Mainz - message at the ZDF Panne: Due to massive problems were the 16-Clock News on Friday afternoon after just five minutes to be cut short. The technique goes crazy!
Embarrassingly for the public channels: The new virtual studio that had been taken only three weeks in operation and had cost € 30 million proud, seems to run not quite accurate.
According to information from the media magazine DWDL.de first, several films of the news program "Today - announced in Europe" - but that could not be recorded. Therefore, the ZDF had the aura of the telenovela "Alisa - Follow your heart prefer.
ZDF spokesman Walter Kehr confirmed the problems. They would not, however, linked to the new studio. Reason is the incorrect use of an employee. The message breakdown might have happened in any other newsroom.
Meanwhile, the ZDF program run normally again.
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