1949 in radio
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Generally
Radio
- February 28 - Bayerischer Rundfunk sends for the first time on an FM station.
- April 1 - With the accession of the former Dominion Newfoundland with Canada, the Canadian CBC takes over the bodies of the Broadcasting Corporation of Newfoundland ( BNC).
- 1st May - From the territory of the Soviet occupation zone of Germany the station starts operation with its specific mainly for the three Western occupation zones of Germany program.
- 19-20. Mai - Bayerischer Rundfunk (BR ) will broadcast live debate on the Basic Law in a 18- hour show. Bavaria is the only German country that rejects the constitution first.
- September 17 - The Hessian Broadcasting sends the first episode of the radio drama series The Hesselbachs by and with Wolf Schmidt, directed by Karl Heinz Schilling.
- September - In Vienna, a hard week on the occasion of the 25th anniversary broadcast will take place in Austria.
- October 3 - The BR starts with commercials.
- November 7 to January 9 1950 - The first miniseries by British mystery writer and amateur detective Paul Temple by Francis Durbridge starts when tens divider under the title Paul Temple and the Affair Gregory. In this NWDR production Eduard Hermann and Fritz Schröder -Jahn led alternately the Director. The title role, René spoke Deltgen.
TV
- In Mexico, the first television franchise to the private entrepreneurs Rómulo O'Farril is granted. In Cuba, a television pilot program begins operation.
- The U.S. retail chain Sears offers the first televisions in their mail-order catalog to.
- January 17 - In the U.S., the sitcom The Goldbergs premiere.
- January 25 - In Los Angeles, will be awarded for the first time the television Emmy Award. The best TV actress Shirley Dinsdale is excellent.
- June 27th - The Series Captain Video and His Video Rangers will be broadcast for the first time. The 30 - minute program, which will be performed live, is perhaps the first science - fiction series on television.
- August 7 - The U.S. MBS transmitter radiates the first episode of the crime series Martin Kane, Private Eye with William Gargan in the title role of.
- October 9 - In France, the first edition of the religious week program Le Jour du Seigneur is seen ( The Day of the Lord ).