Sachsenspiegel features daily regional news on the topics of politics, the economy, sport, science and culture.

The predecessor of Sachsenspiegel was Bei uns in Sachsen, which, from 1988 to 1991, used to air at 6:45 to 7:00 p.m. on the former East German station Deutscher Fernsehfunk.

The installation of the necessary tracking and rendering technology and the creation of the virtual studio world took almost one year to complete.

When Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk is received analog by satellite [needs update], the MDR news programme Länderzeit, transmitted from 7:00 to 7:30 p.m. includes a number of items from the regional programmes Sachsenspiegel, Sachsen-Anhalt heute and Thüringen Journal.

Sachsenspiegel is transmitted via DVB-S on the regional channel MDR Sachsen.