Austria’s Press and Media

Presented byCan Yumuşak & Baran Korkmaz

Introduction• Magnitude and power characterise the Austrian media landscape.

Magnitude relates to the relatively large number of media products in proportion to the smallish market of some 8.34 million people who live in Austria.

• Austria is geographically situated in the centre of Europe and is part of the German language area.

• Several small linguistic minorities (mainly Hungarian and Slovenian language) are also present. It shares borders with Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Slovenia, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovak Republic.

• Austria’s only metropolis is Vienna, with some 2 million people living in and around the capital. Large parts of central and western Austria are topographically characterised by mountains.

• Although there is some medium-sized industry around the provincial towns of Linz and Graz, Austria’s general economy is based on services.

Traditional Media

• The Austrian television and radio landscape is characterised by the strong market position of the public service broadcaster ORF, a high viewer’s marketshare of foreign television channels, high degree of cable- and satellite-connected households and the important role press publishers play in the private radio business.

• In its infancy, radio and television was the exclusive domain of the public sector, which controlled all television and radio networks and operated all transmission equipment in the country.

• In 2001, the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation (ORF) changed its legal form and became a foundation institutionalised by the Austrian Broadcasting Act.

Print Media

• Austrian print media is characterised by a small number of daily newspaper titles, a small number of large newspapers and magazines, a strong orientation towards boulevard newspapers and a high degree of concentration of ownership.

• Daily newspapers are highly popular in Austria.

• In the first half of 2009, more than 2.4m copies were printed every day for a population of some 8.3 million people.

Heute

• This figure includes the daily freesheet Heute, which launched in 2004 and survived the shakeout of several other freesheets at the regional level.

• Heute reaches almost half the circulation figure of the market-leading newspaper, Neue Kronenzeitung.

• This newspaper prints every day around 1 million copies, of which it sells some 820,000 copies.

Kronenzeitung

• Among newspapers with a cover price – thus excluding freesheets – the Neue Kronenzeitung accounted in 2009 for 42 percent of the whole newspaper market.

• The remaining 63 percent of the market is distributed among 15 daily newspapers across the country.

• This number includes all local and regional papers, some of which sell fewer than 10,000 copies daily.

Österreich

• The latest sizeable additions to the Austrian daily newspaper market include the free-sheet Heute in 2004 and a newspaper called Österreich (the German word for Austria) in 2006.

• The latter is printed all in colour and frequently distributed for free in town centres.

• This newspaper is oriented toward young adults from 18 to 35 years old.

• The founders and owners of the newspaper, the Fellner brothers, are well-known Austrian publishers who managed to restructure the Austrian magazine market earlier in their professional life.

• They sold their highly profitable magazine group, News, to the German Bertelsmann Group (Gruner+Jahr) and invested the revenue in this tabloid newspaper.

• The Austrian market for news magazines is almost entirely controlled by the News-Group.

• It gained control after acquiring, among others, the competing news magazine Profil in September, 2000.

• This acquisition established an unprecedented accumulation of media ownership, assembling practically all news magazines (News, Profil, Trend, Format) and some 10 other magazines (among them Woman, tv-media, e-media) under the same entrepreneurial roof.

Other Newspapers• Der Falter• Der Standard• Die Presse• Format• Heute• Kleine Zeitung• Kronen Zeintug• Kurier• Österreich• Salzburger Nachrichten• Tiroler Tageszeitung• Vorarlberger Zeitungsverlag• Wiener Zeitung• Wirtschaftsblatt

Magazines

• Datum• Die Furche• E-media• News• Profil• Trend• Tv-media• Woman

Radio• With regard to national and regional radio, the ORF still dominates

the Austrian radio markets.

• By April, 1998, most of the 53 licensed radio operators were on air

• Since 2001, media owners (newspapers, radio, television) are eligible to own 100 percent of a radio station as long as the reach of the radio does not overlap with the reach of its other media.

• On average, Austrians listened to radio programmes for 209 minutes a day.

Television

• In addition to its four radio channels, the ORF operates two generalist television channels and one special interest channel, in line with its legal mission. Its headquarters is located in Vienna. In all other eight provinces the ORF runs a regional studio to produce content for radio and television.

• Since 2001, private operators are eligible for licenses at the national and at the regional and local level. In 2003, the only national terrestrial television frequency for private broadcasters was granted to ATV, a private broadcaster based in Vienna and controlled by several banks in Austria along with the German film trader Herbert Kloiber.

• These Austrian television channels compete with other German-language channels redistributed in Austria by the cable systems or via satellite. Foreign channels dominate the television viewing market.

• The most popular foreign television channels were SAT.1 (7 percent), RTL (6 percent) and ProSieben (5 percent), all from Germany.

Radio and Television

• Radio• FM4• Krone Hit Radio• ORF• OE1• OE3

•Television•ATV•ORF•ORF Digital

Avusturya'da Camiye "Domuzlu" Saldırı• 06 Mayıs 2016 Cuma 16:06• Graz İslam Kültür Merkezi basın sözcüsü Aldin

Bektas yaptığı açıklamada, dün gece kimliği belirsiz 3 kişinin, inşaatı devam eden minareli camiye girdiğini ve iki tane kesilmiş domuz kafası bıraktığını söyledi.

• Graz İslam Kültür Merkezi basın sözcüsü Aldin Bektas yaptığı açıklamada, dün gece kimliği belirsiz 3 kişinin, inşaatı devam eden minareli camiye girdiğini ve iki tane kesilmiş domuz kafası bıraktığını söyledi.

Şahısların görülmesi üzerine hemen polise haber verdiklerini ifade eden Bektas, domuz kafalarının minarenin etrafındaki çitlere asıldığını ve 1 şüphelinin polis tarafından yakalandığını aktardı.

Avusturya toplumu ve makamlarıyla çok iyi ilişkilerinin bulunduğunu belirten Bektas, "Sadece aşırı sağcılar buraya cami ve minare yapılmasına karşıydı. Bu nedenle domuz kafası ile yapılan saldırı nedeniyle şok olduk." dedi.

• Saldırıyı kınadıklarını dile getiren Bektas, "Siyasi sorumluların, aşırıcı ve ırkçı saldırganların hesaba çekilmesi ve hak ettikleri cezaları almaları için harekete geçmelerini istiyoruz." ifadelerini kullandı.

• Polis, gözaltına alının şahıs hakkında soruşturma başlatıldığını bildirdi.

• Yaklaşık 12 bin metrekare üzerine inşa edilen Graz İslam Kültür Merkezi Camisi, 22 metre yüksekliğindeki minaresiyle Avusturya'nın 3. minareli camisi olacak. Avusturya'da Viyanave Innsbruck'ta birer tane minareli cami bulunuyor.

• Kaynak: Hürriyet

Man arrested after putting pig heads on mosque

• POLICE have arrested a man after he hung two pig heads off a mosque and "smeared the minaret with blood" in Austria.

• The defaced mosque was being constructed alongside an Islamic centre in the southern city of Graz, cops said.

• The blood-drenched heads were found hanging on a metal fence on Thursday night after members of the religious community left the building at 11pm.

• "He put the pig heads on the construction site and smeared the minaret with blood," police spokesman Leo Josephus told press on Friday.

• The 46-year-old vandal is known by local police as a far-right extremist and was arrested at the scene, officers said.

• The Graz Islamic Centre condemned the incident as an act of religious hatred in a statement on Facebook.

• "This attack is not only an attack against our mosque but more than that is an attack on an entire religious community, its followers and freedom of religion," the statement said.

• Similar attacks took place in 2012 when six pig heads were discovered at the same site, however police failed to identify the culprit.

• Austria's interior ministry reported a 54 per cent spike in hate crime over the last year, with increasing reports of vandalism, assault and fanning hatred against foreigners

İtalya ile Avusturya arasındaki Brennero Sınır Kapısı'nda güvenlik güçleriyle göstericiler arasında arbede çıktı.

AA | 08.05.2016 - 02:09

• İtalya ve kuzeydeki komşusu Avusturya arasında son dönemde sığınmacıların güneyden kuzey Avrupa’ya geçmeleri sebebiyle anlaşmazlığa neden olan sık kullanılan güzergahlardan biri olan Brennero Sınır Kapısı'nda olaylar çıktı.

İki ülke arasındaki söz konusu anlaşmazlığı protesto etmek isteyen ve kendilerine “Kara Blok” adını veren baştan aşağı siyah giyimli yaklaşık 400 kişilik grubun sınırın İtalya tarafındaki protestosu, başladıktan kısa bir süre sonra güvenlik güçleriyle arbedeye dönüştü.

Tren istasyonu civarında göstericilerin polise taş, şişe, sis ve ses bombaları atmasına güvenlik güçleri de göz yaşartıcı gaz ile karşılık verdi. İtalyan polisinin, arbedede akşamüstü kontrolü ele almasıyla olaylar yatıştı.

İtalyan basınına yansıyan haberlerde, çıkan olaylarda, 4 güvenlik görevlisinin yaralandığı, onlarca kişinin polis tarafından durdurulduğu, 5 kişinin gözaltına alındığı ve bir polis aracının kullanılamaz hale geldiği belirtildi.

Göstericilerin Brennero tren istasyonunda rayların üzerinde eylemlerini sürdürmesi sebebiyle tarihi Şark Ekspresi (L’Orient Express) istasyona yaklaşamadı ve bir süre bekledi.

Police use tear gas at Austria-Italy border protest7 May 2016 Last updated at 19:10 BST

• Police used tear gas and demonstrators fired flares at a protest at the Brenner Pass on the border between Austria and Italy.

• The demonstrators were protesting against the closure of European borders to refugees.

• Austria has recently announced plans to introduce stricter border controls at Brenner, if more migrants start arriving there.

• Bethany Bell reports.