Broadcasting year 2002
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2002: Ozzy Osbourne, who celebrated his greatest success as a rock star in the 1970s, achieved greater notoriety with a younger music and television audience with his documentary soap The Osbournes
General
- January 1st - Introduction of the euro as cash in 12 member states of the European Union .
- January 1st - Monika Lindner takes up her position as Director General of ORF .
- April - The formerly influential Kirch Group (film rights exploiters) has to file for bankruptcy due to the overwhelming debt burden of 7 billion euros .
- August 27 - Sony announces the end of beta max production.
Radio
- January 2 - The Glenn Beck Program , a US talk radio show, airs for the first time.
- February 2nd - The digital sports broadcaster BBC Radio 5 Live Sports Extra starts operations.
- January 19 - In a “retaliatory strike”, the Israeli Armed Forces detonated several “explosives and set fire to the building they had previously evacuated” on the Voice of Palestine station .
- March 11th - The radio broadcaster BBC 6 Music , which can only be received digitally , starts operations.
- May 25 - The Kabarettduo Stermann & Grissemann , which is entitled The most beautiful song in the world for participation in the vain even in the Austrian preliminary Euro Vision Song Contest has advertised this event provides for the youth radio station FM4 for the seventh and (until 2012) for the time being for the last time with his satirical comments.
- May 29th - Andreas Ammer is awarded the War Blind Radio Play Prize for his radio play Crashing Airplanes (Fasten Seatbelts) .
watch TV
- January 7th - VIVA Zwei is replaced by VIVA Plus .
- January 20 - The 59th Golden Globe Awards in Los Angeles honors the series Six Feet Under and Sex and the City .
- January 20 - ZDF broadcasts the first episode of the discussion series The Philosophical Quartet with Peter Sloterdijk and Rüdiger Safranski .
- February 11th - The two children's TV channels CBeebies ( BBC ) and CBBC Channel are launched in the UK .
- March - Markus Schächter is elected fourth director of the ZDF. He succeeds Dieter Stolte , who served for 20 years.
- March 2nd - BBC Four replaces BBC Knowledge , the previous BBC cultural channel .
- March 5th - Das Erste broadcasts the first part of the television series Berlin, Berlin .
- April - Kirch Group has accumulated over € 7 billion (today around € 8.907 billion) in debt and has to file for bankruptcy.
- April 24th - The documentary soap The Osbournes about the everyday life of the family of British rock musician Ozzy Osbourne in his home in Los Angeles can be seen on German-language television for the first time.
- April 28th - The television station Tele 5 is reanimated.
- May 10th - The first episode of the documentary film series Durch die Nacht mit… can be seen on ARTE . Guests of the first episode, which was shot in Berlin, are Christoph Schlingensief and Christian Thielemann .
- May 20 - The 500th episode of the crime series Tatort can be seen under the title Endspiel .
- June 2 - US broadcaster HBO begins broadcasting The Wire series . Among the authors of the series, which deals with the drug scene in Baltimore , is the novelist Richard Price .
- June 6 - The US Disney Channel is broadcasting the first episode of the animated series Kim Possible .
- July - BBC Food International TV Channel launched .
- September - ATV begins the first season of the documentary soap Die Lugners . Based on the example of The Osbournes , the everyday life of the colorful Viennese building contractor Richard Lugner and his family is depicted.
- September 14th - The Tigerenten Club celebrates its 350th broadcast.
- September 26th - The last edition of the long-standing culture magazine kunst-pieces is broadcast on ORF 1 . The content of the program, moderated by Andrea Schurian, is determined by the viewers, including an edition of Monty Python's Flying Circus and a broad-based documentary about the industrial band Einstürzende Neubauten .
- October 1st - The Austrian special interest broadcaster gotv starts operations.
- October 1st - Bibel TV goes live.
- October 17th - On ORF 1 , the show without a name, developed by David Schalko and Fred Schreiber , premieres.
- November 1st - Start of digital terrestrial television DVB-T in Germany.
- December 23rd - SVT launches the Swedish children's channel Barnkanalen .
Died
- February 27 - Spike Milligan , Irish comedian ( The Goon Show , BBC radio show, 1951–1960) dies at the age of 83 in Rye , East Sussex .
- March 27 - Milton Berle , American actor and entertainer ( Texaco Star Theater ) dies at the age of 93 in Los Angeles. He became one of the first great stars of American television in the 1940s and 1950s.
- May 19 - Hans Posegga , German film and television composer (music for Die Sendung mit der Maus and ZDF adventure four -parter Der Seewolf ) dies in Vienna at the age of 85 .
- August 5 - Chick Hearn , American sports reporter, dies in California at the age of 85 .
- October 16 - Karl-Heinz Kreienbaum , German actor, dies at the age of 87 in Schleswig . He was best known for television broadcasts from the Hamburg Ohnsorg Theater .
- December 3 - Klaus Löwitsch , German actor, dies in Munich at the age of 66 . Löwitsch was first known as a theater and film actor, before he played the macho investigator Peter Strohm in 63 episodes in the crime series of the same name from the late 1980s .
- December 6th - Gerhard Löwenthal , German journalist ( ZDF-Magazin ) dies shortly before his 80th birthday in Wiesbaden .
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ "Retaliation: Israel destroys Arafat's radio station" , in: Der Spiegel , January 19, 2002.
- ↑ “Radio Play Prize for Crashing Airplanes ” , Deutsche Welle , May 29, 2002.
- ↑ "Golden Globes: 2002 winners in full" , BBC News , December 20, 2,001th