I Downloaded the German 8 Pm News Every Day Since 2014: Ask Me Anything

the main edition is so influencial, the evening programm (prime time) on many other german television channels starts at 8:15 pm. in the 90s they tried to start the main program at 8 pm, but the people only switched to the channels at 8:15 pm, when the main edition was finished. so they reverted their schedule after a month.

> At 20:00 each evening, Das Erste (The First), Germany's oldest public television network, airs the country's most-watched news broadcast, the main edition of the Tagesschau, which is also simulcast on most of its other specialist and regional channels (The Third). The conclusion of the bulletin 15 minutes later marks the beginning of prime time, as it has since the 1950s. In consequence, most other channels—public and private alike—also choose to start their prime time at 20:15. In the 1990s, the commercial channel Sat.1 suffered a significant loss of audience share when it tried moving the start of its prime time to 20:00.

via: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_time#Germany

There is "Ben Shapiro: US commentator clashes with BBC's Andrew Neil - BBC News" from 6 years ago, maybe to see how different it is. I also remember Richard Dawkins in a German debate show promoting his book, and he was clearly not prepared for German debate culture.

A few years ago, I spoke with a coworker from Norway. He told me he used to watch news in Norway and later also watched news, e.g. from the United States. He was stunned that the news in Norway are so close to the US news, as if they copy a lot from them. And of course, if you only watch the news in Norway you'll not notice that.

Somebody told me some time ago, when he was in his training for military officer, he had a guy in room who spoke many languages. he was curious and asked him, how he learned all these languages. The guy told him, his father (a German general) ordered Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (German news paper), Le Monde (French newspaper), and another newspaper every morning. Actually his father ordered three copies of each newspaper so the guy, his father, and his sister could read them each morning and tell his father the news in Germany and other countries at the breakfast table. Because of this drill he quickly learned these languages, you just need to start and make it a habit.