Schulfunk und Schulfernsehen

School Broadcasting: from 1932, and particularly from the 1950s, radio programmes intended for use in schools were regularly broadcast on Austrian radio; in 1984 these school broadcasts were replaced with other programmes (educational programmes ("Radiokolleg"), foreign language programmes, etc. ).

Austrian television school broadcasts started in 1959 and were the first in the German-speaking area. A weekly "day of television school broadcasts" was introduced in 1962. However, programmes specifically produced for schools were very costly and were thus discontinued in 1992. As the use of taped television broadcasts in schools is somewhat problematic on account of copyright regulations, a specific department in the Ministry for Education was created in 1992 and, in co-operation with the ORF, entrusted with the production, sale and rental of audiovisual media for non-commercial use in schools.