Germany, Germany Above all

MarcoZ hey at least they had taste, even if the taste was 6 or so years behind.

True.

It wasn't a merger. The DFF was folded, and before their final dissolution, some transmitter stations were already taken over by ARD. In place of the DFF, two new regional public stations were created that are members of the ARD: The first is the ORB (Ostdeutscher Rundfunk Brandenburg) for Brandenburg state and since merged with the SFB (Sender Freies Berlin) from Berlin to form the RBB (Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg). The second is the MDR (Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk) which serves the free state of Sachsen, the free state of Thüringen, and Sachsen-Anhalt state. Mecklenburg-Vorpommern state did not get a new public station of its own, they instead were integrated into, and are still part of, the NDR (Norddeutscher Rundfunk).

@@bundesautobahn7 Excellent, thank you for the clarification. I laboured under the assumption that the DFF merged with ARD and that caused the split into MDR etc. It is fascinating, I must admit, what happens to TV when two or more countries join or separate. Again, thank you!

No, the final closedown was on the next day after this broadcast recording.

Second last

@@Vladius32itf one year after

Senyor Capità Collons depends on the affiliate you are referring to, this one (DFF1) shut the day after this recording to become Das erste. Whereas their second one (DFF2) shut its doors a year or so later.

Apparently this rendition of Deutschlandlied aired on this channel for the last time, on this day. However, that rendition was later reused by ARD for their closedown sequence, until 1995.

Come on, cut it some slack. This is from 1990. 4K or HD TVs basically didn’t exist back then.

Paul Jr. Harrington true. This was standard quality for the time. There’s no way of true digital enhancement for analog television recordings.

That would prove unsuccessful in many terms, this was the standard at the time, plus video upscaling/remastering was rarely heard of at the time. Plus I’m sure due to the obscurity of this network, this might be all we have of a former time. But it’s better than nothing.

@@smophie6260 bullshit. the standard quality for the time was 576i, while this video is 144p. The text is barely readable. Look at other videos here on KZfaq from that time, they don't need to be digitally enhanced to look good, this video was just digitally downscaled. So yeah, if someone still has the original tapes and would digitize them correctly, this could look a lot better.

@@vhs2037 I’m sorry for my statement, I’m not technology master when it comes to this field, was just giving an opinion.

DDR Fernsehen 1 (now Das Erste)

German Anthem Presentation is actually from ARD

Amazonas by Blonker

and replaced by KBS1

@@julianhanc8272 it will be possible

there is a mock video that is exactly what you are saying kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ldqRiNihrLmUe3U.html

@@bobpheeissus I also recreated that too

They will nuke you before that. Good luck.

HZ's uploads show the word „Sendekollektiv”

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/r6-ceLt-qLm2ho0.html kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ebChl7JhprqtpqM.html

Balik Tanaw ni Emir / Emir's in Hindsight it was probably modified in some bittersweet farewell fashion, letting the viewers know that this was created by a team who put their efforts into this network. And that this is the last time you’ll acknowledge them. Or the word collective sounded to authoritarian, so they changed it to team to brighten things up.

Da war Sendepause. Um Westen allerdings auch.

@@Rob.T Die Privaten hatten sowas, seit ich mich ans deutsche Fernsehen erinnere (ab 1989) nicht. Sat 1 sendete durch am Mittag, und auf dem Kanal von RTL Plus in Hamburg lief am Vormittag bis zum frühen Nachmittag Tele 5. Und ich weiß nicht, bis wann es bei ARD und ZDF sie gab, ggf. endete das als das ARD Mittagsmagazin mit Hannelore Fischer startete 1989. Ich kann übrigens nicht glauben, dass Hannelore Fischer in zwei Jahren 70 wird.

@@bundesautobahn7 Die ÖRR ab 1989 auch nicht mehr.

Germany had been reunified for about 2 1/2 months at this point (and as someone pointed out above, this was DFF's penultimate day, it merged with ARD the next night)

Richard J. M since the reunification of Germany the station "Fernsehen der DDR ('GDR TV') was renamed "Deutscher Fernsehfunk (DFF) (= 'German Television Broadcasting') and broadcasted the national anthem EVERY day before closedown, so did the other major stations ARD (= 'Associated Public Broadcasting Stations') and ZDF (= 'German Television Second') - but in my eyes the DFF version was the best version of our national anthem ever broadcasted regularly by a German TV station.

DFF would be existed until the following year that DFF1 became Das Erste, while DFF2 replaced by MDR Fernsehen for Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia, Fernsehen Brandenburg for Brandenburg and the expansion of N3 for Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and former East Berlin at the start of 1992. However, N3 in the whole Berlin (including the already existed coverage in former West Berlin) didn't last long that Berlin 1 later established that year.

What about West Berlin?

@@Pikaling3408 east berlin, for ard, to be exact, got merged with the region where west berlin was in (sender freies berlin). it stayed that way until sfb and orb (east german broadcasting brandenburg, not related to the former east german regime) decided that they collaborated too much and need to merge. the current station for berlin is now rbb (radio berlin-brandenburg).

DFF1 aired until December 1990, a couple of months after reunification. That's why Deutschlandlied was played on (former East) German channels.

If u see the date it was 1990, so reunification was on its way The state television broadcaster, the Deutscher Fernsehfunk, dissapeared the 31 December 1991

@@VladBordones Reunification already happened 2 months prior to this braodcast.

@@AllenMQuinn Reunification implies a process, not a single day. It happened with East German tv and the East German army

Basically after the dissolution of the regime, media had to shift its tastes towards a more unified view. Thus the west anthem was used to signify change

@@VladBordones The German reunification is a single day! 03. October 1990.

Gevenize şao la vizen gud naxte

Mikael Wallgren it was recorded from a vcr during the early 90s, before technology could evolve.

_basic average edits _ yeah. cut it some slack

Paul Jr. Harrington let the quality chill, 1080p wouldn’t exist for another 20 or so years

Well duh it's a VHS from 1990.

@@salag13 I've seen a lot of VHS recordings with same date or much older than this, but in better quality while transferring to digital format and not as worse like this video. It is either the VCR's tape head accumulate a lot of dirt, or the tapes are starting to degrade due to poor storage conditions.

This was the same anthem Germany had before half of it belonged to the USSR. And either way, Germany was reunified 2 months before this recording.