The German version of a “TV Licencing agency”, called GEZ, wants to stop akademie.de using colloquial short names for the TV fees and other related things and force them to use long beaurocratic vocabulary – by legal means, because the colloquial names would only be used to “cause a bad image for the GEZ.”
I can’t really translate the whole thing, but it’s, in my opinion, rather causing the opposite…
The result of my previous poll “ZDF (or TV in general) in 16:9” here in my blog (right column): 78% like the 16:9 format, 22% are not sure, and nobody dislikes it.
And with the huge number of 9 participants, this poll certainly is highly representative!
So right on to the new, this time religious poll – let’s see how long atheists hold the absolute majority…
…and then this:
After the ZDF (the “Second German Television”) which started to broadcast their news shows and more in 16:9 format at the beginning of this week, the ARD (“The First”) wants to follow suit on Sunday – even though just with the “Tagesschau” (the main news show), the “Tagesthemen” (late news magazine) shall follow one by one. Nice 
(Let me mention the poll on the right sidebar in this blog again…) (This poll has been closed in the mean time.)
So the ZDF is broadcasting (almost) everything in 16:9 since today – I like it
They just shouldn’t – even in the news – stretch old 4:3 archive footage to full width as they seemed to have done with African pictures in the main “heute” (=“today”) news show.
On the right hand side (belowabove the Search field), there‘s was a little poll.
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