In the latest installment of <b>Portnoyâs Stammtisch</b>, The Localâs column about life in Germany, Portnoy examines the countryâs beloved TV treasure <i>Tatort</i>.
Germans donated more than âŹ20 million during a televised ZDF fundraiser for relief efforts in Haiti following the disastrous earthquake that hit the Caribbean country.
Germans are becoming bigger TV couch potatoes, a study revealed Tuesday, with the average person spending more than three-and-a-half hours in front of the television each day.
The German state foreign broadcasting network <i>Deutsche Welle</i> (DW) was the target of a deliberate jamming signal originating in Iran, according to a report in news magazine <i>Der Spiegel</i>.
The chairman of Germany's association of private broadcasters (VPRT) has threatened to make a formal complaint to the European Commission over state broadcasting licence fees.
The two parties of Germany's ruling coalition, the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the Free Democratic Party (FDP), are at loggerheads over the issue of licence fees for state broadcasting.
In an effort to squeeze more money from its internet operations, German publisher Axel Springer AG is introducing iPhone applications with monthly subscription fees for two newspapers. The <i>Bild</i> app will allow users to âshakeâ the clothes off the paperâs naked front page girls.
Apple has summarily removed an iPhone application from German news magazine <i>Stern</i> due to objections over photo galleries featuring too much naked skin, <i>Der Spiegel</i> reported on Wednesday.
British discount airline easyJet has recalled some 280,000 copies of its in-flight magazine after complaints about a fashion shoot staged at Berlinâs Holocaust memorial, daily <i>Financial Times Deutschland</i> reported on Tuesday.
In a massive escalation of a long-standing editorial feud, the German newspaper <i>Die Tageszeitung</i> has unveiled an artwork depicting the naked editor-in-chief of its right-wing rival <i>Bild</i> sporting a sixteen-metre penis up the façade of its headquarters.
German media giant Axel Springer said on Thursday it had agreed to buy a 29-percent stake in Turkey's biggest independent media group Dogan for âŹ161 million ($239 million).
Born amid Cold War rivalry yet loved by children on both sides of the Iron Curtain, Germanyâs bedtime TV character the Sandman celebrates his 50th anniversary this week.
US giant Liberty Global announced on Friday a further expansion of its European presence with the acquisition of Germany's Unitymedia, Europe's third-biggest broadband cable operator.
The German media giant ProSiebenSat.1 plans to launch Germanyâs first television channel directed exclusively toward a female audience early next year, the companyâs head told <i>Der Spiegel</i> magazine.
The Localâs <b>German media roundup</b> surveys the overwhelmingly positive response to Chancellor Angela Merkel's historic address to a joint session of the US Congress on Tuesday.
Heavily indebted private German broadcaster ProSiebenSat.1 wants to move into paid TV channels to help increase revenues, financial daily <i>Handelsblatt</i> reported on Wednesday.
Germanyâs hated GEZ public broadcasting licence fees â required of everyone who owns a television or radio â may be changing soon, daily <i>Handelsblatt</i> reported on Tuesday.
Golf, art, punk and Francophile-themed gravesites were introduced on Tuesday in Essen as part of a new image campaign called âLong Live the Graveyard!â by the German association of cemetery gardeners (BdF).
Two young German entrepreneurs presented what they described as a Europe-wide first on Tuesday: a newspaper tailored to readers' individual wishes and delivered to their door before 8:00 am.
Germany was aflutter on Friday after an embarrassing blunder by a news reader for public broadcaster ZDF, who confused âphishingâ with the sexual term âfistingâ while referring to recent online attacks on email accounts worldwide.
Supermodel Heidi Klum apparently feels her surname is too German for America and has reportedly filed to change it to Samuel â the last name of her husband, pop singer Seal.
<i>Brigitte</i>, one of Germanyâs most popular glossy womenâs magazines, announced on Monday that it will no longer use models in photo spreads in response to changing ideas about beauty.
