Broadcasting year 1972
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1972: Start of the Saturday evening show Ein Kessel Buntes
General
- The first game console, the Magnavox Odyssey by German-American game developer Ralph Baer , appears.
- Sony launches the U-matic video tape format in Europe.
- The Japanese Panasonic Corporation brings the SL-1200 turntable onto the market under its trade name Technics , which is of paramount importance for the emerging DJ culture not only due to its technical specifications (direct drive) , but with a production period of almost 40 years (until 2010) is considered to be the longest continuously manufactured single product in the history of consumer electronics .
- February 15 - The return of the Austrian ski racer Karl Schranz from the Olympic Winter Games in Japan after his controversial exclusion due to a violation of the amateur paragraph by the IOC is staged as a triumphant ride over the Vienna Ringstrasse with a welcome from the government. Critics accuse the ORF and its leadership under Gerd Bacher of deliberately stirring up mass media hysteria in reporting on Schranz.
- April 18 - The Austrian Chancellor Bruno Kreisky proposes the establishment of a third television chain, which is to be financed and controlled by the Austrian newspaper publishers. The background to this is the dispute over the ORF law of 1966.
- May 13 - Jean-Jacques Bresson, appointed general manager of the French state television company ORTF after the May 1968 in Paris, is removed from office by Prime Minister Jacques Chaban-Delmas . Bresson is accused of bribery and surreptitious advertising.
- June 27 - Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney found Atari electronics company in California . In the course of the 1970s Atari acquired a top position in the emerging video game industry and was later able to secure a permanent place in the home computer market .
Radio
- The program Popmuseum , developed by Wolfgang Kos and moderated by Wolfgang Hübsch , can be heard for the first time on the frequencies of Ö3 .
- ORF opens the newly built state studios in Salzburg (July 21st), Linz and Innsbruck (October 6th each) and Dornbirn (October 20th) , based on the plans of Gustav Peichl .
- April 4th - The first episode of the Zeitzeichen series that deals with historical events can be heard on WDR . One of the themes of the first episode is the 1942 Leningrad blockade .
- April 11th - The comedy series I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue can be heard for the first time on the BBC radio frequencies .
- April 23rd - hr3 starts broadcasting under the slogan: "hr3 - the service wave from Frankfurt".
- April 30 - After 27 years of running, the CBS- produced radio show Arthur Godfrey Time is discontinued.
- June 27 - The Deutsche Bundespost puts the Tonstern Frankfurt into operation.
- July 1st - The German soldier broadcaster ceases operations.
- September 29th - The pirate station Radio Caroline, which broadcasts its programs from a ship off the Dutch coast, can be received again after a four-year break.
watch TV
- January - Deutsche Fernsehfunk , the state television of the GDR , changes its name to Television of the GDR .
- January 3rd - Piggy Dick is shown for the first time on ZDF .
- January 4th - The ORF broadcasts the first episode of the critical animal film series Stern's Hour , which mainly shows the physical and mental suffering of domestic animals such as cows, pigs and dogs.
- January 29th - The first episode of the Saturday evening show Ein Kessel Buntes can be seen on GDR television . In this episode, which is broadcast from the East Berlin Friedrichstadtpalast , pop stars Manuela and Frank Schöbel appear.
- February 10th - ORF television broadcasts the Vienna Opera Ball live for the first time . The show will soon be one of the most popular programs on ORF. Heinz Fischer-Karwin and Walter Richard Langer are among the first moderators to report on the society event .
- May - The 20th and final episode of the game show Wünsch Dir was with Dietmar Schönherr and Vivi Bach can be seen in Germany, Switzerland and Austria . A planned date for a 21st edition in June no longer comes about because ZDF is withdrawing as the main producer.
- May 14th - The Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR) television broadcasts the first episode of the self-produced children's series Das feuerrote Spielmobil , which serves as a replacement for Sesame Street , which was rejected by the BR .
- May 27th - ZDF is the first German-speaking company to start broadcasting the science fiction series Raumschiff Enterprise .
- June 2nd - ARD takes over the children's series Maxifant and Minifant and broadcasts them on German television .
- June 18 - The first episode of the entertainment series Outsider Front Runner can be seen on GDR television .
- August 9th - The ARD broadcasts the report Between Beijing and Shanghai by Gerd Ruge , the first film made by an ARD team in the PR China .
- August 27th - In the interview film series Personal Description by Georg Stefan Troller , ZDF broadcasts a portrait of the American cartoonist Robert Crumb under the title Robert Crumb - Comics and Hangover Ideas . The film, which also illuminates Ralph Bakshi's film Fritz the Cat , presents the artistic work of Robert Crumb for the first time to a broader German-speaking audience.
- September 3rd - The first of four parts of the children's book adaptation Robbi, Tobbi and the Fliewatüüt can be seen on ARD . It is the first German television production to be produced directly on MAZ .
- September 11th - BBC One airs the first episode of the Mastermind quiz show.
- September 14th - CBS airs the first episode of the 1930s Depression- era family series The Waltons .
- October 1st - Start of the CBC series Strandpiraten .
- October 14 - US premiere of the television series Kung Fu with David Carradine in the lead role. For the first time, a Shaolin monk, a figure completely untypical for this genre , is placed at the center of a classic western setting . The series runs extremely successfully in three seasons and triggers an ongoing martial arts boom in the West.
- November 3rd - The US animated series Superkater premieres on ARD .
- November 8 - The US television chain HBO (Home Box Office) is founded.
- November 9th - With the launch of the Anik satellite , the territories in Canada's extreme north ( North West and Nunavut ) can also be supplied with television programs for the first time.
- December 13th - ARD broadcasts the first episode of the Musikladen series produced by Radio Bremen .
- December 31st - France 3 opens.
Born
- January 13 - Nicole Eggert , American actress ( Baywatch ) is born in Glendale , California.
- April 3 - Jennie Garth , American actress ( Beverly Hills, 90210 ) is born in Urbana , Illinois.
- June 7 - Karl Urban , New Zealand actor ( Lord of the Rings trilogy ) was initially best known for soap operas such as Shortland Street .
Died
- April 24th - Rudolf Sang , German actor, director and theater director dies at the age of 72 in Wilhelmshaven .
- May 13 - Dan Blocker , American actor, dies in Los Angeles at the age of 43 . Blocker was best known for the role of Hoss Cartwright in the western series Bonanza .
- December 20 - Günter Eich , German radio play author, dies at the age of 65 in Salzburg .
See also
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 .
- TV programs from yesterday and the day before yesterday
Individual evidence
- ^ The Sapporo scandal and the ORF . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna February 16, 1972, p. 9 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
- ↑ ORTF General suddenly removed . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna May 14, 1972, p. 1 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
- ↑ Today for the first time in the 1st program: Stern's shocking animal life . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna January 4th 1972, p. 9 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
- ↑ Make a different wish. Minutes of a controversial television show . In: Der Spiegel . No. 22 , 1972 ( online ).