Heute
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- The correct title of this article is heute. The initial letter is shown capitalized due to technical restrictions.
heute (translates from German as today) is a news show on the German television channel ZDF. The main show is broadcast at 19:00, consisting of news of the day, weather forecasts and sports.
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[edit] History
News broadcasts were made from the day the ZDF went operational, the name heute was decided upon by February 8, 1963. heute was originally broadcast from 19:30 20:00; on February 1, 1965 the show was split up into two parts - heute (19:30 to 19:45) and themen des tages (19:45 to 20:00). From January 1, 1969 the themen des tages was dropped to let the evening programs start earlier. Since 1973, the show is broadcast at 19:00.
[edit] Programming today
The main show is broadcast from 19:00 and usually has a length of 20 minutes (including weather forecast).
Around 21:45, a longer, in-depth show called heute-journal is broadcast, akin to the tagesthemen of Das Erste.
[edit] Trivia
Since the 1970s the show's title tune contains the letters h-e-u-t-e in morse code.