The collaboration between public broadcasters in Austria, Germany and Switzerland is a unique experiment in pan-European broadcasting that has defied doubters for almost four decades: highbrow television.
Admirers of 3sat's resolute intellectualism say the merger plans are a sign that authorities are bowing to populist attacks on public service broadcasting.
3sat was launched in 1984 as an antidote to what the then head of Austria's public broadcaster bemoaned as the feeble-mindedness of mainstream television.
A petition to save the channel has been signed by 140,000 people including the film director Wim Wenders and actor Sandra Huller.
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