About Strausberg TV

Strausberg TV

Strausberg TV, also operating under the name Oderland TV, is a local television broadcaster based in Strausberg, the district capital of Märkisch-Oderland in the German state of Brandenburg. Run by the production company Film- und Fernsehproduktion Rätzel from its premises at Ernst-Thälmann-Straße 25 in Strausberg, the station produces regional television programming for the town and the surrounding Oderland region east of Berlin. Its output follows the classic local-television formula of news, reports and magazine features about municipal life, local events and the people of the district, distributed through regional cable networks and online video platforms. With an active YouTube presence carrying current reports from 2026, including coverage from towns such as Wriezen, the station remains in operation as the televised voice of its home region.

Overview

Strausberg TV is a textbook example of the small private local broadcasters that dot the media landscape of Brandenburg. The station is based in Strausberg, a town of around 27,000 inhabitants some 30 kilometers east of Berlin, which serves as the administrative center of the Märkisch-Oderland district. From this base it covers the town itself and the wider Oderland region, the area between Berlin and the Polish border along the Oder river, a region of small towns, villages, lakes and forests with a strong local identity shaped by its position on the edge of the capital's commuter belt.

The station operates under two related names. "Strausberg TV" is the primary brand, identifying the channel with its home town, while "Oderland TV" expresses the broader regional ambition, signaling that the programming looks beyond the town limits to the whole district. Both names point to the same operation: the film and television production company of Rätzel, based at Ernst-Thälmann-Straße 25, 15344 Strausberg, reachable at 033456 721989. The dual branding is a common pattern among local stations, which need to be both the town's own channel and a credible voice for the surrounding region.

The programming is produced locally and aimed at a local audience. Typical content includes reports on town council politics and district administration, coverage of local festivals, markets and cultural events, portraits of clubs, associations and volunteer organizations, features on the regional economy and crafts, and seasonal topics from the lake district around Strausberg. The station's YouTube channel, published under the name Strausberg TV (Strausberg.TV), carries these reports as on-demand video, with uploads from 2026 including items from Wriezen, a small town in the district, demonstrating that the station's cameras are active across the region and not confined to the district capital.

Distribution follows the paths available to a broadcaster of this size: the program is carried on regional cable networks in the coverage area, and the online presence at strausberg.tv and on YouTube gives viewers a second way to watch. For the residents of Strausberg and the Oderland, the station offers something no national channel can: regular, familiar coverage of their own town, their own representatives and their own neighbors.

History

The history of Strausberg TV is the history of a production company that became a broadcaster. The operation is run by Film- und Fernsehproduktion Rätzel, a Strausberg-based film and television production business founded in 2010 according to the description on the station's own YouTube channel, and the channel grew out of the kind of regional video production work that has sustained many small German media companies: commissioned films, event documentation, advertising production and, eventually, a regular local television program.

This development path is characteristic of local television in Brandenburg. Unlike the large regional broadcasters of western Germany, which were often founded with significant capital in the 1980s and 1990s, many stations in the east began as small production outfits that gradually built a channel around their production capacity. The founders were typically media professionals with roots in the region who saw that their towns were invisible on national television and decided to fill the gap themselves. The result is a station that is both a media outlet and a crafts business: the same cameras and editing suites that produce the weekly local program also produce commissioned work for companies, municipalities and event organizers.

The choice of Strausberg as the base reflects the town's role as the district capital of Märkisch-Oderland. A station located here can cover the district administration, the largest concentration of businesses and cultural institutions in the area, and the commuter-town dynamics of a place within Berlin's orbit, while reaching out to the smaller towns of the Oderland such as Wriezen, Bad Freienwalde, Seelow and Letschin. The Oderland TV branding captures this wider mission.

Concrete dates for the founding of the channel are not publicly confirmed in the sources consulted for this profile, and this profile does not speculate about them. What is verifiable is that the operation is active in 2026: the YouTube channel carries recent uploads, including reports from the spring of 2026, and the station's contact details and web presence are current. In the economy of small local media, where stations regularly appear and disappear, this continuity is itself a significant fact.

Coverage and Content

The editorial territory of Strausberg TV is the town of Strausberg and the Oderland region of the Märkisch-Oderland district. Strausberg itself provides a rich seam of local stories: as a district capital it hosts the district administration, and as a town on the edge of Berlin it lives the tensions and opportunities of the commuter belt, from housing development and transport links to the preservation of its historic center and its lakes. The surrounding region adds the small-town and rural dimension: agriculture, village life, the floodplains and nature reserves along the Oder, the memorial sites of Seelow Heights, and the cross-border relationship with Poland.

The content mix follows the established grammar of German local television. News and magazine formats cover municipal politics: town council meetings, district council decisions, mayoral elections and local infrastructure projects. Community life is a central pillar: the volunteer fire brigades, sports clubs, choirs, heritage societies and carnival associations that organize social life in the region's towns and villages regularly feature in the programming. Cultural coverage includes concerts, exhibitions, theater and the many local festivals, from town anniversaries to Christmas markets. Seasonal and service topics, such as tourism around the Straussee lake, cycling routes, and local crafts and businesses, round out the schedule.

The 2026 YouTube uploads illustrate the geographic range. A report from Wriezen, filed under the station's channel in the spring of 2026, shows the cameras working in the smaller towns of the district, not just in Strausberg. The station's recurring "Rathausfenster" (town hall window) format gives each town its own municipal magazine: the Wriezen edition of April 2026 covered gym-time applications, new business tax assessments, construction of a new fire station and senior-friendly housing, while the Strausberg edition of July 2026 covered the dates for the mayoral election, oak processionary caterpillars in the city area, the natural swimming area and boat rental, the local water rescue service, construction projects and event information. This is the essence of the Oderland TV concept: a channel that treats the whole region as its beat, giving the smaller communities the same televised attention as the district capital.

The production style is that of a small regional team: reporters who know the area, familiar faces presenting from a modest studio, and reports built around interviews with local protagonists rather than elaborate staging. For the audience, this familiarity is the point. Viewers tune in to see their mayor, their club chairman, their neighbors, and to learn what is happening in the places they know.

Organization and Ownership

Strausberg TV is operated by Film- und Fernsehproduktion Rätzel, a film and television production company based at Ernst-Thälmann-Straße 25, 15344 Strausberg. The company is the legal and organizational backbone of the channel: it owns the production infrastructure, employs the staff and is responsible for both the broadcast operation and the commissioned production business. The phone number 033456 721989 is the published contact for the operation.

This structure, a production company running a local channel, is one of the standard models in German local television. It means the station's finances rest on two legs: the broadcast business, financed by regional advertising, sponsorship and program carriage arrangements, and the production business, which sells video services to corporate, municipal and private clients. The two sides reinforce each other, since the skills, equipment and contacts needed for one are the same as those needed for the other.

Beyond these verified facts, little is publicly confirmed about the internal organization: the number of employees, the names of presenters and editors, and the details of the broadcast schedule are not part of the public record consulted for this profile. The station presents itself through its program output and its online channels rather than through corporate publications, which is typical for a broadcaster of this size.

Digital Presence

The station's online home is strausberg.tv, which serves as the portal to the channel's output and the company's services. Alongside the website, the YouTube channel published as Strausberg TV (Strausberg.TV) functions as the station's video-on-demand platform, carrying reports and features that can be watched independently of the broadcast schedule. The uploads from 2026, including the spring report from Wriezen, demonstrate that this channel is actively maintained and that new material is being produced and published on an ongoing basis.

For a local station, the combination of a website and a YouTube presence serves several purposes. It gives viewers who miss a broadcast, or who live outside the cable footprint, a way to catch up. It gives the station's reports a longer life and a wider potential audience, including former residents and anyone interested in the region. And it provides a platform for the production company's commissioned work. The contact details published online, the Strausberg address and the 033456 phone number, anchor the digital presence in the physical newsroom on Ernst-Thälmann-Straße, and their currency confirms an operation that is reachable and active in 2026.