Broadcasting year 1968
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Other events
General
- The Japanese electronics manufacturer Sony launches its first color TVs with Trinitron tubes.
- April - climax of the "expropriated Springer" campaign. The trigger is the assassination attempt on Rudi Dutschke .
- May - Student riots last for days in Paris. The protesters' criticism is directed against the system of the Republic de Gaulle in general, but also against the ORTF's political reporting in particular . For example, one of the popular posters from May '68 shows a heavily armored riot police officer speaking into an ORTF microphone. The text underneath reads: “La police vous parle tous les soirs à 20h.” (The police speak to you every day at 8pm.)
- June 27th - After the student riots in Paris , Jean-Jacques de Bresson is appointed director of the French state broadcaster ORTF. In this role, he lets student sympathizers be ignored within the ORTF and broadcasts such as the critical news magazine Cinq colonnes à la une .
- July 18 - In Mountain View , California, former Fairchild Semiconductor employees , Gordon E. Moore and Robert Noyce found the semiconductor manufacturer Intel . The establishment of the company and the settlement of other companies active in the computer industry contributed to the fact that the suburbs of the Bay Aera south of San Francisco became known worldwide as Silicon Valley in the decades that followed.
- August - National broadcaster Nauru Broadcasting Service is founded after the island of Nauru gained independence from Australia on January 31st.
- August 22nd - During the invasion of the Czechoslovakia by the Warsaw Pact troops , the head of the Czechoslovak Radio , Jiří Pelikán , reported on a mobile television station. Again and again he directs dramatic appeals to western countries in German ( these are perhaps the last words I can speak, please help the Czechoslovak people ).
- November 27th - The German Federal Cabinet decides to ratify the so-called Pirate Broadcasting Act, which is based on an agreement between the members of the Council of Europe . Any support of radio stations operating from international waters has since become a criminal offense.
Radio
- February 16 - The WDR in Cologne begins broadcasting the 8-part radio play Paul Temple and the Alex case by Francis Durbridge, starring Paul Klinger , Margot Leonard and Kurt Lieckin (director: Otto Düben ). It is the last production in the Paul Temple series .
- February 25th - The first program of the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation Ö1 starts broadcasting in stereo .
- May 30th - At the height of the Paris student unrest and the wave of strikes in France, President Charles de Gaulle addresses the population via radio. In short, clear sentences he speaks of wanting to maintain public order, for which he has considered "all eventualities without exception" .
- July 25th - The general director of ORF , Gerd Bacher , announces the so-called " Schnulzenerlass ". This means that more international, ie English-speaking, interpreters are to be used on the Ö3 pop wave .
- August 21 - At 2 a.m. local time, Radio Prague informed the population of Czechoslovakia that the Warsaw Pact troops had marched in a few hours earlier . The spokesman urges citizens to remain calm and not resist. The security forces of the ČSSR are not instructed to defend the country.
- August 21 - With the start of the invasion, the secret broadcaster Radio Vltava , set up by the GDR , begins operations. The aim is to disorient the Czechoslovak population and discredit the reformers of the Prague Spring .
- August 21 - Due to the current reporting on the invasion of the Warsaw Pact troops into the ČSSR, Ö1 includes a morning journal in its program in addition to the noon journal, which is broadcast from 7 a.m.
watch TV
- January 18th - Premiere of the ARD magazine Kontraste - an east-west magazine produced by the SFB on German television .
- March 7th - The television film Four Hours of Elbe 1, based on the script by Helga Feddersen , has its premiere on NDR .
- April 3 - The first of three episodes, up to 1971 , of the music program Gogoscope, designed by Axel Corti , can be seen on ORF television . The program, which tries to visualize pop music and contains interspersed cabaret, sketch and documentary sequences, is also designed by architects and fashion designers.
- April 15th - The first of 22 episodes of the satirical series Eine hot quarter hour by and with Georg Kreisler and Topsy Küppers can be seen on ORF .
- June 9th - German television shows Klaus Wildenhahn's documentary In der Fremde - Observations on a construction site .
- July 31 - The French government decides to dismiss 40 percent of the editors in the public service ORTF . This measure is intended to strengthen the influence of the Gaullist government on current television reporting. The ORFT took part in the general strike in May .
- September 15th - Foundation of the State Committee for Television in the GDR.
- September 24th - CBS News airs the first issue of the critical news magazine 60 Minutes .
- October 23rd - The Mainz TV Criticism Days take place for the first time.
Born
- April 29th - Michael Herbig , German comedian, is born in Munich .
- April 30th - Verona Pooth , German entertainer and talk show host ( Peep!, 1995–2000) was born Verona Feldbusch in La Paz , Bolivia .
- May 28 - Kylie Minogue , Australian actress ( neighbors , since 1985) and singer, is born in Melbourne .
- June 1 - Jason Donovan , Australian actor ( neighbor , since 1985) and singer is born.
- Aug 9 - Gillian Anderson , American actress ( Dana Scully in The X-Files: The FBI's Scary Cases , 1993–2002) was born in Chicago , Illinois .
- October 10th - Andreas Türck , German journalist, musician, music producer and web TV producer and TV presenter was born in Giessen .
- October 11 - Jane Krakowski , American actress ( 30 Rock , 2006-2013) was born in New Jersey .
- November 10 - Tracy Morgan , American comedian and actor ( 30 rock , 2006–2013) is born in New York City .
- November 11th - Robert Palfrader , Austrian actor and cabaret artist ( Wir sind Kaiser ) is born in Vienna .
Died
- March 7th - Werner Lieven , German actor, radio play and voice actor, dies at the age of 58 in Munich . He became known, among other things, as one of the leading actors in the classic television film Amgrün Strand der Spree and as the dubbing voice of James Cagney in the feature film One, Two, Three .
- March 21 - Erwin Linder , German actor, radio play and voice actor dies at the age of 64 during a recreational stay in Westerland / Sylt . He became known, among other things, as the title hero of the radio play Gestatten, my name is Cox and through the six-part television play Das Halstuch .
- July 4th - Aline Bußmann , German actress, radio play speaker and publicist dies at the age of 79 in her native Hamburg . She played for decades at the Hamburg Ohnsorg Theater and, as a publicist, brought out the estate of the writer Gorch Fock .
literature
- Jürgen Wilke : Media history of the Federal Republic of Germany . Bonn 1999.
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 June 2, 2016 ; accessed on June 2, 2016 .
- TV programs from yesterday and the day before yesterday
Individual evidence
- ↑ La Police vous parle
- ↑ TV reporter who spoke in the dramatic Brno appeal in Vienna , Arbeiter-Zeitung , August 25, 1968, page 1, accessed on September 12, 2010
- ↑ Four hours before Elbe 1 ( Memento of the original dated December 31, 2015 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.
- ↑ Christian Höller: Reacting to the need. The ORF and its youth programs in the Pop Decade from 1967 to 1977 . In: Sylvia Szely (ed.): Games and Realities. Around 50 years of television drama and television films in Austria . Filmarchiv Austria Verlag, Vienna 2005, page 206
- ^ A hot quarter of an hour Georg Kreisler discussion forum, accessed on July 21, 2009.
- ^ Paris: Muzzle for radio, TV , Arbeiter-Zeitung , August 1, 1968, page 1, accessed on September 12, 2010.
