“100 Years – Radio – The Show” became the most attended birthday party in the country yesterday, Friday, October 18, 2024, at 8:15 pm on ORF 2. It was not up to 606,000 viewers for missing the emotional end of the ORF multimedia program to celebrate the great anniversary of the great medium. An average of 510,000 people, with a market share of 22 percent, participated in the exciting musical journey through decades of radio history with the knowledgeable and funny moderation duo Teresa Vogl and Michael Ostrowski. Under the direction of Christian Kolonovits, the ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra Vienna performed, showing the great range of its repertoire from operetta, film music and charming changes to swing numbers and milestones from Austropop, classical and contemporary music. On the stage were great people like Marianne Mendt, Rainhard Fendrich, Wolfgang Ambros, Christina Sturmer, Seiler & Speer, Drew Sarich, Eva Klampfer alias Lylit, Daniel Fehlhard, Sigrid Hauser and Thomas Gansch.
“100 Years of Radio – The Show” as well as an additional behind-the-scenes look at the epic production – “100 Years of Radio – Backstage” – are available on ORF ON, as are other ORF-focused anniversary programs at has been aired so far. This will end on October 21 at 11:15 pm on ORF 2 with the “kulturMontag” documentary “Waves of Time – 100 Years of Radio in Austria”. Heidelinde Neuburger-Dumancic’s film introduces an interesting middle world that not only accompanies history, but also actively shapes it.
More information about the program is available at presse.orf.at.
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