March 1: The Turkish authorities refuse the German ZDF journalist Jörg Brase and the Tagesspiegel correspondent Thomas Seibert to renew their accreditation .
March 7th: Ukraine imposes an entry ban on Austrian television journalist Christian Wehrschütz . The Ukrainian authorities accuse him of "endangering national security" and "violating the borders of Ukraine".
May 17: Spiegel Online , the Süddeutsche Zeitung and the weekly magazine Falter publish a video recorded covertly in July 2017 on the Spanish Balearic island of Ibiza , which the then federal party leader of the FPÖ , Heinz-Christian Strache and his party friend Johann Gudenus in conversation with the alleged niece of a Russian oligarch shows. Strache and Gudenus express their readiness for covert party financing , corruption and the elimination of unpleasant media. This begins the Ibiza affair , which leads to the resignation of Strache and Gudenus the following day and to the government crisis in Austria. The ORF and many other television and radio stations in other countries respond with extensive special programs.
June 5: As part of an investigation, the Australian police search the editorial offices of the public broadcaster ABC and confiscate "documents and records". The background is the investigative report The Afghan Files , which was broadcast by ABC in 2017. It was about human rights violations that were committed by Australian soldiers in Afghanistan and that were documented in files of the Australian secret service that had been leaked to the station.
Radio
January: After the Hessischer Rundfunk and the Westdeutscher Rundfunk , the Deutschlandfunk also deletes its traditional printed radio play brochure. The number 1/2019 published in January for the first half of the year is the last edition of the publication. The magazine will be replaced by an independent portal hoerspielundfeature.de , which offers an overview and a media library for the long formats of the cultural word radio feature and radio play .
January 22nd: The cable operator Unitymedia no longer distributes the Deutschlandradios programs in the cable networks in Baden-Württemberg, Hesse and North Rhine-Westphalia after the broadcaster refused to sign a contract for the feed. Unitymedia explained on Twitter: "Deutschlandradio, as the organizer of the three Deutschlandfunk offers, has decided that they no longer want to be broadcast via cable and accordingly terminated the distribution contracts with us." On December 3, 2019, Deutschlandradio announced that they had agreed agreed with the cable provider. The programs would be fed back into the cable network from 2020, but only into the digital cable, not into the analog network.
March: After the release of the documentary Leaving Neverland , which deals with Michael Jackson's relationships with minors and will be shown at the Sundance Film Festival , radio stations in Canada and Norway stop broadcasting Michael Jackson songs .
June 14: After thirty years, the Finnish radio broadcaster Yleisradio broadcasts news in Latin for the last time ( Nuntii Latini ). The five-minute programs have been broadcast on Fridays since the spring of 1989. The offer was discontinued for cost reasons.
July 15: Hessischer Rundfunk confirms that there are plans to transform hr2-kultur into a pure classic wave from 2020. The cultural word broadcasts should either be turned into podcasts , moved to hr-info or canceled entirely. It is a reaction to recent developments in the number of listeners. They want to pay more attention to the habits of the under 35-year-olds. In addition to the renowned radio program Der Tag , the literature program, radio play and radio feature as well as current cultural reporting for Hesse would also be affected . There is considerable opposition to these plans from the cultural scene.
September 9: According to the “Digitalization Report Audio 2019” by the state media authorities, 22.7 percent of all households in the Federal Republic of Germany have been able to receive radio via DAB + since 2018 (2017: 17 percent). 92 percent continue to listen to VHF, so that a shutdown of the service, as in Norway “is not realistic in the foreseeable future,” writes dpa . Nevertheless, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung reports that the federal and state governments have agreed to switch off VHF radio in Germany by 2025.
September 29th: Two years after the transfer of the Vatican media to Vatican News , the audio contributions of the news platform of the Holy See are again published under the brand name “Vatican Radio”.
December 2: The Norwegian broadcaster NRK stops broadcasting its program on the long-wave frequency 153 kHz from Ingøy . This transmitter location on the North Cape had only been rebuilt 19 years earlier, in 2000, to supply fishing boats in the Barents Sea , where satellite reception is not possible due to the curvature of the earth.
December 31: The French broadcaster Europe 1 stops broadcasting its programs on the long wave frequency of 183 kHz from the Felsberg-Berus broadcaster in Saarland.
January 30th: Gabi Bauer moderates the night magazine for the last time after 13 years and changes as editor and author to the NDR in the program area culture and documentation. With Bauer's resignation, the Friday edition will also be discontinued.
February 3: Super Bowl LIII has a peak of 150 million and an average of 111 million viewers on domestic televisions in the United States. The Super Bowl even has 800 million viewers worldwide.
April 29th: The four international television stations Deutsche Welle , BBC , France24 and Voice of America start joint operation of a YouTube channel in Turkish under the name “+90”. The editorial team at Deutsche Welle consists of Erkan Arikan , who previously worked for WDR , and Isil Nergiz. This is intended to counter the “authoritarian course” of the Turkish government and “open a window to Europe”. The broadcasters also operate their own channels on the video platform and on their own websites.
June 3: SRG SSR discontinues terrestrial broadcasting of its programs via DVB-T without replacement. Recently, only 2 percent of Swiss citizens used this reception channel. As a result, the Swiss programs were no longer available in several German cable networks and in the offer of the Austrian provider simpliTV .
October 27: On the “UNESCO World Day of Audiovisual Cultural Heritage”, Südwestrundfunk is the first German public broadcaster to make historical images from its television archive available to the public under the name SWR Retro . The in- house productions can be accessed via the ARD media library . Gradually, this should create an audiovisual archive that will gradually be expanded. At the beginning, in-house productions were available until 1966.
Died
January 17th: Horst Stern (* 1922) German science journalist and filmmaker, best known in the 1970s through the show Sterns Stunden
January 26: Werner Bethsold (* 1925), German photographer, whose portraits of actors and directors from the radio play studios of RIAS , SFB , Rundfunk der DDR , SWF and ORB der Hörspielkunst in many publications such as Hörzu or the Berlin city magazines Zitty and tip have worked in the Federal Republic.
February 2: Udo Kölsch (* 1936) German radio journalist dies at the age of 82
April 14: Sylvia Leuker (* 1962) German radio journalist dies at the age of 56
April 17th: Dieter Exter (* 1955) German radio presenter dies at the age of 64
June 5: Rosemarie Isopp (* 1927) Austrian radio presenter of the ORF dies at the age of 91
June 13: Wilhelm Wieben (* 1935) German television presenter from 1973 to 1998 spokesman for the ARD Tagesschau; dies at the age of 84
before or on June 17th: Kristian Kropp ; German managing director of RPR.1 and bigFM founder dies at the age of 55
June 20: Wibke Bruhns (* 1938) German journalist was the first woman from 1971 to present the late edition of the news program on ZDF today; dies at the age of 80
June 20: Michael Schulte (writer) (* 1941), German author of numerous radio plays, features and radio essays, biographer and editor of Karl Valentins , dies at the age of 78.
June 26: Max Wright (* 1943) American actor. He became known to a wide audience through the role of father William "Willie" Tanner in the television series Alf (1986–1990); dies at the age of 75.
July 18: Detlef Berentzen (* 1952) German writer and journalist dies at the age of 67.
July 26: Werner Doyé (* 1942) German TV journalist, filmmaker and editor for ZDF dies at the age of 77.
July 26th: Gerhard Weis (* 1938) Austrian journalist and radio manager dies at the age of 80
August 4th: Johannes Kuhn (* 1924) German Protestant theologian and television pastor on ARD and ZDF dies at the age of 95
August 22: Jochen Pützenbacher (* 1939) German radio presenter dies at the age of 80
August 26th: Helmut Krauss (* 1941) German actor, mainly known in his role as neighbor Hermann Paschulke in the ZDF children's program Löwenzahn dies at the age of 78
August 30: Valerie Harper (* 1939), American actress ( Mary Tyler Moore , 1970–1977) dies at the age of 80 in Los Angeles.
September 22: Rut Speer (* 1936) German journalist and TV presenter dies at the age of 83
September 28: Goetz Kronburger (* 1933) German radio and television journalist dies at the age of 86
October 31: Thomas Schmidt (* 1957) German radio presenter (broadcasts including: Schmidts Saturday ) at SDR and later at SWR dies at the age of 62.
November 16: Walter Freiwald (* 1954) German presenter dies at the age of 65.
December 30th: Jan Fedder (* 1955) German actor, best known from 1992 through the police series Großstadtrevier , dies at the age of 64.
See also
Portal: Radio - Overview of Wikipedia content on radio
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↑ Jochen Hieber: HR2-Kultur: Is the Hessischer Rundfunk giving up its cultural channel? July 16, 2019, ISSN 0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed July 20, 2019]).
↑ Florian Balke, Eva-Maria Magel, Peter Lückemeier: Hessischer Rundfunk: "Words are as important to many as music" . July 16, 2019, ISSN 0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed July 20, 2019]).
↑ Claus-Jürgen Göpfert: “Doppelkopf mustn't die!” In: Frankfurter Rundschau. July 18, 2019, accessed July 20, 2019 .
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