February: Boris Johnson's cabinet questions the funding of the BBC through license fees and would rather have free competition.
Radio
0January 1: The BBC World Service stops broadcasting in the two national languages of India and Pakistan , Hindi and Urdu . It was only in August that the broadcasts were expanded because of the blocking of the Internet in Kashmir .
January 22nd: The cable operator Unitymedia will feed the programs of the Deutschlandradios into the cable networks in Baden-Württemberg, Hesse and North Rhine-Westphalia.
February: After a first wave of shutdowns in 2018, the BBC switched off a total of 18 other medium-wave stations. Most affected are BBC Local Radio and smaller reception areas of BBC Radio Scotland and BBC Radio Wales .
0February 1: Deutschlandfunk stops its traffic broadcast . This was preceded by a survey in which 5,328 listeners took part in the summer of 2019 and a majority of 68.7 percent voted in favor of this step. Messages should be sent in the time that has become free.
April 26: The British soldier broadcaster BFBS Radio Germany switches off its 103.0 MHz frequency, which it has been using for many years, from the Bielefeld-Hünenburg location . This powerful frequency recently supplied large parts of East Westphalia-Lippe and neighboring areas in Lower Saxony.
watch TV
March 29: The 1758th and last episode of the ARD early evening series Lindenstrasse is broadcast.
In May, camera teams from ZDF heute-show (May 1st) and ARD (May 6th) were attacked by demonstrators in Berlin.
July 13: ARD and ZDF postpone the shutdown of the SD signal originally planned for January 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic for an indefinite period.
Died
January 25: Heinz Matschurat (* 1920), German radio play author and composer, dies at the age of 99.
January 31: Marei Obladen (* 1941), German radio play author and reviewer, dies at the age of 78.
0February 1: Elisabeth Schnell (* 1930), Swiss radio presenter, dies at the age of 90.
February 17th: Ror Wolf (* 1932), German author (including numerous radio plays) and artist, dies at the age of 87.
April 16: Ulrich Kienzle (* 1936), German journalist, editor and correspondent for various German broadcasters and presenter of the ZDF program Frontal , dies at the age of 83.
May 7th: Charly Wagner (* 1941), German radio presenter, dies in Cologne at the age of 78.
See also
Portal: Radio - Overview of Wikipedia content on radio
