ATV: The Uncrowned Kings of Trash Television

For more than 15 years, the Austrian private broadcaster ATV has maintained a clear preference for social porn and reality TV. While "The business with love" is currently being pillaged, many other formats are deliberately shown outright. After the great excitement about the ATV format "The business with love" (the current season pauses until further notice) the private broadcaster is under strict observation. The trash factor of the productions…

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Until further notice, ATV exposes the broadcast of further episodes. In addition, all episodes of the current season are removed from the media library. The channel thus reacts to the countless criticisms of the TV format, which sexism was accused of.

ATV suspends the broadcast of further episodes of "Das Geschäft mit der Liebe" for the time being. All episodes of the current 11th season were also taken offline. The reason for this is the last week's criticism of the reality TV format, according to which the show is women's contempt and sexist. ATV now wants to revise and sharpen its internal guidelines and control mechanisms for securing ethical standards, the private broadcaster reported in…

In the previous week, the reality format had become a political centre.

The private broadcaster calls the criticism of the show "The business with love" justified and promises to strengthen the ethical control of its formats. However, ATV does not want to completely discontinue the documentary soap.