Broadcasting year 1966

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1966: Udo Jürgens (pictured with last year's winner France Gall) wins the Eurovision Song Contest for Austria with Merci Cherie

General

Beginning of the Cultural Revolution in the People's Republic of China .
January 25th - In Hamburg , the Golden Camera television prize is awarded for the first time . Among the award-winning television professionals are Inge Meysel , Hans-Joachim Kulenkampff and Georg Stefan Troller .

March 4th - John Lennon's claim in an interview with the London daily Evening Standard that the Beatles were "more popular than Jesus" led to protests against the mushroom heads, including calls for boycotts and public record burnings , especially in the USA .

July 8th - The Austrian National Council passes the Broadcasting Act.

Radio

February 25 - The WDR in Cologne begins broadcasting the 6-part radio play Paul Temple and the Geneva case by Francis Durbridge with René Deltgen , Irmgard Först and Paul Klingerin as the leading roles (directed by Otto Düben ).

May 3rd - The pirate station Swinging Radio England goes into operation.
May 7th - Passiert - notiert , the long-standing, renowned Zeitfunk magazine on hr1 , is broadcast for the first time.

watch TV

January 3 - ARD and ZDF begin broadcasting their joint morning program .
January 12 - US premiere of the Batman series .
January 15th - Start of the new edition of the entertainment program Zum Blauen Bock with Heinz Schenk on German television .
February 7th - The Italian RAI sets up the Bolzano station .
February 23 - With the start of ERT AE ( Elliniki Radiophonia Tileorassi ) Greece receives its first regular television program.
April 26th - The Brazilian television network Rede Globo goes on air for the first time.
July 1 - The US cartoon series Flintstones ( The Flintstones ) premieres on German television .
September 5th - The goal wall of the ZDF program das current sportstudio is inaugurated.
September 8th - On NBC , the first little noticed edition of the later extremely successful science fiction series Raumschiff Enterprise can be seen. The 79-part production, based on the idea of Gene Roddenberry , has to get by on a low budget and is therefore often dependent on sets already used in other films. It was not until the re-broadcast in the 1970s that it became cult .
September 17th - The first episode of the science fiction series Raumpatrouille can be seen on German television .

Born

Mischa Zickler , Austrian television director and television producer is born.
February 9th - Christoph Maria Herbst , German actor ( Bernd Stromberg in the ProSieben comedy series Stromberg ) is born in Wuppertal .
February 19 - Justine Bateman , American actress ( Mallory Keaton in family ties , 1982–1989) was born in New York State .
March 18 - Anne Will , German television journalist, is born in Cologne .
April 19 - Oliver Welke , German author, comedian ( 7 days, 7 heads , 2002–2005) and sports presenter ( ran , 1997–2003 & from 2009) was born in Bielefeld .
May 17th - Christoph Grissemann , Austrian radio ( Salon Helga ) and television presenter ( Willkommen Austria ) is born in Innsbruck .
May 23 - Claudia Christina , German pop singer and presenter of the NDR ( Freut dich des Nordens ) was born Claudia Christina Fruchticht in Elmshorn († 2005).
August 19 - Armin Wolf , Austrian television journalist, is born in Innsbruck .
August 25th - Sandra Maischberger , German journalist and TV presenter, was born in Munich .
October 20 - Stefan Raab , German entertainer, was born in Cologne .
December 21 - Kiefer Sutherland , Canadian actor, born in London .

Died

August 3 - Lenny Bruce , American comedian, dies in Los Angeles at the age of 40 .
December 15 - Walt Disney , American media entrepreneur, dies in Burbank , California at the age of 65 .
December 16 - Herbert Zimmermann , German sports commentator ( Wunder von Bern ) dies at the age of 49 in Hamburg .
December 26 - Kim Peacock , British actor, radio play speaker and screenwriter, dies at the age of 65 in Emsworth , Hampshire ( England ). Among other things, he spoke the title role in 10 radio plays about the detective Paul Temple at the BBC .

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 .
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