Broadcasting year 1970

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1970: Walter Richter plays the main character in the first Tatort episode

General

AEG -Telefunken introduces the optical disc . Due to its high sensitivity and short playing time of just 10 minutes, the system disappeared from the market in the mid-1970s.
September 7th - The news magazine profil , founded by Oscar Bronner , appears in Vienna for the first time.

Radio

The satirical alpine interviews by cabaret artist and folk actor Otto Grünmandl can be heard for the first time on Ö3 .

The BBC opens a number of local radio stations in Bristol , London , Oxford and Birmingham .

January 1st - SWF1 begins broadcasting the youth and music series Pop Shop .

July 11th - Start of the American Top 40 hit parade moderated by Casey Kasem .

watch TV

Jan 3 - Jon Pertwee first appeared as the time traveler "Doctor" on the BBC series Doctor Who . Pertwee is the third actor in this role after William Hartnell and Patrick Troughton .

January 4th - local time , the forerunner of the ZDF foreign journal celebrates its premiere on television.
January 5th - Start of the ABC series All My Children .

February 23 - The US cartoon series Die Jetsons starts on the regional programs of ARD .

April 16 - 47th and last edition of the show forget-me-not in favor of the problem child campaign on ZDF with Peter Frankenfeld .

April - The Turkish TV broadcaster TRT starts operations in full. These are the first television programs to be made available to a wider audience in Turkey, as television sets are often barely affordable luxury items. Even metropolitan areas like İzmir and Istanbul remained unsupervised until well into the 1970s.

May 14th - The first German television station cancels the broadcast of the television game Bambule by Ulrike Meinhof , scheduled for May 24th , because of the participation of its author in the liberation of Baader .

July 31st - Start of the US series Twen-Police in the joint program of ARD (German television).

August 10 - ZDF takes over the US cartoon series Mein Name ist Hase ( The Bugs Bunny Show ).

September 19 - The first episode of the critical sitcom Mary Tyler Moore airs on CBS .

October 5th - Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) starts broadcasting.

October 18th - The television film Das Millionenspiel is broadcast on German television. This pseudo-documentary production about a manhunt show is used by some viewers as an opportunity to register by telephone as a candidate in the role of the hunted or as a hunter.

November 27th - ZDF takes over the series from Canada, Adventure in the Rainbow .

November 29th - Start of the ARD crime series Tatort on German television. Walter Richter can be seen as Chief Inspector Paul Trimmel in the first episode , produced by NDR , entitled Taxi to Leipzig .

Born

January 31 - Minnie Driver , British actress ( The Riches ) is born in London .
February 18 - Björn Casapietra , German tenor, actor and TV presenter is born in Genoa .
February 21 - Svea Timander , German actress, is born in Berlin .
March 9th - Hilmi Sözer , German-Turkish comedian and actor, is born near Ankara .
April 18 - Esther Schweins , German comedian ( RTL Saturday Night ) and actress, is born in Oberhausen .
May 18 - Tina Fey , American actress and writer ( 30 Rock , 2006-2013) was born in Upper Darby Township , Pennsylvania .
May 25th - Fred Schreiber , Austrian radio and television presenter, is born in Munich .
June 25th - Sven Stricker , German radio play director , is born in Tönning .
July 23 - Thea Dorn , German writer and television presenter ( Schümer and Dorn ) is born in Offenbach am Main .
July 23 - Charisma Carpenter , American actress ( Baywatch , 1989–2001) was born in Las Vegas .
July 27th - Birgitta Weizenegger , German actress ( Lindenstrasse ) is born in Oberstaufen .
August 9th - Mirjam Unger , Austrian television and radio presenter, is born in Klosterneuburg .
August 25th - Matthias Opdenhövel , German television presenter, is born in Detmold .
October 12 - Kirk Cameron , American actor ( Our Noisy Home ) is born in California.
October 19 - Chris Kattan , American comedian, is born in Los Angeles .
November 4th - Steven Merting , German actor, is born in Gotha .
November 7 - Morgan Spurlock , American director and actor, is born in West Virginia .
November 13th - Rebecca Immanuel , German actress, is born in Oberhausen .
November 18 - Anna Loos , German actress and singer, is born in Brandenburg an der Havel .
December 15 - Michael Shanks , Canadian actor ( Stargate - Kommando SG-1 ) is born in Vancouver .

Died

January 19 - Albert Mähl , German writer and radio play author, dies in Hamburg at the age of 76 .
January 20 - Hartwig Sievers , German actor, theater director and radio play speaker dies at the age of 67 in Hamburg. From 1933 until the end of his life he was part of the ensemble of the Hamburg Ohnsorg Theater .
March 10th - Fritz Benscher , German actor and quiz master (including tick-tack quiz ) dies at the age of 65 in Munich .
March 25th - Hans Mahler , German actor, radio play speaker, theater director and director, dies in Hamburg at the age of 69 . He was best known for the numerous television broadcasts from the Hamburg Ohnsorg Theater.
April 30th - Inger Stevens , Swedish-American actress ( Twilight Zone , 1960) dies in Hollywood at the age of 35 .
September 29 - Edward Everett Horton , American actor, dies in Encino at the age of 84 .

Web links

Gijsbert Hinnen: International radio and television chronicle. In: rfcb.ch. Archived from the original on June 2, 2016 ; accessed on June 2, 2016 .
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