Broadcasting year 2016

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General

• January 1: For the first time, private VHF broadcasters can choose their own network operator in the previous monopoly market.
• January 2: Due to the reform of the public service media in Poland , four directors of public service broadcasters have announced their resignation. Apparently they wanted to anticipate their dismissal, as the new media law gives the government access to the top positions in the broadcasters.
• January 29th: The Stuttgart TV tower is open to the public again after almost three years.
• March 1st: Manfred Krupp becomes director of the Hessischer Rundfunk , succeeding Helmut Reitze .
• March 3: The Deutsche Börse Group announces that ProSiebenSat.1 Media SE will be promoted from MDAX to DAX from March 21, 2016 .
• March 3: Media Broadcast is now part of freenet AG .
• March 18: The Federal Administrative Court in Germany declared the broadcasting fee to be constitutional.

Radio

• By October, AFN in Germany will gradually cease broadcasting via medium wave and many FM frequencies .
• The development in radio in 2016 was mainly characterized by the further digitization of broadcasting, on the one hand by the expansion of DAB + , on the other hand by the penetration of music streaming services , e.g. As identified by the departure of Olli Schulz and Jan Böhmermann of Radio One , which her weekly radio program Soft & Carefully tasks and instead since 15 May the podcast hard & Fluffy produce the above Spotify is available
• The public Bulgarian National Radio (BNR) has only been playing pieces of music by performers for whom the copyright in Europe has expired since December due to a dispute over increased license fees with the collecting society.

watch TV

• January 1: The 76th New Year's Concert of the Vienna Philharmonic was broadcast in over 90 countries around the world, and it was broadcast for the first time in Brazil, Pakistan and Vietnam.
• January 13: After a one-year break, the 2016 German TV Prize is awarded at an industry meeting - without being broadcast on television.
• January 20: The German public broadcasters Südwestrundfunk  and Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk have come under fire because they only used the TV duels in their broadcasting areas of Baden-Württemberg , Rhineland-Palatinate (both SWR) and Saxony-Anhalt (MDR) have invited parties represented in the respective state parliaments.
• January 27th: ZDF ends the Coast Guard crime series .
• February 6: ZDF broadcasts the 2016 Golden Camera award ceremony .
• February 11th: SR television starts test operations in HD 720p format via Astra 19.2 degrees east.
• February 16: The German-French cultural channel Arte broadcasts recently discovered new sources in the form of correspondence and photos under the title The Secrets of Pope John Paul II. A documentary produced by the BBC about the relationship of the Pope, who died in 2005, to the Polish- American philosophy professor Anna-Theresa Tymmieniecka (1923–2014).
• February 22nd: TecTime TV is only possible via satellite with a HbbTV- compatible device and a connection to the Internet, without these requirements you can only see a still image with an information board. TecTime has been broadcast via satellite again since August.
• March 1st: ServusTV Austria is only broadcast in encrypted form.
• from March 17th: The NDR broadcast extra 3 broadcast a song entitled "Erdowie, Erdowo, Erdogan", which satirically deals with the politics of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan  . A few days later, the German ambassador to Turkey was summoned to the Foreign Ministry in Ankara. As the events were known to the German satirist and presenter was Jan Böhmermann in his ZDF broadcast Neo Magazine Royale on March 31, a satirical poem on the Turkish President entitled abusive criticism before. See: Böhmermann affair
• April 2nd: N24 Austria starts broadcasting via Astra 19.2 °.
• May 14th: Final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 in Stockholm, for the first time TV channels in China (Hunan TV) and the United States ( Logo TV ) will broadcast the European Song Contest live.
• May 18: The 6,000th episode of Gute Zeiten, Bad Zeiten is broadcast on RTL.
• May 31: Just in time for the European Football Championship 2016 and the Summer Olympics , high-resolution DVB-T2 HD broadcasting began in some metropolitan regions in Germany . See also DVB-T in Germany .
• May 31: RTL II You launches a streaming and on-demand service from the German television broadcaster RTL II.
• June 4: RTLplus, a special interest channel of the RTL Group, which is aimed primarily at female viewers, goes on air.
• June 4: The timeshift offshoot Toggo plus of the Toggo program window of the children's channel Super RTL goes on air.
• June 9: The German Football League has awarded the broadcasting rights for the four seasons 2017/18 to 2020/21. The pay TV broadcaster Sky retains the rights to the live Bundesliga matches on Saturday and Sunday as well as the 2nd Bundesliga. The Friday games of the Bundesliga will in future be broadcast on Eurosport's pay-TV area . Eurosport also secured pay-TV rights to the relegation and the DFL Supercup .
• June 16: On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of her first appearance in the Tagesschau , Dagmar Berghoff read the news again as part of the Tagesthemen program .
• July 28th: Zee.One starts in German-speaking countries .
• September 4th: The digital channel of the ARD Einsfestival is now called One .
• September 22nd: Cable one documentary starts broadcasting .
• September 25th: What started out 20 years ago as a summer gap filler has now become vacant after 694 broadcasts ! with Christine Westermann and Götz Alsmann .
• October 1: The purely digital youth channel of ARD and ZDF , which was decided by the Prime Minister's Conference in 2014 , went online. The special interest channels EinsPlus and ZDFkultur were discontinued for this.
• November 13: The 1000th crime scene is broadcast and, with the title Taxi to Leipzig, refers to the very first crime scene from 1970.
• November 20: The Tigerenten Club celebrates its 1000th broadcast.
• December 4th: Last Lake Constance crime scene with Blum and Perlmann ( crime scene: what is worth living for )
• On December 17th, Jürgen Domian stopped his talk show of the same name, Domian .

The following series should / were discontinued during the year:

• Murder in good company
• Lafer! Lights! Delicious!

Died

• January 4th: Klaus Arp (* 1950), German conductor and composer, chief conductor of the radio orchestra of the Südwestfunk in Kaiserslautern from 1987 to 1995, dies at the age of 65.
• January 4: Maja Maranow (* 1961), German actress, among others in the ZDF series A strong team , rivals of the racetrack , dies at the age of 54.
• January 4: Achim Mentzel (* 1946), German musician and TV presenter of Achim's hit parade (on DFF from 1989 to 1991 and from 1992 to 2006 on MDR ), dies at the age of 69.
• January 15: Dan Haggerty (* 1941), American actor ( The Man in the Mountains , 1977-78), dies at the age of 74.
• January 31: Terry Wogan (* 1938), Irish-British radio a. TV presenter, dies at the age of 77.
• January 31: Wolfgang Rademann (* 1934), German journalist and television producer, dies at the age of 81. He is considered the founder of successful television series such as Das Traumschiff and Die Schwarzwaldklinik , in 2015 he received the Bambi for his life's work.
• FEBRUARY 3: Joe Alaskey (* 1952), American voice actor (especially the Looney Tunes -Figuren Daffy Duck and Bugs Bunny ), dies at the age of 63 years.
• February 7th: Roger Willemsen (* 1955), German television presenter and author, dies at the age of 60.
• February 23: Peter Lustig (* 1937), German TV presenter of the ZDF children's program Löwenzahn (1981–2005), dies at the age of 78.
• February 28: Frank Kelly (* 1938), Irish actor (known from the comedy series Father Ted ), dies at the age of 77.
• April 16: Josef "Joki" Kirschner (* 1931), Austrian television presenter ( Tritsch Tratsch , 1979–1984), dies at the age of 84.
• April 30: Uwe Friedrichsen (* 1934), German actor and voice actor, dies at the age of 81.
• June 19: Götz George (* 1938), German actor, dies at the age of 77.
• July 11: Peter Fröhlich (* 1938), Austrian actor, dies at the age of 77.
• July 11: Jana Thiel (* 1971), German sports journalist, dies at the age of 44.
• July 12: Miriam Pielhau (* 1975), German television and radio presenter, author and actress, dies at the age of 41.
• July 18: Ossy Kolmann (* 1928), Austrian actor and cabaret artist, dies in Vienna at the age of 88.
• August 10: Gerhard Tötschinger (* 1946), Austrian actor, author, artistic director and moderator ( Quiz in Red-White-Red , 1978–1988), dies at the age of 70.
• September 1: Friedrich Schütze-Quest (* 1943), German journalist and feature author , dies at the age of 72.
• September 17th: Günter-Peter Ploog (* 1948), German sports reporter and television producer, dies at the age of 68.
• October 8: Hans Scheicher (* 1931), German journalist, foreign correspondent and news presenter, dies at the age of 85.
• October 21: Manfred Krug (* 1937), German actor ( Liebling Kreuzberg , 1986–1998), dies at the age of 79.

See also

Portal: Radio  - Overview of Wikipedia content on radio

Portal: TV  - Overview of Wikipedia content on TV

Individual evidence

1. ↑ UPLINK pushes takeover of FM stations according to plan. In: www.uplink-network.de. Retrieved July 10, 2016 . 
2. ^ New media law in Poland - wave of resignation among Polish broadcasters. In: tagesschau.de. 2nd January 2016.
3. ↑ Rosalia Romaniec: Warsaw puts media on their course. In: dw.com. December 22, 2015.
4. ↑ Press release No. 21/2016: Broadcasting fee for private households compatible with the Basic Law. In: bverwg.de. March 18, 2016.
5. ↑ Federal Administrative Court: Broadcasting contribution is constitutional. In: heise.de. March 18, 2016.
6. ↑ AFN separates from many frequencies in Germany. In: radioszene.de. May 27, 2015.
7. ^ Copyright dispute: Bulgarian radio station only plays music from before 1946. In: Heise Online . February 25, 2017. Retrieved February 22, 2017 . 
8. ↑ New Year's Concert 2016 is “almost something sacred” for Mariss Janson. In: vienna.at. December 29, 2015, accessed December 29, 2015.
9. ↑ With "clenched teeth" - after pressure from the SPD and the Greens: SWR does not invite AfD to "elephant rounds". In: focus.de. 19th January 2016.
10. ↑ Thomas Pany: Wahl-Fernsehduell: AfD may not participate - SWR and MDR exclude the right-wing party from the elephant round. In: heise.de. Telepolis, January 20, 2016.
11. ↑ Documentary on the relationship of John Paul II. to unmarried woman. In: derstandard.at. The standard , accessed February 16, 2016.
12. ↑ Reasons for switching from DVB-T to DVB-T2 HD. In: tv-plattform.de. 5th January 2016.
13. ↑ FAQ: Introduction of DVB-T2 in Germany - When will DVB-T2 be available in Germany and how long will DVB-T be broadcast? In: ndr.de. 5th January 2016.
14. ↑ HDTV via antenna: DVB-T2 HD will start test operations from Volker Zota on heise online from May 31, 2016
15. ↑ HDTV via rod antenna ; in: c't 12/2016, p. 33
16. ↑ DFL: Sky shares live broadcasting rights to Bundesliga games with Eurosport from Andreas Wilkens on heise online June 9, 2016
17. ↑ For the first time, DFL has passed the billion mark in national media rights: an average of 1.16 billion euros per season from 2017/18 on bundesliga.de on June 9, 2016
18. ↑ MDR Kultur: Friedrich-Schütze Quest died ( Memento of the original from September 15, 2016 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. MDR-Online, accessed on September 11, 2016.