Donald Trump called for seaplanes to extinguish the Notre Dame in Paris. He hardly received any information about the disaster from Swiss television, which broadcast the health program "Puls". An American series was broadcast on SRF two, and SRF info reported on the ski pass disaster in Saas-Fee. While the world was crying and the news portals and social media were outdoing each other with reports of concern, analyses and images from Paris, good old Swiss television was isolating itself from the world in a way that not even the biggest hardliners of the SVP could manage.
It's no different in Germany. Our northern neighbor always poland rcs data boasts about its special friendship with France, but when one of its most famous landmarks burns down, it's dead. At least on ARD and ZDF. Not even a brief overlay or scrolling text informed viewers that Paris was on fire. Literally.
The author's quick test - admittedly unrepresentative - showed that apart from ORF 2, no public broadcaster in the German-speaking area interrupted its program or even broadcast live like the American, English or - hardly surprisingly - French stations did.