Radio year 1945
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Other events
General
- May 8th - Unconditional surrender of the German Wehrmacht . This ended the Second World War in Europe
- August 2nd - Signing of the Potsdam Agreement , which establishes the political and geographical reorganization of Germany.
- August 7th and 9th - The first two atomic bombs were dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki .
- August 15/2. September - The Second World War ends with the surrender of Japan .
Radio
- February 15 - The radio station Argentinierstrasse in Vienna is hit by aircraft bombs. The radio drama section is destroyed in the process.
- February 25 - Canadian broadcaster CBC 's international service begins broadcasting as Radio Canada's International Service .
- April 6th - The Reichsender Wien stops its program. On this day, the Red Army troops crossed the Vienna city limits.
- April 30th - The breakfast show Arthur Godfrey Time goes on air in the US on the frequencies of CBS .
- June 6th - With the words “Here is the Austrian broadcaster Rot-Weiß-Rot! May this medium help to make the Austrians a well-informed people! ” American Major General Walter M. Robertson opened the US occupation broadcaster Red-White-Red in Salzburg .
- May 4th - Start of Radio Hamburg . It is under the control of the British occupying forces .
- May 12th - Start of Radio Munich . It is under the control of the US occupation forces .
- May 13th - Radio Berlin , the later Berliner Rundfunk, begins .
- June 3rd - Start of Radio Stuttgart . It is under the control of the US occupation forces .
- July 29th - The BBC Light program goes on the air on the frequency of the later BBC Radio 2 . The music program focuses on popular entertainment such as Schlager and Music Hall .
- August 4th - AFN Berlin goes on air. The first piece of music played is Rhapsody in Blue by George Gershwin .
- August 15 - In view of the atomic bombs being dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki , Tennō Hirohito , the Japanese emperor, announces in a radio address to the Japanese people the decision to accept the Potsdam Declaration of the victorious powers of the Second World War and thereby consent to the surrender of Japan . Millions of Japanese are hearing the voice of their emperor for the first time.
- September 3rd - First broadcast of the radio play version of Carl Zuckmayer's Der Hauptmann von Köpenick ( NWDR Hamburg ). Directed by Helmut Käutner speaks Willy Maertens in the title role. It is probably the first radio play that was produced after the war.
- October 14th - The first edition of the poetry program Du holde Kunst can be heard on Rot-Weiß-Rot Salzburg , the US-American occupation power station in Austria . It was taken over by the ORF in 1955 and is still in the program today, making it the oldest existing radio broadcast in Austria.
- December 24th - In an emotional Christmas speech given over the radio, the recently sworn Austrian Chancellor Leopold Figl appeals to the population to believe in an (independent) Austria in view of the plight of the immediate post-war period.
watch TV
- May 7th - One day before the end of the Second World War in Europe, MTVC Moscow is the first company in Europe to start regular television operations.
Born
- January 1st - Werner Mück , Austrian journalist, was born in Vienna .
- January 29 - Tom Selleck , American actor ( Thomas Magnum in the crime series Magnum , 1980–1988) was born in Detroit .
- February 22nd - Antje-Katrin Kühnemann , German TV presenter, is born in Munich .
- May 31 - Rainer Werner Fassbinder , German film director ( Berlin Alexanderplatz , 1980) was born in Bad Wörishofen († 1982).
- August 30th - Robert Hochner , Austrian television journalist and Zeit im Bild -Anchorman was born in Budapest († 2001).
- September 22nd - Ursula Stenzel , Austrian television journalist and politician, is born in Vienna .
See also
Web links
- History of radio and television in Germany (Saarland University)
- International radio and television chronicle
- TV programs from yesterday and the day before yesterday
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hans Cohrssen, the first head of broadcasting ( memento of the original from September 19, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Figl's radio speech 1945: The Poidl is still stirring today , Die Presse , December 23, 2009, accessed on July 1, 2012.
