Broadcasting year 1964
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Other events
Heinrich Böll : Author of Doctor Murke's Collected Silence
General
- Marshall McLuhan publishes his media-theoretical work Understanding Media (German 1970: Die magischen channels ). The Canadian philosopher and literary scholar classifies media according to different levels of attention.
- The portable transistor television Algol from the Italian manufacturer Brionvega from Milan comes onto the market. The plastic housing, which is available in different colors, and the picture tube, which is slightly inclined upwards, make the television designed by Richard Sapper and Marco Zanuso a design classic .
- April 29th - The German Bundestag resolves to “Investigate the equality of competition between the press, radio / television and film”.
- May 1st - The public broadcasting company TRT is launched in Turkey .
- June 27th - In France , the previous Radiodiffussion-télévision française (RTF) is reorganized into the Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française (ORFT) based on the model of the BBC .
Radio
- Launch of the offshore broadcaster Wonderful Radio London .
- January 1 - Malawi Broadcasting Corporation goes on air.
- May 12th - Launch of the British offshore broadcaster Radio Atlanta .
- May / Whitsun - DT64 is launched in East Berlin as the “Special Studio Germany Meeting 1964”.
- July - The feature department of the GDR radio starts work. This is the first time that the documentary radio genre is also represented in East Germany.
- July 1st - After two years of test broadcasts, Sveriges Radio starts a third program with P3 . The new station is aimed at young audiences and pop music and is intended to counter competition from pirate stations .
- November 1st - start of the joint ARD radio programs for foreign citizens.
watch TV
- January 1 - BBC One has the first edition of the hit parade show Top of the Pops . This edition of the show features The Rolling Stones with I Wanna Be Your Man , Dusty Springfield with I Only Want To Be With You and The Beatles with I Wanna Hold Your Hand .
- February 6th - German television broadcasts the television play Doctor Murke's collected silence by Dieter Hildebrandt and Rolf Hädrich based on the story of the same name by Heinrich Böll.
- April 1st - The first edition of the turntable with Rut Speer is broadcast on ZDF .
- June 27 - Following the example of the BBC , the ORTF ( Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française ) television company is founded in France.
- September 7 - A Tony Schwartz- designed spot for Lyndon B. Johnson's presidential campaign is broadcast on US television . It shows a little girl with a daisy (“Daisy Girl”) followed by a nuclear explosion and a voiceover by Johnson: “These are the stakes! To make a world in which all of God's children can live, or to go into the dark. ”(Translated in a sense:“ This is the choice: either we create a world in which all of God's children can live or we go into the abyss! "). Although the spot is shown only once, it was a key factor in Johnson's victory.
- September 22nd - Start of the third television program of Bavarian Radio .
- October 3 - The very successful quiz program Tick-Tack-Quiz with Fritz Benscher , produced by BR , is broadcast for the first time in the joint program of ARD (German television). It ran since 1958 in the evening regional programs of the individual broadcasters.
- October 5th - Start of the third television program of the Hessischer Rundfunk .
Born
- April 8th - Dominic Heinzl , Austrian radio and television presenter, is born in Hollabrunn .
- April 17th - Nathalie Licard , French-German presenter, is born in Dax ( Aquitaine region ). Licard became known as a sidekick on the Harald Schmid Show , where she stood out for her pronounced French accent.
- April 18th - Bogdan Roščić , Austrian music manager and Ö3 boss, is born in Belgrade .
- May 13 - Stephen Colbert , American comedian, born in Washington, DC .
- July 8th - Linda de Mol , Dutch television presenter, is born in Hilversum .
- August 19 - Rainer Pariasek , Austrian football commentator , is born in Vienna .
- September 28 - Gilles Peterson , British DJ and radio host ( Worldwide Show on BBC Radio 1 ) is born in Caen .
- December 9th - Hape Kerkeling , German entertainer and actor, is born in Recklinghausen .
- December 9th - Johannes B. Kerner , German talk show host , is born in Bonn .
Died
- March 25th - Eduard Hermann , German actor and radio play director dies at the age of 60. He was best known as the director of the Paul Temple radio plays that the NWDR and the WDR produced between 1949 and 1962.
- October 14th - Horst Platen , German composer, conductor and theater director, as well as broadcasting director of the NORAG subsidiary station Hanover dies at the age of 80 in Feldafing . Among other things, he composed the music for numerous radio plays.
- October 23 - Axel Ivers , German actor, theater director, radio play speaker, playwright and translator dies at the age of 62 in Wiesbaden .
- November 23 - Jan Fabricius , Dutch playwright and journalist dies at the age of 93 in Wimborne , Dorset , England . He was best known in the Low German-speaking area through many dialect theater plays and radio plays.
literature
- Jürgen Wilke : Media history of the Federal Republic of Germany: Bonn 1999.
See also
Web links
- 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
- ↑ Brionvega Algol TV ( Memento of the original from October 2, 2010 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. , accessed September 19, 2010.
- ↑ Udo Zindel and Wolfgang Rein (eds.): The radio feature . 2nd edition Konstanz: UVK, 2007. p. 59.
