Broadcasting year 2006
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Other events
General
- The caricatures published in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten under the title The Face of Mohammeds ( Muhammeds ansigt ) trigger violent protests in the Islamic world, including calls for murder against the authors.
- May 18 - The ORF journalist Armin Wolf receives the Robert Hochner Prize endowed with 7,200 euros . In his acceptance speech, he sharply criticized the “unrestrained” influence of the black-blue federal government on the ORF, especially on political reporting.
- August 18th - Alexander Wrabetz is elected to the ORF Board of Trustees as the new General Director of ORF.
- September 18 - Due to the government and confidence crisis in Hungary , the main building of the Hungarian television station MTV in Budapest is briefly occupied by demonstrators critical of the government.
- October 7 - The Russian journalist Anna Stepanovna Politkovskaya is murdered in Moscow .
- October 9th - Google takes over the Internet video portal YouTube for 1.31 billion euros.
- October 26th - The ORF begins broadcasting in DVB-T .
Radio
- April 27th - under the motto save spark! listeners and celebrities like Elfriede Jelinek , Heribert Prantl and Sandra Maischberger protest against the discontinuation of the youth program Zündfunk broadcast on Bayern 2 .
- May 3 - The US radio station Deep Tracks broadcasts the first episode of the series Theme Time Radio Hour designed and presented by Bob Dylan .
- October 3rd - The Ö1 series Hörbilder celebrates its 25th birthday.
- October 15 - The first episode of the radio show Trost und Rat with Willi Resetarits is broadcast on Radio Wien .
- October 27 - Michaela Melián receive for their radio play Föhrenwald the Radio Play Prize of War Blind .
watch TV
- January 5 - The former MTV presenter Charlotte Roche hosted the first-ever edition of ARTE telecast tracks .
- January 16 - The 63rd Golden Globe Awards recognize the series Lost and Desperate Housewives .
- March 14th - The first begins with the broadcast of the first of three seasons of the previous evening series Turkish for Beginners , which deals in a humorous way with the everyday problems of a German-Turkish blended family.
- March 22nd - Pitt & Kantrop can be seen for the first time on KI.KA.
- April 18th - Kabel eins starts with Quiz Taxi .
- May 3 - MTV Central airs the first episode of the controversial series Popetown .
- May 20 - The live broadcast of the drawing of the lottery numbers on BBC One is stormed by activists from the Fathers 4 Justice organization , whereupon the broadcast is canceled.
- July 30th - BBC Two airs the final episode of Top of the Pops after 42 years of running .
- August 1st - The music channel MTV celebrates its 25th birthday worldwide.
- August 2nd - kabel eins begins the German-language premiere of the series Ghost Whisperer .
- August 3 - The last episode of Sarah Kuttner - The Show will be broadcast on MTV Central .
- August 31st - Ulrich Wickert will present the ARD program Tagesthemen for the last time .
- August 31 - The Swiss private broadcaster 3 Plus TV starts operations.
- September 4 - ATV shines as the first German-language institution, the American television series Joey from
- September 12th - ABC airs the first episode of Men in Trees .
- September 16 - On ProSieben and ORF 1 , the US television series Alle hate Chris can be seen for the first time on German-language TV.
- September 27 - The originally scheduled for broadcast in prime time by the WDR produced television drama anger is displaced due to its extremely sensitive contents (exerted by Turkish-born German youth violence) from Wednesday to Friday in the late evening, providing the public for special attention.
- October 11 - NBC will broadcast the first episode of the Tina Fey- designed sitcom 30 Rock . The episodes, which revolve around the production of the fictional television program The Girlie Show , cast a loving, satirical look at the background of the showbiz.
- October 30th - The first episode of the Niels Ruf Show can be seen on the pay TV channel Sat.1 Comedy .
- November 27th - Special-interest channel RTL Crime starts broadcasting .
- December 13th - French-speaking Belgian television broadcasts the mockumentary Bye Bye Belgium , which reports on the alleged declaration of independence of the Flemish part of Belgium. Thousands of viewers in Belgium think they are "real" and call the station.
Died
- February 8 - Ernst Grabbe , German actor, dies in Hamburg at the age of 79 . He was best known for the numerous television broadcasts from the Hamburg Ohnsorg Theater .
- March 1st - Annette von Aretin , in 1954 the first TV announcer at BR , in the entire German-speaking area as a member of the advice team for the quiz program Was bin ich? known, dies at the age of 85 in Munich .
- May 2nd - Hugo Kirnbauer , Austrian radio pioneer , publicist and radio presenter ( Die Technische Rundschau , 1955–1997) dies at the age of 87 in Linz , Upper Austria .
- May 14th - Günther Nenning , Austrian journalist and host of Club 2 dies at the age of 84 in Waidring , Tyrol.
- July 3 - Hans Bierbrauer , German draftsman, caricaturist and painter, dies at the age of 84 in Eutin , Schleswig-Holstein. Bierbrauer became known as "Schnellbildner Oskar" in the TV series Dalli Dalli (1971–1986).
- July 7th - Rudi Carrell , Dutch-German showmaster ( Churning Band , Herzblatt ) and actor dies in Bremen at the age of 71 .
- July 25th - Elisabeth Volkmann , German actress, comedian and voice actress (German voice of the cartoon character Marge Simpson ) dies in Munich at the age of 70.
- August 21 - Klaus Höhne , German actor, radio play and voice actor dies at the age of 79 in Murnau am Staffelsee . He became known, among other things, as Tatortkommissar Konrad in the 1970s.
- September 3rd - Annemarie Wendl , German actress, dies near Munich at the age of 91. Wendl was best known for playing the figure of the caretaker Else Kling in the television series Lindenstrasse .
- September 4th - Steve Irwin , Australian documentary filmmaker and animal rights activist, dies off the coast of Port Douglas at the age of 44 .
- September 15th - Mäni Weber , Swiss television presenter ( Dopplet or nüt ) dies at the age of 71 in Lucerne .
- November 10th - The German sports journalist Willy Knupp dies at the age of 70 in Cologne .
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ Armin Wolf Robert Hochner Prize (PDF file; 72 kB)
- ↑ ORF: Dr. Alexander Wrabetz elected new General Director Austria News, August 18, 2006
- ↑ Digital antenna TV (DVB-T)
- ↑ Audio images - a fixed point in the Ö1 program for 25 years ( memento of the original from September 29, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ORF press release, October 3, 2006
- ↑ Radio play and book: Föhrenwald ( Memento of the original dated November 27, 2005 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. HR-Online October 27, 2006
- ↑ Charlotte Roche: Gaga when I moderate ( memento from December 3, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) netzeitung.de on January 5, 2006
