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3sat is the German-language culture channel run jointly by the public broadcasters of Germany, Austria and Switzerland, with documentaries, films, theater and the arts. Advertising-free and public, it can be followed by viewers who watch TV online anywhere.

Three Countries, One Culture Channel

3sat went on air in 1984 as a joint venture of ZDF, ORF, SRG SSR and the ARD broadcasters - a single cultural program for the whole German-speaking world. Its grid is built on depth: documentaries, science programs, films and performances that give their subjects the time commercial television cannot.

Depth Over Pace

The daytime carries science and knowledge programs, travel and nature documentaries and magazine shows. The evening belongs to the channel's signature programming: documentary premieres, European and world cinema, theater and opera broadcasts and the cabaret and satire programs the channel is famous for. Theme evenings gather films and documentaries around a single subject.

Cinema, Cabaret and Theme Evenings

The grid combines documentary filmmaking at public-broadcasting level with cultural magazines, philosophy and science formats and music broadcasts from the German-speaking world's concert halls. The channel's cabaret programs draw on the rich satirical tradition of three countries, and its film programming ranges from classics to the festival circuit.

A Public Joint Venture

Programs come from the four partner broadcasters, coordinated from Mainz. The shared structure - German, Austrian and Swiss television on one screen - makes 3sat a unique institution of the German-speaking cultural space.

Forty Years of Depth

3sat live streaming keeps the culture channel on screen at any hour - advertising-free television for the German-speaking world.

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