1988 in radio

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Generally

  • The two British musician Billy and Jimmy Cauty Drummomd ( The KLF ) publish The Manual. ( How To Have a Number One the Easy Way ). In it they describe how to do it by means of sampling and skillful handling of the press - largely without artistic talent - creates the charts and thus expose in a satirical manner, the mechanisms of the music business. That same year, the Austrian project succeeds Edelweiss titled Bring Me Edelweiss to score a number - one success actually using an ABBA samples and described in The Manual (satirical intentioned ) advice.
  • A major fire in the Studio Hamburg destroyed much of the props and scenery of the German version of Sesame Street. The concept of the series must then be completely revised.
  • Mai - The Moving Picture Experts Group can be found in Ottawa for their first meeting together. The international commission of experts concerned with the standardization of audio and video compression. In the late 1990s is well known with its abbreviation the increasing use of personal computers for MPEG video files.
  • 16.-18. August - The undistanzierte coverage of Gladbeck hostage drama triggers a discussion about the responsibility and ethics of the media.
  • October 19 - In Vienna, the first edition of the first economic liberal -oriented daily newspaper Der Standard appears.

Radio

  • March - Radio ffn begins with the airing of the radio comedy series Frühstyxradio.
  • 1 March - OK Radio goes as 3 private channels for radio Radio Hamburg and 107 in Hamburg on the air.
  • April 1 - The ARD leads in its state institutes a the RDS system for the traffic.
  • May 9 - The ideology of the radical Hezbollah affiliated Lebanese radio station Al - Nour is founded.
  • August 1 - On the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the Paris May sends France Culture under the title Chronique de May 68 vingt ans d' après ... one built on original acoustic sources seven-part documentary series of events.
  • August 13 - For the first time in 18 years, an edition of the American Top 40 airs without Casey Kasem. Kasem pulls meanwhile back of the moderation of the shipment.
  • September 5 - Transmit Start of Antenne Bayern.

TV

  • Harald Schmidt is the first time in the first broadcast only in the WDR broadcast from MAZ! be seen as a moderator.
  • January 4 - The Bavarian television has the game show Super Grips premiere.
  • January 5 - German -language television premiere of the entertainment series Alf on ZDF.
  • January 5 - The 191 -part legal drama Matlock is seen at ZDF.
  • January 7 - The Riding Series Firmly in the saddle has the First German Television Premiere.
  • January 23 - At the 45th awarding of the Golden Globe Awards in Los Angeles the TV series LA Law and The Golden Girls are excellent.
  • January 31 - The Wonder Years series was first broadcast on ABC.
  • February 13 - In RTLplus the football kickoff show is first seen on television.
  • March 5 - In the First German Television, the new edition of Rudi Carrell Show can be seen. Will surprise you especially popular by the by Carrell always sung live opening song Let yourself.
  • March 7 - RTL Plus radiates from the first episode of the show hosted by Götz Kühnemund and Sabina Classen Hard Rock and Heavy Metal magazine Mosh.
  • March 25 - The ZDF takes the first episode of the arts program The Literary Quartet in his program. The renowned literary critic Marcel Reich -Ranicki, Hellmuth Karasek and Sigrid Löffler, which act as moderators in appearance, it is possible with this until 2001 broadcast series to gain great fame far beyond the literary and feuilleton scene.
  • March 27 - The ZDF shows with us and next door.
  • April 12 - The first German first television shows Murder, She Wrote.
  • May 2 - In FS2, the second channel of the ORF, the weekday regional window state starts today, which will replace the existing local reporting Austria today partially.
  • May 8 - On RTLplus is to see the first edition of the Spiegel TV Magazine produced by dCTP.
  • June 20 - The U.S. animated series Disney's Gummi Bears is first seen in the First German Television.
  • July 9 - The ZDF shows the first part of the three-part television film Sinan without a country based on the text of the German -Kurdish writer Ismet Elçi. The film is one of the first posts of television on the problem of so-called " second generation" sons and daughters of the first wave of labor migrants in the 1960s.
  • July 11 - In the First German Television is to see The Texas Clinic for the first time the U.S. doctor series.
  • August 6 - On MTV 's first time the hip-hop show Yo! To see MTV Raps.
  • August 18 - In the ORF broadcast domestically Report FPÖ party leader Jörg Haider referred to in conversation with John Fischer, the Austrians as " ideological miscarriage ".
  • August 21 - Li -La- Launebär starts on RTLplus.
  • August 22 - the start of transmission of the RIAS - TV.
  • September 12 - In the First German Television is the first time the Brazilian telenovela Sinhá Moca - to see the daughter of the slave owner.
  • 2 / 3 October - Rio Reiser is in the East Berlin Werner Seelenbinder hall a highly regarded concert that will be recorded and broadcasted also by GDR television. Particularly explosive for the situation at that time in the GDR is the text from the Sharam song The dream is over, "Is there a country on earth where the dream becomes reality is / I only know one thing and I'm sure / this is it is not "
  • October 30 - In the First German Television can be seen for the first time the five-time edition of the Saturday night game show Euro pairs.
  • November 6 - The ZDF exudes the first episode of the crime series Eurocops in the German television from. Unusually for the late 1980s is the fully computer-animated opening credits.
  • December 4 - In the ZDF children's series Siebenstein its debut.

Born

  • February 29 - Lena Gercke, German model and presenter of Austria 's Next Top Model, was born in Marburg.
  • August 23 - Kimberly Matula, American actress ( Bold and the Beautiful ) was born in Fort Worth, Texas.

Died

  • April 28 - Gerd Martienzen, German actor, voice actor and radio speaker, dies 70 -year-old in Earl Rath ( Fürstenfeldbruck ).
  • May 29 - Vladimír Menšík, Slovak actor ( The hospital on the outskirts of the city, visitors ) dies 58 -year-old in Brno.
  • 9 June - Willy Seiler, German radio and television host, dies 58 years old.
  • June 25 - Mildred Gillars, American radio host, dies 87 -year-old in Columbus. She was involved in propaganda broadcasts for the Greater German Radio, directed against the British and Americans.
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