2008 in radio

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The Austrian film rights Herbert Kloiber dealer is through the acquisition of the former BAWAG PSK shares the transmitter sole owner of ATV.
January 7 - Because of the U.S. writers' strike of WGA the original ceremony of the 65th Golden Globe Awards will be canceled. Instead, the winners will be announced during a press conference.
March - The publisher of Berlin -Brandenburg, edited by the media experts Rüdiger Steinmetz and Reinhold Viehoff comprehensive examination appears on the history of East German television under the title East German television. A program history of GDR television.
March 27 - The U.S. researchers Carl Haber and Earl Cornell of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory is achieved by means of a computer program to reconstruct the hitherto oldest known audio recording of a human voice. The recording from 1860, was created with the help of a Phonautographen and includes ten seconds of French children's song Au clair de la lune.
October 1 - The U.S. journalist Amy Goodman, founder of the political magazine Democracy Now, is awarded the Right Livelihood Award for their services to independent political reporting in the United States.
October 28 - The Japanese JVC is the cessation of production of VHS devices known. In the future, only VHS - DVD combos were manufactured.
November 4 - At the Foreign Ministry, the book will be presented from the research network television operation SED state. The study examines the influence of the Stasi on the electronic media in East and West Germany.

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February 2 - Barry Morse, British actor died aged 89 in London. He was best known for the television series The Fugitive ( as Lt.. Philip Gerard ) and Moonbase Alpha 1 (as Professor Victor Bergman ).
April 25 - Margit Humer - Seeber, Austrian actress and radio presenter dies aged 84 in Innsbruck.
May 13 - Kalle Sändare, Swedish comedian and radio host dies 76 years old.
- May 16 Ulrich Makosch, German TV journalist ( lens, abroad magazine of the DFF, 1965-1989 ) dies age of 75 in Berlin.
June 15 - Tony Schwartz, American advertising specialist, a policy advisor dies aged 84 in New York.
August 7 - Bernie Brillstein, American television producer, dies age of 77 in Los Angeles.
August 11 - Günther Schifter, Austrian jazz connoisseurs and radio host ( shellac ), dies aged 85 in Salzburg.
September 21 - Duncan Larkin, British- Austrian radio host ( FM4, Blue Danube Radio ) 49 -year-old dies in Vienna.
October 8th - Herbert Boetticher, German actor, numerous television roles dies age of 79 in Dusseldorf as I'm getting married in a family scene, Derrick or The Country Doctor.
October 10 - Kurt Weinzierl, Austrian actor ( The Piefke saga, Kottan determined, a real Wiener goes under ) dies age of 77 in Munich.
October 24 - Helmut Zilk, an Austrian journalist, politician and former ( TV ) Director of ORF dies age of 81.
October 25 - Brigitte Xander, Austrian radio and television presenter dies aged 66 in Vienna. She was best known as the presenter of the Ö3 - alarm, and the hundreds of thousands -Schillig quiz on the radio and as a juror at Dalli Dalli and as a presenter of the ORF cooking show with celebrities, to the table on TV.
October 31 - Studs Terkel, American radio journalist and pioneer of oral history is dying 96 -year-old in Chicago.
December 7 - Helmuth Misak, Austrian TV chef and pioneer of the cooking television in the 1960s, dies 76- year in Vienna.
December 13 - Horst Tappert, German actor and performer of the figure of the " Derrick " dies aged 85 in Munich.
December 18 - John Costelloe (47 ), American actor ( The Sopranos ) is found murdered in his New York apartment.
December 29 - Otto Pammer, Austrian cameraman and television producer (page views ) dies age of 82 in Vienna.
Martin Schliessler - German documentary filmmaker dies age of 79.

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