Broadcasting year 2005
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Other events
2005: funeral of John Paul II.
General
- April 2 - Pope John Paul II (Karol Wojtyła) dies at the age of 84 after almost 27 years of pontificate . His funeral becomes an international media event.
- December 31st - The CBS Corporation founds the media group Viacom , which emerged from the "old Viacom". The new company, based in New York, is responsible, among other things, for MTV with all regional branches overseas.
Radio
- January 16 - The Austrian radio station FM4 celebrates its tenth birthday.
- March 29th - Stefan Weigl is awarded the War Blind Radio Play Prize for the radio play Stripped - A Life in Account Statements produced by WDR .
- October 1st: The operation of hr-klassik was stopped after just seven years for cost reasons. The frequencies of the program were distributed to the other waves of the Hessischer Rundfunk (mainly hr2).
- October 14th - The first BBC proclaimed John Peel Day is celebrated worldwide .
- December 16 - In the United States, the last Howard Stern Show is broadcast on analog radio frequencies.
watch TV
- January 5th - The ABC television series All My Children celebrates its 35th birthday.
- January 16 - At the 62nd Golden Globe Awards in Los Angeles , the series Desperate Housewives and Nip / Tuck are recognized in the comedy and television drama categories, respectively.
- January 30th - Das Erste broadcasts the 1,000th episode of Lindenstrasse .
- February 19 - The BBC series EastEnders celebrates its 20th birthday.
- February 27th - ProSieben broadcasts fifteen episodes of the series Do Over - Back to the 80s .
- March 26 - After a 16-year hiatus, BBC One launches a new season of the science fiction series Doctor Who .
- April 25 - The questioning of witnesses in the committee of inquiry into the visa affair is broadcast live on television as the first such questioning in the history of the German Bundestag . Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer answered questions from committee members for more than ten hours.
- April 28th - RTL II broadcasts Law & Order: New York for the first time on German-language television.
- July 17th - The British music show Top of the Pops switches from BBC One to BBC Two due to dwindling audience interest and is increasingly devoted to the alternative mainstream .
- July 24th - On the 222nd birthday of Simón Bolívar , the international television station Telesur starts . The station, which sees itself as a channel for the integration of Latin America , goes back to an initiative of the President of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez . In addition to Venezuela, Argentina, Bolivia, Ecuador, Cuba and Nicaragua are involved.
- August 1st - Austrian television celebrates its 50th birthday.
- September 1st - The MTV Adria specialty channel, which belongs to the Viacom Group , begins operations in Ljubljana .
- September 2 - A concert for Hurricane Relief, organized by NBC Universal to benefit victims of Hurricane Katrina , is televised nationwide in the United States. Viewers have the option to donate via telephone line.
- September 12th - The private children's channel Nick , renamed Nickelodeon in 2010 , starts broadcasting.
- September 17th - The Tigerenten Club celebrates its 500th broadcast.
- 26./27. September - The documentary No Direction Home by Martin Scorsese about the early career of Bob Dylan has on BBC Two premiere.
- December 31st - Karl Moik moderates his last Musikantenstadl as “Silvesterstadl” in the first .
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- January 23 - Johnny Carson , American TV entertainer ( The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson , 1962–1992), dies aged 79 in Los Angeles.
- February 23 - Truck Branss , German radio and television director ( ZDF hit parade , Dalli Dalli ) dies at the age of 79 in Langendorf .
- March 4th - Thomas Wilkening , German television producer ( Polizeiruf 110 ) dies at the age of 48 on Hiddensee .
- March 6 - Tommy Vance , British radio presenter ( Top of the Pops ) dies at the age of 64 near Dartford , Kent .
- March 8th - Brigitte Mira , German actress ( three ladies from the grill ) and Berliner Original dies at the age of 94 in Berlin.
- March 17 - Wolf in der Maur , Austrian journalist, radio and television director of the ORF between 1974 and 1984, dies at the age of 81 in Vienna.
- April 1 - Harald Juhnke , German actor, singer and entertainer dies at the age of 75 in Rüdersdorf near Berlin .
- June 3 - Leon Askin , Austrian actor and director dies at the age of 97 in Vienna. Askin became known to the Austrian television audience in the 1980s through the role of Rudolf Wasservogel in the crime parody Kottan .
- June 6 - Dana Elcar , American actor and serial actor ( MacGyver ) dies in Ventura at the age of 77 .
- June 9th - Boris Acqudo , Swiss sports commentator dies at the age of 76.
- June 10th - Tobias Krause , German-Austrian television producer ( The Barometer Maker on the Magic Island ) dies at the age of 40 in Baden near Vienna .
- July 16 - Camillo Felgen , Luxembourg singer and television presenter ( Games without Borders ) dies at the age of 84 in Esch-sur-Alzette .
- July 20 - James Doohan , Canadian actor, dies at the age of 85 in Redmond , Washington. Doohan was most notably in the role of Lt. Cmdr. Montgomery Scott ("Scotty") known in the television series Starship Enterprise .
- August 3rd - Hans E. Schons , German actor dies at the age of 85 in Berlin . He was best known for his numerous roles in Fritz Umgelter's television films .
- August 7 - Peter Jennings , Canadian-American journalist, anchorman of ABC ( World News Tonight ) dies in New York at the age of 67 .
- August 8 - Barbara Bel Geddes , American actress, dies in Maine at the age of 82. She became known to an international television audience in the 1980s as "Miss Ellie" Ewing in the television series Dallas .
- August 23 - Hans-Joachim Reiche , German television journalist ( Tagesschau ), dies at the age of 84 in Bad Godesberg .
- August 28th - Hans Clarin , German actor and voice actor (voice of Pumuckl in the children's series Meister Eder und seine Pumuckl ) dies shortly before his 76th birthday in Aschau im Chiemgau .
- September 2 - Bob Denver , American actor ( Gilligan's Island , 1964–1967) dies at the age of 70 in Winston-Salem , North Carolina.
- September 23rd - Peter Thom , German actor dies at the age of 70 by suicide in Munich . He has worked in numerous radio and television productions since the late 1950s.
- September 27 - Jerry Juhl , American screenwriter ( Muppet Show ) dies at the age of 67 in San Francisco .
- October 1st - Hermann Stümpert , German radio journalist ( Saarländischer Rundfunk ) dies at the age of 56.
- October 4th - Claudia Christina , German pop singer and presenter of the NDR ( Freut dich des Nordens ) dies at the age of 39.
- October 31st - Helmut Brennicke , German actor, director, radio play speaker, acting teacher and author dies at the age of 87 in Krailling ( Starnberg district ).
- November 16 - Ralph Edwards - American radio and television pioneer ( Truth or Consequences ) dies at the age of 92 in Los Angeles .
- December 1st - Michael Kehlmann , Austrian actor and director, numerous literary adaptations (especially Joseph Roth ) for television: u. a. Job , Radetzky March , The Wrong Weight .
- December 6th - Hanns Dieter Hüsch , German cabaret artist, author and radio presenter ( Hanns Dieter Hüsch's social evening , 1973–2001 on SR ) dies at the age of 80 in Windeck- Werfen.
- December 26th - Kerry Packer , Australian media entrepreneur, dies in Sydney at the age of 68 .
