Maintower


maintower is the tabloid magazine of the Hessischer Rundfunk broadcast on hr-fernsehen from Monday to Friday at 18:00 o'clock.
The issues from Monday to Friday deliver 25 minutes of tabloid topics with a focus on crime and accidents as well as other police and fire brigade missions in and around Hessen.

Production

The programme was broadcast until 2015 from the Main Tower in Frankfurt am Main. Since its dissolution for cost reasons in autumn 2015, the programme has been broadcast from Hessischer Rundfunk's television Studio 5 in the Funkhaus am Dornbusch in Frankfurt-Nordend. A quite elaborate virtual studio set with a computer-generated 3D skyline from Frankfurt is used.

Spin-offs

maintower weekend

In addition to the main edition, there is the Saturday edition called maintower weekend, in which a half-hour review of the week's topics is given.

maintower kriminalreport

Since 2016 there is another format in the maintower series: maintower kriminalreport. This programme replaced the previous kriminalreport hessen and reports on unsolved criminal cases and asks viewers to help clarify them. A police officer is usually also a guest in the studio to present details of the cases in conversation with the moderator. The programme is moderated by Robert Hübner.

Presenters