"Must be omitted": Employees boycott the "ZDF morning magazine" on Tuesday morning

Created: 12/13/2022, 11:50 am

By: Jonas Erbas

Trouble with the "Morgenmagazin": Due to the strike, the show on Tuesday (December 13) was simply canceled.

Instead of live television, there were reruns.

Mainz – Anyone who wanted to start the day as usual with the “ZDF morning magazine” on Tuesday (December 13) looked into the tube: Instead of a current issue, ARD and ZDF ran their “Morgenmagazin” programs on a weekly basis broadcast, only repetitions.

Behind it is a strike by the employees.

No "ZDF morning magazine" on Tuesday - station affected by staff strike

No "MoMa" on Tuesday: As ZDF announced via Twitter early in the morning, the "ZDF morning magazine" was on strike and therefore had to be cancelled.

The public broadcasters, probably due to a lack of options, rely on repetitions: ZDF shows the travel report "Balkan-Style: Durch Europa's wild southeast", ARD shows a compilation of older "Morgenmagazin" programs.

Strike at the public broadcasters: That's why the "Morgenmagazin" with Dunja Hayali was canceled on ZDF on Tuesday (December 13) (photomontage) © Imago/ZDF

The otherwise daily updated magazine should have been running until 9:00 a.m. on ZDF.

After all: The strike should remain manageable, because on Wednesday (December 14th) the show should run normally again, as stated in a tweet by "ZDF-Morgenmagazin" moderator Dunja Hayali (48), which she already broadcast at 7 :00 shared: "The 'MoMa' is canceled today - warning strike!

We'll see each other again tomorrow."

"MoMa" - a real television institution:

The "ZDF morning magazine" has been around since 1992;

in July the 30th birthday of "MoMa" was celebrated.

With around 3.9 million television viewers every day, the show is a complete success - even in the morning hours!

The magazine, which runs from Monday to Friday, thus achieves a strong 20 percent market share.

ZDF viewers pissed off – anger erupts on Twitter because of the “Morgenmagazin” failure

The two broadcasters not only provided information about the "Morgenmagazin" failure resulting from the strike, but also directly in their programs.

There, a corresponding notice flickered repeatedly over the edge of the picture.

Apparently not everyone got that: "It took me about an hour until I checked that there was a canned food running," revealed a viewer on Twitter;

another suggested the team "collectively overslept" or "frozen."

The "Morgenmagazin" failure on ZDF also caused a stir on Twitter: Anger and anger were great, but some also showed understanding for the strikers © Screenshot/Twitter

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Anger quickly added to the confusion: “The 'MoMa' is no longer applicable and brings two insights: 1. The information policy of ARD and ZDF has room for improvement.

2. The 'Sat.1 breakfast television' is not an alternative,” it said in one of countless tweets in which the communication between the two broadcasters was criticized as “horror”.

However, some showed understanding for the strikers: “Good journalism deserves decent pay.

Therefore, continue to strike,” said one user.

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According to information from the media union Association of Radio, Film and Television Workers (VRFF), the strike started at 3:00 a.m. and is expected to last until 10:30 a.m.

The three-and-a-half-hour “Morgenmagazin” normally runs from 5:30 a.m. to 9:00 a.m.

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The background to this is stated on the VRFF website: “As was the case with the ARD broadcasters recently, nothing is really moving in the wage negotiations at ZDF either.

That's why the VRFF-ZDF is also going on a warning strike there together with the DJV and verdi unions!" There has also recently been criticism for the broadcaster from other quarters: "Tagesschau" spokeswoman Dagmar Berghoff (79) criticized the fact that the ZDF news in the Miniskirt were moderated.