Broadcasting year 1988
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Other events
General
- The two British musicians Billy Drummomd and Jimmy Cauty ( The KLF ) release The Manual. (How To Have a Number One the Easy Way) . In it, they describe how to make it into the charts by means of sampling and skillful handling of the press - largely without artistic talent - and thus expose the mechanisms of the music business in a satirical manner. In the same year, the Austrian Edelweiß project called Bring Me Edelweiss actually achieved a number 1 success using an ABBA sample and the (satirical) tips described in The Manual .
- A major fire in the Hamburg studio destroys a large part of the props and backdrops of the German version of Sesame Street . The concept of the series must then be completely revised.
- May - The Moving Picture Experts Group meets for its first meeting in Ottawa . The international commission of experts deals with the standardization of audio and video compression processes . Towards the end of the 1990s, with the spread of personal computers, their acronym MPEG for video files became popular.
- 16.-18. August - The undifferentiated reporting on the Gladbeck hostage drama triggers a discussion about the responsibility and ethics of the media.
- October 19 - The first edition of the initially economically liberal daily newspaper Der Standard appears in Vienna .
- November 18 - After critical reports about the Hitler-Stalin Pact of 1939, contrary to the official interpretation of the party leadership , the GDR government prevents the distribution of the Soviet magazine Sputnik .
Radio
- March - Radio ffn begins broadcasting the radio comedy series Frühstyxradio .
- March 1st - OK Radio goes on air as the 3rd private broadcaster after Radio Hamburg and Radio 107 in Hamburg .
- April 1 - ARD introduces the RDS system for traffic radio in all of its state broadcasters .
- May 9 - The Lebanese radio broadcaster Al-Nour , which is ideologically close to the radical Hezbollah , is founded.
- August 1st - On the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of May in Paris, France Culture is broadcasting a seven-part documentary series of events based on original acoustic sources under the title Chronique de Mai 68, vingt ans d'après ...
- August 13 - For the first time in 18 years, the American Top 40 will air without Casey Kasem . Kasem has meanwhile withdrawn from moderating the show.
- September 5th - Antenne Bayern starts broadcasting .
watch TV
- Harald Schmidt is for the first time in the show MAZ, which was initially only broadcast on WDR ! to be seen as a moderator.
- January 4th - The game show Supergrips premieres on Bavarian television .
- January 5th - German-language TV premiere of the entertainment series Alf on ZDF .
- January 5th - The 191-part lawyer series Matlock can be seen on ZDF.
- January 7th - The riding series Fest im Sattel has its premiere on the First German Television .
- January 11th - The broadcaster Tele 5 started broadcasting as the successor to Musicbox . Tele 5 broadcasting was discontinued in 1992 when Leo Kirch , former head of ProSieben , bought the station. The successor was the DSF , which was renamed Sport1 in 2010. Tele 5 started broadcasting again on April 28, 2002, but since then the program has only focused on entertainment.
- January 23 - The 45th Golden Globe Awards in Los Angeles honor the LA Law and Golden Girls TV series .
- January 31 - The Wonderful Years series first airs on ABC .
- February 13 - The football show Anpfiff can be seen on TV for the first time on RTLplus .
- March 5th - The new edition of the Rudi Carrell Show can be seen on First German Television . It is particularly popular because of the opening song, Let yourself be surprised, which Carrell always sings live .
- March 7th - RTL plus broadcasts the first episode of the hard rock and heavy metal magazine Mosh , hosted by Götz Kühnemund and Sabina Classen .
- March 25th - ZDF takes the first episode of the cultural program Das Literäre Quartett into its program. The renowned literary critics Marcel Reich-Ranicki , Hellmuth Karasek and Sigrid Löffler , who appear as moderators, succeeded in gaining great fame far beyond the literary and feature pages with this series, which was broadcast until 2001 .
- March 27th - ZDF shows Bei uns and next door .
- April 12 - The first German television for the first time shows Murder, She Wrote .
- May 2nd - On FS2 , the second channel of ORF , the weekday regional window Bundesland today starts , which partially replaces the previous local reporting on Austria today .
- May 8th - The first issue of the Spiegel TV magazine produced by Dctp can be seen on RTLplus .
- June 20 - The US cartoon series Disney's Gummy Bear Gang can be seen for the first time on First German Television.
- July 9th - ZDF shows the first part of the three-part television film Sinan ohne Land based on the literary model by the German-Kurdish writer İsmet Elçi . The film is one of the first television reports on the problem of the so-called “ second generation ”, sons and daughters of the first wave of migrant workers in the 1960s.
- July 11th - The US doctor series Die Texas Klinik can be seen for the first time on First German Television .
- Aug. 6 - On MTV 's first hip-hop broadcast Yo! Watch MTV Raps .
- August 18 - In the ORF program Inlandsreport , FPÖ party leader Jörg Haider describes the Austrians as an “ideological freak” in an interview with Johannes Fischer .
- August 21 - Li-La-Launebär starts on RTLplus.
- August 22nd - RIAS-TV starts broadcasting .
- August 28 - With Pronto Salvatore , RTLplus showed a daily break filler until 1991 because the station did not have enough advertisers at the time. Although originally intended as a break filler, the show quickly achieved cult status. It was also the first RTLplus program to achieve a rating of over a million viewers.
- September 12th - The Brazilian telenovela Sinhá Moca - The Slave Owner's Daughter can be seen for the first time on First German Television .
- 2nd / 3rd October - Rio Reiser gives a much-noticed concert in the East Berlin Werner-Seelenbinder-Halle , which is also recorded and broadcast on GDR television . For the situation in the GDR at that time , the text passage from the tone stones shards- song The dream is over : “Is there a country on earth where the dream is a reality / I only know one thing and there I am sure / this is it not".
- October 30th - The five-time edition of the Saturday evening game show Euro Pairs can be seen on the first German television .
- November 6th - ZDF broadcasts the first episode of the Eurocops crime series on German-language television. The fully computer-animated opening credits are unusual for the late 1980s.
- December 4th - The children's series Siebenstein celebrates its premiere on ZDF .
Born
- February 29th - Lena Gercke , German model and presenter of Austria's Next Topmodel , is born in Marburg .
- August 23 - Kimberly Matula , American actress ( Rich and Beautiful ) is born in Fort Worth , Texas .
- November 6th - Tom Neuwirth , Austrian singer, travesty artist and winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 is born in Gmunden , Upper Austria .
Died
- April 28 - Gerd Martienzen , German actor, dubbing and radio play speaker, dies at the age of 70 in Grafrath ( Fürstenfeldbruck district ).
- May 29 - Vladimír Menšík , Czech actor ( The Hospital on the Outskirts of the City , The Visitors ) dies in Brno at the age of 58 .
- June 9th - Willy Seiler , German radio and television presenter, dies at the age of 57.
- June 25 - Mildred Gillars , American radio presenter, dies in Columbus at the age of 87 . She worked on propaganda broadcasts for the Großdeutscher Rundfunk , which were directed against the British and Americans.
See also
Web links
- Gijsbert Hinnen: International radio and television chronicle. In: rfcb.ch. Archived from the original on December 22, 2016 ; accessed on December 22, 2016 .
- TV programs from yesterday and the day before yesterday : TV Chronicle 1980–1997
Individual evidence
- ↑ Chronique de Mai: Nanterre , INA, accessed November 16, 2010
- ↑ ZDF: Shock in the Foreign , Der Spiegel 27/1988, page 165, accessed on June 5, 2010
- ↑ Information on the broadcast on wunschliste.de , accessed on January 10, 2009
- ↑ Rio Reiser live in the Seelenbinderhalle 1988 ( Memento of the original from September 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed October 22, 2009