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| Country | Germany |
|---|---|
| Broadcast area | Germany |
| Headquarters | Mainz-Lerchenberg,Germany |
| Programming | |
| Language | German |
| Picture format | 720pHDTV (downscaled to16:9576i for theSDTV feed) |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | ZDF |
| Sister channels | ZDF ZDFneo ZDFinfo |
| History | |
| Launched | 7 May 2011; 14 years ago (2011-05-07) |
| Replaced | ZDFtheaterkanal |
| Closed | 30 September 2016; 9 years ago (2016-09-30) |
| Links | |
| Website | kultur |
| Availability | |
| Streaming media | |
| ZDF.de | Watch live |
ZDFkultur (stylized aszdf.kultur) was a Germanfree-to-air television channel owned byZDF. It was launched on 7 May 2011, replacing ZDF theaterkanal. It mainly broadcast music shows, such asLater... with Jools Holland, pop concerts and series from the ZDF archive, but also movies and theatre plays. On 1 May 2012, ahigh-definitionsimulcast was launched on satellite.[1][2] On 22 February 2013,ZDF directorThomas Bellut announced that ZDFkultur would close in the near future, due to cost-saving measures at ZDF.[3][4][5] The channel council agreed Bellut's proposal on 8 March 2013.[6] The programming after the closure announcement consisting mostly of old ZDF archive content from the 1970s and 80s, with an annual budget of around €2 million. The channel was finally closed down on 30 September 2016.
| January | February | March | April | May | June | July | August | September | October | November | December | Annual average | |
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| 2011[7] | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 0.0% |
| 2012[8] | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.2% | 0.1% | 0.1% | 0.2% |  0.1% |
| 2013[9] | 0.1% | 0.2% | 0.2% | 0.2% | 0.2% | 0.2% | 0.2% | 0.2% | 0.2% | 0.2% | 0.2% | 0.2% | 0.2% |
| 2014[10] | 0.3% | 0.3% | 0.3% | 0.3% | 0.3% | 0.2% | 0.2% | 0.3% | 0.3% | 0.3% | 0.3% | 0.3% | 0.3% |
| 2015[11] | 0.3% | 0.3% | 0.4% | 0.4% | 0.4% | 0.3% | 0.4% | 0.4% | 0.4% | 0.3% | 0.4% | 0.4% | 0.4% |
| 2016[12] | 0.3% | 0.3% | 0.3% | 0.4% | 0.4% | 0.3% | 0.3% | 0.4% | 0.3% | - | - | - |
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