1952 in radio

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The GDR is built as a Soviet-style central government. The administrative reform of 1952, falling victim to the present country structures and therefore the existing on the territory of the GDR going back to the period before the Second World War, country radio stations. Thus, the transmission chains of the Berlin Radio and the Central German Radio will be dissolved and reorganized as part of the broadcast of the GDR.
August - In the U.S., the publisher Harvey Kurtzman and William Maxwell Gaines founded the satirical magazine Mad The later mascot of the magazine, which always grinning with tooth gap Alfred E. Neumann, emerged with its motto What me worry ( German: So What? ), Only about and three years later, in March 1955, on the cover of Mad on.
September 15 - Establishment of the State Committee for Broadcasting in the Soviet sector of Berlin. Thus, control of the electronic media in the GDR will report directly to the SED.

For the first time Hörspielpreis the Kriegsblinden is awarded.
February 28 - The first FM station in Europe Munich -Freimann resume operation.
April 24 - Radio in Vienna and red -white- red report with live reports on the transfer of the newly poured Pummerin, the largest bell of St. Stephen's Cathedral. Your originating from the early 18th century predecessor was the fire at the St. Stephen's Cathedral during the Battle of Vienna in 1945 to the victim.
June 21 - The Radio House Wallraf Square, headquarters of the later WDR will be opened near the cathedral in Cologne.
June 27 - After 19 years of operation, the U.S. radio soap opera The Guiding Light is set.
October 4 - the Saarland broadcasting regular FM broadcasts
October 24 - As a result of the first Broadcasting Act of the Saarland Saarland Radio GmbH was founded.
November 30 - Start of Season 1, which allow the NWDR Hamburg under the direction of Hans Gert Berg produced play series, my name is Cox by Rolf Becker, Carl -Heinz Schroth in the title role.
December 30 - The first time NWDR radiates the radio play version of Heinrich Böll's satire of not only at Christmas time.

As part of the campaign to succeed Truman's first political commercials placed on television in the United States.
February 15 - The BBC transmits the funeral of King George VI.
February 18 - In the fourth Emmy Awards will be awarded as the best entertainment show Your Show of Shows from the television station NBC, the prize for best entertainer goes to Red Skelton.
June 30 - On CBS is to see the first episode of The Guiding Light.
September - The U.S. television is to see the first episode of the music show American Bandstand.
September 6 - In Montreal 's French-speaking Télévision de Radio -Canada in operation and thus initiates officially the television age in Canada.
September 8 - With CBLT in Toronto is the second - English - Canada's television station on the air.
September 12 - At the transmitter Langenberg the topping out ceremony for one of the most far-reaching television stations takes place.
December 21 - On the occasion of the 74th birthday of Joseph Stalin takes the television of the GDR official operation. Part of the first transmission day is the first edition of the newscast Current camera.
December 25 - Official television launch in Western Germany: the North West German Broadcasting takes 20 clock under the name NWDR his television set to run at. It will be sent first from the flak tower on the Holy Spirit Field in Hamburg.
December 26 - The NWDR Television broadcasts from the first edition of the evening news.

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