Broadcasting year 1982
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Other events
1982: The C64 in the "bread box" case goes on sale
General
- The first CD players go on sale. The world's first industrially pressed CD release is the last studio album by ABBA ( The Visitors ). One of the first CD players available in Western Europe is the Sony CDP-101 , which is sold for around DM 2,300 .
 - Sony introduces the professional Betacam system, which works with cassettes that have the same dimensions as the Betamax developed for the home video market , but are not compatible with it because they are based on a different recording system. Betacam and its successors, which are summarized under the term Sony half-inch , still dominate most of the professional VTR market to this day.
 - Eutelsat is set up as a supranational organization for the distribution of satellite television . In the same year, the test satellite OTS (Orbital Test Satellite) was launched into space.
 - January - The American computer manufacturer Commodore International presents the Commodore 64 (C64) at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas . It is the first high-performance home computer that is affordable for a large audience.
 - April 1st - The Erste Private TV Company (EPF) is founded by German newspaper publishers .
 - June 1st - From now on, all programs on ZDF will be marked with the ZDF logo.
 - November 2 - In Great Britain , Channel 4 goes into operation as the fourth nationwide broadcasting chain after the two channels of the BBC and the private broadcaster ITV .
 
Radio
- May 6th - Privately financed radio broadcasters are allowed in Belgium .
 - June 5th - The ORF regional studio Burgenland opens in Eisenstadt .
 - June 16-17 - On the occasion of Bloomsday , WDR and RTÉ Dublin are broadcasting a 30-hour Irish-German radio adaptation of James Joyce's novel Ulysses .
 - June 30th - ARD opens a studio in Ankara for international reporting .
 
watch TV
- Start of color television based on PAL technology in Cameroon .
 - January 1st - The English series Im Schatten der Eule can be seen for the first time on German television .
 - January 2nd - The American Indian series The Long Trek can be seen on ZDF.
 - January 13th - The German television series Scherlock Schmidt & Co is broadcast for the first time in the joint program of ARD (German television).
 - January 20 - The Canadian series Die vom Club broadcasts German television for the first time.
 - January 21st - The German television series Beim Bund can be seen for the first time on ZDF.
 - January 30 - At the 39th Golden Globes in Los Angeles, the Hill Street Police Station and MASH TV series are honored.
 - February 6th - The 6-part television film from France Heimatlos (in French Sans famille ) premieres on ZDF.
 - February 10th - The television series That can be cheerful with Peer Augustinski premieres on ZDF.
 - February 21 - Orientexpress can be seen for the first time in German television broadcasting.
 - February 22nd - The German series Kreisbrandmeister Felix Martin can be seen on ZDF.
 - February 26th - First broadcast of the German television series Die Fischer von Moorhövd in the joint program of ARD (German television).
 - February 28 - The German television series Zeit Enough can be seen for the first time on German television.
 - March 1st - The German series Profiles can be seen for the first time on German television .
 - March 24th - The magazine show Globus premieres on German television.
 - March 25th - ZDF takes over the English series Billy for the first time in German.
 - April 1 - tele-illustrated started as the successor of Die Drehscheibe on ZDF .
 - April 1 - ZDF takes over the 12-part German-Canadian series Die Minikins for the first time .
 - April 1 - The US series Oh you dear father premieres on ZDF.
 - April 5th - The 12-part German story series Unheimlichegeschichte can be seen for the first time on German television.
 - April 7th - The English series Smuggler can be seen for the first time on ZDF.
 - April 17th - The police series Nero Wolfe can be seen for the first time on ZDF.
 - April 28th - The Australian series Tandarra can be seen for the first time on German television.
 - May - The television station Teleclub , one of the earliest privately financed pay stations in Europe , is broadcast in the cable network of the city of Zurich .
 - May 12th - Black-Red-Gold starts for the first time on German television .
 - May 20 - Start of the documentary series Austria II by Hugo Portisch and Sepp Riff .
 - May 21 - The news and information program for children and adolescents Wall will be broadcast on ZDF for the first time.
 - June 3 - In FS 2 of the ORF , the French miniseries has as it pleases God (original: Au Plaisir de Dieu ) Release. Following the novel of the same name by Jean d'Ormesson , it tells the story of a noble family in the French provinces between 1908 and 1968.
 - June 9th - The 6-part children's series Two old hands discover new things is broadcast for the first time on the joint program of ARD (German television).
 - August 9th - The 26-part science fiction comedy series Der Androjäger is broadcast on German television.
 - August 17th - The singer Nena and her band received nationwide attention for the first time through an appearance on the ARD program Musikladen .
 - September 4th - ORF premiere of the cultural program 1000 masterpieces .
 - September 22nd - The first of 180 episodes of the sitcom Family Ties airs in the USA . The series is about the everyday life of the Keaton family from Columbus , Ohio . While the parents try to live by the values of the hippie movement and the two daughters pursue a more alternative lifestyle, the eldest son, Alex Keaton ( Michael J. Fox ), supports President Ronald Reagan's turnaround . The theme song Without Us is by Jeff Barry and is sung in the original version by Johnny Mathis and Deniece Williams .
 - September 24th - The BR broadcasts the first episode of the children's series Meister Eder und seine Pumuckl .
 - October 1st - All programs of the joint program of the ARD (German television) will from now on be marked with the ARD logo.
 - October 1 - On all channels ARD and ZDF are twice each for a quarter of an hour teletext for all broadcast.
 - October 1st - The German television series Gastspieldirektion Gold can be seen for the first time as a regional program of the NDR in the joint program of the ARD (German television).
 - October 2 - ZDF begins the German-language first broadcast of the US adventure series Shogun . Richard Chamberlain plays the English navigator John Blackthorne who was stranded in Japan in 1600 .
 - October 28th - The Anglo-Polish series Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson premieres on ZDF.
 - November 1st - The first independent Greenlandic television station KNR starts operations in Nuuk . Until then, the population of Greenland will be provided with Danish television programs.
 - November 2nd - The UK's second commercial broadcaster, Channel 4 , begins operations.
 - November 5th - With the premiere of So long Kottan , the eighth episode of Kottan determined , six more episodes of the crime parody come into the program on ORF television every Friday.
 - November 8th - The 85-part German comedy series Büro, Büro can be seen for the first time on German television. It makes the young actress Elfi Eschke popular.
 - November 22nd - ZDF broadcasts the last disco moderated by Ilja Richter .
 - December 13th - With the structural changes in the two television programs of the GDR , the proportion of entertainment and feature films is drastically increased.
 - December 21st - The SF starts broadcasting the ZDF Christmas series Jack Holborn .
 - December 24th - The 4-part puppet play Cat with Hat from the Augsburger Puppenkiste can be seen for the first time on German television .
 - December 30th - The 10-part German episode series Jakob und Adele begins on ZDF .
 
Born
- June 9th - Christina Stürmer , Austrian singer, was born in Altenberg near Linz . Striker's career began in 2002/2003 with the first season of the talent show Starmania in which she was able to achieve second place.
 - July 21 - Katrin Bauerfeind , German Internet and TV presenter, is born in Aalen, Baden-Württemberg.
 - August 5th - Tobias Regner , winner of the third season of Germany is looking for the superstar , is born in Teisendorf , Upper Bavaria.
 - September 20 - Gülcan Kamps , German TV presenter, is born in Lübeck .
 
Died
- April 7th - Manfred Schott , German voice actor, dies in Munich at the age of 46 . Schott was the standard voice of Jack Nicholson , Michael Caine , Burt Reynolds, and Adriano Celentano .
 - June 10th - Rainer Werner Fassbinder , German film director ( Berlin Alexanderplatz , 1980) dies at the age of 37 in Munich .
 - June 18 - Curd Jürgens , German actor, dies in Vienna at the age of 66.
 - July 4th - Hans Hömberg , German writer, critic and radio author ( Hömbergs Kaleidophon ) dies at the age of 78 in Kufstein .
 - October 4 - Criswell , American entertainer, dies at the age of 75. Criswell appeared as a clairvoyant on television and can be seen in this role in the opening scene of the cult film Plan 9 from space .
 - December 26th - Maxi Böhm , Austrian cabaret artist and actor dies in Vienna at the age of 66. Böhm moderated the first quiz programs in Austrian radio history and became known to a wide audience in the 1960s and early 1970s as a member of the Simpl Ensemble in the Simplrevuen broadcast by ORF .
 
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 April 2, 2016 ; Retrieved April 2, 2016 .
 - TV programs from yesterday and the day before yesterday : TV Chronicle 1980–1997
 
Individual evidence
- ↑ Classic: CD Player Sony CDP-101 Stereo, accessed on April 5, 2009
 - ^ Jürgen Wilke: Media history of the Federal Republic of Germany . Bonn 1999, p. 808.