows want to make sure you get the plot. European shows are targeting a certain IQ level. That is why US shows are so popular and have a wide age group of viewers.

@MrHodoAstartes

6 жыл бұрын

Superior Vigil Yeah, the shows made in Germany do tend to assume the viewer's full attention and are not tailored to recap after commercial blocks, which are traditionally shoved between shows, not in the middle. At least for half-hour segments. So you don't have that constant need to get attention back and the viewer on board once more. Another thing is public TV making a plethora the mainstay shows. They are not bound by watcher numbers due to federal funding, and have to pass by some decidedly more educated producer types and committees who want to hold high the educational value of public TV and care more for film making as an art form. Our daytime private stations are still bottom-feeding trash, of course. However, there is often a Monday Morning discussion of the newest Tatort across all radio stations, so that is probably the film serial you want to watch, if you get the chance. If you look up the people who made stuff for Netflix in Germany, you will notice they will have made a ton for public stations.

I am like you, Dana...the only time I have been to a 'Sports' bar is for the food...

German commercial breaks are definitely longer and less frequent. Which I like as it actually gives you enough time to do something. I also have the feeling that German commercial breaks keep getting longer. They were much shorter 15 years ago

@DerNivel

6 жыл бұрын

bin ich froh, dass ich noch nie einen privaten fernsehsender eingeschaltet habe. stelle mir werbeunterbrechungen schrecklich vor. Netflix und man unterbrechen, wann man will :)

@deralmighty8011

6 жыл бұрын

Well, they had to adjust for inflation and changing consumer habits at some point, right?

I think the longer advertisements are better, because it's so annoying to have ads every ten minutes. (I also hate that on KZread...) And during this time you can't even do anything else! When the ads are longer, you can go to toilet, or do little other things. And as I said it doesn't disturb the feeling so much when it's a longer time between the ads.

@1Jasmin

6 жыл бұрын

Sailor Cat I agree 100%.

@bigi1310

6 жыл бұрын

Sailor Cat The German Channel "Walulis " has put a good video about it online; differences between greys anatomy season finale in USA and Germany.

Ads are actually regulated on tv in Germany - there is only a certain amount of ad time tv station are allowed to show and with which frequency

All I can say as a Star Wars fan is, i love your Mos Eisley decorations.

I‘ve been to Irish Pubs in Germany, where there where more TV‘s (like 10-15) and there where at least two different soccer games to watch. In one place in Munich I saw different Rugby Games.

I have made the same observations regarding ad breaks on US tv and over here when I used to sneak into HULU. I'm not entirely certain if the lengths sum up to the same total, but ad breaks are certainly more frequent in the US

Hour long programs are 42 minutes of show. 18 minutes of ads. With the last commercial break of the show, right before the resolution of the story line being about 6-8 minutes long. There will be a break at the 16/18 minute mark, and one at the 27/32 minute mark. The last one starts at the 40/42 minute mark so that after I he last break you have 10/12 minutes of show resolution.and ads for the next show starting. But that may defer by networkl, local channel and if your cable provider has ads.

You forgot to mention that there is no FCC in Germany. People can swear on TV and it doesn’t have to be censored.

@donnie1990

6 жыл бұрын

There is some internal rule that says "mild" bad language is ok (except in a cild program of course) BUT more heavy swearing should only appear from 10 pm till 5 am. Anyway you will never have a beep on a native german tv show, even with expressions like "verfickte Scheiße" (means f*cked up sh*t) and worse.

@wwe395

6 жыл бұрын

Your Mind I am aware of that, I am German. :) Of course, swearing on German TV is also frowned upon but it is not really regulated.

@ChrisWagner89

6 жыл бұрын

There aren't internal rules, there are official rules by the FSF. You can find them here: fsf.de/programmpruefung/fsf-altersfreigaben/kriterien/ There has also been beeps on German TV shows before, mainly on reality and talk shows when participants say something that is completely unacceptable and goes beyond using just swearwords. One example of beeping is here: kzread.info/dash/bejne/jK55xtykoszYlrQ.html

@svenheide5840

6 жыл бұрын

The German equivalent to the FCC is the Bundesnetzagentur in regard to the technical stuff like Frequencies. The Landesmedienanstalten on the other hand are concerned with licenses and that the Broadcast stations are following the rules (e.g. no mature content (FSK18) before 22:00

@ChrisWagner89

6 жыл бұрын

FCC and Bundesnetzagentur share some tasks, yes, but the FCC also deals with TV and radio licenses and makes also enforces broadcast rules, e.g. fines networks that air indecent material. And in that aspect, it's doing what the Landesmedienanstalten do. And that's what we're talking about: US networks censoring swear words because of the FCC.

in europe you have a swedish sportsbar chain , in my hometown Ghent in belgium there is one and it's mostly soccer or cycling , and mostly in the weekends , it's a little bit tough to air american sports because some games start after midnight here , no dubbing in belgium (well they tend to do it in the french speaking part), there also aren't any breakfastshow in belgium (in the morning and during the day the radio is more important and after 19.00 TV takes over starting with our tageschau , het journaal is it called here)

I (German) don't have a TV anymore. I watch a lot of US TV shows on Netflix and Amazon on my computer though. I would love to watch them in original language but since I have hearing problems especially with the range of human voices it is difficult for me because music and other sounds make it often hard to understand the voices. Since in dubbed versions the voices stand out more while all other sounds are slightly more in the background I usually have to watch those. Exceptions are "The walking dead" and "Big bang theory". Don't know why but I can understand those very well. Oh and I rewatched "friends" last year and that was no problem either.

In Germany the TV stations are regulated on how many ads they may show per hour, there is also a minimum time between two ad breaks. The reason behind this is a little bit too much to explain for my 6am english, but in simple words it is about viewer protection. Of course they are commercials only programs, but a "full" program is restricted on ads. A very short ad shown without warning în the mid of a movie has a lot more impact than a long ad break, which most people use for bio or kitchen break anyway.

Between the US and UK, I found them pretty similar, just shows tended to air earlier (by a few months) in the US. More ads in the US, but also far more free to air content without having to pay for cable/satellite. In the UK, without satellite I probably wouldn’t bother having a TV; it’s a lot better now with more channels from digital and Freeview, but before, I rarely watched anything at all from the five non-cable/satellite channels. In the US, we cancelled cable at one point - and still got 24, JAG, Law and Order - all the shows we had to pay to access in the UK! All in English, of course. (Actually, I think I get Deutsche Welle here, and a couple of other foreign channels? Been a while since I looked though.) There is the BBC - ad-free, funded by a mandatory subscription if you own a TV, but almost nothing I watch on that (Dr Who and Holby City).

Dana, we do have that kind of American Sportsbar with LOTS of TVs and different matches running simultaneously. Next time you visit Stefan's hometown, go to a "Joe Champs" sportsbar in Cologne.

I only watch TV regulary in winter for wintersport events on Public Broadcasting and sometimes I watch dokumentaries on German PBC. I never watch private ad-financed TV.

I remember times when tv shows weren't interrupted by commercial at all! But then commercial tv came and they first interrupted a show for ONE break. One station used a "curtain" like in the cinemas to make it clear that now you have time (to go to the loo). I am grateful that even now a normal tv series is not interrupted every eight minutes like in the US. The other thing: I think it is good when a restaurant is not equipped with tv because when I go out I want to pay attention to the lady with me and not a boring game. The only exception are your mentioned event watch opportunities. It makes sure for the owner that some people gather with the same interest (ording lots of beer or schnaps indeed). So this can become a night to be remembered. (like me watching the football championship final 1974 in a hotel witnessing the win for germany (oh dear. I am old).

You have to watch the Münster Tatort!

@a._.liciax3800

6 жыл бұрын

Bismut Fan or Auf streife!

@MultiScooter63

6 жыл бұрын

Yes absolutely :-) Münster Tatort is the best !

@faultier1158

6 жыл бұрын

Haha yes! Short explanation: not just the city and the crews are different, but the whole feeling as well. The Münster-Tatort is often light-hearted and funny, while some others can be quite dark sometimes.

@MultiScooter63

6 жыл бұрын

Yes, it's the combination of tension and very special and great humour. I think it is currently the most popular Tatort. Must see ! :-)

@Pewtah

6 жыл бұрын

And don't miss the Weimar Tatort.

Your observation on commercial-breaks is right. German TV tends to have less breaks which are longer due to the regulation by the Landesmedienanstalten.

I often go to a bar where they have a large screen and a projector to show soccer games. When it's not WM or EM, I am only there to eat and drink.

in Bamberg also was a Sports bar/restaurant that was like the ones that you described for the US. It was my favourite but now it is closed :( by the way you have to visit Bamberg:) You really have to watch the Tatort from Münster this is the best one

In Germany, a commercial break on private owned TV station during a primetime show may take full 7 Minutes. Eg a show starts 8:15 PM and about 12-17 minutes in the show, the first break appears and lasts 7 minutes. Then it will take again between 15-20 minutes for the next break to come up for again 7 minutes. This has been standard for the big stations RTL, Pro7 for at least the last decade. Smaller stations may run the breaks a bit shorter and a little less frequent. Usually, you have rule of thump 20 Minutes show, 5 minutes commercials - repeat. In the 90s it was still practice to start a new program right after a break. But today it is practise to start the next show just after the previous one and thus, the first commercial break will occur mostly about 5 minutes in the show.

In Addition to your video, I have seen sports bars here in Germany with multiple TVs but most of the time, they have only one. Even the one my father used to own had one television in the back of his inn (?) The duration of the commercial break also depends on the channel. I feel like here in Germany, the channel Sat 1 broadcasts shorter but more often commercials than for instance RTL. Speaking about Tatort, I haven’t watched a single episode of it as well and I have been living here for 17 years. No worries. 😁 If you like the concept of Tatort, I recommend you Black Mirror. It’s a British show on Netflix and in every episode, there are new actors, a new setting and a new plot :3

Sometimes you'll see sports bars with different football games in different rooms, sometimes mixed in one room.

Since I found youtube with so many good vlogs. I very seldom watch TV much anymore.

With all the shows from the US here in Germany, it's funny to spot the places where the advertisement should've taken place originally, as the cuts make it sometimes really obvious. Mostly I found the commercial break timing to be the same in those shows, but again, it differs a lot between shows.

2:40 You didnt mention the so called "Public Viewings", where large crowds can gather on public places to watch a soccer game on a large canvas during the World or European Cups (most known is the one at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin). "Public Viewing" as english name for these events was a german invention (much like "Handy" or "Showmaster"). Fun fact: "Public Viewing" in English does mean the public display of a deceased during the funeral.

I watch traditional TV about twice a year. The last thing I cared about on TV was Hasselhoff singing before the new years countdown, things haven't been the same since they bumped him to after midnight in favour of a Schlager 🌟.

I’m in Australia at the moment and I noticed the difference in the commercial breaks as well, they are more often but shorter then in Germany. When I watch TV I like to watch criminal shows for example ‘Tatort’ or any of the ‘SOKO’ shows in Germany 😅 or navy CIS, Bones, Castle. But I also like all different kinds of tv shows that I do watch on Netflix 🙂

5:30 I think you could compare Tatort with the concept of todays NCIS in the US which is also based in different cities (New York, Los Angeles, New Orleans). Tatort of course is much older (started in the 1970s). As far as I know it was its concept to highlight/showcase the different cultural aspects of Germany, so the show was shot and produced by different production institutions (the Landesrundfunkanstalten) around Germany.

In the US I've noticed over the past few years that most of my friends and family don't use regular TV service anymore, instead preferring to use a streaming service (mostly Netflix), the few people I know that do keep TV service say they have it just for the live sports or news.

what is the prime time on tv being mentioned in this video mean?

In Holland prime time starts at 8:30 PM bc of the News & a show called Good Times Bad Times 😂🙃

I also noticed the differences in commercial breaks (fewer but longer in Germany). Also, when they put commercial breaks into American shows here, they don't put them at dramatically relevant places like cliffhangers, or even in between scenes. Sometimes they'll interrupt a character's sentence to put in a commercial break. And usually they'll recap the last 15 seconds or so after the commercial break is over.

Not really watching tv anymore since you get most stuff on demand on the internet without ads. Well there are two things i like to watch from time to time, pretty much everything Joko & Klaas are doing (just my type of humor) and of course "Soccer" on World Cups and European Cups, when whole germany unites to one crazy fanbase xD

I would recommend you to watch the Schimanski Tatort with Götz George also known as Tatort Duisburg! Because those are the best "Tatort" Episodes in my Opinion!

If you want to watch different Games or Sports you have to go to a Sportsbar. It`s actually quite expensive for Owners of a Business to show Sports.

Germany is missing the Spelling Bee. Great show where I'm sure it would be great to have this here too

I've also noticed that American ad breaks come shorter and more frequently and I'm pretty annoyed by it 😂

@MultiScooter63

6 жыл бұрын

Yep. I prefer less but longer commercial breaks so you can i.e. get some food or refreshments, go to the toilet, have a cigarette break on the balcony etc.

@jessicaely2521

6 жыл бұрын

People in the US don't really watch commercials anymore. We record a show and fast forward through the commercials. We also use Hulu and Netflix. Hulu only has maybe 6 commercials in a 30 minute show and Netflix of course has none.

@martinenotmartini9935

6 жыл бұрын

Jessica Ely six commercials for thirty minutes is a crazy concept over here, though. it's been a while since i watched tv but i would be willing to bet in germany there's no more than half of that (at most). so it really all is relative

@martinenotmartini9935

6 жыл бұрын

Jessica Ely sorry for the double reply, but i got curious and just googled a bit. apparently the rule used to be that there could be one commercial break every 30 mins, but they apparently changed that to 20 between breaks a couple years back

@jessicaely2521

6 жыл бұрын

Martine M For a 30 minute show that isn't bad. 2 commercials per break (they are 30 seconds-1 minute each). There are 3 breaks on Hulu. On Hulu you can finish a 30 minute show in 20 minutes. You can also get Hulu with NO commercials at a cheap price. You can get Hulu and Netflix (no commercials) for $22 a month. Cable and satellite is old fashioned for a lot of people in the US.

The channel "sixx" often shows episodes of american tv shows that havn't been dubbed yet. They're shown after 10pm or so with german subs. (I also think "Sixx" ist like the "CW" in America. But I'm not sure)

You can change the audio with your remote control on almost every channel and most shows. Not just to English, sometimes to French too, mostly depending on what the original movie language is. Subtitles are also available, either on the Teletext or switched on via the remote control. It's a neat little feature I use a lot.

@imrehundertwasser7094

6 жыл бұрын

Do you live in Switzerland? In Germany, multi-language broadcasts on TV are not a thing, but I've noticed some on Swiss TV.

@marcusuhd7914

6 жыл бұрын

Nickelodeon offers 2 languages, but that's an exception. Usually this is only offered on encrypted Pay-TV (Sky, Telekom Entertain,...)

I like Tatort! The most that one from Münster, Hannover and Ludwigshafen. But normally I have no time for it. Or for watching TV in general. And I don't have Netflix.

In Austria (propably Germany too) those walls of stacked TVs all showing live sports are common too, but instead of sports bars they are in betting shops, usually also featuring a bar. They are dangerous places though, they tend to be mugged more often than bank offices or gas stations, because of a "better" cash / security ratio and nighlty opening hours.

The thing about commercials is still true I think. I definitely noticed the frequent short breaks while watching the Oscars. I prefer the less frequent longer ones because they actually give you time to go to the toilet or prepare new food or something :)

My favourite TV-show is the Sportschau ;) (surprise surprise)😂

I think Tatort is less a series than a franchize with multiple series. You could compare it to CSI or NCIS except it was meant to have teams at multiple cities from the get go.

Sometimes in german Sportsbars 2-4 tvs are showing the game and one is showing the news or something

We has a Sport's bar here in our town, but it had to close down because of the absurd amount of money "Sky Television" asked for the licence to show their channels. And there is practically no way around Sky in Germany. For "normal" TV I think Netflix, Amazon Prime and KZread are nowadays the most important channels.

there are laws here in germany about the max length and frequency of ads on tv. I didn't look it up right now, I just remember a couple of years ago a channel tried to go with more but shorter ad breaks and got massively sued by all competitors and that is how he public became aware of those laws (and that one channel, that apparently didn't know about those laws either).

So I was wondering which countries in europe use dubbing for movies and tv shows and which countres use subtitles? I'm from Croatia and we don't really have dubbing (except cartoons), it's always subtitles which I like better. When I was In germany and heard some popular TV show in german It was very strange to me and funny, but I guess you get used to It.

@ChrisWagner89

6 жыл бұрын

Nordics and Benelux usually have subtitles. You can find proper dubs in Central, West and South Europe. East Europe usually has subtitles or sometimes voice over. There are exceptions and special cases (e.g. the Netherlands and many other countries have subtitles for shows aimed at adults, but dub shows for children), but that's how you can divide Europe in regards to dubbing.

@leracou

6 жыл бұрын

Countries with a large enough population normally go for dubbing: Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Poland, - and that goes for Asia as well.

I can really recommend the Münster Tatort with Thiel and Börne. It's really funny.

I find tv screens in a bar to be an annoying distraction instead of a likeable feature although it can be ok for like “the game of the year” or the national team playing. For restaurants it’s a no-no

One difference I recognized concerning commercials is that in the US there are a lot commercials for medication that you have to get a prescription for, like "go ask your Doc for that". In Germany there are of course also medical commercials but the products are always free to buy, only if issues are occuring you should see a doctor. I feel it's kind of weird to go to a doctor and ask for a special medical treatment

On one evening during my time in Great Britain I wanted to watch a cool film and I though that the prime time starts at 20:15. So I was very sad that I missed the beginning. Well, for the next times I knew :P

Tatort isn't as bad as some people in the comments claim. I think its just a series for more mature people Like my parents (50 years old), who are not interested in big action scenes. I watched it a few times too, and I liked it. Its no criminal minds, but it's pretty good

@IsleNaK

6 жыл бұрын

Eva Müller I absolutely don't need exploding cars and alike in my serieses but to me Tatort is just as horrible as most german serieses. In my opinion german actors are just bad at acting. It feels artificial. The conversations sound like they are reading them. The story is usually very stereotypical. The content of the dialogs is just cringe - they sound like teenagers who are trying hard to sound cool. The story is overexplaining and moralizing (moralischer Zeigefinger): the characters are basically telling you how you are supposed to think about what you have watched instead of letting you form your own opinion. The background music seems out of place (it doesn't blend in). Etc. Rant over ^^. And no, I totally don't watch RTL or Hollywood movies instead. My taste tends to Art House movies, documentaries and Japanese and Korean movies (not with those J and KPop stars. But rather producers like Kim Ki Duk who would win prizes in Cannes and not Oscars)

@TheUlli1964

6 жыл бұрын

I am old,53, 😉Never watch Tatort. I prever Law and Order . The best of American crime serie. Beside this i prefer BBC crime series, they r the best.other BBC TV-Programm as well. Germany prime time tv shows are a shame.

@amsedzaferovic1679

5 жыл бұрын

Nakop, ey. Not every German series is that bad. The actors don't act bad like you describe them to be. I quite like Tatort, Soko München/Wismar and Co. and other series since it is more "normal" cases than "extravagant" ones, and i am 21. The cases in these series are not really the most important things, its the characters. Fans of Tatort and Co. have their favorite investigators since in Tatort there are multiple investigators form different cities in Germany who may sometimes interact with each other. Of course there are American series (and from other countries) who have this too but the ones like Tatort and Co. are more calm and "relaxing". Of course there may be too many stereotypical stories but most people don't care about them since they enjoy watching Tatort and Co. together. But you don't need to actually watch them you can just listen to them as well while doing something completely different in the meantime, like cleaning tables or washing your dish (when your TV isn't too far away). Sorry if i ask but what kind of Episodes did you watch of Tatort? P.S: I like American and British series as well so that nobody understands me wrong. But the German actors aren't that bad like you make them to be.

Restroom stall TVs? Don't touch that dial! REALLY, DON"T TOUCH THAT DIAL!

Private channels are allowed to broadcast exactly 12 minutes of advertising in one hour. Some people take advantage of it and if you place it well, an ad block can be longer than 12 minutes. Especially with ProSieben, it seems as if the commercial is interrupted by the film or the show - that's a fact. When I was in the USA, we had the impression that there comes only advertising and from time to time a little series show is placed in between.

started to watch Matrix on american TV, after only an hour, 5 ads already aired, and i had not enough time to watch those ads with some Matrix between them

There are some sports bars, usually run by companies that also offer sport-betting, that have multiple Screens with multiple games running, but they usually don't offer any proper food. They do have small pizzas and canned food that they can warm up for you, but they usually don't have a proper kitchen or a chef. People wouldn't go out to dinner with other people and watch TV while doing so, since it would be considered impolite to do so. But you can go and watch a game with friends and have a snack while you're at it.

I live in Munich too. I was thinking about your "finding underwear" situation and I though, You should've gone to TkMaxx. Is the same as Marshalls or TJ Maxx. They carry a bunchhhhhhh of american brands or american styles of things.. I bet you know tj and marshall. And the one in Munich is the biggest in Europe so you'll probably find a lot of stuff that you might find useful there. =o)

I guess netflix & co and KZread dominates over the TV program nowadays. ;) Ansonsten tolles Video. Dana...du musst mal mehr Videos auf Deutsch machen. 😁👍🏻

Watching American TV feels really not that different from German TV to me. Lots of the same or similar shows, lots of awkward "reality" shows. It's just that the US has so many talk shows still, whereas those have died out in Germany like 15 years ago already.

IK here in the US, a lot of people are now "cutting the cord" and instead of getting an actual cable or satellite connection, they're subscribing to something like DTV NOW or Sling, or possibly even just watching Netflix and KZread (that's what I mainly do). Is that happening in Germany or other parts of Europe too?

@andreasdill4329

6 жыл бұрын

Yes, absolutely. The only person im my family still using the classic TV in the living room is my wife. She like reality shows, castings and Tatort, so i have to flee in my mancave in the cellar to watch YT, Netflix or prime. Or play Games. My son and my daughter don`t even own a TV any more.

Watching TVs in Germany, I have noticed older American shows such as TJ Hooker. I have been to a couple of sports Bars in Germany and yes it is 90 % football (Soccer), yet I remember one time I popped into one for a meal, and they had professional cycling on ( which was unusual as this was before German started showing cycling again)...

There is a maximum of time for advertising in Germany for certain lengths of the shows and that time is actually not that long. What makes the ad breaks so long are mostly the self promotions for the channel itself (like watch this show on Wendesday and that show on Monday) which do not count as advertising and thus can be as long as the channel wants them to be. That’s how a lot of German channels end up with 10 minute ad breaks.

@ChrisWagner89

6 жыл бұрын

Current rule is that you can have 12 minutes of advertisement per hour, no matter how long the shows are. What you might talk about is: There is a regulation that determines how many ad breaks you can have during movies. You can interrupt movies once for each scheduled period of at least 30 minutes Series and shows (which are not aimed at children) are not affected by this rule anymore. There used to be regulation that stated that you have to wait at least 20 minutes before you can have the next ad break, but that rule is already gone. You can interrupt them as often as you want, TV channels hardly make use of it though because audience got used to less frequent ad breaks. However, smaller channels like Comedy Central make use of it. 30 minute-series usually get interrupted twice on Comedy Central. Rules are also about to change again. In the future, TV channels can have longer ad breaks between 6pm and midnight as long as the total time of advertisement doesn't exceed 72 minutes. So you can have 18 minutes of proper advertisements at 8pm, if you only air 6 minutes of advertisement at 11pm.

the length and frequencies of commercials in Germany is written in an Contract. It´s the "Rundfunkstaatsvertrag". Whereas in the US as long as i know there is no sucht thing.

@ChrisWagner89

6 жыл бұрын

TV channels are allowed to have more frequent ads during TV series and shows (not movies, news and kids TV though), the only rule left is that you can't have more than 12 minutes of commercials per hours (not including self-promotions). Most channels just don't make use of that greater freedom and still leave it at 1 break per 30 minutes, Comedy Central is an exception though. They tend to have shorter, but more ad breaks.

Have been to NY this March and noticed something about TV commercial breaks that seems somewhat off to a German: First of all you have commercials for prescription drugs (which is something that's banned in every other country except for New Zealand) and secondly there was a quite surprising amount of commercials for lawyers ("Did you or a family member trip on a broken sidewalk and get injured? Call now! Your case could be worth millions!") I haven't ever seen those in Germany or any other country outside the US.

In Britain our prime time is at 9:00 o'clock xx

You have to consider the sports event according the commercial breaks. Soccer = has only one break with 15-20 min. That’s why you have normally one long commercial break. Basketball for example has 16 timeouts 2 quater breaks and also a long halftime break. More room for short commercial. Same thing with American football, Eishockey and baseball.

Here in South Africa shows usually are on the hour or half hours, though not that unusual for prime time movies to be 15 min past or sometimes even 10 or 5 min past. The only show I actually still watch is every week day 18h00 and is one of the very few shows still in Afrikaans, it is the only one in Afrikaans that is a regular show, the others being short series, it is called 7de Laan. Most shows is in English, with more and more in African languages like Zulu or seSotho that I don't understand. As for commercials that is usually around every 10 min and take up about 20 min per hour.

The German standard TV schedule with the prime time starting at 8 p.m. with the news followed by the main show(s) of the evening around 8:15 p.m. dates back to the 1930s. This is the TV schedule from January 5th, 1938: 20.00 UFA-Wochenschau 20.18 Tante Inges Garten 20.30 Achtung: Rotes Licht 21.14 Alkohol am Steuerrad 21.28 Die Lokomotivenbraut 21.42 Letzte Grüße von Marie 21.57 Sendeschluss

Cool. I don't think I've been in as many different sports bars as you. I'm not a bar person. I suspect that they are a lot more diverse across the USA. The ones I have been to in northern California are more like what you describe in Germany. They will have sports programming on different screens that differs, but only if the bar is big enough. But when the local team is playing, it isn't Vegas, catering to the sports bettors. All the screens are on the game that carries the most local interest. Except during March Madness and the NBA Playoffs and Olympics. Then, some will segregate areas. Prime time in the US is actually 7-11 ET/PT, 6-10CT/MT. (Hawaii and Alaska, idk) _60 Minutes_ is considered to air in primetime. The 7-8 PM (ET/PT) block is often occupied by young children's or news programming produced by the network (like _60 Minutes_ ), that you may not have paid attention to in your teens and college years, when you still lived here. If you watched your local "Evening Magazine", that was a format gift to your local CBS station, and there were a dozen or more individual iterations across the bigger media markets. This is important for advertising revenue for the local stations. Edit: italics, not bold

Foreign language shows have always been dubbed, except the odd "artsy" film that used to be shown in the original language with German subtitles (sometimes even "weird" languages such as chinese or hindi). In the 1980s stereo technology came to television, allowing to air a foreign movie with dubbing and original language at the same time, giving the viewer a choice what language they preferred. Of course that is still technically possible today, but since the major channels have been distributed via satellite in the clear, they've stopped doing that because it would involve purchasing the English language broadcast rights for all of Europe, which are fare too expensive in most cases.

Can you make a video about children programmes in the U.S.and Germany with Stefan? :) ( sry if there are any mistakes)

I do watch TV mostly Tagesschau !! The TV maker had tried to change Prime time and ignore Tagesschau.... they failed. when a show begins before Tagesschau ends it has less much less ratings!

I love Tatort. It is boring for Americans because there is no action there: everything is realistic, no blood and fake car explosions, people who are hit in the leg do not run shooting, but lie on the ground until ambulance arrives etc. The whole story is concentrated on investigation and looking for evidence. It is also a good propaganda of rule of law and justice: my impression is that in the US the lynching mentality still prevails, there is less trust in the justice system. Tatort shows, why this is bad: sometimes the "obvious" murderer whom you would like to lynch becomes totally not guilty in the end, while the real murderer is a well situated middle class woman.

@noddeat

6 жыл бұрын

As well there were some "Hollywood style" Tatort episodes. But as an exception, not a rule.

What I noticed is that when I watch a movie with my mother in law, who is from the USA, she always talks and asks questions about the movie, while we are watching. This never happened to me with any of my german friends. Is this an american thing?

@Ozzymandyas

6 жыл бұрын

yes. if you want to watch a movie and are interested in it, you expect the others present to shut up. talk is for afterwards.

The biggest difference is that (unless they're on Netflix or something big like GoT or TWD) the dubbed shows air over a year later here in germany, so most tv-show-obsessed watch them in english anyways. And different voice, sometimes over a course of season they change the voice of an actor who dubbed it, it's really irritating.

Hi Dana, you don't have to measure the break length in Germany. There are rules for how long per hour I think it was a show can be broken up by commercials.

@ChrisWagner89

6 жыл бұрын

20% per hour that is, e.g. 12 minutes per hour. But it's about to change. TV channels can have 72 minutes of ad commercials between 6pm and midnight. So it's still 20% of that 6-hour period, but (in theory) you can have 24 minutes of advertisement at 8pm and none at 11pm.

@ChrisWagner89

6 жыл бұрын

No, you're wrong. It is most definitely 20 percent (= 12 Minutes) by EU regulations. Check Article 23 of the Audiovisual Media Service Directive (AVMSD), which cleary states: (1) The proportion of television advertising spots and teleshopping spots within a given clock hour shall not exceed 20%. (2) Paragraph 1 shall not apply to announcements made by the broadcaster in connection with its own programmes and ancillary products directly derived from those programmes, sponsorship announcements and product placements. So 20% of an hour (= 12 minutes) of "proper" commercials plus unlimited amount of self-promotion.

@ChrisWagner89

6 жыл бұрын

Yes, RTL Nederland is licensed in Luxembourg, but you're wrong with your statement on regulation. There is regulation in Luxembourg since the country is part of the EU and they had to turn the AVMSD into national law. Searching for Règlement sur la publicité, le parrainage, le télé-achat et l’autopromotion or taking a look at the IRIS website will give you more information on that topic. The main difference is that Luxembourg applies the EU directive in the most liberal way possible, while Dutch government and authorities have stricter rules where there is room to interpret EU law or to expand on EU regulation (e.g. when it comes to kids TV). For example, the AVMSD doesn't state how you should define the length of a broadcast, e.g. does the length include ad breaks or not. Also, and that's probably the more important part: monitoring is more liberal in Luxembourg, e.g. the law might say that you can only have up to 12 minutes of advertisement per hour.. but nobody enforces it. The only punishment that the regulating body in Luxembourg has is revoking the license completely.. since it's a harsh punishment, they hardly ever use it. So all that you have to fear (as a commercial TV channel in Luxembourg) is that somebody tells you that you're a bad boy.

In Korea, there are channels devoted to sports 24/7. But the sports change. Sometimes football (soccer) which can be EPL, Bundesliga, La Liga, Serie A, or Korean League; sometimes baseball which can be MLB or KBO; sometimes MMA; sometimes tennis; sometimes volleyball. Volleyball has both men's and women's pro leagues in Korea. Sometimes snooker; sometimes golf. The only constant is that there is one channel devoted to women's golf all the time.

@IsleNaK

6 жыл бұрын

h lynn keith Germany has that too like "eurosport" and there's another one I can't remember (not a sports watching person)

Actually, here in Germany I know bars where they show more than one football game at the same time on different screens and where not everyone (often not even the majority) are there particularly for watching a specific game 🤔 And I feel like the advertisement are getting longer and longer, especially when showing a popular or new movie/TV show

I'd say a good number of people in the U.S. have switched to Netflix and HBO online subscriptions. I feel like many of the network shows have become less popular because of ads and the lack of ground breaking scripts.

What's "TV"?

@hanswurst4177

6 жыл бұрын

Straylight4299 Television

In Germany, the pay-TV service providing all the games you could wish for (called sky) is super expensive and is becoming more expensive even. The other day on the radio I heard that it's now 5000€/year, so all the small Kneipen that would want to show sports on tv just cannot afford it..

Your right about the commercials in German TV. On PRO7 you thing the show or whatever you watch interrupt the commercials. I just hate it. 😑

@johnys2417

6 жыл бұрын

#patrickstar YT lieber werbung als Pay-TV

in italy primetime begins at 21:00 or 21:15. It used to begin at 20:30 in the 80's but then they added other programs after the news (which airs at 20:00 until 20:30) and so... it is laaate for primetime :(

Why would they put many tvs on top of each other instead of having one big one? Can't have different things on that close to each other anyway...

if you show more than 1 show you have 2 pay a huge fee because to show something in public you have 2 pay a lot . Für gewerbliche Public-Viewing-Veranstaltungen („Commercial Public Viewing Events“) benötigen Sie eine gebührenpflichtige Lizenz der FIFA. Ein gewerblicher Zweck gilt bei einer Public-Viewing-Veranstaltung als gegeben, wenn zum Beispiel: für die Vorführung der Übertragung der Spiele der Fußball-WM direkt oder indirekt ‎(z. B. durch Unkostenbeiträge, Mindestverzehranforderungen, erhöhte Speisen- und ‎Getränkepreise)‎ Eintrittsgelder verlangt werden und/oder im Zusammenhang mit der Veranstaltung Sponsoring- oder andere gewerbliche Assoziierungsrechte genutzt werden und/oder aus der Veranstaltung in anderer Form ein geschäftlicher Nutzen erzielt wird. GEMA, Rundfunkbeitrag und Public Viewing Beim Public-Viewing können zusätzliche Gebühren der GEMA sowie der Rundfunkbeitrag für öffentlich-rechtlichen Hörfunk und Fernsehen anfallen, ferner gegebenenfalls für eine Sky-Lizenz. Die GEMA sieht einen Sondertarif für Public-Viewing-Veranstaltungen im Rahmen der Fußball-WM 2018 vor. Dieser wird einige Wochen vor der WM veröffentlicht. Informationen findet man unter www.gema.de. Fragen beantwortet die zuständige Bezirksdirektion (www.gema.de/die-gema/adressen/bezirksdirektionen.html). Informationen zum Rundfunkbeitrag gibt es unter www.rundfunkbeitrag.de. so to translate that in germany you will have a few huge tv's and maybe a projector and you will see 1 game live and you will hear the game over all speakers but you will need a fifa licence and maybe even a sky-lizenz and pay gema and if you would show more than 1 game at the same time these fees add up very very quick ... in america you see tv's like it is was in many supermarkets like saturn etc it's basicly a tv wall and you hear no sound or just 1 game but see 20 etc ... i find that disturbing ... and i can't enjoy it as much as i would if i just saw 1 game ... or watch it in a conference so that they show important plays of all games going on at the same time ...

I think the US have one or two commercials every 5 minutesn while Germany has every 20/30/60 Minutes 5-10 minutes commercial time, depending on the broadcaster.

Who else reminds the time 8.15 always at storybrooke, once upon a time?😉😍

Another very great video from you again. Here some differences between german and US TV i noticed when i was over there in the USA: In the US television is nudity ("OMG a naked female breast! Call the police!"), alcohol in Talkshows (in Germany its OK that the guest drink non-alcohlic and also alcoholic drinks while they interviewed) and swearing ( "Fu...*BEEEEEEP* you!") very big things. German TV has much more problems with violence as the american TV. Here in Germany are three (?) different "Time Barriers" for Movies with violent scenes. For example: The Walking Dead can only showed after 10 p.m. in Free TV. To the Sports Bars here in Germany: I think it makes a big difference were in Germany you live. I'm living in Berlin and i watched some of the NFL Playoff Games live with friends in a Sports Bar. The only problem was at first to find a Bar witch was still open after midnight. Tatort (started in the late 1970's) became a big, big thing here in Germany over the years. At first the show had the image of "that's an old people thing - we young people watching cool shows like Miami Vice!" :) But over the years the image changed a lot also by the younger generation, because the show is much more realistic (mostly) and shows the real live (also mostly) and the charactres have all their own life and problems.