Broadcasting year 1996
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Other events
General
- The first DVD players hit the market.
- DV devices are starting to change the market for camcorders and are gradually replacing analog devices completely.
- The American company Palm brings out the Palm Pilot , the first electronic organizer that is widely used due to its ease of use (without a keyboard).
- May 15 - updated version of the journalistic principles ( press code ) adopted by the German Press Council.
- September 2nd - The 160 meter high Hordt transmission mast of the Langenberg radio station collapsed during maintenance work.
Radio
- April 9th - Bayerischer Rundfunk puts its first fully digital radio studio into operation.
- April 26th and July 1st - The two Bavarian training programs afk max ( Nuremberg ) and afk M94.5 ( Munich ) start operations.
- November 18 - Radio Disney goes on air in the United States .
- December 16 - Bogdan Roscic as Ö3 confirmed boss, the relocation of Ö3 from the old radio building to the new building in Vienna-Heiligenstadt is complete.
watch TV
- 5th January - The reminder program with Christoph Deumling , roll backwards premieres in the first .
- January 6th - The first starts with the Tigerenten Club . The children's show is the successor to the Disney Club . The program is moderated by Stefan and Judith Pinnow .
- January 21 - At the 1996 Golden Globe Awards in Los Angeles, the television series Party of Five and Cybill are honored.
- February 23 - The anime series from Japan Die Macht des Zauberstein premieres on RTL 2 for the first time .
- April 13 - The US cartoon series The Invincible Iron Man begins at RTL .
- April 20 - On Sat.1 the show for everyone celebrates Die Wochenshow premiere.
- May 9 - A live broadcast of the MTV telecast Most Wanted from Hamburg with star presenter Ray Cokes should be discontinued as this because of a misleading announced live performance of the Toten Hosen is pelted by the audience with beer cans and bottles.
- May 30th - RTL begins broadcasting the crime series Magnum in a new German dubbed version. This means that the German-speaking audience not only benefits from revised dialogues, but also for the first time has the opportunity to see all 162 episodes of the series in chronological order.
- June 3 - The first issue of the ORF culture magazine Treffpunkt Kultur , moderated by Karin Resetarits , is broadcast.
- June 30th - The education and training channel afk tv starts operations in Munich. Initially only one hour a week on münchen.tv .
- July - Rooms are free for the first time on WDR television ! , at that time only planned as a summer break filler, it will become an entertainment program that will run until 2016.
- August 30th - DR2 ( Danmarks Radio 2 ), Denmark's second public television program, goes on the air.
- September 10th - The big adventure show Now you can experience something with Kai Böcking premiered on ZDF .
- October 24th - The US cyber series Strange Luck can be seen for the first time on ProSieben .
- November 1st - The Arabic-language news channel Al Jazeera begins broadcasting.
- November 17th - ProSieben shows Loggerheads for children for the first time .
- November 23rd - The US animated series Quack Pack - Onkel D. und die Boys is broadcast for the first time by RTL .
- November 29th - The first episode of the German-Austrian television series Schlosshotel Orth is broadcast.
Died
- February 17 - Herbert Seiter , Austrian composer and conductor (music for the radio revue What's New?, 1946–1986) dies in Vienna at the age of 74 .
- February 18 - Josef Meinrad , Austrian stage, film and television actor (German narrator in Once Upon a Time… the Man , 1978, bon vivant Luka in Der Sonne gegen , 1984–1985) and Iffland Ring bearer dies at the age of 82 in Großgmain .
- March 1st - Willi Studer , Swiss entrepreneur and engineer dies at the age of 83 in Wetzikon . Studer first founded the Helvetia Radioapparate-Fabrik in 1932 before launching numerous tape recorders on the market under the Revox and Studer brand names from 1949 onwards , which were particularly popular in the professional studio sector.
- March 17th - Christa Wehling , German actress, dies in Elmshorn at the age of 68 . She was best known for the numerous television broadcasts from the Hamburg Ohnsorg Theater .
- March 25 - John Snagge, British radio journalist and news presenter, dies at the age of 95.
- May 6th - Heini Kaufeld , German actor, dies in Hamburg at the age of 75 . He was best known for the numerous television broadcasts from the Hamburg Ohnsorg Theater .
- July 15 - Dana Hill , American actress and series actress, dies at the age of 32 in Burbank , Los Angeles .
- October 27 - Morey Amsterdam, American television actor and comedian ( The Dick Van Dyke Show ) dies at the age of 87 in Los Angeles .
- December 11th - Willie Rushton , British cartoonist and radio comedian ( I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue ) dies at the age of 59 in London-Kensington .
- December 13th - Otto Kurth , German actor and director dies at the age of 84 in Munich .
- December 20 - Carl Sagan , American astrophysicist , author and television presenter ( Cosmos: A Personal Voyage ) dies at the age of 62 in Seattle , Washington state .
See also
Web links
- Nicole Kiefer: Timeline of the history of broadcasting / broadcasting legislation In: Saarland University
- TV programs - television chronicle 1980–1997
Individual evidence
- ^ Jürgen Wilke: Media history of the Federal Republic of Germany . Bonn 1999, p. 813.
- ^ The BR in Competition II 1990–1999: 1996 , BR-online , query date: January 25, 2009.