ARD

…form one evening television offering, ARD (Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Öffentlich-Rechtlichen Rundfunkanstalten Deutschlands). This is complemented by a second television network, ZDF (Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen), which is based in Mainz. A third channel is operated by ARD but is organized and broadcast regionally, with special emphasis placed on local and regional events…

Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Öffentlich (ARD) and Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen are public television stations in Germany. Radio and television stations from all over Germany’s states are combined under the roof of ARD (Collaboration Community of German Radio and Television Institutions Under Public Law). ARD, launched in 1950, produced and broadcast…

…in the United Kingdom, Germany’s ARD (Arbeitsgemeinschaft der öffentlich-rechtlichen Rundfunkanstalten der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Association of Public Broadcasting Corporations in the Federal Republic of Germany) and ZDF (Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen, Second German Television), Italy’s RAI (Radiotelevisione Italiana), Japan’s NHK (Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai, Japan Broadcasting Corporation), and India’s Doordarshan maintain some of…