ZDF is the month’s best at the end of the year

ZDF ended December 2007 as market leader. In the end-of-year sprint, the channel was ahead of ARD (13.1 percent), RTL (11.1 percent) and Sat.1 (9.4 percent), with a 13.4 percent market share.

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“With major Hollywood cinema, good German television films and series, and of course news and winter sports, we scored points in the season when most people watch television,” said Programme Director Dr Thomas Bellut. With the tailwind of this good result, ZDF was entering 2008 with momentum. “We will shape January with an exceptional programme: The four-part new adaptation of Tolstoy’s ‘War and Peace’ is European television at its best and has already attracted international attention”.