ARD and ZDF: Important media centers of public broadcasters
- ARD: The ARD-Mediathek combines TV and Radio elements of the country's institutions, and provides you with the latest Dossiers, as well as the shipments from the past few days.
- Even if the individual country programs such as the NDR their own media libraries, you will find all programmes in the ARD-Mediathek.
- ZDF: the Mediathek of The ZDF you can find here. You can even switch directly into the Live Stream of ZDF channels.

ZDF-Mediathek
RTL, ProSieben and co.: The most important libraries in the private channel
- RTL: The library of RTL called "TVNow.de" (formerly RTL Now), and provides the broadcasts of the past week for free have a Look at. Older shows can be played for around one Euro. For more info and prices you will find in this Overview.
- Sat1: Here you will find the media library directly on Sat1.de/video. In addition to individual episodes, you can watch and sometimes even whole seasons for free.
- RTLII has "TVNow.de/RTL2" (formerly RTL2 Now), where you "missed the show" your favorite shows to watch. For more information, you can find here.
- Vox: The shipments of Vox's seven days free of charge on TVNow.de/VOX. Then it is not free of charge. More to the Vox range you will find in this Overview.
- Prosieben: Many episodes and sometimes entire seasons can you Prosieben.de/video watch for free.

Library TVNow (image: SMART)
Tip: The free Sky library
Even without a Sky subscription you can use the sports and Comedy-Highlights in the Sky-library look at it again. The archive ranges from Harald Schmidt's Late-Night Show to the German Bundesliga and the Champions League.
In the next article, you will learn how to RTL Now abroad to see.
