Broadcasting year 1960
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1960: The Black Channel comments on West German television programs from the SED perspective
General
- With the TV-8-301, Sony brings the first portable transistor television onto the market.
- July 5th - Renaming of the previous “Swiss Broadcasting Company” to “ Swiss Radio and Television Company ” (SRG).
- July 25th - Deutschland-Fernsehen GmbH is founded. This should result in a second program under the supervision of the federal government. The Federal Constitutional Court prohibited in his judgment this project.
- October 26th - Foundation of the federal broadcasters Deutsche Welle and Deutschlandfunk . This ends the responsibility of ARD over the broadcasters
Radio
- Feb. 29 - The transmitter KMOX from St. Louis , Missouri radiates the first episode of At Your Service from. The series is considered to be the pioneer of the talk radio format.
- June 25 - After seven years of running, ORF broadcasts the 351st and final episode of the radio soap Die Radiofamilie Floriani . The series was initially broadcast on the American occupation channel Rot-Weiß-Rot and was intended to depict the everyday life of a middle-class Viennese family.
- August 27 - Shreveport , Louisiana airs the final edition of the 1948 Louisiana Hayride country music show . In the course of the program's history, live performances by stars such as Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash could be heard.
- October 1 - The German soldier broadcaster 935 , created by the GDR as a secret broadcaster , goes into operation. He is supposed to influence the soldiers of the Bundeswehr ideologically.
- November 25 - After 27 years of broadcasting and a total of 7,065 episodes, Ma Perkins , one of the longest running US radio soaps, is discontinued.
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- Albania is entering the age of television: initially, a program is broadcast three days a week.
- January 22nd - German television shows the first episode of the television series Die Firma Hesselbach, developed from the radio play series of the same name .
- March 21 - GDR television broadcasts the first of a total of 1,519 episodes of the propaganda series The Black Channel . Karl-Eduard von Schnitzler shows excerpts from West German television programs and comments on them according to the ideological principles of the SED .
- March 22 to May 17 - German television broadcasts for the first time the five-part television film Am Green Beach on the Spree, produced by the NWRV , based on the book of the same name by Hans Scholz . With this " street sweeper ", director Fritz Umgelter achieved a great success with the audience , just like a year earlier with So Far den Fußführung .
- June 29 - The BBC opens its new headquarters in West London with the Television Center.
- August 20 - The NRK begins regular television operations for Norway .
- September 25th - Color TV launched in Japan .
- September 26th - The two applicants for the successor to Eisenhower , John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon face each other in the first major television duel in radio history. This shows the power of the still young medium: especially the youthful and optimistic looking Kennedy can score more with the audience than the factually well prepared, but badly shaved, sweating and visually hardly appealing Nixon.
- September 30th - The animated series Flintstones premieres on US television.
- October 21 to November 7 - The second Durbridge six-part series is running on German television It's time . The crime thriller, created under director Hans Quest , achieved an audience rating of 80 percent.
- December 9th - The BBC airs the first episode of the television series Coronation Street .
Born
- March 8th - Birgit Lechtermann , German TV presenter, was born in Gütersloh .
- July 28th - Harald Lesch , German astrophysicist, science journalist and television presenter ( alpha-Centauri ) is born in Giessen .
- Aug 7 - David Duchovny , American actor ( Fox Mulder in The X-Files - The FBI's Creepy Cases , 1993–2002 and Hank Moody in Californication , since 2007) was born in New York City .
- September 10th - Harald Krassnitzer , Austrian actor ( Commissioner Moritz Eisner in Tatort since 1999) is born in Salzburg .
- November 2nd - Andy Borg , Austrian pop singer and presenter ( Musikantenstadl ) is born in Vienna .
- November 5th - Martin Blumenau , Austrian radio presenter and music journalist, is born in Vienna .
- November 7th - Daniel Boemle , Swiss radio presenter at DRS 3 and DJ , was born in Bern († 2007).
Died
- August 9th - Marie Ulfers , German writer and radio play author, dies in Aurich at the age of 71 . She wrote works in both High German and Low German .
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
- ^ Sony Design , accessed July 9, 2009.
- ↑ Beate Düning: mass media . In: Klaus-Detlev Grothusen (Hrsg.): Albanien (= Südosteuropa Handbuch ). tape 7 . Göttingen 1993, p. 615-635 .