Broadcasting year 1995
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1995: The trial of former football star OJ Simpson generates record ratings in the US
General
- January 1st - Gerhard Zeiler replaces Gerd Bacher as ORF General Director. With this, the fourth and final term of office of Bacher comes to an end.
- February - The Austrian daily Der Standard is one of the first German-language print media to launch a website at derStandard.at .
- March 6th - Start of the new program schedule on ORF television. The reform, initiated by the newly elected General Manager Gerhard Zeiler, is considered to be the deepest turning point in the company's history since Gerd Bacher took office in 1967. From now on, both channels will broadcast continuously, and more programs will be used that are part of the programs of the “Private “Are oriented.
- March 27th - The " Groer case " becomes known through a report by the Austrian news magazine Profil . The then archbishop of Vienna is accused of sexual abuse of children and young people.
- June 9th - The Austrian television presenter Arabella Kiesbauer ( Arabella ) is attacked by a racially motivated letter bomb .
- July 1st - MTV Europe encrypts the broadcast of its programs via satellite.
- July 14th - According to an internal survey at the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits in Erlangen , the short name MP3 is defined for the audio compression method MPEG-1 Layer III or MPEG-2 Layer III. A little later, the first programs for corresponding audio applications for PCs come into circulation.
- August 24th - Microsoft releases the Windows 95 operating system .
Radio
- January 1st - WDR 5 starts as a pure word program based on the model of Radio Four of the BBC.
- January 13th - The last issues of the series Die Musicbox (since 1967) and ZickZack (since 1979) are broadcast on Ö3 .
- January 16 - FM4 starts broadcasting . The station takes on the so-called " alternative music ", since the pop wave Ö3 is converted to format radio .
- April 1st - Eins Live replaces WDR 1 . The music station is designed as a format radio and is intended to face competition from private radio stations.
- May 7th - The computer magazine Matrix is broadcast for the first time on Ö1 .
- May 13th - The Eurovision Song Contest is commented on for the first time by the cabaret duo Stermann & Grissemann on the FM4 frequencies .
- July 31 - The private Hamburg radio station OK Radio is replaced by the soft pop station OK Magic 95 .
- October 4 - Energy Hamburg goes on air on the 97.1 MHz frequency formerly used by Jazz Welle plus Hamburg .
- December 1st - The hr closes its computer magazine Chippie .
watch TV
- January 2nd - The First German Television starts broadcasting the series Verbotene Liebe .
- January 8th - The children's show Pumuckl TV starts on First German Television .
- January 21 - The X-Files and Frasier TV series are honored at the 52nd Golden Globes in Los Angeles .
- January 25 - The trial of football player O. J. Simpson begins in the United States and can be watched live on television. The case caused a tremendous sensation in the USA and around the world and earned the broadcaster Court TV record ratings.
- February 28th - The last edition of the Club 2 discussion format is broadcast on ORF 2 . Subject of the program moderated by Günther Nenning : "Rebirth".
- March 10th - Launch of VH-1 Germany .
- April 2 - The musician and singer Rio Reiser can be seen in an episode of the crime series Tatort produced by BR . Reiser, who also wrote the music for this episode, which was broadcast under the title In the Heart of the Ice Age , plays the role of the anarchist Reinhard Kammermeier , who was recently released from long imprisonment .
- April 24 - ProSieben begins the German-language first broadcast of the television series Seinfeld .
- May 3 - The Hamburg local broadcaster Hamburg 1 starts broadcasting.
- May 7th - The first edition of the erotic show Peep! Initially moderated by Amanda Lear is on RTL 2 . to see. However , the show only achieved greater awareness and cult status through the moderation of Verona Feldbusch from 1996.
- May 11 - In RTL 2 is the Japanese anime series Hello Kurt! to see.
- June 6th - The first episode of the talk show satire Phettberg's Nette Leit Show can be seen on ORF 2 as part of the kunst-pieces series. Originally by -Off Theater group savings club "The Unz-Ertrennlichen" by Kurt Palm developed in 1994 stage show first performed brings Hermes Phettberg , which so far only in Vienna's gay scene and the readers of his column "Phettbergs ministry" in the city newspaper Falter known was a temporary celebrity in the entire German-speaking area.
- June 11th - The show with the mouse celebrates its 1000th show. It will be celebrated with a big summer prize puzzle.
- July 6th - The First German Television shows summer stories .
- September 6th - Jens Riewa speaks his first 8 p.m. news . He replaces the late chief spokesman Werner Veigel .
- Sept. 16 - The US comic series by Marvel New Spider-Man is in RTL to see the German premiere.
- October - The first issue of the weekday culture magazine Kulturzeit goes on air on 3sat .
- October 4th - ORF broadcasts the first episode of the talk show series Lebenskünstler , hosted by Helmut Zilk .
- October 14th - FOX broadcasts the first episode of MADtv .
- October 29th - Before the 100th episode of Siebenstein, a documentary for children about the development of the series is broadcast on ZDF as Special Hipp, hipp hurray: Siebensteins celebrate .
- November 1st - Franken TV , the first local broadcaster in the Franconian region, begins broadcasting .
- December 5th - The first episode of the late night show Die Harald Schmidt Show can be seen on Sat.1 .
- December 25 - In Ferienfieber is the mini-series The Boys' Choir in the ARD to see.
- December 27th - ZDF shows the first episode of the family series Our Charly .
- December 30th - The ARD broadcasts the children's program Disney Club for the last time . (The Tigerenten Club will be a follow-up program from January 1996. )
Died
- January 16 - Hans-Jürgen Nierentz , German writer and television director during the National Socialist era, dies in Düsseldorf at the age of 85 .
- February 5 - Doug McClure , American actor and series actor ( The People of the Shiloh Ranch , 1962–1971) dies at the age of 59 in Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles . McClure became the model for the character of Troy McClure in The Simpsons .
- March 11th - Lotte Rausch , German actress, including the female lead in the Schölermann television series, dies at the age of 83 in Offenbach .
- March 28th - Hanns Joachim Friedrichs , German TV journalist and presenter of the ARD Tagesthemen, dies at the age of 68 in Hamburg.
- April 4th - Kenny Everett , actually Maurice Cole , British radio DJ and television entertainer dies in London at the age of 50 .
- April 9th - Oscar Heiler , German actor and comedian, best known as Häberle from the duo Häberle and Pfleiderer , dies at the age of 88 in Stuttgart .
- April 23 - Howard Cosell , American sports reporter, dies in New York City at the age of 77 . Cosell became known to German-speaking audiences through a cameo in the Woody Allen film Bananas in 1971.
- May 2nd - Werner Veigel , former chief spokesman for the Tagesschau, dies at the age of 66 in Hamburg.
- May 18 - Elisha Cook , American actor, dies in California at the age of 91 . Cook embodied numerous gangster characters as a screen actor from the 1930s . The international television audience got to know him as the underworld boss "Icepick", a supporting role in the crime series Magnum (1980–1988).
- May 18 - Elizabeth Montgomery , American actress ( Samantha Stephens in Bewitched , 1964–1972) dies at the age of 62 in Los Angeles .
- May 21 - Walter Richard Langer , Austrian radio presenter ( vocal - instrumental - international , 1967–1987) dies at the age of 58 in Vienna.
- July 1 - Wolfman Jack , actually Robert Smith , American radio DJ , dies at the age of 57 in the US state of North Carolina . Wolfman Jack was also known in Germany through his broadcasts on AFN .
- July 4th - Bob Ross , American painter and television presenter ( The Joy of Painting ) dies at the age of 52 in New Smyrna Beach, Florida.
- September 22nd - Alfred Böhm , Austrian actor ( Der Leihopa ) dies at the age of 75 in Wieselburg , Lower Austria.
- October 27th - Leo Bardischewski , German actor and voice actor dies at the age of 80 in Munich .
- November 26th - Wim Thoelke , German show master dies at the age of 68 in Niedernhausen .
- December 18th - Konrad Zuse , German inventor and entrepreneur dies at the age of 85 in Hünfeld near Fulda . With the Zuse Z3, Zuse designed the first programmable computer in the 1940s.
- December 31st - Fritz Eckhardt , Austrian actor ( Tatort Commissioner Marek , hello - Hotel Sacher, porter! ) Dies at the age of 88 in Klosterneuburg .
See also
Web links
- TV programs from yesterday and the day before yesterday : TV Chronicle 1980–1997
Individual evidence
- ^ Tatort: In the Heart of the Ice Age ( Memento from October 2, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) BR-Online