September 18: In the course of the abolition of the broadcasting tax in Denmark and the associated conversion of the financing of public broadcasting to a purely tax-financed model, Danmarks Radio announced severe cuts. For example, three television stations ( DR3 , DR K and DR Ultra ) and three radio stations ( DR P6 Beat , DR P7 Mix and DR P8 Jazz ) will be discontinued without replacement, the funds for in-house productions will be significantly reduced and the purchase of expensive sports rights such as the Champions League will be dispensed with. 400 employees become unemployed as a result. A total of 420 million kroner (equivalent to 56 million euros), almost 20% of the total budget, should be saved through the cuts until 2021.
September: The program magazine "3sat TV- & Kulturmagazin" is discontinued after the last quarter of 2018.
November 2018: The beta version of the ARD Audiothek web portal goes into operation. The radio content was separated from the television offer at the relaunch of the ARD media library at the end of 2018. At the same time, the media library received a new user interface.
Radio
January: As part of the austerity measures at the British BBC , 13 smaller medium-wave stations that previously carried the BBC Local Radio are switched off .
January 1st: Klassik Radio has completely given up broadcasting its program in Hesse and thus also switched off the remaining five frequencies in the Hessian metropolitan areas, after frequencies in rural Hesse had already been switched off. A tender for the frequencies is currently still in progress.
January 1st: Without public announcement, the Hessischer Rundfunk has given up two smaller filling stations in Hessen: the 88.5 MHz in Fulda for hr3 (until 2007 Deutschlandfunk ) and the 100.8 MHz in Limburg for hr2 (until 2005 hr-classic ).
February 15: After a break of several years, Rockland Radio can be heard again in Bad Kreuznach on the frequency 106.5 MHz. This frequency was used by Deutschlandfunk until 2017 and after the shutdown was assigned to Rockland Radio by the state center for media and communication in Rhineland-Palatinate.
March 22nd: domradio has given up broadcasting its program on the 99.2 MHz frequency in Fulda . At the same time, the slot on the Astra satellite was given up. The reasons for this are austerity measures by the Archdiocese of Cologne and a dispute over the cost sharing of the Diocese of Fulda , which was unsuccessful.
March 29th: The two masts of the long wave transmitter Aholming were blown up. The Deutschlandfunk program was broadcast from this location on the frequency of 207 kHz up to and including 2014.
April 1: As of April 1, 2018, Media Broadcast would like to give up the operation of VHF transmission antennas on transmission masts in Germany and has terminated all contracts for this purpose. However, since it was not possible to find buyers for all transmission antennas in Germany, there was a temporary threat that VHF broadcasting would be switched off on Wednesday, April 11, 2018 in almost all of eastern Germany and in many regions of western Germany. Although this could literally be prevented at the last second, the dispute continues to smolder in the background. The Federal Network Agency is currently examining whether VHF transmission antennas in Germany will require official regulation in the future.
April 3: Regular operation with DAB + begins in Vienna.
April 9: The Hamburg program alsterradio has ceased broadcasting. The Bavarian program Rock Antenne now broadcasts on the frequency 106.8 MHz with a comparable style of music.
August 1st: The harmony.fm program switched off its three frequencies in Eschwege (88.3 MHz), Rotenburg an der Fulda (104.5 MHz) and Idstein (93.2 MHz). The background to this is the ongoing dispute over FM transmitting antennas in Germany.
September 28th: Deutschlandradio begins shutting down the first VHF filler stations in favor of DAB + digital radio. For this purpose, both frequencies on Helgoland ( Helgoland transmitter ) were switched off on September 28, and both frequencies in Mittenwald ( Herzogstand transmitter ) on October 5th .
November 14: The European Parliament adopts a new version of the European code for electronic communication, which will mean that radio receivers in new cars that will be sold in the EU from 2021 must be digital radio compatible. The EU Council of Ministers has yet to approve the revision of several EU directives that make up the code.
December 12th: After a one-year break “due to lack of time and age”, Radio Bremen has taken the broadcast of the news in Latin , the Nuntii Latini , back into its monthly program. Also the Finnish Broadcasting and Vatican News regularly send messages in Latin.
watch TV
The third expansion stage of DVB-T2 HD in Germany followed in spring and autumn 2018. This should complete the expansion of Freenet TV; the changeover for the public broadcasters will continue until summer 2019.
January 18: Since 3 a.m., the German-language news channel N24 has been called Welt .
March 23: The ZDF-Mittagsmagazin broadcasts from Mainz for the last time in over 28 years. Since then it has been broadcast from the ZDF capital city studio. The main moderator is Jana Pareigis .
December 31: The television station VIVA Germany stops broadcasting.
Died
January 13: Erich Schenk , (* 1920) Austrian radio journalist and actor dies at the age of 97.
January 15: Peter Wyngarde , (* 1927) British actor (known as Jason King in Department S , 1969–70) dies at the age of 90 in London.
February 11: Wiebke Ledebrink , (born November 10, 1972) German television journalist and presenter (including from 17:30 Sat.1 Regional ) dies at the age of 45.
0March 4: Stephan Göritz (* 1960), German radio play writer, author, songwriter, journalist and cabaret expert, dies at the age of 57 in Berlin-Lichtenberg.
March 11th: Siegfried Rauch , (* 1932) German actor, among others from the TV series It doesn't always have to be caviar , The happy family , The dream ship and The mountain doctor , dies at the age of 85.
0April 2: Ingeborg Medschinski (* 1924), German actress, radio announcer and radio play director, dies at the age of 94 in Berlin-Köpenick.
0April 3: Carl Weiss , (born September 28, 1925) journalist, speaker of the first broadcast on ZDF today, dies at the age of 92
0April 4: Alfred Payrleitner , (* 1935) Austrian television journalist dies at the age of 83.
June 27th: Siegfried Pfaff (* 1931), German radio play author and long-time radio play dramaturge for radio in the GDR, dies at the age of 87 in Berlin-Baumschulenweg.
July 18: Adrian Cronauer , (* 1938) American DJ and radio presenter dies at the age of 79.
August 11: Götz Fritsch , (* 1943) German radio play director (numerous adaptations by Wolf Haas crime novels) dies at the age of 75.
23 August: Dieter Thomas Heck (* 1937), German television presenter ( ZDF hit parade , 1969–1984) and entertainer dies at the age of 80 in Berlin.
0October 7th: Werner Buhss (* 1949), German radio play author and radio play director, dies at the age of 69 in Berlin-Prenzlauer Berg.
0November 6th: Christa Vetter (* 1932), radio dramaturg at the radio of the GDR, from 1977 to 1990 head of the radio play department, dies at the age of 86 in Berlin-Pankow.
November 26th: Nick Benjamin (* 1946), German radio presenter at SWR 4 Rhineland-Palatinate, dies at the age of 72.
↑ Milestone for DAB +: EU Parliament decides that digital radio is mandatory for new cars . In: https://www.horizont.net . ( horizont.net [accessed December 1, 2018]).
