Österreichischer Rundfunk
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Austrian national public broadcaster
OverviewAI-generated
Österreichischer Rundfunk, commonly known by its acronym ORF, is an active company based in Vienna, Austria. The organization was established in 1955, while its inception is recorded as 19 May 1953. It maintains contact through the phone number +43-1-878780 and the fax number +43-1-87070330.
The entity is associated with the official website der.orf.at and has 99,914 social media followers. Its name and activities are referenced by 2,007 other encyclopedia articles.
Synthesized by Vinony from 21 facts across 4 sources: Wikidata, Firecrawl, ROR, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Key facts
- Type
- Public service television and radio
- Country
- Austria
- Availability
- Austria; ORF 2 Europe via satellite across Europe
- Headquarters
- ORF-Zentrum, Hugo-Portisch-Gasse 1, 1136 Vienna , Austria
- Owner
- Foundation under public law
- Key people
- Ingrid Thurnher (interim Director General, since 12 March 2026)
- Launch date
- 1 August 1955 ; 70 years ago ( 1955-08-01 ) (television), radio predecessor founded in 1924
- Former names
- Radio Verkehrs AG (RAVAG)
- Official website
- www .orf .at , der .orf .at
via Wikipedia infobox
Research organization · ROR
- Type
- Company
- Founded
- 1955
- Location
- Vienna, Austria
- Also known as
- ORF
- Status
- Active
GRID grid.426083.b · ISNI 0000 0001 1940 0280
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- production company
- Official name
- Österreichischer Rundfunk
- Citizenship
- Austria
- Country
- Austria
- Headquarters
- Vienna
- Legal form
- state-owned enterprise
- Official website
- der.orf.at
- Image
- ORF microphone.jpg
Show 10 more facts
- short name
- ORF
- inception
- 1953-05-19
- topic's main category
- Category:ORF (broadcaster)
- Commons category
- ORF
- phone number
- +43-1-878780
- product or material produced
- Ö1
- fax number
- +43-1-87070330
- category for employees of the organization
- Category:ORF (broadcaster) people
- social media followers
- 99914
Sources (11)
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Encyclopedic overview
Österreichischer Rundfunk (ORF [oːɛʁˈɛf] ; German pronunciation: [ˌøːstəʁaɪçɪʃɐ ˈʁʊntfʊŋk], lit. Austrian Broadcasting) is Austria's national public broadcaster. It is organised as a foundation under public law and is Austria's largest media organisation. ORF operates four national television channels, twelve radio channels, the news portal ORF.at, the streaming platform ORF ON, and the children's service ORF KiDS.
ORF is a member of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Österreichischer Rundfunk” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.