The oldest still-running news broadcast on German television.
The show was first broadcast three times a week, then it expanded from 1 October 1956 to air from Mondays to Saturdays, and again on 3 September 1961 when Sunday editions began.
On the show's 50th birthday on 26 December 2002, the 8 o'clock chime was followed by the introduction used on the show's first airing (26 December 1952).
During their trip to Germany in 1987, King Charles III and Princess Diana visited the show's studios.
In 1956, the show would introduce two trademarks that are still used now - the sounding of a chime when the preceding clock reaches the time at which the show begins (8:00pm for the day's main 15-minute bulletin), and an announcement following the chime, "Hier ist das Deutsches Fernsehen mit der Tagesschau, anschliessend die wetterkarte" (which translates to English as "This is the German Television with the Day's Show, followed by the weather map"). The announcement would change over time (the mention of the weather map had been dropped by 1960) and could vary between bulletins at different times. The most familiar version of the announcement, "Hier ist das Erste Deutsches Fernsehen mit der Tagesschau", began to be used in 1984.
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