ÖRR Kompass
Daily companion for engaged German news consumers that curates the day's most important ARD and ZDF coverage, explains how public broadcasting is funded and governed, and shows how different broadcasters frame the same story.
German news consumers who follow public broadcasting closely and want a single trusted hub across ARD and ZDF
- Cross-broadcaster feed that ranks the day's most consequential Mediathek stories by topic and impact
- Side-by-side comparison of how ARD, ZDF, and 3sat cover the same story with framing differences highlighted
- Plain-language explainers on Rundfunkbeitrag, federated structure, and why the Bundesverfassungsgericht ruled as it did
- Topic playlists (e.g. 'Verfassung & Demokratie') that chain related Doku, Reportage, and Tagesschau segments
The Bundesverfassungsgericht ruling reframes public broadcasting as democratically indispensable, search interest in ÖRR just spiked past 500, and viewers have no single tool that treats ARD plus ZDF as one navigable system
Bundesverfassungsgericht ruled on ARD/ZDF Rundfunkbeitrag in June 2025, driving real public debate; ARD/ZDF Mediatheken reach a broader age group than paid streaming per ARD/ZDF Medienstudie 2024.Bundesverfassungsgericht zu Rundfunkbeitrag: Rekonstruktion eines ... ↗ARD/ZDF-Medienstudie 2024: Die beliebtesten Streaming-Dienste und ... ↗
Existing aggregators (MediathekView, MTPlayer) focus on download/playback across ÖRR Mediatheken; ARD and ZDF run separate native apps. No tool combines curated daily highlights + funding/governance explainer + side-by-side framing comparison.MediathekView Alternative: ZDF, ARD und Co. streamen ↗ARD Mediathek: Filme, Serien und Dokus online anschauen ↗
German users already pay €18.36/month Rundfunkbeitrag for ÖRR content and expect ÖRR apps to be free; established aggregators like MediathekView survive on donations only — paid news/news-curation apps are a weak niche in DE.Rundfunkbeitrag-Erhöhung 2025: Verfassungsgericht trifft Entscheidung ↗Download - MediathekView ↗
BVerfG's June 2025 Beschluss re-anchors public broadcasting as democratically indispensable; ÖRR is funded by ~€8.7B in Rundfunkgebühren (2024) and legally protected — long institutional runway.Beschluss vom 17. Juni 2025 - Bundesverfassungsgericht ↗ARD: Daten & Fakten - Statista ↗
ARD and ZDF publish Mediathek data and ZDF has a documented API; building a curation/governance/explainer layer on top is well-precedented by tools like MediathekView and MTPlayer.MTPlayer (Mediathek Player) - Download - CHIP ↗