Our solutions for the (media) world of tomorrow
The ORS Group ensures media diversity in Austria with a nationwide transmitter network for almost all domestic TV and radio stations, reaches around 60 million households across Europe with its satellite services and distributes radio and streaming content in the highest quality.
As a neutral programme, content and data aggregator, ORS not only develops the audio-visual media landscape. In its services as well as in its daily work, ORS focuses on environmental protection, reduction of power consumption and CO2 savings and thus helps to shape the climate-friendly radio and television (Next Generation Broadcast) of tomorrow.
In this way, ORS wants to make an important contribution to the preservation of the environment and implements essential measures for climate friendliness.
Our measures for climate friendliness:
With around 430 transmitter stations throughout Austria, ORS supplies almost 96% of the Austrian population with TV and radio programmes via antenna. ORS has set itself the goal of continuously optimising the efficiency of its facilities and the electricity consumption for their operation.
Adapting our transmitting equipment - improved efficiency
Since 2012, a large part of the equipment in the nationwide large-scale broadcasting facilities has been upgraded to sustainable efficiency.
For this purpose, new broadcasting equipment with the latest energy standard was installed.
This has made it possible to reduce the electricity consumption per television programme by half or in some cases even by 2/3.
The measures taken so far have saved energy consumption of about 5,000 MWh per year.
In addition, ORS is gradually upgrading the antennas of its nationwide transmitter stations.
These are being replaced by new systems with optimised coverage characteristics, which means that the same coverage of customers can be ensured with less transmission power.
Retrofitting our transmission facilities with photovoltaics:
Solar energy for our operating sites
As further climate-friendly measures, photovoltaic systems will be retrofitted at the first broadcasting facilities from 2022 onwards.
Examples include the transmitter station in Baden near Vienna, the transmitter station in Rechnitz Hirschenstein in Burgenland and the ORS shortwave transmitter centre in Moosbrunn. A separate task force evaluates all sites to see whether a PV system can be installed.
The electricity generated from the shortwave broadcasting centre in Moosbrunn via photovoltaics can then be used in two ways:
- for the operation of the ORS shortwave broadcasting centre itself
- for the power supply of other ORS operating sites