The distribution takes place every weekend to numerous Berlin households in the "economically attractive core areas".

In between, short editorial and strongly illustrated articles on city events are published with a focus on the area of the local edition and the Berlin Senate activities, event notes, advertorials and entertainment articles (with material of dpa), especially for the older generation.

In 1996, the Berliner Abendblatt began to publish issues for Reinickendorf, Neukölln, Tempelhof, Spandau and Steglitz/Zehlendorf in the former western part of the city.

In September 2019, the Berlin publishing house was surprisingly sold by the Cologne media group M. DuMont Schauberg to the married couple Silke and Holger Friedrich.

This was followed by heated and controversial discussions, later also due to the unmasking of Holger Friedrich as unofficial collaborator "Peter Bernstein" of the Stasi by the Welt am Sonntag in November 2019.