With the move to the brand new TV studio, the ORF is also daring to change the well-known news format “ZIB2 am Sonntag”. That is the reason.
Armin Wolf said goodbye to his job on Wednesday. The ZIB2 studio on Küniglberg, where the ORF presenter has been in front of the cameras for decades, is no more. Despite the austerity measures, the public media company allowed itself a new studio in its multimedia newsroom.
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On Monday, the star anchorman will moderate much more lonely, it was also his last ZIB2 with cameramen: “In the new studio there are only remote-controlled cameras,” he revealed on Twitter around the Pan Showwhich had been his last show at the established workplace.
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The preview of the new television studio took place on December 18 with a “press hour”. Since Saturday, February 25, all editions of the various “Zeit im Bild” news formats have been broadcast from there.
There is also another innovation, as moderator Martin Thür writes via Twitter on Sunday followingnoon. There will be no more “ZIB2 am Sonntag” in the future!
However, fans of the wide-reaching news program need not despair, the format will not be discontinued, only renamed.
ORF cancels “on Sunday”
“Today the ZIB2 starts in the new studio and with that the ‘ZIB2 am Sonntag’ will also become a completely ‘normal’ ZIB2,” explains Thür. “A little more than four years following the first broadcast, what was always together is officially growing together. ” In the TVthek, too, all editions should now be able to be found in a row.
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According to him, the ORF wanted to emphasize the new program more when it started on January 13, 2019 – Norbert Hofer was the first studio guest – by separating the “ZIB2” formats by name. The quota might also be calculated separately.
According to Thür, around 700,000 people now follow the Sunday ZIB2 every weekend. “Even the first ZIB2S had insane ratings and even following that the interest remained high,” writes the TV journalist. “Sunday has become an extremely newsworthy day.”
Minister in the first new Sunday ZIB2
At the first “ZIB2” on Sunday without “on Sunday” in the new studio, Labor and Economics Minister Martin Kocher meets moderator Thür. According to his own statements, he has already moderated 167 times on the last day of the week: “78 percent of Sundays since Start. Hopefully there will be many more.”
Thür is certain that “many viewers will probably not even notice the small difference”. After all, (almost) everything is now the same as with the programs during the week. But one special feature remains: On Sundays, the “ZIB2” will continue to start at 9:50 p.m. instead of 10 p.m. sharp.