• 25 February - The Voice of Germany season 5 winner Jamie-Lee Kriewitz is selected to represent Germany at the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest with her song "Ghost". She is selected to be the sixty-first German Eurovision entry during Unser Lied für Stockholm held at the Brainpool Studios in Cologne.
• 25 March - 13-year-old Lukas Janisch wins the fourth season of The Voice Kids.
• 7 May - Prince Damien Ritzinger wins the thirteenth season of Deutschland sucht den Superstar.
• 3 June - Austrian pop singer Victoria Swarovski and her partner Erich Klann win the ninth season of Let's Dance.

International edit

• 7 August -   The Cleveland Show (2009-2013) (Comedy Central)

American Forces Network edit

•   The Loud House (2016–present) (AFN Family)

1950s edit

• Tagesschau (1952–present)

1960s edit

• heute (1963–present)

1970s edit

• heute-journal (1978–present)
• Tagesthemen (1978–present)

1980s edit

• Lindenstraße (1985–present)

1990s edit

• Gute Zeiten, schlechte Zeiten (1992–present)
• Unter uns (1994–present)
• Schloss Einstein (1998–present)
• In aller Freundschaft (1998–present)
• Wer wird Millionär? (1999–present)

2000s edit

• Deutschland sucht den Superstar (2002–present)
• Let's Dance (2006–present)
• Das Supertalent (2007–present)

2010s edit

• The Voice of Germany (2011–present)
• Promi Big Brother (2013–present)

Launches edit

Conversions and rebrandings edit

Closures edit

• 2016 in Germany