1972 in radio

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Generally

Sony brings the videotape format U-matic in the European market.
The Japanese Panasonic Corporation brings under its trade name Technics turntables SL -1200 on the market, which for the emerging DJ culture has paramount importance not only because of its technical specifications ( Direketantrieb ), but with a production period of nearly 40 years (until 2010) considered to be the longest continually produced a single product in the history of consumer electronics.
February 15 - The Return of the Austrian Karl Schranz Skirennläufers of the Winter Olympics in Japan after his controversial exclusion due to a breach of the amateur section of the IOC is staged as a triumphal ride through the Vienna ring road and a welcome by the head of government. Critics accuse the ORF and its leadership still under Gerd Bacher to have deliberately fomented a mass media hysteria in the coverage of Schranz.
April 18 - Austrian Chancellor Bruno Kreisky suggested the creation of a third television chain that is to be financed and controlled by the Austrian newspaper publishers. Background is the conflict over the ORF Act of 1966.
May 13 - Jean -Jacques Bresson, inserted after the May 1968 General of the French state-owned television company ORTF is removed from office by Prime Minister Jacques Chaban -Delmas his office. Bresson is accused of corruption and surreptitious advertising.
June 27 - Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney founded in California electronics company Atari. During the 1970s, Atari acquired a leading position in the emerging video game industry and can secure a permanent place later on a home computer market.

Radio

Developed by Wolfgang Kos and moderated by Wolfgang Pretty Popmuseum broadcast can be heard for the first time on the frequencies of Ö3.
The ORF opened after the plans of Gustav Peichl's newly established regional studios in Salzburg ( 21 July ), Linz and Innsbruck (each 6 October ) and Dornbirn (October 20 ).
April 4 - The WDR is the first episode of the series time signal heard that treats historical events. Theme of the first episode is among others the Siege of Leningrad in 1942.
April 11 - On the radio frequencies of the BBC is to be heard for the first time the comedy series I'm Sorry I Have not a Clue.
April 23 - first broadcast of hr3 under the slogan: " hr3 - the service shaft of Frankfurt".
April 30 - After 27 years' duration that produced by the CBS radio show Arthur Godfrey Time is set.
June 27 - The German Federal Post Office takes the Tonstern Frankfurt in operation.
July 1 - The German soldiers transmitter adjusts its operation.
September 29 - The pirate radio station Radio Caroline that of a ship off the Dutch coast broadcasts its programs is to receive after four years of interruption.

TV

January - The German television broadcasting, the state television of the GDR, changes his name in television of the GDR.
January 3 - Porky was first shown at ZDF.
January 4 - ORF has the first episode of critical wildlife film -sequence star hour, especially the physical and emotional suffering of domestic animals such as cows, pigs or dogs showing off.
January 29 - In the GDR television is the first episode of the Saturday night show to see a boiler Colorful. In this episode, which is broadcast from the Friedrichstadt Palace East Berlin, come on pop stars and Manuela Frank Schöbel.
February 10 - The ORF television transmits the first time live the Vienna Opera Ball. The show is one of the most popular programs soon to the ORF. One of the first presenters, the report of the society event include Heinz Fischer Karwin and Walter Richard Langer.
Mai - In Germany, Switzerland and Austria is what with Dietmar Schönherr and Vivi Bach to see the 20th and final episode of the game show Make a wish. A scheduled appointment for a 21st edition in June will not come into being because the ZDF withdraws as a major producer.
May 14 - The television Des Bayerischen Rundfunk (BR ) radiates from the first episode of self-produced children's series The fire-red game station that serves as a replacement for the rejected by BR Sesame Street.
May 27 - The ZDF begins as the first German -language institution with the airing of the science fiction series Star Trek.
June 2 - The German takes over the children's series Maxifant and Minifant and sends it on German television.
June 18 - In the GDR television is the first episode of the entertainment series maverick leader to see.
August 27 - In the interview film series Georg Stefan Troller people Description of the ZDF shines under the title Robert Crumb - Comics and hangovers ideas from a portrait of the American cartoonist Robert Crumb. The film, which also sheds light on Ralph Bakshi film Fritz the Cat, Robert Crumb, the artistic work for the first time in front of a broader German audience.
September 3 - In the ARD, the first of four parts of the children's book adaptation Robbi, Tobbi and Fliewatüüt can be seen. It is the first German television production, which is produced directly on MAZ.
September 11 - On BBC One is to see the first episode of the game show Mastermind.
September 14 - The CBS radiates from the first episode of the resident in the Depression of the 1930s family series The Waltons.
October 1 - Start the CBC series beach pirates.
October 14 - U.S. premiere of the television series Kung Fu with David Carradine in the lead role. In the center of a classic Western settings a completely atypical for this genre figure is placed for the first time with a Shaolin monk. The series runs extremely successful in three seasons and triggers an ongoing martial arts boom in the west.
November 3 - The U.S. animated series Superkater will premiere in the ARD.
November 8 - The U.S. television chain HBO ( Home Box Office ) is founded.
November 9 - With the launch of the satellite Anik also the Territories in Canada's far north ( Northwest and Nunavut ) for the first time can be supplied with television programs.
December 13 - The ARD exudes the first episode of the series produced by Radio Bremen Musikladen.
December 31 - France 3 comes into operation.

Born

Died

April 24 - Rudolf Sang, German actor, director and theater director dies 72 -year-old in Wilhelmshaven.
May 13 - Dan Blocker, American actor dies age of 43 in Los Angeles. Blocker was known primarily in the role of Hoss Cartwright in the Western series Bonanza.
December 20 - Günter Eich, German radio playwright dies aged 65 in Salzburg.

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