Broadcasting year 1978
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Other events
General
- In West Germany , the first to be Betamaxrekorder for consumer sale. The cassettes of the video system developed by Sony are significantly smaller than the VHS system from the Japanese JVC, which is already on the German market . They also offer a significantly better picture quality than VHS, but initially have much shorter playing times. The Sony SL-8000 , the first beta max recorder available in Germany, weighs almost 20 kilograms. It does not have a picture search or freeze frame function , but it does have an analog tape counter.
- Silvio Berlusconi acquires the local private broadcaster Telemilano , which was founded in 1972, and thus increasingly shifts its business activities from the real estate business to the media business.
- February 14th - The Federal Constitutional Court decides that advertising for political parties in the electronic media may violate the constitution , but not affect criminal law .
- September - The first issue of the computer magazine Chip appears in Germany .
- September 28 - In Vienna , the ORF board of trustees elects Gerd Bacher to succeed Otto Oberhammer as ORF Generalintdaten. In a press conference the day after his election, Bacher explains that he wants to prepare the ORF for the coming competition of "new media such as home electronics, cable and satellite ".
- October 4th - The first issue of the popular science magazine PM ( Peter Moosleitner's interesting magazine ) appears.
Radio
- On RIAS you can hear the last episode of the weekly radio broadcast Where our shoe pinches, founded by Ernst Reuter .
- March 8 - BBC Radio 4 begins broadcasting the radio play version of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy .
- July 12th - The Ö3 program Die Musicbox broadcasts an edition designed by Wolfgang Kos and Joachim Riedl under the title Rock Music and Fascism . The trigger is the interest in Hitler's biography , published in 1973 by Joachim Fest , in the time of National Socialism , but above all the (conscious) play of the early punk movement in England with taboo topics such as fascism and the Holocaust. Musicians such as David Bowie , Jean-Jacques Burnel from The Stranglers and Bob Geldof from the Boomtown Rats , who have recorded a (satirical) song with the title I never loved Eva Braun , have a detailed say .
- August 30th - The Swiss Radio DRS starts broadcasting parts of its program in stereo .
- October - The first episode of the Sunday cabaret show Der Guglhupf can be heard on Ö1 . It ties in with the tradition of Der Watschenmann .
- November 23rd - The Geneva Wave Plan , an international agreement regulating medium and long wave frequencies , comes into force.
watch TV
1978: German-language series production of Starsky & Hutch begins
- January - The US series Roots can be seen on German television . It describes the chronicle of an Afro-American family beginning with their deportation by slave traders from West Africa to North America in the middle of the 18th century up to the time of the Civil War .
- January 1st - The television offer of the Bavarian Radio is expanded to a full program .
- January 11th - Starsky & Hutch starts series production on German television.
- January 14th - The BR broadcasts the first episode of its film magazine Kino Kino .
- January 14th - The Muppet Show premieres on Austrian television.
- February 9th - The first edition of the talk show Bio’s Bahnhof with Alfred Biolek can be seen on German television .
- March 26 - In the ZDF is the first of 13 parts of the Hans-Fallada film version A man wants up to see.
- April 2nd - The first episode of the Dallas soap opera is aired on CBS .
- May - The first episode of the early evening series Westerns from yesterday can be seen on ZDF.
- May 1st - The theater version of Die Pariser Kommune by the Austrian agit-prop band Butterflies , made for the Wiener Festwochen 1976 , can be seen on FS2 , ORF's second television program . It is the fourth part of the broad political oratorio Proletenpassion, written by Heinz Rudolf Unger .
- June 21 - During the commentary on the Germany-Austria game of the World Cup in Argentina, the Austrian sports commentator Edi Finger coined the legendary exclamation I wer 'narrisch! .
- September 12 - The comedy series Taxi premieres on US television. Among others, the New York comedian Andy Kaufman can be seen as Latka Gravas , a role based on his stage character The Foreign Man . The cast also includes Danny DeVito and Christopher Lloyd , who later became movie stars of the 1980s.
- September 30th - Start of the 26-part English adventure series Five Friends after Enid Blyton on ZDF.
- December 8th - The first part of the ZDF four-part adventure series Die Abenteuer des David Balfour premieres.
- December 12th - In the ORF youth series Without Muzzle , an 80-minute special about the US musician Patti Smith's stay in Vienna can be seen.
- December 24th - The charity gala Licht ins Dunkel can be seen for the first time on FS 2 .
Born
- January 1st - Nina Bott , German actress ( Alles was geht ) was born in Hamburg .
- February 7 - Ashton Kutcher , American actor ( Michael Kelso in The Roaring Seventies , Walden Smith in Two and a Half Men , since 2011) is born in Cedar Rapids , Iowa .
- February 18 - Oliver Pocher , German comedian, actor (complete idiot ) and television presenter ( Rent a Pocher , Schmidt & Pocher ) is born in Hanover .
- March 6th - Thomas Godoj , German-Polish singer, songwriter and 2008 winner of the 5th season of Deutschland sucht den Superstar is born in Rybnik , Poland .
- March 18 - Charlotte Roche , German TV presenter and writer, is born in High Wycombe , UK .
- March 28 - Nafisa Joseph , Indian model, actress and V-Jane at MTV India is born in Bangalore , Karnataka state († 2004).
- April 13 - Kyle Howard , American actor ( Nothing out of Orange County ) is born in Loveland , Colorado .
- June 2 - Nikki Cox , American actress ( Tiffany Maloy in To Worse And Forever ) is born in Los Angeles .
- June 10 - Shane West , American actor ( Resident Ray Barnett in Emergency Room , 1994–2009) was born in Baton Rouge , Louisiana .
- July 11th - Charlotte Engelhardt , German presenter, was born in Oslo , Norway .
- August 13th - Moritz A. Sachs , German actor ( Klaus Beimer in the WDR series Lindenstrasse ) is born in Cologne .
- November 20 - Nadine Velazquez , American actress of Puerto Rican origin, is born in Chicago .
- December 18 - Katie Holmes , US actress ( Dawson's Creek ) is born in Toledo , Ohio .
Died
- June 22nd - Heinz-Günter Stamm , German actor, radio play and theater director dies at the age of 70 in Munich .
- August 11th - Heinz Lanker , German actor, dies in Hamburg at the age of 62 . He was best known for the numerous television broadcasts from the Hamburg Ohnsorg Theater .
- September 21 - Peter Vogel , German actor (first actor of the character of Major Adolf Kottan determined in Kottan ) dies at the age of 41 in Vienna .
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
- ^ “The Sony SL-8000” , Betamax-video.de , accessed on March 22, 2009.
- ↑ “Our Hörfunktip” , Arbeiter-Zeitung , July 12, 1978, accessed on March 22, 2009
- ↑ Proletenpassion: When the workers in Paris had Arbeiter-Zeitung, April 30, 1978, accessed on February 14, 2010