1973 in radio

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Generally

  • Motorola manufactures the first prototype of a mobile phone.
  • April 4 - After about seven years of construction, the World Trade Center its determination is passed in New York City. Both 415 and 417 meter high towers of the building complex at the southern tip of Manhattan quickly become icons of the New York skyline.
  • September 11 - In Chile, Augusto Pinochet staged a coup against the democratically elected bloody Salvador Allende.

Radio

  • The SFB radiates, designed by Peter Leonhard Braun feature bell in Europe for the first time. It is one of the most important and most influential single productions of radio history.
  • February 2 - On the OE1 is designed by Richard Goll and Alfred Treiber original feature Prater. To hear sociology of a pleasure for the first time. The show is considered the first "official" Austrian feature production.
  • June 1 - The SFB is reforming its two radio programs. The " sophisticated " programs took on the specific SFB 1, while SFB 2 is specialized in lighter entertainment.
  • July - The Ö3 - broadcast music box begins with an extensive, designed by Wolfgang Kos presented and summer series about the life and work of Bob Dylan.
  • October 15 - The Dutch public broadcaster Hilversum 3 starts his 24 -hour broadcasting.
  • November 11 - In Bhutan, for the first time will start a regular radio operation.
  • December 31 - NDR and WDR perform a program reform. The six affected radio stations are classified according to criteria such as "Current Information", " Entertainment " and musical style.

TV

  • January 8 - In Germany, the first of WDR, NDR and HR is produced German -language result of the pre- series Sesame Street aired. As the only institution of ARD BR refuses to take the mission into the program.
  • January 14 - The Elvis Presley concert Aloha from Hawaii is considered the hitherto most expensive TV production history and is transmitted by satellite around the world.
  • January 15 - first broadcast of the WDR series A heart and a soul.
  • January 16 - On NBC is to see the 430th and final episode of the series Bonanza.
  • February 4 - The second TV channel ORF shows under the title An Evening at the East German television three DFF productions. There is excitement in the run-up to a possible broadcast of political broadcasts Current camera and the black channel.
  • March 18 - The West German television first broadcast of the talk show series of evening passes, the later. Host is Dietmar Schönherr.
  • March 21 - In Britain, the sitcom Are you being served can be seen for the first time.
  • March 26 - On CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless ( later German synchronous Title: Young and the Restless ) Premiere.
  • April 8 - The German TV shows for the first time Lemmi and Schmöker
  • April 15th - The charisma of the produced by WDR television film Smog on German television provides numerous calls from anxious spectators who had held the treated in the film smog scenario for real.
  • September 30 - The ZDF radiates Rappelkiste for children.
  • October 1 - The Pink Panther premiere on ZDF.
  • December 6 - In the ZDF broadcast three times nine occurs Federal President Walter Scheel and sings along with the men's choir Dusseldorf folk song high on the yellow car. The recording is then transferred to single sales success in Germany and contributes to the extraordinary popularity among the public at Scheels.
  • December 31 - The German Television broadcasts for the first time produced by WDR talk show series The later it gets in the first program.

Born

  • January 2nd - Lucy Davis, British actress inSolihull is born.
  • 23 February - Linda Ulvaeus, Swedish actress was born in Vallentuna.
  • 1 March - Jack Davenport, British actor born in Suffolk.
  • March 23 - Philipp von Schulthess, Swiss actor is born in Zurich.
  • - May 16 Robert Kratky, Austrian radio presenter, was born in Salzburg.
  • May 21 - Niels Ruf, German television presenter born in Worms.
  • May 27 - Jack McBrayer, American actor (known as Parcel Kenneth in 30 Rock, 2006-2013 ) was born in Macon, Georgia.
  • June 1 - Annathal Bach, German actress born in the former East Berlin.
  • June 22 - Sonya Kraus German TV presenter is born in Frankfurt am Main.
  • October 26 - Seth MacFarlane, American animator ( Family Guy, American Dad ) was born in Kent, Connecticut.

Died

  • January 24 - J. Carrol Naish, American actor dies age of 77 in La Jolla, California.
  • July 18 - Jack Hawkins, British actor died aged 62 in London.
  • 1st November - James Abbe, American journalist and radio presenter dies age of 90 in San Francisco.
  • November 20 - Allan Sherman, American television producer, actor and impersonator dies 48 -year-old in Los Angeles.
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