Austrian public broadcasting organization, started to broadcast August 1st, 1955.
Founded as RAVAG in 1924.
When appearing as producer or for visual credits, please use ORF (2)
In 1967 Gerd Bacher was elected as general director, who started to modernize national Austrian TV and radio with a very diverse program. Bacher hired Erich Sokol to design a CI (Corporate identy) for the broadcaster. At the same time, he structured TV & radio in pop, local and cultural channels, that are still in existence today. In all regional capitols, new broadcasting stations were built after plans of Gustav Peichl, even to have an architectural concept for the new state-fund broadcasting organzation. Bacher supported uncommercial cultural productions to show the variety of arts in national TV and radio. He served as general director from 1967 to 1992 with short interruptions.
Bacher structured ORF 1967 the following way:
Radio:
Ö1, news, cultural and science channel
Radio Österreich 1 broacasted from ORF Funkhaus
Ö2 - regional broadcast from all 9 Austrian provinces, studios built from 1967 to 2001
ORF Radio Steiermark broadcasted from ORF Studio Steiermark
ORF Radio Niederösterreich broadcasted from ORF Studio Niederösterreich
ORF Radio Burgenland broadcasted from ORF Studio Burgenland
ORF Radio Tirol broadcasted from ORF Studio Tirol
ORF Radio Wien broadcasted from ORF Studio Vienna, located in ORF Funkhaus
ORF Radio Vorarlberg broadcasted from ORF Studio Vorarlberg
ORF Radio Oberösterreich broadcasted from ORF Studio Oberösterreich
ORF Radio Kärnten broadcasted from ORF Studio Klagenfurt
ORF Radio Salzburg broadcasted from ORF Studio Salzburg
Ö3 - founded 1967 as channel for younger audience, nowadays Austria's biggest pop radio station, also broadcasting the sales charts.
Ö3
FM4, alternative radio station, started January 16, 1995
Radio FM4 broadcasted from ORF Funkhaus
Bands connected to the Austrian Broadcasting organisation ORF:
Das Österreichische Rundfunk-Tanzorchester
ORF Big Band
ORF Symphonieorchester
ORF Streichquartett
Großes Orchester des Österr. Rundfunks
Chor Österreichischer Sportreporter consisting of Die Sportreporter Des Österreichischen Rundfunks
ORF Disco Band
ORF-Chor
ORF Orchester Karel Krautgartner, later Das Große ORF Unterhaltungsorchester
Kammermusikvereinigung Des ORF
Chor Des FS-Oberösterreich
ORF-Studioorchester
Noises and effect archive:
ORF-Geräuscharchiv
Graphics departments:
ORF Graphik
ORF Design- und Präsentation
ORF Fotodienst
ORF-Lichtbildstelle
When releasing records, the company credit goes to Österreichischer Rundfunk Gesellschaft m.b.H..
