Radio year 1953

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1953: Founding of the Sender Free Berlin

General

In 1953, regular television operations began in several countries, including Japan ( NHK , January 30) and Czechoslovakia ( ČST , May 1).
March 5 - Stalin's death .
April 3 - The first issue of TV-Guide appears in the USA .
June 2 - The Coronation of Elizabeth II , broadcast live on the BBC , marks the first major television event in British and European post-war history.
June 17th - popular uprising in the GDR .
July 27 - The Korean War ends with a ceasefire agreement between the UN and North Korea .

August 21 - The Allied Commission for Austria decides in future to waive its censorship rights for domestic and foreign post, telegram, correspondence and radio in Austria.

November 12th - The Sender Free Berlin (SFB) is founded. The station, which belongs to the association of ARD , is the first institution in Berlin that is not under any suzerainty of the four occupying powers.

December 1st - The US lifestyle and men's magazine Playboy is published for the first time . On the cover of the first edition - barely two years after her first major successes - the Hollywood actress Marilyn Monroe can be seen.

Radio

February 8th - The Klagenfurt Funkhaus opens.

March - In Austria the first episode of the series Die Radiofamilie Floriani can be heard on Rot-Weiß-Rot .

May 3 - Deutsche Welle goes on air with a message of greeting from Federal President Theodor Heuss under the umbrella of Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk .

September 12th - The NWDR in Cologne begins broadcasting the 8-part radio play Paul Temple and the Vandyke case by Francis Durbridge with René Deltgen , Annemarie Cordes and Kurt Lieck in the leading roles (director: Eduard Hermann ).

October 6 - The radio drama series Rocky Fortune starring Frank Sinatra premieres on NBC Red Network.

October 25th - The Hessischer Rundfunk broadcasts the first episode of the radio play series Prokurist a. D. Hesselbach, office for life counseling by and with Wolf Schmidt , directed by Otto Stadler . It is the continuation of the 47-part series Hesselbach Family (1949–1953).

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Studio Cologne: Journalists' round about the Saar question

February 5 - At the fifth Emmy Awards, I love Lucy with Lucille Ball is recognized as the best sitcom . The award for the best entertainer goes to Jimmy Durante , best actress to Helen Hayes , best actor to Thomas Mitchell .

July 20 - The BBC series The Good Old Days premieres. The show, which was broadcast regularly until 1983, features variety and music hall programs in the style of the Victorian and Edwardian eras .

August 29th - Swiss television broadcasts the news program Tagesschau for the first time .

August 30th - The discussion program Der Internationale Frühschoppen with Werner Höfer (based on the US model Meet the Press ) goes on air for the first time.

Oct. 27 - With the song The Etappenhase of Karl Bunje transmits NWDR Cologne for the first time a theater performance from the Cologne Millowitsch Theater .

December 24th - The TV version of the first episode of the crime series Dragnet is available on NBC .

Born

January 14th - Wolfgang Böck , Austrian actor ( Kaisermühlen Blues , Trautmann ) is born in Linz.
January 29 - Paul Fusco , American puppeteer , actor and television producer ( Alf , 1986-1990) is in New Haven ( Connecticut born).
June 13 - Tim Allen , American ( Look who's hammering ) actor is born in Denver , Colorado .
June 15 - Antonia Rados , Austrian television journalist, was born in Klagenfurt.
June 25th - Udo Samel , German actor, was born near Trier .
October 9 - Tony Shalhoub , American ( Monk ) actor , is born in Green Bay , Wisconsin .
October 17th - Roger de Weck , Swiss publicist and television presenter ( Sternstunden philosophy ) was born in Freiburg in Üechtland .
November 7th - Ottfried Fischer , German actor ( Benno Berghammer in Der Bulle von Tölz ) and cabaret artist is born in Untergriesbach .
November 13 - Frances Conroy , American actress ( Ruth Fisher in Six Feet Under ) is born in Georgia .

Died

January 28th - Hans Freundt , German actor, radio play director, radio broadcaster and author dies at the age of 60 in his hometown of Hamburg . With an involuntary interruption from 1924 to 1953, he was employed by NORAG and its legal successor, NWDR Hamburg, among other things as a department head and director.
August 29th - Dénes von Mihály , Hungarian physicist and television pioneer, dies in Berlin at the age of 59. In the 1920s he constructed the "Telehor", an early television system based on mechanical image scanning.
September 27th - Hans Fritzsche , German journalist, political radio commentator and employee of the Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda ( This is Hans Fritzsche speaking ) dies at the age of 53 in Cologne .

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