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.svg) DFF's "Brandenburg Gate" logo used in 1990 | |
| Type | Terrestrial television |
|---|---|
| Country | |
| Availability | Free-to-air analogue terrestrial |
Broadcast area | East Germany (1952–1990) West Germany (partial) (1952–1990) Germany (partial) (1990–1991) |
| Owner | Government of East Germany |
Launch date | 21 December 1952 |
| Dissolved | 31 December 1991 (39 years, 10 days) |
Former names | Fernsehen der DDR (11 February 1972 – 11 March 1990) |
| Replaced by | DFF 1: expansion of Erstes Deutsches Fernsehen on 15 December 1990 DFF 2: replaced by DFF Länderkette on 15 December 1990 DFF Länderkette: replaced by MDR Fernsehen in Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Thuringia, Fernsehen Brandenburg in Brandenburg and expansion of N3 in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern on 1 January 1992 |
Deutscher Fernsehfunk (DFF; German for "German Television Broadcasting") was the state television broadcaster in the German Democratic Republic (GDR or East Germany) from 1952 to 1991.
DFF produced free-to-air terrestrial television programming approved by the ruling Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) and broadcast to audiences in East Germany and parts of West Germany. DFF served as the main televised propaganda outlet of the SED with censored political and non-political programmes featuring bias towards the Marxist–Leninist ideology of the Eastern Bloc. DFF was known as Fernsehen der DDR (DDR-FS; "GDR Television" or "Television of [the] GDR") from 1972 until German reunification in 1990, and DFF assets were replaced by the West German network before it was dissolved on 31 December 1991.