Gong. “This is First German Television with the Tagesschau.” It could also be “heute”. A majority of those eligible to vote regularly receive political information from public service television. This makes it the most frequently used channel for political information.
Supporters of different political parties follow public service political news to significantly varying degrees. Those who support the CDU/CSU or the SPD are most likely to watch public service broadcasting regularly. Also the majority of Greens and Left Party voters regularly obtain political information from ARD and ZDF. The situation is different for supporters of the BSW and the AfD. Only a third of each group regularly watches political programmes on public service television.
Find out further analyses in the study “Fault Lines of the Public – Representative Survey on the Consumption of Political Information” (only in German).
