Broadcasting year 1989

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Opening of the Berlin Wall: Günter Schabowski announces new regulations for travel by GDR citizens to the West at a press conference broadcast live on GDR television.

General

  • Sony introduces the Hi8 video system, which is based on the Video 8 standard and offers a significant improvement in image and sound quality. Hi8 became widespread in the amateur field in the 1990s, but Hi8 camcorders are also built for professional use. In the same year, the company presented the CCD TR-55, which was initially only available in Japan and was the smallest and lightest camcorder in the world to date.
  • January 1st - The NDR starts its own teletext service .
  • April 15 - The IG Medien is founded at the unification congress in Hamburg through the merger of the "IG Druck und Papier" and the "IG Kunst, Kultur und Medien".
  • April 21 - In Japan comes Game Boy on the market. From 1990 the handheld console is also available in Europe.
  • May - The newly elected People's Congress meets in the Soviet Union, the sessions of which are also broadcast on the 2nd program of Soviet television. For the first time, the citizens of the country have the opportunity to experience the debates unfiltered, but this also leads to problems. Conservative MPs complain about this new openness, often pointing out that the active participation of the population has brought work in the companies to a standstill. Foreign media also report in detail, both on this fact and on the debates themselves (e.g. ORF lunchtime journals).
  • June 5th - Launch of the DFS-Kopernikus telecommunications satellite . It starts broadcasting on August 1st.
  • September 28 - Sony Corporation of America buys US Columbia Pictures for $ 3.4 billion. The much-noticed deal is part of a series of spectacular takeovers of traditional American companies by Japanese investors during the second half of the 1980s. Newsweek comments on the deal that Sony "bought a piece of the American soul" with Columbia Pictures .
  • October 2nd - The Saarländischer Rundfunk sets up a teletext called SaaR-Text a teletext
  • November 4th - The largest demonstration for freedom of the press, freedom of expression and free elections in the history of the GDR takes place on Alexanderplatz in East Berlin .
  • November 9th - The German-German border opens .
  • December 21 - The GDR Council of Ministers resolves to dissolve the State Committee for Broadcasting and the State Committee for Television .

Radio

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Twelve years after his expatriation, Wolf Biermann appears again in the GDR
Logo of the animated series The Simpsons, which started its first regular episode on December 17th .
  • January 1st - Pro 7 starts broadcasting nine hours a day in Munich.
  • January 4th - The crime series Peter Strohm with Klaus Löwitsch premieres on the First German Television ( ARD ) and on FS1 ( ORF ) . Title of the first episode: Death of a Friend .
  • January 4th - The US war series NAM - Service in Vietnam can be seen for the first time on RTLplus .
  • January 10th - Four days before Robert Lembke's death , the ARD broadcasts the last episode of the quiz What am I? .
  • January 10th - The German television series Das Nest premieres on First German Television.
  • January 15th - The first edition of the talk show Explosiv - The hot chair can be seen on RTLplus .
  • January 16 - The first episode of the long-term documentary Berlin - corner of Bundesplatz can be seen on ARD . The series depicts the everyday life of residents in the district around the Bundesplatz traffic junction in Berlin-Wilmersdorf between 1986 and 2009.
  • January 18th - The Franco-German series Ein Lord für alle Fall (A Lord for All Cases) can be seen for the first time on the First German Television .
  • January 28 - At the 47th Golden Globes in Los Angeles, the television series thirtysomething and Wonderful Years are honored.
  • February 4th - Klack starts on RTLplus , moderated by Nicole Bierhoff .
  • February 5th - The special interest broadcaster Eurosport , founded by some EBU institutions, goes on air.
  • February 15 - RTLplus takes over Baretta for the first time .
  • February 27th - Erste Deutsche Fernsehen takes over the series Pipo creates all .
  • March 26 - The US adventure series The 7 Million Dollar Woman starts exclusively on RTLplus.
  • April 8th - The American cartoon series DuckTales - News from Duckburg is broadcast for the first time on the joint program of ARD (First German Television).
  • April 11th - The quiz show based on an idea by the late quiz moderator Hans Rosenthal , Quiz according to quotas , premieres on ZDF for the first time .
  • April 28th - The German television series Three Under One Blanket can be seen for the first time on First German Television.
  • May - The French broadcaster La Sept begins the series Histoire parallèle designed and moderated by Marc Ferro .
  • May 2nd - RTLplus broadcasts the first edition of the game show The price is hot .
  • May 4th - The game show Super-Flip can be seen for the first time on ZDF.
  • July 5 - NBC begins airing the first episode of the sitcom Seinfeld .
  • September 1st - The series Johanna produced by GDR television has its premiere.
  • September 1 - GDR television broadcasts the first issue of Elf 99 magazine .
  • September 4th - The American series On Collision Course can be seen for the first time on ZDF.
  • September 5th - The family series Mit Leib und Seele can be seen in German for the first time on ZDF.
  • September 22nd - ABC shows the first episode of the sitcom All Under One Roof , which is one of the most successful sitcoms with black cast.
  • September 24th - The 15-part series from Poland Janna premieres on the First German Television for the first time.
  • September 30th - ZDF shows rivals of the racetrack .
  • October 2nd - start of the joint lunchtime program by ARD and ZDF.
  • October 5th - ZDF starts the 37-part German family series Zwei Münchner in Hamburg .
  • October 5th - Total Normal can be seen for the first time on First German Television.
  • October 5 - The US war series Pazifikgeschwader 214 can be seen for the first time on RTLplus .
  • October 7th - The European magazine is broadcast for the first time in the joint program of ARD (First German Television).
  • October 9th - The Eureka mission is broadcast by ZDF.
  • October 9th - The British miniseries On the Edge of Darkness can be seen for the first time on First German Television.
  • October 19 - Ramona is broadcast for the first time on First German Television.
  • October 23rd - The question and answer game show Atoll premieres on First German Television.
  • October 30th - GDR television stops Karl-Eduard von Schnitzler's daily program The Black Channel .
  • November 5th - German first broadcast of Radiofieber on First German Television.
  • November 6th - ORF opens a correspondents office in Budapest.
  • November 6th - The US series Mississippi can be seen on Sat.1 .
  • November 9th - At a press conference with international journalists and broadcast live on GDR television, Günter Schabowski announced new travel regulations for GDR citizens to the West, which - unintentionally - led to the opening of the Berlin Wall that same evening.
  • November 14th - The wide sky can be seen on the first German television broadcast in German.
  • 23 November - The youth magazine Elf 99 of the GDR television shows in a sensational report the (compared to the West) relative luxury life of leading SED members and their relatives in the shielded settlement of Wandlitz .
  • December 1st - Wolf Biermann gives his first concert in the GDR since his expatriation in 1977 in the Leipzig exhibition halls . The appearance is broadcast live on East and West German television.
  • December 16 - The US series Mit Herz und Scherz , (original title: Coach ) premieres on RTLplus.
  • December 17th - FOX airs the first regular episode of The Simpsons .
  • December 21 - The 14-part documentary series Diary of a Mother Goose can be seen for the first time on First German Television.
  • December 25th - The 6-part German-Austrian-French youth series Laura and Luis begins on ZDF .
  • December 26th - Romanian television broadcasts an hour-long film with original footage of the trial and execution of the couple Nicolae and Elena Ceaușescu .
  • December 31st - The 27-part German children's and youth series Spreepiraten begins on ZDF for the first time


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See also

Portal: Radio  - Overview of Wikipedia content on radio
Portal: TV  - Overview of Wikipedia content on TV

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Sony History: The Passport-Sized Camcorder , accessed April 7, 2012
  2. ↑ Japan is buying America , Die Zeit , November 10, 1989, accessed May 8, 2013
  3. ^ Jürgen Wilke: Media history of the Federal Republic of Germany . Bonn 1999, p. 810.
  4. ↑ Shock report from the Bonzenviertel , article on one day , accessed on September 13, 2011