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Maintower
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Presented by
| Petra Neftel
Susann Atwell
Sonya Kraus
Peter Alexander Rothkranz
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Country of origin
| Germany
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Original language
| German
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Producer
| Hessischer Rundfunk
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Production location
| Frankfurt
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Release
| 15 January 2001
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2001-01-15
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maintower
is the
tabloid magazine
of the
Hessischer Rundfunk
broadcast on
hr-fernsehen
from Monday to Friday at 6:00 pm.
The 25-minute programme covers
tabloid
topics with a focus on
crime
and
accidents
as well as other
police
and
fire brigade
missions in and around
Hessen
.
Production
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Up until 2015 it was broadcast from the
Main Tower
in
Frankfurt am Main
(the "highest television studio in Europe"). Due to the studio's closure for cost reasons, in autumn 2015, the programme has been broadcast from
Hessischer Rundfunk
's television
Studio 5
in the
Funkhaus am Dornbusch
in
Frankfurt-Nordend
using an elaborate virtual studio set with a computer-generated 3D
skyline
of Frankfurt.
Spin-offs
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maintower weekend
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In addition to the main edition (Monday-Friday), there is the Saturday edition called
maintower weekend
, in which a half-hour review of the week's topics is given.
maintower kriminalreport
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maintower kriminalreport
started in 2016. This programme replaced the previous
kriminalreport hessen
and reports on unsolved criminal cases and asks viewers to help clarify them. A police officer is usually also a guest in the studio to present details of the cases in conversation with the moderator. The programme is moderated by Robert Hubner.
Presenters
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- Kirsten Rademacher (2001-2008)
- Georg Holzach (2001-2008)
- Hendrike Brenninkmeyer
- Petra Neftel (2012?present)
- Susann Atwell (2009?present)
- Sonya Kraus
(2017?present)
- Peter Alexander Rothkranz (2001?present)
References
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