This is my list, and I think most everyone in Germany has an opinion on public TV. Some are kinda negative, and some are somewhat positive. The rest? Mostly in the middle.
My ten positives?
1. Around three or four times a year, ARD/ZDF goes out and does a 5-star movie/mini-series episode on a historical situation (usually the 1930s Nazi era, or the 1950s/1960s). I will admit....these are high-cost production and done at a high-quality level.
2. Regional state news (like my region's HR network) does a surprisingly good job. If you want to really follow your state....I'd always suggest the 7:30 PM local news.
3. Weather is fairly accurate and graphically a 4-star production.
4. These 8:15 'extras' occasionally done....drilling down on some emergency or some high profile news episode...are fairly indepth, and if you knew absolutely nothing over the topic....you'd get to the right level of knowledge in their 15-to-20 minute edition.
5. When they do a public chat forum.....on some rare occasions, they will invite regular people to participate, and you get a better view from them...than the 'talking-dogs' that the media invites on.
6. The regional channels do a great job with talking about fests, local vacation spots, or restaurants. If you spend an hour a week 'browsing' these pieces....you'd probably five or six ideas for the next month and a weekend outing.
7. Cooking shows. Personally, I have zero interest....but my German wife hypes the regular pieces done on the regional network, and will cite a dish or two each month as being on her experimental list.
8. Oddly enough, between ZDF and ARD....after 11 PM....almost nightly, there's some 4-star movie on and you are a bit pissed that they had such a movie on and it's too late for you to watch the whole three-hour movie.
9. Generally, on Covid-19....the two public networks did what I'd consider a decent job of explaining problems, details and issues. Maybe you'd disagree on particular details, but they spoon-fed you the data to grasp things.
10. Finally, the public radio network. When it comes down to my public station (HR3)....I consider the choice of music to be five-star quality. I can't think of any US FM station that ever came as close to normal regular quality music for 30-to-60 year old people.
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