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Retro: Austria, Saturday, October 12, 1968

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ORF FS 1

4:15PM Zaa, das kleine weisse Kamel ("Zaa, The Little White Camel"; children)
4:40 Kentucky Jones (US series)
5:05 Fuer den Markenfreund (stamp collecting)
5:25 Frauenpreise in Afrika (documentary)
6:00 Gute-Nacht-Sendng fuer die Kleinsten: Der Flieger Charly ("A Good Night Show for the Littlest Ones: Charly the Flyer"; children)
6:05 Von Woche zur Woche ("From Week to Week")
6:25 News update
6:30 Guten Abend am Samstag ("Good Saturday Evening")
6:56 Commercials
7:00 Familie Feuerstein (The Flinstones)
7:27 Program lineup and commercials
7:30 Zeit im Bild ("Time in Images"; news)
8:00 Weekly commentary (with Dr. Hugo Portisch)
8:09 Commercials
8:15 Einer wird gewinnen ("One Will Win"; live multinational game show)
10:00 Sportjournal (sports magazine)
10:45 Zeit im Bild (news)
10:55 Olympic games (Mexico City): opening ceremony (recorded)

ORF FS 2

5:40PM Jean et Helene (French language instruction)
6:00 Olympic games (Mexico City): opening ceremony (live)
8:30 The Sea of Grass (US movie, 1947)
10:15 The Lawbreakers (US movie, 1960)


In addition to the two Austrian channels listed above, most households in Austria could also receive German television.

The abbreviated broadcast times were quite typical for most of Europe at the time.

Source: Hörzu magazine (Austrian edition)
 
Thanks for posting this foreign country listing!

I see the Flintstones on ORF FS 1. How did the tapes get to Austria? From other EU countries?

-crainbebo
 
crainbebo said:
Thanks for posting this foreign country listing!

I see the Flintstones on ORF FS 1. How did the tapes get to Austria? From other EU countries?

-crainbebo
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I don't know how American programming was distributed in Europe at this time -- I suspect it was still done by film rather than by tape. Each national broadcaster purchased the rights separately from various American distributors. However, the German-language dubbing for Germany, Austria, and Switzerland was all done in Germany – and that German-dubbed version is what Austrian viewers would have seen at 7PM.

Here is a clip of the German version of the Flintstones (note that the opening theme, instead of being translated, was just turned into an instrumental):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZluNBjlVYM

European broadcasters were connected via microwave links at the time. However, the Eurovision Broadcasting Union (EBU) exchange was used primarily for news feeds, sports coverage, and European-made shows such as that multinational game show listed on this day. American-bought shows were not distributed via these microwave links and were shown at vastly different times across Europe. Even today, viewers in one European country might be watching season 1 of some American show, while viewers in a neighboring country may already be enjoying season 3. (Of course, this doesn’t apply to pan-European cable and satellite TV.)

I’m glad you enjoyed the listing, BTW!
 
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