Broadcasting year 2015

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2015: Broadcasting deadline for medium wave in Germany. As the last MW transmitter, the Heusweiler from Saarländischer Rundfunk stopped broadcasting from Antenne Saar and DLF on New Year's Eve 2015.

General

• January 7th - An attack on the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris leaves twelve dead and several injured. The magazine, which had already been the target of attacks and hacker attacks in the past, not only reprinted the Mohammed cartoons in the Danish magazine Jyllands-Posten in 2006 , but also repeatedly spoke out against Islamism as a global totalitarian movement and the threat it poses noted for freedom of expression .
• June 29 - The International Olympic Committee sold the broadcast rights for the 2018 , 2020 , 2022 and 2024 Olympic Games for € 1.3 billion to Discovery Communications , mainly represented in Europe by Eurosport .
• December 13th - In poor visibility and fog, a Fournier RF-5 motor glider struck the Koblenz transmitter (Dieblich-Naßheck) .

Radio

• January 13th - Norddeutscher Rundfunk switches off medium wave transmitters in Flensburg , Hamburg-Moorfleet , Hanover-Hemmingen and Lingen . The money saved will be used to expand DAB + . Since then, NDR Info Spezial can only be received via DAB + , DVB-S and the Internet. In Germany, only BR , SR and WDR continue to broadcast via medium wave . Deutschlandfunk also wants to end its medium-wave broadcasting by the end of 2015 .
• January 16 - The Austrian youth culture and music channel FM4 is celebrating the 20th anniversary of the start of broadcasting with the best 100 songs from two decades.
• April 25 - In order to bring drastic attention to the hypocrisy they perceive in the debate about animal rights , the two Danish radio presenters Asger Juhl and Kristoffer Erikson pretend to kill a rabbit during a live broadcast for Radio24syv, causing violent reactions to death threats trigger.
• July 6th - WDR stops broadcasting its two medium wave transmitters in Bonn and Langenberg .
• July 18 - The early as 2013 disused transmission tower of the RIAS in Berlin-Britz was blown up.
• September 1st - The Dutch radio broadcaster Radio Maria closes its Mittelwelen operations.
• September 30th - The BR switches off its four medium wave transmitters in Ismaning and Dillberg , Würzburg and Hof .
• December 31st - Deutschlandfunk and Saarländischer Rundfunk are the last German public radio to withdraw from medium wave with their antenna Saar program . The Heusweiler (DLF and SR) transmitters , as well as Ehndorf , Cremlingen-Abbenrode , Nordkirchen , Thurnau and Ravensburg (Wilhelmskirch) transmitters are switched off. This means that medium-wave transmission in Germany ends after 92 years .
• December 31st -  Radio France also ceases medium-wave broadcasting operations, including the medium-wave transmitter Sélestat .

watch TV

• January 1 - The 2015 New Year's Concert by the Vienna Philharmonic will be broadcast in 92 countries around the world and watched by more than 50 million TV viewers.
• January 11th - Presentation of the 72nd Golden Globe Awards
• Jan. 12 - On ORF 1 is the first episode of the dramedy - Series Vorstadtweiber to see.
• January 16 - The series adaptation of the science fiction film 12 Monkeys starts at Syfy .
• January 25th - Presentation of the 21st Screen Actors Guild Awards
• February 5 - 67th Directors Guild of America Award ceremony
• February 8 - AMC begins with the broadcast of the Breaking-Bad - offshoot Better Call Saul .
• February 14 - 67th Writers Guild of America Awards ceremony
• Feb. 18 - If CBS is The Mentalist ended with the 151st episode.
• February 19 - The CBS comedy series Two and a Half Men ends after twelve seasons with the 262nd episode.
• February 23 -  Sat.1 begins broadcasting the reality TV show Newtopia .
• March 4th - With CSI: Cyber the third offshoot of CSI: Vegas starts .
• March 7th - n-tv expands its main news program at 8 p.m. from five to 15 minutes and is thus just as long as the ARD news broadcast at the same time
• March 20 - Fox shows the 121st and final episode of the musical series Glee .
• March 21 - WDR television broadcasts the first episode of the comedy series PussyTerror TV with Carolin Kebekus .
• April 6th -  Tele 5 starts with Der Klügere tilts to (based on an idea by Hugo Egon Balder ), Frau Dingens wants three new formats to watch TV with Kirstin Warnke and Boomarama Late Night with Aurel Mertz .
• April 9th ​​- The French news broadcaster TV5 Monde is paralyzed for half a day by a hacker attack.
• May 5 - The first shines in Austria produced television series Vorstadtweiber out. As before in Austria, it is getting high ratings.
• May 14th - The Pro7 live broadcast of the finals of the 10th season of Germany's Next Topmodel in the Mannheim SAP Arena had to be canceled due to a bomb threat.
• June 17 - Stefan Raab and ProSieben announce that the entertainer will end his TV career at the end of 2015.
• June 26th - The soap opera Verbotene Liebe , which ran in the evening program of the First German Television, was discontinued after 4664 episodes.
• June - Presentation of the 5th Critics' Choice Television Award
• July 11th - The first parted with the knowledge program Kopfball after 26 years.
• August - A show Hart aber fair by WDR television is removed from the ARD media library and discontinued a few days later.
• September - 67th Emmy Awards ceremony
• December 6th - Die Lindenstrasse - episode 1559 “Behind the Door” is broadcast completely live on the first on the occasion of the 30th anniversary .
• December 16 - TV total is discontinued after 2303 issues. With a running time of over 16 years, it is the longest-running late-night show on German television.
• December 19 - After the 55th broadcast, Stefan Raab ends his TV presence with Schlag den Raab .

Died

• January 3rd - Kurt Kuch , Austrian journalist ( News ) dies at the age of 42 in Graz.
• January 9th - Emil Breisach , director of the ORF regional studio in Styria from 1968 to 1988, dies in Graz at the age of 91.
• January 23rd - Walter Mayer , German physicist and radio and television pioneer, dies in Zirndorf at the age of 88.
• February 2nd - Ben Wettervogel , German meteorologist first on the radio, later on ZDF dies aged 53 in Berlin.
• February 5 - Harald Augter , German lawyer, association and committee functionary. Member of the SWR Broadcasting Council since 2002 and its chairman since 2008, dies at the age of 68.
• February 23 - Erwin Fischer , Austrian television journalist (including ZIB , Seitenblicke ) dies at the age of 76.
• February 27 - Leonard Nimoy , American actor dies at the age of 83 in Los Angeles.
• March 5th - Karina Kraushaar , German actress, dies in Hamburg at the age of 43.
• March 8 - Sam Simon , American television producer ( The Simpsons ) dies in Los Angeles at the age of 59.
• March 21 - Alberta Watson , Canadian actress ( Nikita , 1997–2001, 24 , 2001–2010) dies at the age of 60 in Toronto.
• March 26th - Karl Moik , Austrian television presenter ( Musikantenstadl , 1981–2005) dies at the age of 76 in Salzburg.
• March 30th - Helmut Dietl , German film and television director ( Der completely normal madness , 1979, Monaco Franze - Der eternal Stenz , 1981–1983) dies in Munich at the age of 70.
• April 2 - Robert Schuller , American television preacher, dies at the age of 88 in Artesia, California .
• April 3 - Kayahan Açar , Turkish singer and participant in the 1990 Eurovision Song Contest, dies in Istanbul at the age of 66.
• April 6 - James Best , American actor ( A Duke Seldom Comes Alone , 1979–1985) dies at the age of 88.
• April 8th - Sebastian Radke , German radio and television presenter dies at the age of 40 in Berlin.
• April 14th - Klaus Bednarz , German journalist, first ARD foreign correspondent as well as editor and moderator of Monitor , dies at the age of 72 in Schwerin
• April 14th - Franz Kreuzer , Austrian journalist, politician and television director dies in Vienna at the age of 86.
• April 20 - Werner Zimmer , German radio and television presenter a. a. Sportschau dies at the age of 78.
• April 29th - Ruth Bunkenburg , German actress, writer, radio play author and speaker at Radio Bremen dies at the age of 92 in Achim .
• May 27th - Elisabeth Wiedemann , German actress ( One Heart and One Soul ) dies at the age of 89.
• June 6 - Pierre Brice , French actor ( Winnetou in the Karl May films ) dies at the age of 86.
• June 27th - Gerd Bacher , Austrian journalist and three-time ORF director, dies at the age of 89 in Salzburg.
• June 28th - Dietrich Haugk , German director (including Praxis Bülowbogen , 1986–1996, various episodes of Der Kommissar , 1968–1975 and Derrick , 1974–1998), screenwriter and dubbing actor, dies at the age of 90.
• July 16 - Ulrich Lenk , German actor, dies in Chemnitz at the age of 48.
• July 24th - Ernst Trost , Austrian journalist ( Kronen Zeitung ), author and documentary filmmaker ( That stayed from the Doppeladler , 1986–1993) dies at the age of 82 in St. Pölten.
• August 15 - Max Greger , German musician (big band leader of numerous ZDF broadcasts) dies at the age of 89 in Munich.
• August 26 - The US reporter team, Alison Parker and Adam Ward , are murdered while on a live broadcast in Moneta, Virginia
• October 9 - Andreas Mannkopff , German actor (numerous television roles among others in various ZDF - Adventure Four dividers ) dies 76-year-old in Berlin.
• November 26th - Norbert Gastell , German actor and voice actor (German voice of Homer Simpson ) dies in Munich at the age of 86.
• December 8th - Herbert Prikopa , Austrian conductor, composer, as well as radio ( Der Guglhupf , 1978–2009) and television personality dies shortly after his 80th birthday in Vienna.

See also

Portal: Radio  - Overview of Wikipedia content on radio

Portal: TV  - Overview of Wikipedia content on TV

Individual evidence

1. ↑ IOC grants TV rights for the Olympics to Eurosport - Earthquake on the Olympic TV market: The IOC has awarded the rights for the 2018 to 2024 Games to Eurosport. The price is 1.3 billion euros. ARD and ZDF now have to buy sub-licenses. on welt.de from June 29, 2015
2. ↑ IOC awards all TV rights in Europe to Eurosport nzz.ch from June 29, 2015
3. ↑ The medium wave goes - NDR Info Spezial stays ( memento from January 9, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) on ndr.de; online on the Internet: January 6, 2015
4. ↑ Almost all ARD radio stations tune in to medium wave on heise.de from January 6, 2015
5. ↑ 20 Years of FM4 - The Best 100 Songs , accessed on January 22, 2015
6. ↑ Shitstorm after the rabbit scandal , derStandard.at , accessed on May 29, 2015
7. ↑ lWDR switched off medium wave  ( 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. by Kai Ludwig on radioeins.de on July 6, 2015  
8. ↑ Bonn and Langenberg: WDR switches off medium wave transmitters on July 6th - traffic radio and "WDR Event" continue to be received digitally. WDR press release of July 1st, 2015
9. ↑ Medium wave frequencies in France and the Netherlands are switched off by Tom Sprenger on radiowoche.de on July 26, 2015
10. ↑ German medium wave dies out on heise online from December 20, 2015
11. ↑ The last German medium wave transmitter will be switched off on heise online from December 31, 2015
12. ↑ The medium wave falls silent forever from Thiemo Heeg on faz.net from December 31, 2015
13. ↑ France Bleu Elsass continues as web radio by Tom Sprenger; on radiowoche.de from October 31, 2015
14. ↑ New Year's Concert 2015 with Zubin Mehta . Retrieved January 2, 2015.
15. ↑ About a humorous evening in Hamburg - "The wiser one tips over": Back to the future by Uwe Mantel from March 17, 2015
16. ↑ Sexism allegations: WDR deletes Plasberg Talk from the media library of August 22, 2015 and allegations of sexism: WDR puts the controversial Plasberg Talk back online on August 31, 2015; both on: Spiegel Online
17. ^ Mainz: IHK Honorary President Harald Augter has passed away
18. ↑ Long-time ORF journalist Erwin Fischer has passed away , derStandard.at , accessed on February 28, 2015.
19. ↑ Derrick director Dietrich Haugk died at the age of 90 , derStandard.at , accessed on June 30, 2015.
20. ↑ Shots in Virginia Reporter team murdered during live broadcast ( memento from August 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) on tagesschau.de from August 26, 2015.