Radio year 1958
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1958: Ampex introduces the world's first color video recorder. Pictured: a VR 2000, an early Ampex recorder.
General
- The American company Ampex presents a color video recorder based on the quadruplex system. Magnetic image recording systems spread rapidly in the professional sector towards the end of the 1950s and revolutionized television.
- The American engineer Jack Kilby developed the world's first integrated circuit for Texas Instruments .
- January 1st - In Austria, ORF takes over radio and television operations from public administration. This means that around two years after the end of the occupation, the reorganization of broadcasting has been completed.
- January 25th - The first private broadcaster in West Germany, Telesaar , is officially closed after Saarland joins the Federal Republic. The reason is the violation of the broadcasting monopoly.
Radio
- Medium wave transmitter WERT ( Van Wert , Ohio) is founded.
- February 24th - In Cuba the propaganda station Radio Rebelde of the Castrian rebels starts its activity.
- April 1 - The BBC creates the BBC Radiophonic Workshop . Background noises, sound designs and background music for BBC productions are produced in their own studios until 1998. The works created there have had a great influence on the electronic music scene to this day.
- April 6th - Radio Luxemburg broadcasts the first hit parade program for German-speaking listeners.
- June 18 - In Switzerland, the transmitter is put into operation on Monte Ceneri .
- August 2nd - Radio Mercur becomes the first European offshore station to go into operation off the coast of Denmark .
- September 12th - The WDR in Cologne begins broadcasting the 8-part radio play Paul Temple and the Lawrence case by Francis Durbridge with René Deltgen , Annemarie Cordes and Kurt Lieck in the leading roles (director: Eduard Hermann ).
- November 23rd - The radio version of the American western series Have Gun - Will Travel premieres. It is one of the rare cases in which a television production has been adapted from radio (and not the other way around).
watch TV
- January 1 - Swiss television ends its test operations and initially broadcasts its program six days a week (except Tuesdays).
- March 14th - The Oberhausen murder case marks the start of the first German television crime series Stahlnetz (produced by NDR ) , most of the episodes of which became street sweepers in the following 10 years .
- August 23rd - Radio Belgrade broadcasts its first television program.
- September 22nd - The Peter Gunn crime series premieres on NBC .
- September 28th - The ORF broadcasts the first episode of the Leitner family series .
- October 5 - German television begins broadcasting the US youth series Fury .
- October 16 - Start of the BBC children's series Blue Peter .
- November 9th - the Saarländischer Rundfunk broadcasts its own commercial television
Born
- January 12 - Christiane Amanpour , Iranian-British journalist ( CNN ) is born in London .
- February 5th - Rudi Dolezal , Austrian film producer (" DoRo "), film and television director is born in Vienna .
- February 24 - Ray Cokes , British radio and television presenter ( MTV's Most Wanted , 1992–1996) is born on the Isle of Wight .
- April 3 - Alec Baldwin , American actor (best known as TV manager Jack Donaghy in the sitcom 30 Rock , 2006-2013) was born in Long Island .
- April 26th - Ingolf Lück , German TV presenter ( Formula One ) is born in Bielefeld .
- May 1st - Dieter Moor , Swiss TV presenter ( kunst-pieces ) is born in Zurich .
- July 15 - Jörg Kachelmann , German TV meteorologist, media entrepreneur and presenter ( Riverboat ) is born in Lörrach .
- July 27th - Margarethe Schreinemakers , German talk show host and TV presenter, is born in Krefeld .
- August 8th - Stephan Klapproth , Swiss TV presenter ( 10vor10 ) was born in Lucerne .
- November 9th - Eva Herman , German journalist and former spokeswoman for the ARD Tagesschau , is born in Emden .
- November 27th - Christian Seeler , German actor, radio play speaker and director of the Ohnsorg Theater since 1995 , is born in Hamburg .
Died
- January 3rd - Alexander Meißner , physicist, dies in Berlin at the age of 74 . In 1917 he started the first experiments with tube transmitters together with Hans Bredow .
- March 7th - Oskar Czeija , Austrian broadcasting pioneer and broadcasting entrepreneur , dies in Vienna at the age of 70 . Czeija was general director of Radio Verkehrs AG (RAVAG) for a short time from 1924 to 1938 and again after the end of the war .
- August 6th - Reinhold Lütjohann , German actor and radio play speaker , dies at the age of 77 in Hamburg-Groß Flottbek .
See also
Web links
- Nicole Kiefer: Timeline of the history of broadcasting / broadcasting legislation In: Saarland University
- Gijsbert Hinnen: International radio and television chronicle. In: rfcb.ch. Archived from the original on December 26, 2016 ; Retrieved December 26, 2016 .
- TV programs from yesterday and the day before yesterday
- zuuschauerpost.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Have Gun - Will Travel ( Memento of the original from April 14, 2011 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. (Audio sample)
