Broadcasting year 1977
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General
- April - Apple launches the Apple II, one of the world's first microcomputers . In the same year, the Commodore company presented the PET 2001 as a competing product at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas .
- July 13 - An hour-long power outage in parts of New York state and New York City caused by lightning strikes riot and pillage. Brooklyn boroughs like Crown Heights and Bushwick are hardest hit .
- August 16-September 4 - On the Berlin Radio Exhibition is supported by ARD and ZDF , the " teletext demonstrated" process.
Radio
- February 15 - ARD opens a correspondent's office in Beijing .
- March 12th - In Italy, the autonomous radio station Radio Alice is shut down by the communist mayor of Bologna Renato Zangheri for “incitement to violence” and “ringleadership” .
- June 13th - The weekday caller broadcast starts on Ö1 from day to day . In the series, also known as the Ö1 Tagebuch , which initially goes on air in the mornings, but changes to a program slot in the early afternoon (until it was discontinued in 2017) in the same year, guests are invited to various, often current, topics listeners can ask questions. In the first program, moderated by Volkmar Parschalk , the writer Manès Sperber is a guest.
- October 9th - The Austrian radio broadcaster Ö1 broadcasts the simultaneous stereo sound for the first ORF stereo concert on television.
- October 15th - Start of the Ö1 feature series Hörbilder with the feature Zeltweg designed by Alfredreiber and Richard Goll - acoustic portrait of a spectacle .
watch TV
- January 1st - The comedy show for children Babbelgamm - Laugh and Lies with Peter Rapp premieres on ZDF.
- January 2nd - The English series Sklaven can be seen on German television .
- January 4th - The 6-part series Der Junge mit den Goldhosen is broadcast on German television.
- January 7th - The first episode of the Zur See entertainment series is broadcast on DDR1 . She is a model for the ZDF-produced series Das Traumschiff .
- January 15th - First broadcast of the game show " Auf Los geht es geht los" , hosted by Joachim Fuchsberger .
- February 1 - The Italian RAI begins broadcasting color television programs.
- February 6th - The game show Games without Winners is broadcast by NDR . The moderator is Christoph Riemer .
- March 4th - ZDF takes over the sports studio for young people, Pfiff .
- March 10th - Toma can be seen for the first time in German television for the first time .
- March 20 - The mystery series A Man Came in August can be seen on ZDF.
- March 27th - Nastassja Kinski can be seen in the Tatort episode Das Reifezeugnis .
- April 1st - The girls from space can be seen for the first time in the ARD regional program of the WDR .
- April 16 - The US series Mein Freund Taffdi can be seen for the first time on ZDF.
- April 17th - Animals in front of the camera is broadcast by German television.
- April 30th - ZDF takes over the German crime series Peter Voss - Der Millionendieb for the first time .
- July 10th - The US adventure series Spencer's Pilots can be seen for the first time on German television .
- July 23rd - The WDR broadcasts the first Rockpalast Nacht .
- August 7th - The science fiction series Mondbasis Alpha 1 can be seen on ZDF.
- September 5th - beginning of the German autumn : a few hours after the kidnapping of Hanns Martin Schleyer by terrorists of the Red Army parliamentary group , Chancellor Helmut Schmidt addresses the kidnappers directly via television: At this moment they may feel a triumphant feeling of power. But don't be mistaken. Terrorism has no chance in the long run, because not only the will of the state organs stands against terrorism, but the will of the entire people stands against terrorism.
- October 1 - The BR broadcasts the first episode of the police inspection 1 entertainment series .
- October 15 - German television broadcasts a video sequence of Hanns Martin Schleyer's recorded by his kidnappers three days before his body is found .
- November 6th - The last episode of the ZDF program hosted by Ernst Stankovski Do you recognize the melody? is broadcast.
- November 8th - During the broadcast of the television film Die Konsequenz , which was directed by Wolfgang Petersen , the BR switched itself off from the joint ARD program. The film deals with the problems of a same-sex couple.
- November 30th - The ORF broadcasts the piece of music, Die Staatsoperette, composed for television by Otto M. Zykan . The controversial piece reinterprets the previous “official” view of Austrian history in the interwar period .
- December 3 - ZDF shows an episode of the Muppet Show for the first time . The guest star of the first edition is the actress Rita Moreno .
- December 3rd - Under the title Anarchy in 4/4 time - punk notes instead of banknotes , a detailed documentary designed by Andreas Friesz about punk rock emerging in London can be seen in the ORF youth series Without Muzzle . The film, with numerous interviews and rare concert recordings by bands such as X-Ray Spex or Alternative TV, makes punk familiar to a wider audience in Austria.
- December 10th - The first episode of the children's game show 1, 2 or 3 moderated by Michael Schanze can be seen on ZDF and ORF .
Born
- January 24th - Michelle Hunziker , presenter of the second season of Germany is looking for the superstar , singer and model is born in Sorengo in the Italian-speaking part of Switzerland .
- March 23 - Wayne Carpendale , German actor, starring in the role of Dr. Bergmann in the ZDF series Der Landarzt , was born in Cologne .
- May 16 - Melanie Lynskey , New Zealand actress ( Rose in Two and a Half Men , 2003-2007) was born in New Plymouth , New Zealand .
- July 30 - Jaime Pressly , American actress ( My Name Is Earl ) is born in North Carolina , USA .
- October 20 - Rebecca Siemoneit-Barum , German actress ( Iphigenie Beimer in the WDR series Lindenstrasse ) is born in Ulm .
Died
- January 23 - Otto Lüthje , German actor, dies in Hamburg at the age of 74 . He was best known for the numerous television broadcasts from the Hamburg Ohnsorg Theater .
- July 21 - Henry Vahl , German actor, known for the Ohnsorg Theater , dies in Hamburg at the age of 79 .
- August 5th - Gerhard Just , German actor, dies in Tübingen at the age of 73 . He appeared in well over 100 radio plays.
- August 19 - Groucho Marx , American actor, member of the comedy troupe Marx Brothers , dies in Los Angeles at the age of 86 . Between 1947 and 1961 he moderated the extremely popular quiz show You Bet Your Life, which was first broadcast on the radio and later on television .
- October 4th - Alfred Pongratz , German actor dies at the age of 77 in Munich .
- October 14 - Bing Crosby , American actor and radio presenter, dies in Madrid at the age of 74 .
- December 22nd - Ernst Waldbrunn , Austrian actor and cabaret artist dies in Vienna at the age of 70. Waldbrunn became known to a broad public in Austria during the 1960s through numerous appearances in Simpl programs recorded for television .
- December 31st - Hans Rothe , German writer, dramaturge, author of numerous radio plays and translator of the works of William Shakespeare dies at the age of 83 in Florence .
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 December 27, 2016 ; accessed on December 27, 2016 .
- TV programs from yesterday and the day before yesterday
Individual evidence
- ^ "Chronik Deutscher Herbst" , in: Frankfurter Rundschau (online edition), accessed on April 2, 2009.
- ↑ 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 publishing house, Vienna 2005, page 217