Watch WDR TV Live from Austria
WDR Fernsehen is a German free-to-air television network owned and operated by Westdeutscher Rundfunk and serving North Rhine-Westphalia. It is one of the seven regional „third programmes“ television stations that are offered within the federal ARD network. The station began broadcasting on 17 December 1965, as Westdeutsches Fernsehen (WDF), changing its name to West 3 in 1988, before settling for WDR Fernsehen in 1994.
Originally airing only in North Rhine-Westphalia, the channel has become available across Germany with the advent of cable and satellite television. The station is also available free-to-air across Europe via Astra 19.2°E.
WDR Fernsehen operates eleven sub-regional opt-out services, each broadcasting a 30-minute local news programme entitled Lokalzeit at 19.30 each Monday to Saturday evening together with a shorter, 5-minute bulletin at 18.00 on Mondays to Fridays.
Website: https://www1.wdr.de/fernsehen/startseite/
Live stream WDR TV: https://www1.wdr.de/mediathek/video/live/index.html
Das Programm nahm am 17. Dezember 1965 unter dem Namen Westdeutsches Fernsehen (WDF) den Sendebetrieb auf. 1988 wurde das Programm in West 3 umbenannt, seit 1994 sendet es unter dem heutigen Namen.
Seit 1991 wird im Rundfunkstaatsvertrag zwischen Vollprogrammen und Spartenprogrammen unterschieden und WDR Fernsehen den Vollprogrammen zugeordnet.
Am 30. April 2012 startete ein HD-Simulcast im hochauflösenden Format 720p. Allerdings wird nur WDR Köln durchgängig in HD gesendet. Alle anderen HD-Kanäle nutzen ein Feature von DVB, das die Verwendung desselben Videosignals durch mehrere Kanäle eines Transponders erlaubt: Zur Lokalzeit nutzen sie das SD-Signal der Lokalprogramme, in der übrigen Zeit ein generisches HD-Signal.
Seit August 2015 sendet der WDR in Köln und Bonn testweise in HD über DVB-T2.
Seit dem 25. Oktober 2016 wird WDR Köln HD im gesamten Kabelnetz von Unitymedia eingespeist. Somit kann man den WDR neben Nordrhein-Westfalen nun auch in Baden-Württemberg und Hessen in HD sehen.
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