Audience Council: Tagesschau brings little news in the evening
Compared to the news programs on ARD, ZDF, and ORF, the main edition of *Tagesschau* performs well. The SRG Deutschschweiz Audience Council reached this conclusion at its most recent meeting.
However, the evening show offers little that is new for viewers who get information online during the day. Overall, it gave SRF's Tagesschau a good report card in comparison with programs from Germany and Austria, the audience council wrote in a statement on Friday. The Tagesschau is the most modern and dynamic of the broadcasts - professionally produced and with a good mix of topics. The focus on politics makes sense. In addition, the Tagesschau producers had more courage to deal with cultural and scientific topics than their German and Austrian colleagues.
The picture quality was also excellent, while the broadcast duration of 25 minutes was at the upper limit. The audience council was critical of the news value of the main edition. Particularly for people who get information about the current situation online during the day, the evening newscast no longer offers much news. Therefore, the Council proposes to create added value compared to the brief information on the Internet by providing more background and classification. More graphics and maps should also be used for this purpose.
The live broadcasts to the correspondents also give rise to criticism. When the presenters alternated between reading out news and asking questions, this was not always convincing.
