Broadcasting year 1991

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Funkhaus Nalepastraße : Two years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, the former GDR radio stops its programs

General

• In Austria , the Teletest study is being introduced to determine television viewing rates .
• May - The Japanese electronics manufacturer Sony introduces the MiniDisc (MD). The new digital audio format, which initially offers a recording time of up to 80 minutes, is to succeed the Philips compact cassette first introduced in 1963 . In the first few years, pre-recorded MiniDiscs also came onto the market. The MZ-1 is the first MiniDisc recorder to appear on the European market a year later. Like the Walkman 13 years earlier, it is a portable device and has two special features that are interesting in terms of technology history: It is possible to make digital copies of a compact disc or a mini disc via a digital (optical) output. However, the built-in SCMS mechanism prevents further digital (i.e. lossless) copies of copies. This is one of the earliest applications of digital rights management (after the dispute over digital audio tape ) . On the other hand, the ATRAC code with which the MiniDiscs are written, around ten years before the widespread use of the MP3 file format, is the first audio data compression method that is accessible to a broader segment of consumers.
• May 31 - The Central German Broadcasting Corporation (MDR) is founded as a three-country station for the federal states of Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia.
• October 12th - Foundation of the Ostdeutscher Rundfunk Brandenburg (ORB).
• December 31st - The Funkhaus Berlin (FU), formerly " Rundfunk der DDR ", and the German TV broadcaster (DFF), formerly "Fernsehen der DDR", cease broadcasting in accordance with Article 36 of the Unification Treaty. With this step, the transfer of the state radio and television programs of the GDR into the dual broadcasting system of the Federal Republic is completed.

Radio

• January 1st - Süddeutsche Rundfunk and Südwestfunk put two new radio programs into operation: S4 Baden-Württemberg and S2 Kultur .
• May 6th - With B5 aktuell , organized by Bayerischer Rundfunk , the first pure information channel starts within ARD .
• September 8th - In Poland , the Konstantynów transmission tower erected in 1974 collapses .
• October 7th - WDR starts broadcasting a fifth radio program .
• December 14th - The first Mayday is held in Berlin as a protest against the threatened shutdown of the former GDR youth channel DT64 .
• December 31 - The last employees leave the former headquarters of the GDR radio , the Funkhaus in Nalepastraße .

watch TV

• January 1st - ZDF shows The Secret of the Black Jungle for the first time .
• January 2nd - The First German Television shows Ein Haus in der Toscana .
• January 3rd - Sat.1 broadcasts Alien Nation .
• January 5th - The family show for children Disney Club celebrates its premiere on First German Television .
• January 6th - RTLplus shows head physician Dr Westphall .
• January 19 - At the 48th Golden Globes in Los Angeles , the TV series Twin Peaks and Cheers are honored.
• January 21st - The US western series Texas can be seen on Tele 5 .
• January 26th - The animal show Animals are looking for a home goes on air on West 3 .
• February 4th - Start of the Show-Laden shop broadcast .
• February 7th - Two Schlitzohren in Antalya can be seen for the first time on the first German television .
• February 16 - The ZDF takes over for the first time together before the change with the ARD Take your time .
• February 18th - German television takes over Juhnke & Co for the first time .
• February 28 - Start of the first German pay TV program Premiere .
• March 8th - The science fiction anime series from Japan Galaxy Rangers can be seen for the first time on Tele 5 .
• March 26th - ZDF shows The Flying Doctors .
• April 10th - German television shows Leonie Löwenherz for children for the first time .
• April 26th - The first episode of the full-body puppet series Die Dinos can be seen on ABC .
• July 4th - In the last episode of the ARD comedy show Total Normal , the TV prank designed by Hape Kerkeling and Achim Hagemann is Hurz! to see, in which the two authors perform an excerpt from an alleged contemporary opera to an uninformed audience.
• July 21 - The 29-part series from the USA Werwolf premieres on RTLplus .
• August 6th - The US action series In a Secret Mission can be seen on First German Television .
• August 7th - The First German Television broadcasts the first episode of the talk show series Boulevard Bio with Alfred Biolek .
• August 21 - The Wolf Clan premieres on RTLplus .
• August 25th - Woof is on the first German television for the first time ! Sometimes I am a dog .
• September 9th - RTLplus broadcasts Race with Death for the first time .
• September 10th - The mystery series Twin Peaks has its German-language premiere.
• September 12th - Erste Deutsche Fernsehen takes over the US western series The Young Riders - 7 for Justice for the first time .
• September 13th - ZDF broadcasts the first regular German-dubbed episode of the cartoon series The Simpsons .
• September 22nd - RTLplus shows police report for the first time .
• September 30th - The Jerry Springer Show first airs.
• October 3 - RTLplus shows Sielmann 2000 for the first time .
• October 6th - Käpt'n Blaubär premieres in the show with the mouse .
• October 26th - The first German television shows children's nonsense with Michael , with Michael Schanze for the first time .
• November 5th - The first German television shows the telenovela from Brazil Vale Tudo - at any price .
• November 24th - The First German Television shows Wir Deutschen .
• December 21 - The US cartoon series Tom & Jerry Kids can be seen in German for the first time on RTLplus .
• December 31st - The first German television broadcasts news from the Süderhof in German for the first time.

Born

• March 28 - Amy Bruckner, American actress ( Phil of the Future ) is born in Conifer, Colorado .
• June 27 - Madylin Sweeten, American actress ( Everyone Loves Raymond ) was born in Brownwood , Texas.
• July 12 - Erik Per Sullivan , American actor ( Dewey in Malcolm in the middle ) is born in Worcester .

Died

1991: American science fiction writer Gene Roddenberry, "father" of Star Trek, dies

• January 28th - Kurt Sowinetz , Austrian folk actor , member of the Burgtheater ensemble (numerous television roles such as The wrong weight after Joseph Roth , The brave soldier Schwejk after Jaroslav Hašek or Welcome in Vienna ) dies a month before his 63rd birthday in Vienna .
• February 6 - Danny Thomas , American film and television actor ( Danny Thomas Show , 1953–1964) dies at the age of 79 in Los Angeles .
• February 16 - Max Strecker , German actor, dies in Munich at the age of 84 .
• July 1 - Michael Landon , American actor and series actor ( Our Little Farm , An Angel on Earth ) dies in Malibu at the age of 54 .
• July 2 - Lee Remick , American actress ( Around the World in 80 Days , Young Katharina ) dies at the age of 55 in Los Angeles.
• July 14th - Axel Eggebrecht , German journalist, writer and pioneer of the radio feature dies at the age of 92 in Hamburg .
• October 21 - Frank Barufski , German actor, radio play speaker and presenter dies at the age of 85 in his native Cologne . He became known through television recordings from the Millowitsch Theater and several Paul Temple radio plays .
• October 24 - Gene Roddenberry , American screenwriter, film and television producer who created Star Trek , dies in Santa Monica at the age of 70 .
• November 5 - Robert Maxwell , British media entrepreneur (controlled half of MTV Europe and other television networks) dies near Tenerife at the age of 68 .
• November 20 - Helga Hahnemann , German actress, entertainer (numerous appearances in the DFF - entertainment program Ein Kessel Buntes ) and Berliner Original dies at the age of 54 in Berlin .
• November 24th - Freddie Mercury , British singer and musician, dies in London at the age of 45 . Mercury, together with his band Queen, brought the young genre of music video to its first climax with the cinematic implementation of Bohemian Rhapsody (1975) and also set corresponding accents in the then flourishing music television with videos for titles such as Radio Ga Ga (1984) or I in the 1980s Want to Break Free (1984).

See also

Portal: Radio  - Overview of Wikipedia content on radio

Portal: TV  - Overview of Wikipedia content on TV

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 3, 2016 ; Retrieved April 3, 2016 . 
• TV programs from yesterday and the day before yesterday : TV Chronicle 1980–1997
• The witch laughs and lives in every woman , August 18, 1991 (survey on hr3 ; MP3; 4.1 MB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ MZ-1 (1992) Walkman Central, accessed December 30, 2009