Broadcasting year 1973
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Other events
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General
- Motorola makes the first prototype of a cell phone .
- April 4th - After around seven years of construction, the World Trade Center is opened in New York City . The two 415 and 417 meter high towers of the building complex on the southern tip of Manhattan are quickly becoming icons of the New York skyline .
- September 11 - In Chile staged a coup Augusto Pinochet bloody against the democratically elected Salvador Allende .
Radio
- The SFB is broadcasting the feature bells designed by Peter Leonhard Braun in Europe for the first time. It is one of the most important and influential individual productions in radio history.
- February 2 - In Ö1 is that of Richard Goll and Alfred drivers designed original feature Prater. To hear the sociology of a pleasure for the first time. The show is considered the first “official” Austrian feature production.
- June 1st - The SFB reforms its two radio programs. From now on, SFB 1 takes over the "more demanding" programs , while SFB 2 specializes in lighter entertainment.
- July - The Ö3 broadcast Musicbox begins with an extensive summer series about the life and work of Bob Dylan, designed and presented by Wolfgang Kos .
- October 15 - The Dutch public broadcaster Hilversum 3 starts its 24-hour broadcasting.
- November 11th - In Bhutan a regular radio operation starts for the first time.
- December 31st - NDR and WDR carry out a program reform. The six radio stations affected are classified according to criteria such as “current information”, “entertainment” and music style.
watch TV
- January 8th - The first German-language episode of the Sesame Street preschool series produced by WDR, NDR and HR is broadcast in Germany. As the only German -Anstalt leaning BR from there to take the program into the program.
- January 14th - The Elvis Presley concert Aloha from Hawaii is considered the most expensive TV production in history to date and is broadcast worldwide by satellite.
- January 15th - WDR series Ein Herz und ein Seele begins broadcasting .
- January 16 - The 430th and final episode of the Bonanza series airs on NBC .
- February 4th - The second TV channel of the ORF shows three DFF productions under the title An evening at GDR television . There is excitement in the run-up to a possible broadcast of the political programs Current Camera and The Black Channel .
- March 18 - The first broadcast of the talk show series The Later the Evening is on West German television . The host is Dietmar Schönherr .
- March 21 - The UK sitcom Are you being served for the first time.
- March 26 - On CBS has the soap opera Young and the Restless premiere.
- April 8th - German television shows Lemmi und die Schmöker for the first time
- April 15 - The broadcast of the television film Smog, produced by WDR, on German television generated numerous worried calls from viewers who thought the smog scenario dealt with in the film was real.
- September 30th - ZDF broadcasts Rappelkiste for children .
- October 1st - The Pink Panther premieres on ZDF.
- December 6th - Federal Foreign Minister Walter Scheel appears in the ZDF program Drei times Neun and sings the folk song Hoch auf dem yellowwagen together with the Düsseldorf men's choir . The recording then became a single sales success in Germany and contributed to Scheel's extraordinary popularity with the public.
- December 31st - German television broadcasts the talk show series The later the evening in the first program, produced by WDR for the first time .
Born
- January 2nd - Lucy Davis , British actress, is born in Solihull .
- January 17th - David Schalko , Austrian director and author ( broadcast without a name , from 2002) was born in Waidhofen an der Thaya ( Lower Austria ).
- February 23 - Linda Ulvaeus , Swedish actress, is born in Vallentuna .
- March 1st - Jack Davenport , British actor, is born in Suffolk .
- March 23rd - Philipp von Schulthess , Swiss actor, is born in Zurich .
- April 28 - Jorge Garcia , American actor ( Lost ), is born in Omaha , Nebraska .
- May 16 - Robert Kratky , Austrian radio presenter, was born in Salzburg .
- May 21 - Niels Ruf , German television presenter, is born in Worms .
- May 27 - Jack McBrayer , American actor (known as Kenneth Parcel in 30 Rock , 2006-2013) was born in Macon , Georgia .
- June 1 - Anna Thalbach , German actress, was born in what was then East Berlin .
- June 22nd - Sonya Kraus , German TV presenter, was born in Frankfurt am Main .
- October 26 - Seth MacFarlane , American animator ( Family Guy , American Dad ) is born in Kent , Connecticut .
Died
- January 24 - J. Carrol Naish , American actor dies at the age of 77 in La Jolla , California.
- 18 July - Jack Hawkins , British actor, dies in London at the age of 62 .
- November 1 - James Abbe , American journalist and radio presenter, dies in San Francisco at the age of 90 .
- November 20 - Allan Sherman , American television producer, actor and parodist dies at the age of 48 in Los Angeles .
See also
Web links
- Gijsbert Hinnen: International radio and television chronicle. In: rfcb.ch. Archived from the original on June 2, 2016 ; accessed on June 2, 2016 .
- TV programs from yesterday and the day before yesterday
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Prater. In: orf.at. January 13, 2007, archived from the original on April 28, 2007 ; Retrieved April 24, 2009 .
- ↑ Today in the 2nd program: Even GDR shows don't come to Arbeiter-Zeitung from February 4, 1973, accessed on April 25, 2009