Radio year 1987
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Other events
General
- The previous French public broadcaster RTF (Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française) is being privatized in a campaign that is unique in Europe .
- The Museum of Broadcast Communications opens in Chicago .
- The Japanese JVC introduces the S-VHS standard , which is downwardly compatible with VHS . The format, which by processing the brightness and color signals separately, offers a significantly better image resolution than VHS , is aimed primarily at ambitious amateur filmmakers .
- The American manufacturer Commodore International presents its Amiga 500 at the CeBIT computer fair . In the late 1980s, the Amiga was valued as a game computer because of its outstanding audio and graphics performance. The Amiga 2000 , which was also presented and was originally designed for the professional market, found widespread use in the amateur video scene due to these properties .
- February 12th - The author and filmmaker Alexander Kluge founds the television production company dctp .
- May 6th - ARD and DFF sign a cooperation agreement for the mutual exchange of program material. The GDR production of Saxony's Glanz and Preussens Gloria can be seen on western television.
- December - The first DAT recorders hit the market in Germany, and they quickly find widespread use in professional television and radio stations. However, the dispute with the music industry over high-quality digital copies of CDs prevents an earlier start of sales. Nevertheless, inventors succeeded in circumventing the copy lock months earlier using a simple trick published in the specialist magazine Stereo .
- December 31st - RTL Plus moves its headquarters from Luxembourg to Cologne .
Radio
- Dieter Dorner becomes the new program director of the Austrian pop channel Ö3 , replacing Rudolf Klausnitzer (since 1979) in this role.
- The weekly program Popmuseum, designed by Wolfgang Kos , can be heard again on Ö3 .
- After around 3,000 episodes, the music show Vokal - Instrumental - International , moderated by Walter Richard Langer , will be discontinued.
- January 1 - American President Ronald Reagan addresses the people of the Soviet Union directly in his New Year's Address, which Radio Moscow will broadcast .
- January 1st - The SFB introduces a fourth radio program with SFB 4 .
- September 4th - A concert of Madonna 's Who's That Girl world tour broadcast live from Turin can be heard on Ö3 .
- October 5th - The BR opens its operations center in Munich-Freimann .
- December - A new program scheme starts on Ö1 with new programs such as the interview series In Conversation by Peter Huemer and the feature series Tonspuren - audio images for literature . Peter Huemer's first interview guest is the writer Peter Handke .
watch TV
- January 1 - When ZDF is the first time the US fantasy series Highway to Heaven to see.
- January 8th - The First German Television shows the golden river terminus for the very first time .
- January 10th - Bavarian television broadcasts the first episode of the Kanal fatal comedy series .
- January 11th - The English series Yes Minister can be seen for the first time in S3 .
- January 19 - Moselbrück can be seen for the first time on First German Television .
- January 29th - The 41-part German glossy soap Das Erbe der Guldenburgs premieres on ZDF.
- January 30th - Launch of the English-language Super Channel , which can be received via satellite in large parts of Europe.
- January 31 - The LA Law and Golden Girls TV series are honored at the 44th Golden Globes in Los Angeles .
- February 5th - ZDF begins broadcasting the Bill Cosby Show , which in the German dubbed version initially bears the title Bill Cosby's Family Ties.
- February 10th - The television series Der Landarzt begins on ZDF .
- March 12th - The First German Television begins broadcasting Das A-Team .
- March 26th - The talk show live can be seen for the first time on ZDF.
- April 5th - FOX has the first edition of the Tracey Ullman Show .
- April 5th - Married… with Children , one of the most successful sitcoms in television history, launches on FOX .
- April 5th - The 6-part mini-series at Sunday's Nach-Tisch , The Treasure in No Man's Land can be seen for the first time on ZDF.
- April 16 - The First German Television broadcasts the nature and environmental magazine for children for the first time . Don't be a frog .
- April 19 - The cartoon family, The Simpsons, appears on American television for the first time in a five-minute short film entitled "Good Night" .
- June 27th - The US animated series MASK can be seen for the first time on RTLplus .
- July 9th - The First German Television shows Stahlkammer Zürich .
- July 24th - Start of the British game series Henry and a left leg on First German Television.
- August 1st - MTV Europe starts broadcasting . The first music video to air is the Dire Straits' Money for Nothing video .
- August 26th - The 49-part American series Die Colbys - Das Imperium can be seen on Sat.1 .
- August 27th - The US crime series Cagney & Lacey can be seen in German for the first time on Sat.1 .
- August 28th - The personality show See! premieres on ZDF for the first time.
- August 29th - Sat.1 is the first German-speaking institution to broadcast an episode of the MacGyver series .
- September - Due to the change in management at the top of the company, some new series such as the society program Seitenblicke , the youth program X-Large , the music request program Wurlitzer or the documentary series Universum are used on ORF television .
- September 10th - Karl-Heinz Köpcke , “Mister Tagesschau”, speaks the Tagesschau for the last time . He stopped after 28 years and passed the job of chief spokesman on to Werner Veigel .
- September 26th - For the first time an episode of the ZDF Saturday evening show Wetten, dass ..? moderated by Thomas Gottschalk .
- October 4th - The first issue of the music and youth culture magazine X-Large can be seen on FS 1 , the first TV channel of ORF .
- October 5th - The action series Hulk premieres on RTLplus.
- October 6th - Premiere of the ARD series Praxis Bülowbogen on First German Television.
- October 7th - The US agent series Der Equalizer premieres on RTLplus for the first time.
- October 9th - The first edition of the dating show Herzblatt , hosted by Rudi Carrell , can be seen on ORF and First German Television .
- November 15th - The 18-part German hotel series Waldhaus u. a. with Maria Singer , Heinz Moog and Hansi Kraus .
- November 21 - The last edition of the quiz show One will win with Hans-Joachim Kulenkampff will be broadcast on the first German television, SRG and FS 1 .
- November 22nd - The broadcast of the Doctor Who episode Horror of Fang Rock is interrupted for 88 seconds on the PBS channel WTTW in Chicago by an interference signal from a pirate station. A man appears in a Max Headroom mask. The incident became known as the Max Headroom broadcast signal intrusion incident .
- December 5th - The first US animated series Die Glücksbärchis starts exclusively for children on RTLplus.
- December 14th - The school time program with Dieter Kronzucker , class reunion premieres on ZDF.
- December 15 - The 39-part series from the USA Flamingo Road can be seen for the first time on First German Television.
- December 20 - The Sunday after-table is broadcast for the last time by ZDF.
- December 21st - ZDF broadcasts the 34-part children's series head over heels for the first time.
- December 25th - ZDF broadcasts the first episode of the Christmas series Anna with Patrick Bach and Silvia Seidel .
Born
- September 28 - Hilary Duff , American actress, was born in Houston , Texas. She became known to a worldwide television audience by playing the title role in the 2001-2004 sitcom Lizzie McGuire .
- December 4 - Orlando Brown , American actor, is born in Los Angeles. He is best known for the role of Eddie Thomas in the US television series Raven Looks Through .
Died
- February 10th - Hans Rosenthal , German show master ( Dalli Dalli ) dies at the age of 61 in Berlin .
- February 24 - Jim Connors , American radio host, dies in Virginia at the age of 46 .
- March 3 - Danny Kaye , American comedian and actor, dies in Los Angeles at the age of 76 .
- March 13th - Bernhard Grzimek , German behavioral scientist, veterinarian and television presenter (ARD series Ein Platz für Tiere ) dies at the age of 77 in Frankfurt am Main .
- April 19 - Hugh Brannum, American radio and television presenter, dies at the age of 77 in East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania . Brannum was best known for the CBS children's series Captain Kangaroo .
- August 19 - Hayden Rorke , American actor, dies in Toluca Lake at the age of 76 . Rorke became known to a worldwide television audience in the role of Colonel Alfred Bellows in the television series Charming Jeannie , 1965-1970.
- September 5th - Quinn Martin , American television producer, dies in California at the age of 65. The "QM Production" he founded was responsible for such successful series as Auf der Flucht , 1963–1967 or The Streets of San Francisco , 1972–1977.
- September 11 - Canadian radio presenter and actor Lorne Greene dies in Santa Monica at the age of 72 . Greene played the role of Ben Cartwright in the western series Bonanza .
- October 27th - Heinz Fischer-Karwin , Austrian journalist, radio and television presenter, dies in Vienna at the age of 72. He became a figure of public life in Austria through his long-standing radio program Aus Burg und Oper and the later television program Your appearance please .
- November 1st - Erwin Parker , German actor, radio play speaker and drama teacher dies at the age of 84 in Zurich .
- November 4th - Ekkehard Fritsch , German actor ( Die Wicherts from next door , Die Hesselbachs ) dies in Berlin at the age of 66.
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 March 12, 2016 ; accessed on March 12, 2016 .
- TV programs from yesterday and the day before yesterday : TV Chronicle 1980–1997
Individual evidence
- ↑ Solder only . In: Der Spiegel . No. 36 , 1987 ( online ).