Broadcasting year 1962

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Other events

1962: Telstar , the first civil communications satellite, is launched

General

• The German Broadcasting Archive in Frankfurt am Main begins collecting documents on television history .
• July 7 - The federal broadcasting institution German wave enters the ARD at
• July 10th - Telstar telecommunications satellite launched , the first civil satellite for intercontinental television broadcasts. Both the American space agency NASA and the telecommunications company AT&T are involved in the project. The first live television broadcast between Europe and the USA takes place on July 23. In the same year, the British instrumental rock group The Tornados succeeded in producing a hit called Telstar, produced by Joe Meek . Meek was inspired by the satellite.
• October 26th - The Spiegel affair begins with the occupation of the Spiegel editorial office in Hamburg . The news magazine, its publisher and owner Rudolf Augstein , and several leading editors are accused of treason .

Radio

1962: Khrushchev announces the withdrawal of the Soviet nuclear missiles from Cuba on Radio Moscow

• John Peel started working as a radio presenter at the WRR radio station in Dallas , Texas, where he was soon - not least because of his British origins - considered a “ Beatles expert ”.
• Debut of the regional information magazine Unterwegs in Hessen on hr1 .
• January 1st - Deutschlandfunk starts operations.
• January 1st - In Austria the third radio program of the ORF is closed for financial reasons.
• February 23 - The WDR in Cologne begins broadcasting the 8-part radio play Paul Temple and the Margo case by Francis Durbridge with René Deltgen , Annemarie Cordes and Kurt Lieckin as the leading roles (directed by Eduard Hermann ).
• April 1st - Polskie Radio 3 starts broadcasting nationwide in Poland.
• February 21 - The first of 88 episodes of the children's radio play series Meister Eder und seine Pumuckl written by Ellis Kaut is broadcast on Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR) .
• September 30 - The CBS radio broadcasts the final episodes of Suspense and Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar . In the USA, the date is considered to be the end of the “classic” or “golden” age of radio.
• Oct. 28 - Cuban Missile Crisis : Via Radio Moscow announced CPSU boss Nikita Khrushchev the withdrawal of Soviet stationed missiles on Cuba after the US-Soviet crisis hours has been intensified dramatically. With no direct links between the governments of the Soviet Union and the United States at this point in time, radio plays a key role in resolving the missile crisis that has brought the world to the brink of a nuclear exchange.

watch TV

• In the UK advertising restrictions occur for the tobacco industry on television in force: so older than 21 years must not be more advertised during children's programs, also need people who appear in the spots to be.
• January 3 to 17 - The six-part television film Das Halstuch by Francis Durbridge , produced by WDR in 1961 , turns out to be a " street sweeper ". The whole nation was preoccupied with the question of the kerchief's identity.
• January 15th - Two days before the last Halstuch episode was broadcast , the Berlin cabaret artist Wolfgang Neuss published the name of the kerchief murderer in a newspaper advertisement for his movie Comrade Münchhausen . The promotion caused a real scandal. Neuss received death threats; the Bild newspaper describes him as a "traitor to the fatherland".
• May 22nd to 29th - ARD broadcasts the 3-part film adaptation of Wolfgang Leonhard's autobiographical novel , produced by NDR , The Revolution releases its children .
• September - The ORF begins broadcasting school television programs .
• September 1st - Channel Television , an offshoot of the British ITV, starts broadcasting in the Channel Islands .
• September 26th - The Beverly Hillbillies sitcom starts .
• October 1 - CBS begins airing sitcom The Lucy Show with Lucille Ball .
• October 2 - The first of five seasons of the television series Combat begins on ABC . The series deals with US soldiers fighting on the Western Front during World War II .

Born

• Werner Geier - Austrian music journalist ( Die Musicbox ) and music producer, was born in Mürzzuschlag , Styria . († 2007)
• January 14th - Antonia Langsdorf , German television astrologist , was born in Hanover.
• January 15 - Horst Lichter , German TV chef, is born in Nettesheim .
• February 1st - Uwe Arkuszewski , German radio presenter, is born in Rendsburg . († 2004)
• February 8 - Martin Wuttke , German actor ( crime scene commissioner Andreas Keppler ) is born in Gelsenkirchen .
• February 22 - Steve Irwin , Australian documentary filmmaker and animal rights activist, is born in Essendon , Victoria . († 2006)
• April 1st - Stefanie Tücking , German TV and radio presenter, is born in Kaiserslautern . († 2018)
• July 6th - Ingrid Thurnher , Austrian television journalist, is born in Bludenz .
• July 21 - Gabi Bauer , German television presenter, was born in Celle .
• July 28th - Rahel Ohm , German actress and voice actress, was born in Berlin .
• August 16 - Steve Carell , American actor and comedian ( The Office ) is born in Concord , Massachusetts .
• August 27th - Sarah Wiener , Austrian TV chef, is born in Halle (Westphalia) .
• November 19 - Milena Preradovic , journalist and television presenter, is born in Bochum .

Died

• May 12th - Walter Scherau , German actor and radio play speaker, dies in Hamburg at the age of 59 . He was best known for the early television broadcasts from the Hamburg Ohnsorg Theater .
• August 19 - Robert Bürkner , German actor, theater director, theater director, playwright and writer dies in Augsburg at the age of 75 . Among other things, he played in the multi-part TV series As Far as Your Feet Carries and On the Green Beach of the Spree .
• August 22nd - Paul Schurek , German writer, stage and radio play author, dies in Wedel at the age of 72 .

See also

Portal: Radio  - Overview of Wikipedia content on radio

Portal: TV  - Overview of Wikipedia content on TV

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 18, 2016 ; accessed on December 18, 2016 . 
• TV programs from yesterday and the day before yesterday

Individual evidence

1. ^ Page "Unterwegs in Hessen" in RundfunkWiki, requested on June 24, 2009.