National Co-ordinator:

Gerhard Draxler
Managing Director
ORF/ Austrian Broadcasting Corporation
Marburgerstrasse 20
A - 8042 Graz
phone: +43 316 470 28211
fax: +43 316 470 28200
e-mail: gerhard.draxler@orf.at

The Austrian broadcasting company Österreichischer Rundfunk (ORF) is organised as an independent public corporation. ORF's main broadcasting activities take place at Funkhaus and ORF-Zentrum in Vienna. In addition, ORF runs one local station in each of the nine regions where radio and TV material of more local interest is provided. Every day, ORF airs about 170 hours of radio and some 48 hours of TV programmes.

ORF provides a public service on the basis of the Constitutional Act of 10 July 1974. By the same Act, the company's independence was secured.

The broadcaster televises two separate 24-hours full-selection programmes, which cover with great topical plurality the fields of news, arts and education, science, economy, sports, and practical help, and include feature films and entertainments. Whether purely academic or funny, whether simply providing information or making viewers feel at ease - the ORF programmes will always be clearly distinct from those of more commercial or special-offer networks.

The nine local stations of ORF have independently operated production facilities, through which they produce their own radio and TV broadcasts. The studios and offices are linked with the central ORF facilities via direct audio/video and data systems and connected to ORF's nationwide computer network. Not only sources of information but also institutions of specific cultural relevance, the local stations produce essential and manifold stimuli for the benefit of their audiences.

In about 97 % of Austria's 3 million households there is at least one TV-set available for you. 74 % of the households are linked to a cable network or receive satellite programmes. The two TV programmes broadcast by the ORF (ORF 1 and ORF 2) cover 48 % of the cable/satellite market in Austria.

The Republic of Austria consists of nine Federal States, each housing a Regional Studio of the ORF. So the ORF's network is backed by nine Regional Studios, each fully equipped for the production of both radio and TV programmes. The Regional Studios are:

• Burgenland Regional Studios
• Carinthian Regional Studios
• Lower Austrian Regional Studios
• Salzburg Regional Studios
• Styrian Regional Studios
• Tyrolean Regional Studios
• Upper Austrian Regional Studios
• Viennese Regional Studios
• Vorarlberg Regional Studios

In the TV-sector the Regional Studios produce nine independent regional programmes of 25 minutes regional news per day, a one hour regional Talkshow five times a week, the daily regional News-show "Region Today" (7.00 p.m.) reach a market share of 70 until 80 %.

Furthermore the Regional Studios contribute to the nation-wide programmes, producing some 10 to 15 % of the total broadcasting material mostly in the news, sports, culture, economy and similiar sectors.

Another production focus of the Regional Studios are independent programmes, especially in information, culture and ethnic culture.

The Regional Studios:

Region - Burgenland

Station: ORF, Studio Burgenland
Address: Buchgraben 51, A-7000 Eisenstadt
Town: Eisenstadt
Tel.: +43 2682 700-27211
Fax: +43 2682 700-27200

General Manager: Karlheinz Papst, e-mail: karlheinz.papst@orf.at
Editor-in-Chief: Walter Schneeberger Mag., e-mail: walter.schneeberger@orf.at
CR contact person: Karlheinz Papst

Burgenland
Rural area, transmission hour 4 p.m. to 5.pm talk show and 7.p.m. daily local news, audience 21 % financed by licence fees and advertising. Local news once a week in Croatian. The studio of Burgenland is a part of the Austrian Broadcasting Corporaton (ORF). The station has a staff of 79, broadcasting to 270,000 people with 72,000 TV-sets.

Region - Carinthia

Station: ORF, Studio Carinthia
Address: Sponheimerstraße 13, A-9010 Klagenfurt
Town: Klagenfurt
Tel.: +43 463 5330-29211
Fax: Fax: +43 463 5330-29200

General Manager: Wilhelm Mitsche Dr., e-mail: willy.mitsche@orf.at
Editor-in-Chief: Bernhard Bieche, e-mail: bernhard.bieche@orf.at
CR contact person: Wilhelm Mitsche Dr.

We are a regional station in a rural and urban area. The minority people are the Slovenians. The station transmits 15 hours every day on radio and regional TV programmes for 330 hours a year. The types of programmes are topical programmes, folk music, popular programmes, light entertainment. The viewing figures are about 170.000. The share of the audience is about 182,000. The station has a staff of 160 broadcasting to 547,800 inhabitants with 174.500 TV-sets.

Region - Lower Austria

Station ORF, Studio Lower Austria
Address: Radioplatz 1, 3100 St.Pölten
Town: St. Pölten
Tel. +43 2742 2210-23858
Fax. + +43 2742 2210-23887
General Manager: Norbert Gollinger, e-mail: norbert.gollinger@orf.at
Editor-in-Chief: Richard Grasl Mag., e-mail: richard.grasl@orf.at
CR contact person: Norbert Gollinger

Technical Facilities: Production control room, contral desks and mixing desks.

The regional studio of Lower Austria (Landesstudio NÖ) is part of the ORF and represents the ORF's federal structure. The Landesstudio produces both radio and television programmes. The ORF is financed by license fees and advertising revenues. It daily produces an average of 15 hours local radio programme ("Radio Niederösterreich") and an half an hour regional television Newsprogramm ("Niederösterreich heute") Monday - Friday. The programme of ORF Niederösterreich is completed by a new regional televisionprogramme ("Treffpunkt Niederösterreich") Monday - Friday, since January 1998, a so called "Talkshow" with all themes which may be of interst for the public of a regional station. The broadcasts can be received as well in Vienna as in Lower Austria (Approx. 3 million inhabitants together).

About 13 (half hour) documentary films are produced annualy under the collective title "Österreich Bild (Austrian picture)" and "Ins Land einischaun ("Look into the country)" and are broadcasted in the national programme. The stories touch the area of culture, history, folk musik as well as health, the countryside, architecture and cabaret. The Studio Lower Austria ist principal responsible for the serie "Land und Leute" ("Country and People") which is produced together with other federal studios of Austria.

The Director as the head of the regional studio is responsible for each TV and radio programme which is made in his department.

The station has 110 on staff (employees and free lancers) and is covering a region of about 3 million inhabitants (including Vienna) with 960.000 TV sets.

Region - Salzburg

Station: ORF, Studio Salzburg
Address: Nonntaler Hauptstraße 49d, A-5010 Salzburg
Town: Salzburg
Tel.: +43 662 8380-25211
Fax: +43 662 8380-25200

General Manager: Hubert Nowak Dr., e-mail: hubert.nowak@orf.at
Editor-in-Chief: Edith Hagg Mag., e-mail: edith.hagg@orf.at
CR contact person: Edith Hagg Mag.

The region has about 480,000 inhabitants. Programmes are political, cultural, social, economical, ecological, agricultural, documentraies, current affairs. TV daily "Salzburg Heute" at 19.00 hrs (Monday - Friday). TV series "Sound of Austria" at prime time 20.15 pm.
The share of the audience is 30 %.

Region - Styria

Station: ORF , Studio Styria
Address: Marburgerstraße 20, A-8042 Graz
Town: Graz
Tel.: +43 316 470-28211
Fax: +43 316 470-28200

General Manager: Edgar Sterbenz Dr., e-mail: edgar.sterbenz@orf.at
Editor-in-Chief: Gerhard Koch, e-mail: gerhard.koch@orf.at
CR contact person: Edgar Sterbenz Dr.

Full information coverage from all the regions of Styria is the aim of the daily reports. The journalists work for both radio and television. Since 1988 teh ORF Provincial Studio Styria has been broadcasting the Monday to Friday TV programme "Steiermark Heute", a media mirror of events in the province.

Studio Styria: a non-profit broadcasting network, financed from license fees, advertising an sponsorship. Viewing figures: 200,000. The ORF Provincial Studio Styria has the responsibility of preserving the customs and traditions and identity of the province as a whole. The station has a staff of 120 broadcasting to 1,184,720 inhabitants with 376,277 TV-sets.

Specialities: Alpen-Donau-Adria Magazin: The Alpen-Donau-Adria Magazin is broadcast on the ORF, in the regional programmes of northern Italy.

Region - Tyrol

Station: ORF, Studio Tyrol
Address: Rennweg 14, A-6010 Innsbruck
Town: Innsbruck
Phone: +43 512 5343-26211
Fax: +43 512 5343-26200

General Manager: Robert Barth Mag., e-mail: robert.barth@orf.at
Editor-in-Chief: Markus Sommersacher Mag., e-mail: markus.sommersacher@orf.at
CR contact person: Markus Sommersacher Mag.

ORF-Tyrol is a combined TV and radio station in a tourist region with 630,000 pop. and about 7 million tourists a year. The transmission period is 14 hours radio and 85 mins per day on TV with programmes called "Meeting point Tyrol" and "Tyrol today". "Meeting point Tyrol" is a talkshow, "Tyrol today" is a news-magazine. Tyrol is divided into a region in Austria (North and East-Tyrol) and another one in Italy (South-Tyrol) with about 250,000 German-speaking inhabitants. Our programme includes daily reports from South-Tyrol. ORF-Tyrol is a part of the ORF, the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation, with a staff of 150, broadcasting to 630,000 inhabitants.

Region - Upper Austria

Station: ORF, Studio Upper Austria
Address: Europaplatz 3, A-4010 Linz
Town: Linz
Tel.: +43 732 6900-24211
Fax: +43 732 6900-24200

General Manager: Helmut Obermayr Dr., e-mail: helmut.obermayr@orf.at
Editor-in-Chief: Johannes Jetschgo Dr., e-mail: johannes.jetschgo@orf.at
CR contact person: Johannes Jetschgo Dr.

The Upper Austrian Regional Studio is responsible for providing the Province of Upper Austria (pop. 1.2 million) with the radio and television programs of the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (ORF).

The ORF Studio employs 90 people permanently in the area of radio and television, as well as an additional 40 people who work regularly on a freelance basis. 78% of the households in Upper Austria are equipped for cable and satellite reception. The regional news program "Oberösterreich Heute" ("Upper Austria Today" - from 7:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.) reaches an average of 220,000 households and is thus, in absolute numbers, in the leading position among the Austrian provinces. The market segment equals 76%. The new regional TV talkshow "Treffpunkt Oberösterreich" ("Rendezvous Upper Austria"), which has been part of the program since 1998 (4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.) reaches a market segment of 40% in households with cable and satellite reception. In addition, the Upper Austrian Regional Studio also produces a number of programs and documentations, including particularly the weekly series "Bilder aus Österreich" ("Pictures from Austria"), a one-hour TV magazine with features from every province, which is broadcast worldwide via 3sat and Deutsche Welle.

Within the last two decades, ORF Upper Austria has been active in the area of cultural initiatives, especially in the area of art and new media. Significant achievements have been the founding of the Ars Electronica Festival, a festival for art, technology and society, the creation of the Prix Ars Electronica, an international competition for cyberarts, and the initiative for the Ars Electronica Center, a museum of the future in Linz.

Region - Vienna

Station: ORF, Studio Vienna
Address: Argeninierstraße 30a, A-1040 Vienna
Town: Vienna
Tel.: +43 1 50101- 18223
Fax: +43 1 50101 - 18010

General Manager: Brigitte Wolf Dr., e-mail: brigitte.wolf@orf.at
Editor-in-Chief: Paul Tesarek Dr., e-mail: paul.tesarek@orf.at
CR contact person: Brigitte Wolf Dr.

Region - Vorarlberg

Station: ORF, Studio Vorarlberg
Address: Höchsterstraße 38, A-6850 Dornbirn
Town: Dornbirn
Tel.: +43 5572 301-22211
Fax: +43 5572 301-22200

General Manager: Wolfgang Burtscher Dr., e-mail: wolfgang.burtscher@orf.at
Editor-in-Chief: Adolf Fischer Mag., e-mail: adolf.fischer@orf.at
CR contact person: Wolfgang Burtscher Dr.

Vorarlberg is one of nine Austrian provinces. It is a rural and partly urban area with 361.000 inhabitants, well known as a good tourist region in summer and winter (Arlberg) and as a very creative producer of textiles and embroideries. Vorarlberg borders to Switzerland, Liechtenstein and Germany. Also well knwon is the festival "Bregenzer Festspiele" with a huge open air stage at Lake Constance. Studio Vorarlberg is part of the ORF and one of nine regional stations, calles Landesstudios in Austria, situated in the city of Dornbirn. We produce a full time local radio programme (Radio Vorarlberg) and work for the two central radio programms (Österreich 1 and Ö3) too. We also produce two daily local TV programmes calles "Treffpunkt Vorarlberg", a talkshow from 4.00 p.m. to 5.00 p.m., and "Vorarlberg Heute" from 7.00 p.m. to 7.25 p.m. (Monday - Friday) with excellent ratings and containing mainly local news, sports and culture. We also produce news, stories, feature and music programmes for the two central Austrian TV programmes. A speciality fo our station is the transmission of concerts (Bregenzer Festspiele, Schubertiade)