The web-TV service for young viewers from the German public broadcasters ARD and ZDF will be called funk and launch on October 1.
ARD to replace EinsPlus with One on DTT
German public broadcaster ARD will replace its digital channel EinsPlus with One – Eins für Euch (formerly Einsfestival) on DTT on October 1, 2016, an ARD spokesman told Broadband TV News.
ARD/ZDF get green light for youth service
The Prime Ministers of the federal German states have approved the plans by public broadcasters ARD and ZDF to jointly set up a youth channel – however, in contrast to the original plans, not as a conventional TV channel, but as an internet-based multimedia proposition for PCs, smartphones and tablets.