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ARF (Amerikanisches Rundfunk) is a German-language television network in the United States. It has the largest audience of German-language television viewers in the world according to Nielsen ratings. Dirk Bach, (CEO as of June 19, 2010) COO, has been in charge of the company since the departure of ARF Communications president and CEO Joe Stahl in April 2010. In recent years the network has reached parity with the U.S.'s five major English-language television networks, and is often a strong fifth, outranking The CW, with some fourth-place weekly placings, and as of 2012, even first place rankings for individual programs over all five English networks due to the network's consistent schedule of new telenovelas all 52 weeks of the year.

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  • Amerikanisches Rundfunk (Empires of Freedom and Liberty)
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  • ARF (Amerikanisches Rundfunk) is a German-language television network in the United States. It has the largest audience of German-language television viewers in the world according to Nielsen ratings. Dirk Bach, (CEO as of June 19, 2010) COO, has been in charge of the company since the departure of ARF Communications president and CEO Joe Stahl in April 2010. In recent years the network has reached parity with the U.S.'s five major English-language television networks, and is often a strong fifth, outranking The CW, with some fourth-place weekly placings, and as of 2012, even first place rankings for individual programs over all five English networks due to the network's consistent schedule of new telenovelas all 52 weeks of the year.
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  • ARF (Amerikanisches Rundfunk) is a German-language television network in the United States. It has the largest audience of German-language television viewers in the world according to Nielsen ratings. Dirk Bach, (CEO as of June 19, 2010) COO, has been in charge of the company since the departure of ARF Communications president and CEO Joe Stahl in April 2010. In recent years the network has reached parity with the U.S.'s five major English-language television networks, and is often a strong fifth, outranking The CW, with some fourth-place weekly placings, and as of 2012, even first place rankings for individual programs over all five English networks due to the network's consistent schedule of new telenovelas all 52 weeks of the year. ARF is headquartered in New York, and has its major studios, production facilities, and operations in Rostock, Florida, a suburb of Jacksonville on the Northside. In 2009, another television studio was announced, ARF Studios, to be built in Breslau, another neighborhood of Jacksonville. ARF is available on cable and satellite in most of the country, with local stations in over 50 markets with large German and ethnic-German populations and a national cable network feed distributed in markets without either the availability or the demand for a locally-based station. Most of these stations air full local news and other local programming in addition to network shows, and in major markets such as San Diego, New York, Victoria, and Jacksonville the local newscasts carried by the network's owned-and-operated station (O&O) stations are equally competitive with their English-language counterparts ratings-wise. ARF was acquired on March 29, 2007 by a consortium led by Haim Saban's Saban Capital Group (who had previously owned the entity Saban Entertainment), TPG Capital, L.P., Providence Equity Partners, Madison Dearborn Partners, and Thomas H. Lee Partners for $13.7 billion or $36.25 per share plus $1.4 billion in acquired debt. The buyout left the company with a debt level of twelve times its annual cash flow, which was twice the norm in buyouts done over the previous two years.
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