Broadcasting year 1998
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Other events
1998: The Lewinsky affair takes up a large part of international media coverage.
General
- January 15 - The Austrian public broadcaster ORF and the Franco-German cultural channel ARTE sign a cooperation agreement.
- January 17 - The website Drudge Report speculated about an affair in the White House , the US President Bill Clinton will be involved. When the Washington Post picked up the subject four days later, the Lewinsky affair got rolling.
- March - At the CeBIT is MPMan F10 presented the first MP3 player for the mass market.
- May 27 - The European Commission bans the merger of Bertelsmann and the Kirch Group on digital television.
- August 30th - Südwestrundfunk (SWR) , founded on January 1st, takes over the broadcasting operations of SDR and SWF .
- September 7th - The search engine Google goes online in a first test version.
- September 23rd - “Fee Collection Service GmbH” (today: Fee Info Service , GIS), a subsidiary of ORF for collecting radio fees , is founded.
Radio
- March 28th - The music show American Top 40 with Casey Kasem returns to the program.
- April 1st - Official start of private radio in Austria.
- August 17th - The free radio station Orange 94.0 starts in the greater Vienna area .
- October 7th - The independent Radio Radiofabrik 107.5 starts broadcasting in Salzburg .
- October 17 - The Voice of Palestine goes on air.
watch TV
- January 3rd - Pamela Großer and Dennis Wilms take over the moderation of the Tigerenten Club .
- January 5th - The children's channel takes over the Spanish animated series Die Herlufs ( Los Herlufs ).
- January 7th - BR-alpha , the education channel of the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation, goes on air.
- January 15 - ZDF shows the first episode of the Johannes B. Kerner talk show series .
- January 18 - The X-Files and Ally McBeal TV series are honored at the 55th Golden Globes Awards in Los Angeles .
- April 8th - The TV station VOX begins the German-language premiere of Ally McBeal .
- July 25th - The 12-part US animated series Ned's Evil Night Stories can be seen for the first time on Super RTL .
- July 26th - Sci-Fantasy shows the documentary program Sightings-Dem inexplicable on the trail .
- September 5th - Anika Böcher moderates Tabaluga tivi for the first time .
- September 7th - The US animated series Mummies Alive - The Guardians of the Pharaoh can be seen for the first time on Super RTL .
- September 27th - The first episode of the science series alpha-Centauri , which is dedicated to astronomy and astrophysics , can be seen on BR-alpha .
- October 16 - ZDF shows the 281st and final edition of the Derrick crime series . Title of the episode: "The parting present".
- October 27th - The Kinderkanal takes over the Australian series In Search of Treasure Island .
Died
- February 26th - Vico Torriani , Swiss pop singer and presenter of the ZDF game show The Golden Shot , dies at the age of 77 in Agno .
- April 8th - Annemarie Cordes , German actress, dies in Wiesbaden at the age of 79 . She was best known for the role of Steve Temple on the side of René Deltgen in the Paul Temple radio plays by Francis Durbridge.
- April 11th - Francis Durbridge , British writer and screenwriter, dies in London at the age of 85 . He was best known for the radio play series about the detective Paul Temple and the multi-part television films such as Das Halstuch and Tim Frazer , which coined the term street sweeper in the early 1960s .
- May 3 - Raimund Harmstorf , German actor ( Der Seewolf , Michael Strogoff ) dies at the age of 58 in Marktoberdorf , Allgäu .
- August 14th - Hans-Joachim Kulenkampff , German showmaster dies at the age of 77 in his adopted home town of Seeham in Austria.
- August 18 - Jürgen Pooch , German actor, dies in Turkey at the age of 55 . He was best known for the numerous television broadcasts from the Hamburg Ohnsorg Theater .
- August 19 - Hellmut Andics , Austrian journalist, screenwriter ( Ringstrasse Palace ) and documentary filmmaker dies a few days before his 76th birthday in Vienna .
- September 4th - Hans Brenner , Austrian actor dies at the age of 59 in Munich .
- September 27th - Harald Vock , German director and author dies at the age of 73 in Hamburg .
- November 28th - Hans Mohl , long-time moderator of the health magazine Praxis , dies of cancer shortly before his 70th birthday.
- December 6 - Max Eckard , German actors, especially from the street sweepers Tim Frazer of Francis Durbridge known dies aged 84 (* 1914).
See also
Web links
- Nicole Kiefer: Timeline of the history of broadcasting / broadcasting legislation In: Saarland University
Individual evidence
- ^ Jürgen Wilke: Media history of the Federal Republic of Germany . Bonn 1999, p. 814.