Broadcasting year 2000
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Other events
General
- August - The brothers Marc, Oliver and Alexander Samwer found Jamba! , which rose to one of the most successful but also most controversial Internet companies of the 2000s within just a few years. To sell its products, primarily cell phone ring tones and cell phone wallpapers, Jamba! aggressively used, brightly colored TV advertising on music channels such as MTV or VIVA . In the mid-2000s, commercials for this and similar stations consisted largely of ringtone advertising.
- August 27 - A fire on the 540 meter high Ostankino television tower in Moscow claims four lives.
Radio
- January 1 - In Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt going MDR transmitter Jump on the air.
- January 31st - Last day of broadcasting of Blue Danube Radio .
- February - Due to the controversy between Jörg Haider and the cabaret duo Stermann & Grissemann over an alleged murder call, they are banned from broadcasting by the ORF , which leads to a compulsory break from the satire program Salon Helga for about three months .
- February 1 - The Austrian youth channel FM4 becomes a 24-hour program.
- April 1 - The ARD youth radio station Dasding , which was previously only broadcast via the Internet, is also offered on FM frequencies in the metropolitan areas of Baden-Württemberg and Rhineland-Palatinate .
- July 1st - The last edition of the radio show A horse returns home with Willi Resetarits is broadcast on Ö1 .
watch TV
- January 23 - At the 57th Golden Globe Awards in Los Angeles , the TV series The Sopranos and Sex and the City are honored.
- Jan. 24 - On ORF 1 is the first episode of The Millionaire show , the Austrian version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? , hosted by Rainhard Fendrich .
- January 24th - With N24 (after n-tv, which was founded in 1992 ), Germany's second news broadcaster starts its program.
- February 28 - The first season of Big Brother begins on RTL II , which was heavily discussed in public .
- March 1st - Start of the popular channel Goldstar TV .
- May 1 - The common interest channel of ARD and ZDF , children's channel , appears under the name KI.KA on.
- May 13th - The Dutch television NPO breaks off the broadcast of the Eurovision Song Contest 2000 prematurely because of the devastating explosion in Enschede in which 23 people are killed .
- August 10th - The first edition of Wickie, Slime & Paiper can be seen on ORF . Originally a phenomenon in internet forums at the end of the 1990s, the program focuses on pop and everyday culture from the 1970s, with a predominantly Austrian focus.
- August 5th - Alexander Huber and Anika Böcher celebrate their last show from the grassland studio at Tabaluga tivi .
- September 2nd - ZDFtivi broadcasts the 150th Tabaluga tivi program with a new studio.
- September 16 - ORF broadcasts the first season of the Taxi Orange reality format .
- October 1st - MTV broadcasts the Jackass reality format for the first time .
- October 14th - The Tigerenten Club celebrates its 250th broadcast.
- December 12th - ZDF shows the last issue of the political magazine Frontal .
Died
- January 4th - Diether Krebs , German actor ( one heart and one soul ) dies aged 52 in Hamburg .
- February 19 - Sepp Riff , Austrian cameraman dies at the age of 72.
- March 3 - Otto Grünmandl , Austrian cabaret artist, director and writer, dies at the age of 75 in Hall in Tirol . Grünmandl, who was head of the literature department of the ORF regional studio in Tyrol in the 1970s , became particularly well known for his satirical Alpine interviews .
- March 3rd - Michael Leckebusch , German television producer ( Beat Club ) dies at the age of 62 in Osterholz-Scharmbeck .
- July 13 - Ursula Langrock , German actress and radio play speaker (including Steve Temple in the radio play series Paul Temple and the Madison case ) dies at the age of 74 in Hamburg.
- July 25th - Charlotte Schreiber-Just , German actress and radio play speaker, dies shortly before her 86th birthday in Stuttgart .
- August 12th - Max Grießer , German actor ( Munich Stories , Royal Bavarian District Court , Bertl Moosgruber in Police Station 1 ) dies at the age of 71 in Eppstein .
- September 17th - Paula Yates , British television presenter, dies in London at the age of 41 .
- October 10th - Günter Brödl , Austrian music journalist ( Die Musicbox ) and songwriter dies at the age of 45 in Vienna .
- November 15 - Heinz Geggel , head of the agitation department in the Central Committee of the SED and director of the Deutschlandsender, dies at the age of 79 in Berlin .
- November 19 - Ruth Mönch , German radio presenter at Südwestrundfunk dies at the age of 74 in Stuttgart .
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ "We always insult" ( Memento of the original from November 22, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , in: Jungle World , April 19, 2000.
- ↑ A horse returns home espressorosi.at, accessed on June 26, 2009.
