Broadcasting year 1979
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1979: The Sony TPS-L2, the world's first Walkman , is launched
General
- In Greece is color television introduced initially by the French SECAM method. In the 1990s there was a change to the German PAL system.
- The US electronics manufacturer Atari is launching the Atari 400, its first home computer .
- With the TPS-L2, Sony presents its first Walkman to the public. The small, battery-powered compact cassette nabspielgeräte find quickly spread and soon from the youth culture hardly imagine. Shortly afterwards, other manufacturers also offer similar products. In quick succession, Sony keeps bringing improved models onto the market, writing not only technology but also design history .
- Grundig and Philips bring the Video 2000 video format onto the market. The cassettes, which have similar dimensions to the competitor's VHS system, can be recorded on both sides and thus offer a recording time of up to 8 hours. However, Video 2000 cannot prevail against Betamax or VHS, which at that time had already gained too much market share.
- The Japanese Panasonic Corporation applies for a patent on an LC screen .
- The Islamic Revolution in Iran and the return of Khomeini from exile were prepared in the months before, among other things, by means of thousands of audio cassettes with speeches by the Shiite religious leader that were smuggled into the country. This made it possible to bypass the mass media controlled by the state censorship authority.
- 3rd / 4th July - Lower Saxony joins the termination of the NDR State Treaty by Schleswig-Holstein.
- September 22nd - The federal government stops the cabling planned by the Bundespost in eleven major German cities.
Radio
- After twelve years at the helm of the Austrian pop broadcaster Ö3 , Ernst Grissemann will be replaced by Rudolf Klausnitzer .
- February 18 - Deutschlandfunk starts operations from the newly built broadcasting center in Cologne-Bayenthal .
- April 16 - The first issue of the magazine program Diagonal goes over the air as an "acoustic holiday supplement" on Ö1. The theme is the " Orwell Year " 1984.
- July - Iran radio stops broadcasting pop music for religious reasons after the Islamic Revolution .
- July 16 - The Radio Holiday series is launched on Ö3 .
- August 23rd - Blue Danube Radio starts broadcasting in Vienna. The station, which initially appeared under the name Ö3 International, broadcasts in English and was launched on the occasion of the opening of the UNO-City in Vienna .
- September 9th - ARD correspondent Eberhard Piltz from BR is expelled from Iran for allegedly false and unfair reporting.
- November 5 - The American network National Public Radio airs its morning program Morning Edition for the first time .
- November 28th - Using a powerful VHF transmitter on the 2,948 meter high Pizzo Groppera on the Italian-Swiss border, Radio 24 can be received well as a pirate station as far as the Zurich region.
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1979: A Club 2 appearance by Nina Hagen causes a television scandal in Austria
- The fictional character Dame Edna Everage by the Australian comedian Barry Humphries appears for the first time in the mockumentary La Dame aux Gladiolas .
- In Greece , the state-owned Elliniki Radiofonia Tileorasi (ERT) is introducing color television based on the French SECAM process.
- For the first time, Robert Hochner moderates ZIB 2 , the late edition of the news program Zeit im Bild . Until his untimely death in 2001, Robert Hochner was the most influential moderator for the news format that was still very young in Austria at the time.
- January 7th - German television broadcasts in front of the Tagesschau and Sportschau Wir über uns .
- January 15 - FS 2 of the ORF begins with the broadcast of 26 episodes of the Canadian production The Adventures of Swiss Family Robinson .
- January 22nd to 27th - ARD broadcasts the four-part television series Holocaust - The History of the Weiss Family in its third programs , which is followed by up to fifteen million people.
- March 31 - On the occasion of the 24th Jerusalem Grand Prix , color television based on the PAL standard is officially introduced in New Zealand .
- March 31 - After the unexpected death of Peter Frankenfeld in January, Harald Juhnke moderates an edition of the ZDF - ORF co-production Musik ist Trumpf .
- June 10 - At the ZDF is the English series Thriller first seen.
- June 16 - The annual ZDF holiday program for children and young people can be seen for the first time.
- June 30th - The first episode of the satirical series Fast wia in real life with Gerhard Polt and Gisela Schneeberger can be seen on Bavarian television .
- July 9th - The English series Die Reise von Charles Darwin begins in German television for the first time .
- August 9th - During a live broadcast of the ORF discussion program Club 2 with host Dieter Seefranz on the subject of what's wrong with youth culture? Nina Hagen simulates female masturbation techniques , which leads to weeks of discussions in Austria.
- August 10 - British commercial broadcaster ITV is hit by an eleven week technician strike.
- August 25 - The crime series Hart to Hart airs for the first time on ABC.
- August 27th - The iron Gustav can be seen in German television for the first time.
- September 20th - The historic youth series The Skimmed Milk Gang can be seen for the first time on German television.
- November 19 - ZDF takes over the Canadian crime series Police Doctor Simon Lark for the first time .
- December 15th - Rai Tre, the third public broadcaster in Italy, begins broadcasting .
- December 27th - The first episode of the children's series Hallo Spencer can be seen on the television programs of NDR , Radio Bremen and the SFB .
- December 31st - The 51st and last episode of the quiz program Amlauf Band with Rudi Carrell can be seen in the joint program of ARD (German TV) .
Born
- January 29th - Sarah Kuttner , German TV presenter, is born in East Berlin .
- February 21 - Jennifer Love Hewitt , American actress, is born in Waco , Texas . She is best known for the role of Sarah Reeves in the youth series Party of Five .
- March 19 - Christoph Kornschober , Austrian actor, is born in Graz . Kornschober became known throughout Austria in 2000 for the first season of the Taxi Orange reality show .
- March 26th - Manuel Rubey , Austrian singer and actor ( Aufschneider , 2010, Braunschlag , 2012) was born in Vienna .
- April 9 - Keshia Knight Pulliam , American actress ( Rudy , youngest daughter of the Huxtables on The Bill Cosby Show ) is born in Newark , New Jersey .
- June 2 - Morena Baccarin , American actress, is born in Rio de Janeiro .
- September 27th - Simone Reuthal , German radio and television presenter, is born in Hanau .
Died
- January 4th - Peter Frankenfeld , German entertainer dies at the age of 65 in Hamburg .
- January 16 - Ted Cassidy , American actor, dies in Los Angeles at the age of 46 . Cassedy was best known for the role of Lurch in the Addams Family .
- January 29th - René Deltgen , Luxembourg actor dies at the age of 69 in Cologne . In addition to his numerous film and television roles, he was best known for the title role in the multi-part radio drama about the English detective Paul Temple by Francis Durbridge .
- February 21 - Leopold Hainisch , Austrian actor and director dies at the age of 87 in Hamburg. From 1937 to 1939 Hainisch was senior director of the television station Paul Nipkow .
- February 24th - Hans Pössenbacher , German actor and busy radio announcer, dies in Munich at the age of 83
- May 29 - Gerhard Freund , Austrian actor and journalist, TV director of ORF until 1967, dies at the age of 53 in Vienna.
- July 18 - Herbert Hennies , German actor, radio play speaker, writer and songwriter dies on his 79th birthday in Altötting . He was best known for the role of the servant Charlie in nine of the twelve multi-part Paul Temple radio plays of the NWDR and WDR .
- July 25th - Eric Pohlmann , Austrian-British actor dies at the age of 66 in Bad Reichenhall . Among other things, he was a spokesman for the German-speaking service of the BBC and, in addition to his appearances in theater and film, has also appeared in numerous, mainly British and German television films and series.
- October 6th - Tatjana Iwanow , German actress and singer dies at the age of 54 in Hamburg . (* 1925)
- October 27 - Charles Coughlin , American Catholic priest and radio preacher of Irish descent, dies at the age of 88 in Birmingham , Michigan. In the 1930s he gained national fame for his sermons with anti-Semitic undertones in the United States .
See also
Web links
- 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