Programming
ORF eins mostly shows films and episodes. In the morning a children's program called okidoki is broadcast. Popular sports like skiing, Formula One and association football are also shown on ORF eins. ORF broadcasts its news program Zeit im Bild (The Times in Pictures) and the Magazine on ORF2. Until April 9, 2007, Zeit im Bild was shown on ORF eins and ORF2 simultaneously at 7:30 p.m. ORF1 then began to show a daily soap opera during the eight o'clock hour, but on July 1, 2007, it was replaced by Malcolm in the Middle (which has been replaced by Two And A Half Men) due to low ratings. Aside from this, there are news programs several minutes long at various times during the day, with the name ZiB Flash. After 8 p.m., the news program, called ZiB 20, is now broadcast; which replaced the old Newsflash.
In comparison with the German channel ARD, ORF competes, on the one hand, with the second channel of its own broadcast service. ORF is closed to parts of the large German market because its programs are encrypted over satellite. In certain regions of Germany, e.g. Bavaria ORF can be received terrestrial without encryption. On the other hand, the big German private channels compete with ORF within Austria, because of their broadcast over cable television and unencrypted satellite. Therefore, the ORF is positioned only in Austria as a mainstream media, and seldom experiments with new programming.
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