Broadcasting year 1975

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1975: The ORF center designed by Roland Rainer on the Küniglberg is completely ready for occupancy after six years of construction

General

The ORF takes its new headquarters on Küniglberg in Vienna's 13th district, designed according to plans by the architect Roland Rainer , into full operation.

January 1 - The previous French public broadcaster, the Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française (ORTF), is replaced by the broadcasting networks Radio France , TF1 , Antenne 2 and FR3 .

January 6th - The INA (Institut national de l'audiovisuel) is set up in France with the task of collecting and recording records of radio and television programs broadcast in France , in a similar way to the Bibliothèque nationale de France to archive.

April 4 - In Albuquerque , New Mexico , college dropouts Bill Gates and Paul Allen found the software company Microsoft .

May - Austria's first cable television network goes into operation in Vöcklabruck ( Upper Austria ) . First of all, the two television programs of ORF (FS1 and FS2) as well as the programs of ARD , ZDF and BR are fed in.

April 10th - ARD and ZDF open correspondent offices in East Berlin .

July 5th - ORF opens a studio in Bolzano .

November - The first Betamax recorders hit the US market.

Radio

January 1st - The third broadcasting network of Südwestfunk , SWF3 , is converted into a pop wave.

September 29 - In the wake of the Portuguese Carnation Revolution , the government occupies all radio stations.

December 14th - With the Beatles classic Help! The first episode of the consumer protection magazine Help - Das Konsumentenmagazin über den Äther - goes on Ö3 as a concise signature .

watch TV

1975: A true-to-original version of Casablanca (1942) can be seen for the first time on German-language television

The first issue of the movie magazine Trailer is running on ORF television . In particular, the optically and acoustically catchy signature using a theme by Moondog ensures lasting memories for many viewers.

Start of color television in Australia according to the PAL standard and in the CSSR according to the SECAM process.

January 9th - The ARD business magazine Plusminus premieres on German television .

January 18 - ZDF takes over Larry's Showtime

February 3 - The ORF broadcasts a moderated news magazine for the first time in the late evening. This initially has no name, only four years later, when the broadcast slot was fixed at 9:50 p.m., the program was given a name: ten to ten . The first moderator is Günther Ziesel , but later Dieter Seefranz , Josef Broukal , Ursula Stenzel and, above all, Robert Hochner are also used.

February 22nd - The program Musik ist Trumpf starts with Peter Frankenfeld on ZDF .

March 29th - Start of the humorous series Nonstop Nonsens with Dieter Hallervorden in the first program.

April 1st - start of the ORF children's series Am dam des . The approximately half-hour program is broadcast on weekdays in the afternoon program and is aimed primarily at children of primary school age.

June 8th - Under the title The Salt of the Earth , ORF broadcasts the first of a total of 24 episodes of the series A real Viennese does not go under from until 1979 . The series written by Ernst Hinterberger, which describes the everyday life of a Viennese family from the working class, has been criticized by conservative television audiences for its numerous fecal expressions , but is still enjoying unbroken popularity in Austria in terms of repetitions and DVD releases.

June 12th - Start of the German television series Resolved and announced .

July 12th - ZDF broadcasts the first episode of the British series Das Haus am Eaton Place on German-language television.

July 23 - Start of the puppet series 1000 and a mile .

September 19 - BBC Two features the first episode of Fawlty Towers , a comedy series written by John Cleese and Connie Booth .

October 1st - The Thrilla boxing match in Manila between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier is broadcast worldwide by satellite.

October 4th - ZDF broadcasts the benefit entertainment show Treffpunkt Herz presented by Peter Alexander from the Cologne sports hall .

October 5th - The cult film Casablanca (1942) by Michael Curtiz can be seen for the first time in a true-to-original, complete German dubbed version on German television. The previous version, which had been circulating on the German cinema and television market since the 1950s, had concealed all (sensitive for the German audience) historical content such as the Second World War, the Nazis and Jewish refugees through massive censorship intervention .

October 11 - US comedian Andy Kaufman made his first television appearance on Saturday Night Live , mute lips to the Mighty Mouse theme song .

October 19 - ZDF takes over Kim & Co. for the first time .

December 21st - ZDF shows the first part of the four-part adventure series Lockruf des Goldes , which was largely made in Romania , based on a literary model by Jack London . In contrast to earlier productions, this one is received less positively by the public and the press.

Born

January 27th - Benjamin von Stuckrad-Barre , German writer, radio and television presenter, was born in Bremen .
January 29 - Sara Gilbert , American actress ( Darlene Conner in Roseanne ) is born in Santa Monica .
February 24th - Mareike Fell , German actress, was born in Dresden.
March 15 - Eva Longoria Parker , American actress ( Desperate Housewives ) is born in Corpus Christi, Texas .
April 6 - Zach Braff , American actor ( Scrubs ) is born in South Orange , New Jersey .
May 27 - Jamie Oliver , British TV chef ( The Naked Chef ) is born in Essex .
September 22nd - Christian Ulmen , German television presenter ( Unter Ulmen ) and actor is born in Neuwied .

Died

January 27th - Heinz Klevenow , German actor and one of the busiest radio play speakers of the post-war period, dies in Hamburg at the age of 66

May 17th - SO Wagner , German actor, author, radio play speaker, radio play and theater director dies at the age of 72 in Hamburg . As a radio play director he staged the third season of the series Gestatten, my name is Cox - Murder on luggage ticket 3311 for NDR .

December 15 - Karl Pündter , German actor, director, radio play speaker and after 1945 head of the school radio department at NWDR in Hamburg dies at the age of 92 in Hamburg.