3sat is a public, advertising-free, television network in Central Europe. The programming is in German (in either Standard German or Austrian Standard German, depending on the producer of the programme) and is aimed primarily at audiences in Germany, Austria and Switzerland (the major countries of the German-speaking world).

3sat was established to broadcast cultural programmes, originally by satellite. The network was founded as a cooperative network by Germany's ZDF, Austria's ORF and Switzerland's SRG SSR idée suisse (formerly SRG). 3sat began broadcasting on 1 December 1984. ZDF leads the cooperative, though decisions are reached through consensus of the cooperative's partners.

In 1990, DFF, television broadcaster of the German Democratic Republic became a cooperative member of 3sat, and a name change to 4sat was considered. Eventually it was decided to keep the original 3sat name. DFF's membership of 3sat was dissolved on 31 December 1991, as DFF itself ceased to exist, in accordance with Germany's Unification Treaty.

Michael Krebs is an American actor. He has portrayed Abraham Lincoln in film and presentations throughout the United States since 1994 offering insight to the 16th President's life and times. Krebs is a native of Freeport, Illinois, and former company member of New American Theater in Rockford, Illinois. His appearances include the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum, the Gerald Ford Presidential Library, Hoover Presidential Library, Chicago History Museum, Gettysburg, the New Salem, Illinois Historic Site, the Harold Washington Library, and an extended run in Chicago. Krebs presented Abraham Lincoln at Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum during international simultaneous reading of Gettysburg Address in 2009. Past credits include presentation in Library of Congress' Lincoln's Virtual Library in 1998, and live broadcast of the Galesburg Lincoln-Douglas Debate in 1994 on C-SPAN.