ORF (broadcaster)

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Österreichischer Rundfunk

ORF-Zentrum Küniglberg (headquarters), designed by Roland Rainer and constructed from 1968 to 1975
Type	Television and radio network
Country	Austria
Availability	Austria; parts of Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Liechtenstein, Slovakia, Slovenia and Switzerland
Headquarters	ORF-Zentrum, Hugo-Portisch-Gasse 1, 1136 Wien, Vienna
Key people	Roland Weißmann [de] (Director General)
Launch date	1 August 1955; 69 years ago (1955-08-01)
Former names	Ravag (Radio Verkehrs AG)
Official website	www.orf.at der.orf.at

Österreichischer Rundfunk (lit.: 'Austrian Broadcasting'; ORF, German: [oːɛʁˈɛf] ^ⓘ) is an Austrian national public broadcaster. Funded from a combination of television licence fee revenue and limited on-air advertising, ORF is the dominant player in the Austrian broadcast media. Austria was the last country in continental Europe after Albania to allow nationwide private television broadcasting, although commercial TV channels from neighbouring Germany have been present in Austria on pay-TV and via terrestrial overspill since the 1980s. ^[1]