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Where to watch the Super Bowl 2024 on TV and bars in Austria

The Super Bowl, one of the biggest sports events in the world, is taking place this month, and we now know who is playing: Kansas City Chiefs vs San Francisco 49ers. Here's what you need to know about where to watch the game on TV in Austria or a Viennese sports bar.

Published: 1 February 2024 14:01 CET
Updated: 10 February 2024 08:18 CET
Where to watch the Super Bowl 2024 on TV and bars in Austria
Where to watch the Super Bowl? (Philip Pacheco/Getty Images/AFP)

Super Bowl LVIII, or the 2024 Super Bowl, is taking place on February 11th in the United States – and people in Austria will be able to watch the Kansas City Chiefs vs. San Francisco 49ers at 00:30 on Monday, February 12th. But how?

The public channel ORF will not broadcast the event, but other media will. You will be able to see the game and halftime show (Usher – not Taylor Swift) on the channel RTL, which also offers streaming. Additionally, the streaming service DAZN will show the game.

Even though Austria is not a country where American football is particularly popular, the Super Bowl is a major event, and many bars and pubs hold viewing parties. The final is not for a couple of weeks, but some of Vienna’s most popular Super Bowl parties are already selling (and even selling out of) tickets. 

Here are some of the main events for watching the Super Bowl in Vienna:

Super Bowl Party at Vienna Marriot Hotel

It is one of Austria’s most “traditional” Super Bowl parties. The Marriott Hotel is in the first district and has an all-you-can-eat and all-you-can-drink offer. The streaming is also with the original English commentary by the NFL crew on FOX this year.

The night has three menus (but very few vegetarian or vegan options) from 9 pm until the end of the game. Tickets start at €99.

You can read more about it here.

Super Bowl Night at Admiral Arena Prater

The Admiral Arena Prater holds another typical event in Vienna’s second district. Admission is at 9 pm, and there is all you can eat and drink all night long. There will be a professional moderator through the evening, football experts and a cheerleading show, among other events. 

The drinks include beer, wine, juices, soft drinks, coffee and tea and dishes are served in the American buffet. From 3 am, there is a rich breakfast buffet (this year, they added a lot more vegetarian or vegan options). Tickets cost €109.

You can read more about it here.

Super Bowl Extravaganza at the Long Hall

The famous international pub offers a party with an open bar of the Czech beer Kozel, wine spritzers and a selection of soft drinks from 10:30 pm until the game ends. 

The Long Hall boasts five plasma screen televisions and a drop-down beamer screen to watch both the game and halftime show, and you can reserve seats for yourself and a group. Tickets cost €60.

You can read more about it here.

Super Bowl at Pointers Pub

The sports pub Pointers also holds a major Super Bowl event in Vienna’s fourth district. 

From 8 pm on Sunday, visitors get “free snacks and nibbles”. Tickets cost €40, but the amount can be deducted from consumption on game night. 

You can read more about it here.

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HEALTH

Patients in Vienna face long waits for specialist health appointments

Waiting times to get appointments with health specialists in Vienna have increased significantly, a new study has revealed.

Published: 17 May 2024 09:56 CEST
Patients in Vienna face long waits for specialist health appointments

Accessing essential healthcare within a reasonable timeframe is becoming increasingly difficult for Viennese residents.

The Vienna Medical Association presented their new study this week which shows that waiting times for appointments with health specialists have increased significantly in recent years.

The study, which involved contacting over 850 doctors’ practices via so-called “mystery calls,” revealed that child and adolescent psychiatry currently had the longest waiting times in the city.

Patients can expect to wait an average of 90 days for an appointment.

Other specialisations where patients have to wait long to receive help include radiology (57 days), neurology (45 days), ophthalmology (44 days), pulmonology (36 days), internal medicine (33 days), and dermatology (28 days).

The waiting time for seeing a gynaecologist has increased fourfold since 2012, with patients now waiting an average of 32 days.

READ MORE: Why are there fewer public sector doctors in Austria?

No new patients accepted

In certain specialist areas, there is no capacity to accommodate new patients. The situation where no new patients are accepted occurs particularly often in paediatric practices, where more than half of the public healthcare practices have put a freeze on admissions.

In child and adolescent psychiatry, 40 percent do not accept new patients, and among gynaecologists, it is almost a third (30 percent). Family doctors also struggle with welcoming new patients, and many of their practices have already reached full capacity.

The Medical Association calls for immediate action, urging the health insurance sector to become more attractive and receive better funding. This could involve measures to incentivise doctors to work within the public system, potentially reducing wait times and improving patient access to care.

During the study presentation, Johannes Steinhart, president of the association, described the increased waiting times as the result of neglect within the established health insurance sector. He said he believes that the public health system is massively endangered.

Naghme Kamaleyan-Schmied, chairwoman of the Curia of the resident doctors in the association, pointed out that while the population of the federal capital has grown by 16 percent since 2012, the number of public doctors has fallen by 12 percent in the same period.

The association now wants to make the public healthcare system more attractive to doctors, which could cut down waiting times and make it easier for patients to receive care. The association’s demands for this to happen include increasing flexibility in contract options, integrating health and social professions in individual practices, reducing bureaucracy, and improving fees.

ÖGK, Österreichische Gesundheitskasse, Austria’s largest public healthcare fund, is currently creating 100 additional public health positions, with almost two-thirds of the positions already having applicants, as well as planning for another 100 positions. They also aim to create a central telemedicine service and a platform for making appointments by phone and online, which is meant to reduce waiting times and improve access to care.

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