Based on a corpus of one week’s newscasts of the main 15-minute newscasts, the 100-seconds version and the App, the presentation will compare the content, genres and text types and the linguistic features of these three formats of the German Tagesschau, the news of the public, non-commercial TV channel ARD.
The newscasts of public, non-commercial TV channels are still among the most highly trusted sources of information (not only) in Germany: “Greatest trust within the news media in Germany is still attributed to the two main public service news brands (ARD and ZDF).” (Hölig/Hasebrink 2019) The history of the ARD newscasts goes back to 1952 (Matzen/Radler 2009). The Tagesschau’s main 15-minute newscast has been broadcast every day at 8 p.m. on Channel One (Das Erste) of the ARD, and nowadays simultaneously on several other channels. The late edition was replaced by the Tagesthemen in 1978. Since 1992, short news spots have been broadcast every half-an-hour on the so-called breakfast (morning) TV, and since 1995 night editions completed the news offers around the clock. During the last decade, new forms and channels of distributing the newscasts arose. In addition to terrestrial broadcasting, today the Tagesschau can be received via livestream on the Internet (since 2005), as podcasts (audio and video) or “online-stream” in the Mediathek and on Youtube, and on the Internet platform tagesschau24.de. More recent offers are Die Tagesschau in 100 Sekunden and the Tagesschau App. Based on a corpus of one week’s newscasts of the main 15-minute newscasts, the 100-seconds version and the App, the presentation will compare the content, genres and text types (Luginbühl 2014) and the linguistic features (Schmitz 1990) of the three formats. References: Hölig, Sascha / Hasebrink, Uwe: Germany. In: Digital News Report 2019. https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/sites/default/files/inline-files/DNR_2019_FINAL_27_08_2019.pdf Luginbühl, Martin (2014): Medienkultur und Medienlinguistik. Komparative Textsortengeschichte(n) der amerikanischen "CBS Evening News" und der Schweizer "Tagesschau". Bern u. a.: Peter Lang. Matzen, Nea / Radler, Christian (2009): Die Tagesschau. Zur Geschichte einer Nachrichtensendung. Konstanz: UVK. Schmitz, Ulrich (1990): Postmoderne Concierge: Die „Tagesschau“. Opladen: Westdeutscher Verlag.
