ZDFneo is a German free-to-air television channel, programmed for an audience aged 25 to 49^[1] to counter the primarily older-skewing main channels of public broadcasters ZDF and ARD. It replaced ZDF's documentary channel ZDFdokukanal on 1 November 2009.

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ZDFneo

Logo used since 2017
Country	Germany
Headquarters	Mainz, Germany
Programming
Picture format	576i (16:9 SDTV) 720p (1080p (DVB-T2 only)) (HDTV)
Ownership
Owner	ZDF
Key people	Markus Schächter
Sister channels	ZDF ZDFinfo
History
Launched	1 November 2009; 14 years ago (2009-11-01) (SD) 30 April 2012; 11 years ago (2012-04-30) (HD)
Replaced	ZDFdokukanal
Links
Website	www.zdfneo.de
Availability
Terrestrial
Digital terrestrial television	Region dependent
Streaming media
ZDF.de	Watch live

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On 1 October 2017, the station was to receive a new on-air design and a new broadcasting logo;^[2] this was brought forward to 26 September 2017.

ZDFneo is broadcast (along with the rest of ZDFvision) via DVB-T digital terrestrial television, receivable in most areas of Germany. It is also transmitted in DVB-C through German cable networks, and in DVB-S from the Astra 1H satellite.

Since 30 April 2012, ZDFneo has been broadcast in HD (720p).^[3] The program was initially only scaled up by 576i, since ZDFneo had no HD-capable playout at this time. Since mid-May 2015, the program is broadcast in native HD quality.

ZDFneo's broadcasts mostly consists of comedy and drama series produced in-house. Shows imported from America and the United Kingdom plus a few documentaries, music shows, and movies round out the schedule.

• ZDFneo (2009–2017)
• ZDFneo HD (2012–2017)
• ZDFneo (since 26 September 2017)