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Rhein-Main TV was a private regional television station for Frankfurt and the wider Rhine-Main area. Licensed by the Hessian media authority in April 2002 and on air from 27 October 2003, it broadcast a self-produced evening schedule between 18:00 and 22:00 for two decades, before switching off on 1 November 2024.

Two Decades of Regional Television

The station was founded by the production company Bibo TV, and its shareholders at times included the football club Eintracht Frankfurt and the Skyliners basketball organisation - a partnership that showed in the schedule: Eintrachtfans TV was the club's own fan program, and former Eintracht coach Dragoslav Stepanović co-hosted the cult call-in show Lebbe geht weider with Thomas Raudnitzky. Rhein-Main TV pioneered one-person video journalism in Germany, where a single reporter filmed and edited each story, and won the Regiostar regional television prize repeatedly.

News, Talk and Local Life

Weekdays brought the news magazine Rhein-Main im Blick at 18:30, repeated three times each evening, and the Monday Sport Show. Talk formats included 3 kluge Köpfe, produced with the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, alongside Terrazza, Feuerwehr-TV and the business magazine Rhein-Main Wirtschaft. Earlier years had launched presenters such as Natascha Berg and Michel Weber.

How It Ended

The station filed for insolvency in January 2024, was taken over that April, but the new owner's unpaid bills - at one point the power in the Frankfurt-Rödelheim broadcast centre was cut - led to the plug being pulled that November. The German regional TV channel leaves behind an online archive of two decades of Frankfurt stories.