Only 44% of teenagers are confident they can recognize fake news. This is shown by an international PISA study. ORF has responded: Since November 5th, they offer the "ZIB Magazin Media" every Wednesday to improve media literacy across all age groups. Additionally, a monthly podcast features interviews with experts on ORF Sound. For schools, there are digital lessons available on bildung.ORF.at. The online workshops, provided in cooperation with "Digital Compass" and "Lie Detectors," are dedicated to various topics. Philipp Maschl from the "ZIB" team is significantly involved. He describes his motivation as follows: "Who likes being lied to? This is the question with which every classroom visit in the course of ORF's media literacy focus begins. So far, no one has ever raised their hand. We want facts, not fakes - not even on our screens, where a flood of information overwhelms us every day. We can no longer process the data, impressions, and content. Our brain is not built for it. This is exploited by people who spread disinformation to their advantage. What sticks are negative reports and content that emotionalizes us. Our brain loves them because they stick much more often than positive reports. Media literacy explains these connections and makes the backgrounds tangible. With some basic tools, we can recognize false information - we can debunk them. This is exactly what our media literacy initiatives and programs are about. In our programs and workshops with our partners "Digital Compass" and "Lie Detectors," we actively address this, develop these skills with school classes and teachers. We learn how to uncover lies. Because none of us wants to be lied to."
Find the full interview with Philipp Maschl here:
Philipp Maschl works in the Newsroom of the ORF-Campus, a primary source for the approximately 130 news broadcasts per day on television and radio. With this largest national and regional news offering in the country, TELETEXT, the blue page, and information on ORF ON and SOUND, ORF fulfills the information mandate specified in numerous regulations; some excerpts in the following section.
Trust as a Public Value category
Trust outlines ORF's performance in providing reliable, up-to-date information for all population groups and throughout Austria on politics, economics, culture, science, sports, and society. The category is based on passages from
ORF-Regulations:
ORF-Law
§ 4. (6) Independence is not only the right of journalistic or program-designing employees but also their duty.
§ 32. (1) The Austrian Broadcasting Corporation and its subsidiaries must respect the independence and self-responsibility of all program-designing employees and the freedom of journalistic practice of all journalistic employees in carrying out all tasks assigned to them under this federal law.
ORF Program Guidelines
Program elements of information broadcasts, including moderation, must contain factually based and concrete information; rumors and personal speculation are excluded. Only agencies that are reliably experienced may be used as main information sources without explicit citation.
ORF Quality Profile
The information flood accompanying disruptive changes in the media market, societal irritations caused by fake news and false reports and the increasing technical possibilities of new software offerings ("AI"), whose consequences are still unforeseeable, indicate how important reliable, factually accurate, and trustworthy high-quality public service information is for individual citizens and society as a whole.
ORF Mission Statement
ORF is aware of the trust placed in it by the Austrian population and makes a valuable contribution to public opinion diversity and communication quality, thus promoting tolerance, solidarity, and integration in society.
Figures & Data
Below are exemplary numbers documenting the fulfillment of the public service mandate and the associated media quality. These primarily relate to information performance on television, radio, but also online and in TELETEXT. Julia Gessl is responsible for this medium. (Numbers & Data are only available in german).
Further information can be found in
ORF's annual report to the Federal Chancellor and regulatory authority, the
transparency report, to the Federal Chancellor and regulatory authority, the transparency report, the business and sustainability report, as well as
reports on equality, the
actiontion plan for accessibility or the
ORF's annual and consolidated financial statements.
Exemplary Figures
Nachrichten in ORF 1 und ORF 2
In 2025, a total of
17.255 news broadcasts were aired.
This corresponds to
2.424 hours of pure news experience.
| Sendung |
Anzahl |
Stunden |
| "Zeit im Bild" ORF 2 + ORF 1 |
625 |
205 |
| "Zeit im Bild" - Wetter ORF 2 + ORF 1 |
1.220 |
33 |
| "Zeit im Bild 2" (inkl. ZIB 2 am Sonntag) |
294 |
134 |
| "Zeit im Bild" - Kurzsendungen |
2.165 |
314 |
| Nachrichten auf ORF 1 |
1.739 insgesamt |
117 Stunden insgesamt |
| "ZIB Flash" |
1.282 |
76 Stunden |
| "ZIB Zack Mini" |
457 |
41 Stunden |
| Spezial- & Sondersendungen & "Runder Tisch" |
75 insgesamt |
73 Stunden insgesamt |
| Politik Inland / Regierungsbildung |
29 |
36,4 Stunden |
| Außenpolitik / Naher Osten |
5 |
7,5 Stunden |
| Papst Ableben / Neuwahl |
8 |
7,1 Stunden |
| Amoklauf in Graz |
13 |
6,5 Stunden |
| Außenpolitik / USA / DE |
5
|
5,9 Stunden |
| Politik Inland |
5 |
4,7 Stunden |
| Attentat Villach |
4 |
3,1 Stunden |
| Reden des Bundespräsidenten |
5 |
0,8 Stunden |
| Pressekonferenz Songcontest |
1 |
0,7 Stunden |
| "Text aktuell" am Morgen |
245 |
155 |
| "Aktuell nach eins" |
245 |
155 |
| "Aktuell nach fünf" |
354 |
115 |
| Bundesland Heute (alle Bundesländer) |
6.529 |
1.089 |
| Bundesland Heute Vorschau / Kompakt |
3.403 |
45 |
| Südtirol Heute + Wetter + Kompakt |
515 |
82 |
ZIB 1 - Top 3 aus 2025 | 625 Sendungen
| Thema |
Datum |
Zuseher:innen |
| Kickl / Ukraine / Magdeburg |
06.01. |
1.831.000 |
| Rom / Krenn / Konklave |
08.05. |
1.647.000 |
| Blau-Schwarz / Antisemitismus / Trump |
07.01. |
1.557.000 |
ZIB Spezial - Top 3 aus 2025 | 64 Sendungen
| Thema |
Datum |
Zuseher:innen |
| Aus für Koalitionsverhandlungen |
04.01. |
1.244.000 |
| Papstwahl Habemus Papam |
08.05. |
1.132.000 |
| Ende der Koalitionsverhandlungen |
12.02. |
851.000 |
ZIB 2 - Top 3 aus 2025 | 293 Sendungen
| Thema |
Datum |
Zuseher:innen |
| Opernball / Zölle / Rave |
27.02. |
882.000 |
| KTM / Benko / Merz |
23.01. |
769.000 |
| Fristenlösung / Koalition / Iran |
08.01. |
754.000 |
ZIB am Sonntag - Top 3 aus 2025 | 49 Sendungen
| Thema |
Datum |
Zuseher:innen |
| Scholz / Hasenjagd / Gaza |
09.02. |
634.000 |
| Gaza / Femizid / Terrorverdacht |
14.12. |
634.000 |
| Doskozil / Nahost / Burgenland |
19.01. |
630.000 |
ZIB Flash - Top 3 aus 2025 | 1.265 Sendungen
| Thema |
Datum |
Zuseher:innen |
| Kickl / Ukraine / Todeasopfer |
06.01. |
1.168.000 |
| Finalniederlage / Hongkong / Bombendrohungen |
27.11. |
821.000 |
| Bundeskanzleramt / Innenpolitik / Damaskus |
04.01. |
699.000 |
ZIB Magazin - Top 3 aus 2025 | 330 Sendungen
| Thema |
Datum |
Zuseher:innen |
| Hybride aus China |
06.01. |
446.000 |
| Private Krankenversicherung |
28.01. |
258.000 |
| Überwachung am Arbeitsplatz |
29.01. |
248.000 |
ZIB Zack Mini - Top 3 aus 2025 | 457 Sendungen
| Thema |
Datum |
Zuseher:innen |
| F: 237 |
02.01. |
14.000 |
| F: 247 |
30.12. |
14.000 |
| F: 42 |
03.03. |
13.000 |
Storys im ORF.at-Netzwerk
Laut Reichweitenstudie der ÖWA verzeichnete das ORF.at-Network im vierten Quartal 2025 pro Monat im Schnitt
5,356 Mio. Unique User, damit haben rund
5,4 Mio. Nutzerinnen und Nutzer ab 14 Jahren im Laufe eines Monats zumindest einmal eine der ORF.at-Websites oder -Apps aufgerufen. Umgelegt auf die österreichische Online-Bevölkerung ab 14 Jahren entspricht dies einer Monatsreichweite von
74,2 %, prozentuiert auf die österreichische Gesamtbevölkerung ab 14 Jahren liegt die
Monatsreichweite bei 67,5 %.
Im Rahmen der Überblicksberichterstattung wurden im Jahr 2025 von news.ORF.at insgesamt 16.586, von sport.ORF.at insgesamt 10.256 redaktionelle Textbeiträge veröffentlicht. Durch technische Maßnahmen wurde sichergestellt, dass zu jedem Zeitpunkt das vorgegebene Verhältnis von 30 Prozent Text- zu 70 Prozent audiovisuellen Beiträgen erfüllt ist. Hinzu kamen 2.002 Storys in Einfacher Sprache, die in einer eigenen, optional anwählbaren Rubrik präsentiert wurden.
| Angebot |
Anzahl der Beiträge |
| news.ORF.at |
16.586 |
| Storys in Einfacher Sprache |
2.002 |
| sport.ORF.at |
10.256 |
| Weitere Angebote |
Anzahl der Beiträge |
| wetter.ORF.at |
28.905 |
| oesterreich.ORF.at + 9 Bundesländer-Sub-Sites |
42.125 |
| tv.ORF.at + Sendungs-Sub-Sites + Highlights |
5.453 |
| religion.ORF.at |
3.474 |
| help.ORF.at |
231 |
| oe.1.ORF.at |
10.443 |
| fm4.ORF.at |
2.159 |
| science.ORF.at |
1.656 |
| oe3.ORF.at |
3.118 |
| okidoki.ORF.at |
1.994 |
| volksgruppen.ORF.at |
6.964 |
ORF TELETEXT
ORF TELETEXT is used
weekly by around
1.6 Mio. Leser:innen genutzt. As of March 31, 2025, ORF TELETEXT has a
total of 1.531 pages. Below is the number of updates in the current news section and sports from March 2025.
| Seite |
Anzahl der Updates |
| Schlagzeilen |
1.631 |
| Politik Österreich und EU |
2.937 |
| Politik International |
2.941 |
| Chronik |
2.812 |
| Wirtschaft |
2.094 |
| Leute |
494 |
| Wahlen und Einfache Sprache Specials |
581 |
| Bundesländer |
5.940 |
| Sport |
25.434 |
| Gesamt-Updates |
44.900 |
Information in den ORF-Radios
| Sender |
Minuten |
% Wortanteil |
| Ö1 |
1746:26:00 |
34% |
| Ö3 |
467:58:00 |
30,5% |
| FM4 |
390:53:00 |
25% |
| Radio Burgenland |
722:41:00 |
38% |
| Radio Kärnten |
936:37:00 |
36,8% |
| Radio Niederösterreich |
621:29:00 |
36,9% |
| Radio Oberösterreich |
677:49:00 |
41,6% |
| Radio Salzburg |
879:27:00 |
39,8% |
| Radio Steiermark |
741:05:00 |
36,1% |
| Radio Tirol |
650:47:00 |
36,3% |
| Radio Vorarlberg |
633:32:00 |
34,3% |
| Radio Ö1 International |
123:29:00 |
31,4% |
Ö3- Nachrichtensendungen
| Nachrichten zur vollen Stunde |
8.759 |
| Nachrichten zur halben Stunde |
2.167 |
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