Ten things you probably might notice:
1. Prime news runs from 8:00 PM to 8:15. No advertisements/commercials.
2. Final 20 seconds is weather. The 30 seconds prior will typically be a sports update.
3. If there was some colossal event in the day....there will be a Brenn-point (add-on) at 8:15 and it might go from 10 to 20 minutes.
4. The person there is a 'reader'.....meaning not a full-up journalist. Over a typical month....there's probably six readers on 'contract'. They usually show up about an hour prior to the news piece....read the script two or three times, and then deliver the text.
5. If you tried to compare the ARD 8:00 piece and the ZDF 7:00 piece....basically the same but they will select different news to report.
6. Don't go expecting the 15-minute piece to even have 50-percent German news.
7. They generally spoon-feed Germans on locations of the world that are not that known....meaning they will throw a map up and identify the Asian or African or South American country location.
8. Germans over the age of fifty mostly watch the ARD 8:00 prime news. Under-age-30? A lot less.
9. ARD will run a charity donation page if some big disaster has occurred.
10. Video-feed from US sources on US stories? Typically from CBS or CNN.
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