XXP - The Metropolitan Program

"No soaps, no trash, no gameshows"

On 15 January 2001 the Berlin-Brandenburg Media Authority (MABB) licensed SPIEGEL TV and dctp to broadcast regionally in Berlin and surroundings. In the evening of 7 May 2001 "XXP - the metropolitan program" successfully started broadcasting from its studios in Berlin, Köpenickerstraße.

XXP - that's television from the capital with a program directed at a nationwide and international audience. For the present time it can be seen in all cable households in Berlin on special channel S35. In those parts of the city that do not have digital access yet, XXP can been seen from 3 PM to 7 AM, for the rest of the day there is a channel sharing with QVC.

Every weekday has a special focus:

Monday:
up-do-date documentations, news, magazines, current affairs: THE PRESENT

Tuesday:
history - with feature films and documentation: THE PAST

Wednesday:
science and research: THE FUTURE

Thursday:
THE ARTS and CINEMA

Friday:
BERLIN and the WORLD: a concentrated day for the metropoles of the world. Foreign countries interacting with inner-German realities. Late in the evening FACTS & FAKES, cult, fantasy

Saturday:
SOCIETY and CULTURE

Sunday:
reportages, documentaries, feature films

Weekdays from 19:30 to 20:15 PM there's a news magazine, "Punkt X", which is produced by a + i in Berlin. "Punkt X" presents information about background and facts from Berlin and all over the world. The authors of "Punkt X" provide up-to-date TV journalism, but also in-depth reporting about politics, economics, culture. "Punkt X" is broadcast live, presented by Annika de Buhr and Ina Böttcher and has a special interview guest every day.

For the XXP responsibles, SPIEGEL TV director Stefan Aust and Werner E. Klatten, SPIEGEL TV editor-in-chief Cassian von Salomon as well as Alexander Kluge, director of dctp, their program constitutes a consequent alternative to the present developments in commercial television: highly educated and high-income viewer groups increasingly turn away from mass-oriented programming in commercial television. They are interested instead in high content quality for television programs and, additionally, in comprehensive coverage of a topic --- that is why XXP will preferably show long, in-depth programs.

Lizenceholder is a common law company (GbR), established at 50 percent each by SPIEGEL TV and dctp. dctp in turn brings in for cooperation its partners such as Süddeutsche Zeitung TV, the television format of "Neue Zürcher Zeitung" and BBC. Kinowelt Medien AG will supply not only big Hollywood productions but also author's films and independent productions.