February 14th: the German-Turkish journalist and publicist Deniz Yücel is taken into custody in Turkey on charges of alleged "terrorist propaganda".
February 24: Media representatives from the broadcaster BBC , CNN , the New York Times , and the online portal Politico were denied access to a question and answer session with the spokesman for the new American President Donald Trump in the White House . Among other things, the Breitbart service was approved. Representatives of the Associated Press news agency and Time magazine boycotted the question and answer session out of solidarity with their colleagues. A short time later, Trump canceled his participation in the gala dinner of the White House correspondents via Twitter .
March 16: The US Trump administration presents the draft annual budget in which federal subsidies for the public broadcasters NPR and PBS (most recently: $ 445 million per year) are completely canceled. That would correspond to half of the funds from which the broadcasters finance themselves; in addition, there are donations from listeners and viewers. The future budget of international broadcasting was left entirely open.
September 3: The evacuation in Frankfurt am Main also affects the headquarters of the Hessischer Rundfunk . The radio waves hr1 , hr3 and hr4 broadcast a joint program from the hr studio in Kassel. In the TV-hr live coverage has been sent for 6 o'clock in the morning.
Radio
January 1st: After 85 years of existence, Vatican Radio loses its independence and, at the beginning of the new year, is incorporated into the communications secretariat of the Holy See founded in 2015. The restructuring had been discussed controversially. She points to the ongoing restructuring that will take effect at the end of the year.
January 1: The French public service broadcaster Radio France stopped its broadcasts on long wave at the turn of the year 2016/2017. The broadcast of France Inter's program on Allouis on 162 kHz ended at midnight at the beginning of the new year, one year after broadcasting on medium wave.
January 1st: The Irish radio station RTÉ switches its weekdays to shortwave for Africa. Most recently there was a half-hour news program as well as occasional sports broadcasts. Instead, listeners are referred to the live streams on the Internet.
11 January: In Norway, the VHF radio transmitters are being switched off and should be completed by the end of the year. Only small local broadcasters are allowed to continue broadcasting until 2022. The FM supply is replaced by DAB + and live streams for mobile devices.
January 18: AFN and Deutschlandfunk swap their frequencies in the Rhine-Main area. As a result, Deutschlandfunk receives the traditional 98.7 MHz wave, which is broadcast from the Großer Feldberg in the Taunus and for the first time ensures extensive and comprehensive coverage in the entire Rhine-Main area and in Central Hesse. According to a decision by the Hessian State Media Authority, the former frequencies of Deutschlandfunk will be used by private radio broadcasters. The programs planet radio (Wetzlar, Bad Camberg, Gelnhausen) and Harmony FM (Frankfurt) receive the most important stations; they are operated by the private Radio FFH group . Grants are awarded to the rest Radio Bob (Hanau, Giessen) and Radio Teddy (Kassel, Bad Hersfeld, Fulda).
February 3: Radio Bremen switches its new youth offer Bremen Next in Bremen and Bremerhaven on the former VHF frequencies of the program COSMO (formerly Funkhaus Europa). In Bremen and Bremerhaven, COSMO can only be heard on weak filling station frequencies.
February 10th: While other broadcasters have gradually stopped their programs on long wave, the Irish RTÉ will continue to broadcast on 252 kHz "at least until 2019" under political pressure. The listeners mainly include Irish emigrants in Great Britain, who often live in precarious conditions there.
February 15: The VHF network operator Media Broadcast declares that it will give up the business it controls.
March 24th: The English service for Asia from Vatican Radio, officially established in 1965 , was broadcast terrestrially for the last time at the end of the winter broadcast period.
March 25: The 360-meter-high transmission mast of the long-wave transmitter in Zehlendorf , which had not been in operation since the end of 2014 and was only used as an antenna carrier for some VHF transmitters, was blown up. The VHF frequencies were partly distributed to surrounding locations (Eberswalde, Gransee), while the 90.8 MHz frequency from Antenne Brandenburg was switched off without replacement, so that from now on listeners in Barnim no longer got the correct regional edition from Frankfurt (Oder), but only the wrong one Regional edition from Potsdam can receive.
March 30th: In response to the announced withdrawal of Media Broadcast from the FM market, the broadcasting associations VPRT and APR publish a Frankfurt declaration defining a framework for the future technical distribution of FM radio in Germany.
May 1: A program scheme reform comes into force on the Austrian culture and information broadcaster Austria 1 (Ö1). In addition to a redesign of the website, the logo and the claim, new programs such as the media magazine #doublecheck , the discussion program Punkt eins and program areas such as the Ö1 Art Sunday will be introduced.
October 1: On the occasion of the station's 50th birthday (October 1, 1967), all Ö1 broadcasts receive new signatures . The 100 individual identifiers, often only a few seconds long, were composed by Christian Muthspiel and recorded by the Radio Symphony Orchestra. After the identifiers composed by Werner Pirchner in 1994, it is the second large-scale acoustic redesign of Ö1.
December 8th: Due to the changed demand situation and out of consideration for the interests of the Bavarian newspaper publishers, the Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation waived the frequency swap between its radio programs BR-Klassik and Puls .
December 17th: Vatican Radio is transferred to the newly founded multimedia news portal Vatican News , which from now on unites the journalistic work of the Holy See under a uniform umbrella brand.
watch TV
January 1: China Central Television (CCTV) reorganized its overseas television. Since January 1, 2017, the China Global Television Network (CGTN) has been broadcasting in English, French, Spanish, Russian and Arabic. The English documentation channel CGTN Documentary joins these programs . The programs are currently being produced in Beijing and Nairobi; a European branch is in preparation.
January 6th: After TecTime TV filed for bankruptcy on January 2nd, broadcasting via Astra will now be discontinued for an indefinite period.
March 29: In some metropolitan areas in Germany, regular operation for DVB-T2 HD begins . All previous old DVB-T transmitters are to be replaced by DVB-T2 HD by 2018 .
December 29th: The ARD-Mittagsmagazin broadcasts from Munich for the last time in 28 years. The long-time presenter Hannelore Fischer is retiring. The show moves to a new studio in Berlin with new presenters.
Died
January 4th: Klaus Wildbolz (* 1937), Austrian-Swiss actor who was known from many television series, dies at the age of 79.
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↑ RTÉ longwave 252 set to continue until at least 2019 after positive talks - Irish Post . In: Irish Post . February 10, 2017 ( irishpost.co.uk [accessed February 26, 2017]).
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↑ Ludwig Ring-Eifel: Vatican Radio becomes Vatican News. Interview with Father Bernd Hagenkord about the Pope's media reform . In: media correspondence . December 16, 2017 ( medienkorrespondenz.de [accessed December 17, 2017]).
↑ China's state broadcaster CCTV rebrands international networks as CGTN in global push . In: South China Morning Post . ( scmp.com [accessed January 12, 2017]).