Broadcasting year 2007
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Other events
2007: The Apple iPhone comes onto the market.
General
- January 1st - Alexander Wrabetz takes up his post as General Director of ORF , replacing Monika Lindner .
- January 1st - Fritz Raff becomes chairman of ARD .
- January 9th - Apple unveils the prototype of its newly developed iPhone to the public .
- May - The League of Polish Families , a Catholic political party, criticizes the children's program Teletubbies for allegedly promoting homosexuality and suggests that this program be canceled.
- May - At the University of Innsbruck , an interdisciplinary research project, scheduled to run for around two years, begins on the basis of the received manuscripts of the Ö1 poetry show Du holde Kunst about “ poetry mediation on the radio”. The institutes for German and computer science at the University of Innsbruck as well as public sponsors are involved. One of the goals is to create a publicly accessible database of the more than 3,000 programs broadcast since 1945.
- September 18 - The NDR terminates its contract with the presenter Eva Herman , author of the book The Eva Principle , because of her controversial statements on Nazi family policy.
- November - In the United States comes Amazon Kindle , a reader for electronic books and magazines on the market.
Radio
- January 7th - On the occasion of its 40th anniversary, the Austrian radio broadcaster Ö1 begins repeating the Italian travel series designed by Michael Schrott , a travel documentary lasting several hours that was originally produced in 1986 for the Ö3 series Musicbox .
- March 20 - The author and singer of the band The Golden Lemon , Schorsch Kamerun is for his radio play An image of man, the zero in its sum is the Radio Play Prize of War Blind awarded.
- April 12th - The program Imus in the Morning is canceled due to racist and sexist attacks by the presenter Don Imus after weeks of discussions.
- July 1st - The international broadcasts of the Magyar Rádió are discontinued.
- July 2nd - Radio Arabella Salzburg starts broadcasting .
- August 25th - After 17 years the last edition of the music show Rave Satellite , hosted by Marusha over the airwaves , goes to Fritz .
- September 1st - With the support of the DRA ( German Broadcasting Archive ), SWR2 Archivradio goes into operation as an internet radio . The main focus of the station, which is aimed at an academic audience, is the reproduction of uncommented and, if possible, uncut original sounds on contemporary history such as interviews, parliamentary debates, etc. Ä.
- October 1st - The Austrian radio stations Ö1 and Ö3 celebrate their 40th birthday. Above all, Ö1 celebrates with numerous special programs throughout the year.
- October 7th - The first episode of the popular science series Science Busters will be broadcast on FM4 .
- October 8th - Extensive excerpts from the rediscovered original tapes from the Stammheim trial of 1975 against the Red Army faction can be heard on WDR 5 .
- November 18 - Kuttner & Kuttner is broadcast for the first time on Radio Eins - father and son moderated by Sarah and Jürgen Kuttner .
- December 1st - The Ö1 literature show Tonspuren celebrates its 20th birthday.
watch TV
- January 15th - Comedy Central Germany , which specializes only in comedy, goes live.
- January 16 - Grey's Anatomy TV series wins the Drama category at the Golden Globe Awards in Los Angeles .
- January 23 - In the ZDF is the first edition of the cabaret show news from the hospital to see.
- February 25 - the Swedish private broadcaster Kanal 9 , which belongs to the ProSiebenSat.1 Media group , starts operations.
- March 5th - The broadcasting of analog TV frequencies is stopped at the Pfänder transmitter in Vorarlberg .
- March 31 - The Biography Channel , a pay-TV channel , goes live.
- April 10th - In the middle of the 8th , ORF 1 is the first Austrian Dailysoap to go on air for the first time.
- April 26th - On ORF 1 the (provisionally) last episode of the program runs without a name .
- May - The Dutch television production company Endemol comes under public criticism when it announces a game show called De Grote Donorshow (German: "The great donor show"), in which candidates apply for the donor kidney of a terminally ill person. However, after a few days, the matter turns out to be an advertising stunt staged by Endemol.
- May 3rd - The satirical show Wir sind Kaiser with Robert Palfrader goes on air for the first time on ORF 1 .
- May 10th - ZDF broadcasts the 400th issue of file number XY ... unsolved .
- May 20 - The 400th episode of The Simpsons airs on FOX . Title of the episode: "You Kent Always Say What You Want" (German: "The bad word").
- May 31st - Willkommen Österreich is broadcast for the first time on ORF 1 . Guests in the first program, which has the general theme of “Fear of Crime”, are the cabaret artist and actor Josef Hader and the former head of the former Vienna security office , Max Edelbacher .
- June 9th - Caroline Hamann-Winkelmann speaks her last daily news and goes on baby break. She will give birth to two children in this and announce in 2009 that she will no longer be returning to the news.
- June 14th - Das Erste broadcasts the last episode of the Harald Schmidt Show .
- July 3rd - The English language news channel Press TV goes on air in Iran . Its purpose is to spread the Iranian government's views, especially abroad
- July 16 - Laura Dünnwald speaks her last daily news and goes on baby break. In 2010 she came back to EinsExtra , but left the station after a few months and went to Pro7 Nachrichten Newstime .
- July 22nd - The first will be the last time Kobold TV will be broadcast.
- August 29 - The American series My Name Is Earl premieres on ORF 1 on German-speaking television.
- September 16 - Anne Will starts her Sunday evening talk show on the first with a political focus.
- September 20 - Thorsten Schröder speaks his first 8pm daily news. He replaces the daily announcers Laura Dünnwald and Caroline Hamann-Winkelmann who are both on baby break.
- October 1st - start of the ARTE series The culinary adventures of Sarah Wiener .
- October 13th - For the tenth anniversary of Tabaluga tivi , the 500th broadcast in 16: 9 format can be seen with a new studio.
- November 6th - Meet the Press celebrates its 60th birthday. It is thus the longest continuously broadcast television program in the world.
- November 30th - La Troix , the third French-language television channel of the Belgian public broadcaster RTBF, goes into operation.
- December 8th - Pamela Großer will host the Tigerenten Club for the last time .
- December 12th - Austria 9 TV goes on air as the third private full program in Austria.
- December 12th - After a twelve-year break, the Club 2 discussion format is broadcast again on ORF 2 .
- December 15th - The Tigerenten Club gets a new studio and a presenter Katharina Gast .
Died
- January 19 - Gerhard Bronner Austrian author, cabaret artist and radio presenter ( Schlager for advanced learners , Der Guglhupf ) dies at the age of 84 in Vienna.
- January 28 - Karel Svoboda , Czech composer, dies at the age of 68 in Jevany , Czech Republic . Swoboda was best known to a wide audience for its theme melodies and sound designs for series such as Wickie and the Strong Men , Maya the Bee and The Visitors .
- February 5th - Alfred Worm , Austrian journalist dies at the age of 61 in Vienna.
- February 21 - Daniel Boemle , Swiss radio presenter at DRS 3 and DJ dies at the age of 46 in Les Ponts-de-Martel , Canton Neuchâtel .
- March 13th - Herbert Fux , Austrian actor and politician dies a few days before his 80th birthday in Zurich . Fux played in the 1960s and 1970s for the cinema roles in such diverse genres such as spaghetti westerns and lederhosen films before in many big and small roles in television productions such is a real Viennese not , the country doctor , Kaisermühlen Blues or Stockinger to a busy performer.
- April 22nd - Karl Holzamer , German university professor and first director of the ZDF between 1963 and 1977 , dies at the age of 100 in Mainz .
- June 19 - Klausjürgen Wussow , German actor, dies at the age of 78 in Rüdersdorf near Berlin . Wussow was best known to German-speaking television audiences in his role as "Chief Physician Professor Klaus Brinkmann".
- July 7th - Erich Mathias Mayer , known for his appearances in the role of Hias in the TV series Musikantenstadl, dies at the age of 56 in Johnsbach , Styria .
- July 10th - August Paterno , often known as "Pater Paterno", Austrian radio and television pastor, dies at the age of 71 in Horn .
- July 22nd - Ulrich Mühe , German actor, dies aged 54 in Walbeck (Oebisfelde-Weferlingen) .
- July 31 - Hilde Sicks , German actress, dies in Hamburg at the age of 86 . She was best known for the numerous television broadcasts from the Hamburg Ohnsorg Theater .
- November 12th - Peter Steiner , Swiss musician and advertising actor, dies at the age of 90 in Walenstadt , Canton of St. Gallen . Steiner became known in the 1990s in the role of Cool Man , an advertising figure for chocolate in the entire German-speaking area.
- November 12th - Werner Geier, Austrian radio journalist ( Die Musicbox ) and music producer, dies in Vienna at the age of 45. Geier designed the catchy pause sign for the Austrian youth broadcaster FM4 .
- December 3 - Thomas Brennicke , German radio presenter ( Die Schlager der Woche ) dies at the age of 61 in Munich .
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ You holde Kunst ( Memento from December 27, 2012 in the Internet Archive ).
- ^ Italian travels: tape instead of writing implement ( Memento from September 7, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ WDR author receives radio play award ( Memento from March 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), WDR-Online, March 20, 2007.
- ↑ Program highlights and innovations ( Memento of June 4, 2008 in the Internet Archive ).
- ↑ 100 times Science Busters on FM4 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. FM4 website, accessed September 11, 2009
- ^ The Stammheim volumes , accessed on April 3, 2009.
- ↑ Sarah Kuttner and Pa together on Radio Eins ( memento of the original from January 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Between words and sounds. ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Ö1 website November 30, 2007
