Broadcasting year 1985
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Other events
General
- Sony introduces the Video 8 standard. The cassettes, which are about the size of a Philips compact cassette , occupied the largest market segment among the amateur film formats until they were replaced by digital formats around the turn of the millennium . In addition to being used in cameras, stand-alone devices are built, which are rarely used, for which recorded cassettes were also offered until the end of the 1980s.
- The organization Reporters without Frontiers ( Reporters sans frontièrs ) is founded in Montpellier , France . The aim is to stand up for press freedom and against censorship worldwide .
- The American media scholar Neil Postman published his study Amusing Ourselves to Death ( Amusing Ourselves To Death ) where he represents the main thesis that the advent of television, the critical judgment of the public to the letterpress era have weakened considerably.
- January 1st - Foundation of GfK GmbH for audience research.
- June 17th - John Hendricks creates the Discovery Channel . The broadcaster, which specializes in travel documents, will soon reach more than 30 million subscribers in the US when fed into local cable networks.
- July 23rd - The American computer manufacturer Commodore presents the first computer of the Amiga series. His graphics and multimedia services are particularly valued.
Radio
- March 24th - ÖR , the shell program of the federal state programs of the ORF , broadcasts the 10,000. Edition of the lunchtime magazine Motorists on the move . The show has been on the program since 1957.
- March 28 - A Roger Waters concert broadcast live from New York's Radio City Music Hall uses the principle of holophony for the first time in broadcasting history .
- October 7th - The BR broadcasts the first episode of the computer magazine Bit, byte, bitten . It is the first computer magazine on German-speaking radio.
watch TV
1985: Following the example of Coronation Street , WDR starts production of Lindenstrasse . From the outset it is Marie-Luise Marjan in the role of "mother Beimer"
- January 1st - The television station PKS changes its name to Sat.1 .
- January 7th - The first edition of the children's news program Mini-ZiB can be seen on FS1 , ORF's first TV channel .
- January 7th - Sat.1 broadcasts the first episode of the Hardcastle & McCormick crime series on German-language television.
- January 7th - The first German television series Kleine Stadt, I love you can be seen on the first German television .
- January 16 - The First German Television broadcasts The Hunt for the Bunyip for children .
- January 17th - Das Erste shows Extra Tour for all viewers .
- January 19 - The one-hour talk show Dall-As with Karl Dall premieres on RTLplus .
- January 22nd - The First German Television takes over the English series Always Trouble with Tom .
- January 25th - The weekly music and youth magazine Bravo TV celebrates its premiere on Sat.1 .
- January 27 - The 42nd Golden Globes awards the TV series Murder Is Her Hobby and The Bill Cosby Show .
- January 28th - The question game denkmal can be seen for the first time on ZDF .
- March 18 - The Australian broadcaster Seven Network shows the first episode of the soap opera Neighbors .
- May 17th - The GDR television broadcasts the first episode of the entertainment series Tooth for a Tooth .
- May 23 - The Australian island series Holiday Island starts in German for the first time on Sat.1 .
- May 29th - The Heysel disaster during the final of the European Cup, during which 39 people were killed, can partly be followed live on television. Many TV stations, including ZDF, are canceling their live entries.
- May 29th - The first episode of the MacGyver series airs on ABC .
- June 3 - The first episode of the daily talk show Larry King Live , hosted by Larry King , is broadcast on CNN . The trademark of the show, which draws on stylistic elements from the late-night shows , is the microphone placed on a desk and the host sitting behind it, always wearing braces and horn-rimmed glasses .
- June 9 - German-language premiere of the US series Hotel on ZDF. For Austria, ORF joins the first eleven episodes on June 17th.
- June 27th - The 58-part US crime series Trio with Four Fists premieres on ZDF.
- August 29th - The ARD starts broadcasting television programs in stereo .
- August 30th - ZDF starts the city tournament on air.
- August 30th - ZDF shows the 8-part crime series Alte Gauner .
- September 1st - Start of the program Finale with Burkhard Weber , Matthias Preuss and Ulrich Potofski on RTLplus.
- September 12th - ZDF takes over Die Nervensäge as a TV series.
- September 18 - The 13-part family series Levin and Gutman premieres in German on Das Erste .
- September 22nd - The 12 premieres on RTLplus.
- October 1 - The first German television broadcasts after the late edition of the Tagesschau Nachtgedanken with Hans-Joachim Kulenkampff before the end of the broadcast.
- October 2nd - The 13-part music series Blam! premieres on First German Television.
- October 22nd - The first episode of the doctor series Die Schwarzwaldklinik can be seen on ZDF.
- December 1st - Start of the interactive television game Simsalabim Bam Bum or The Barometer Maker on the Magic Island based on an idea by Ernst Wolfram Marboe on ORF and ZDF.
- December 8 - The first shines at 18:40 the first episode of Lindenstraße out. Since then, the series has been broadcast once a week (Sundays).
- December 25th - ZDF broadcasts the first part of the Oliver Maass Christmas series .
- December 28th - ARD broadcasts on First German Television Welcome to the Club , moderated by Harald Juhnke .
Born
- May 28 - Carey Mulligan , British actress ( Waking the Dead , Doctor Who ) is born in London.
- October 11 - Michelle Trachtenberg , American actress (role of Georgina Spanks in the youth television series Gossip Girl , Dawn Summers in Buffy the Vampire Slayer ) is born in New York City .
- December 5 - Frankie Muniz , American actor ( Malcolm in the middle ) is born in Ridgewood , New Jersey.
Died
- January 6th - OF Weidling , German television entertainer dies at the age of 60 in Dresden .
- February 12 - Nicholas Colasanto , American actor (Bartender Coach in Cheers ) dies at the age of 61 in Los Angeles .
- February 28 - Charita Bauer , American series actress ( Springfield Story ) dies in New York City at the age of 62 .
- May 25th - Ludwig Anschütz , German actor and radio play speaker, dies in Stuttgart at the age of 83 .
- July 25th - Adolf Ziegler , German actor and radio play speaker, dies in Munich at the age of 86 .
- October 2 - Rock Hudson , American actor ( Clan Denver ) dies a few weeks before his 60th birthday in Beverly Hills .
- October 5th - Peter Paul , German actor, dies in Munich at the age of 74 . He has acted in numerous television films and radio plays.
- October 10 - Orson Welles , American director, actor and producer dies in Los Angeles at the age of 70 .
- December 25th - Jacques Monod , French film and television actor, dies in Paris at the age of 67 .
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 May 7, 2016 ; Retrieved May 7, 2016 .
- TV programs from yesterday and the day before yesterday : TV Chronicle 1980–1997