Gong | |
Category: | Television listings magazine |
Frequency: | Weekly |
Company: | Funke Mediengruppe |
Country: | Germany |
Based: | Nuremberg |
Language: | German |
Gong is a German radio and (today, primarily) television listings magazine owned and published by the German media conglomerate Funke Mediengruppe.[1]
An extract from the magazine, was featured in the secondary school early '90s German textbook Zickzack, as part of a reading exercise.
The first edition of Gong appeared in October 1948.[2] The magazine is published weekly and has its headquarters in Nuremberg.[2] It was formerly based in Munich.[3]
Since 1979, the magazine has awarded annual Goldener Gong prizes for outstanding achievement by actors, directors, writers, presenters, and producers in the German television world.[4]