AFN Berlin
The AFN Berlin of the American Forces Network was one of the most famous American Forces Radio . The station's last address was at 28 Saargemünder Strasse in Berlin-Dahlem .
history
The transmission operation was on August 4, 1945 at 12:00 with the Rhapsody in Blue by George Gershwin from a confiscated villa in Podbielskiallee taken 28th It is rumored again and again that this villa belonged to Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop , but this is incomprehensible. According to the Berlin address book from 1943, the house belonged to the bank director Dr. M. Schlenker. Von Ribbentrop lived not far away at Lentzeallee 7–9. The choice fell on this villa because it was secured with iron bars. A few houses away, the first station manager said in an interview, Max Schmeling's villa was also confiscated to accommodate the staff. In the beginning, a wire stretched between two trees was used as a transmitting antenna.
During the Berlin blockade, the AFN Berlin broadcast around the clock for the first time to enable the airlift pilots to use the AFN Berlin radio signal as a tracking transmitter for the approach to Tempelhof. After the construction of the Berlin Wall in August 1961 AFN Berlin sent a 24-hour program permanently after Moscow radio after AFN- Sendeschluss had used the free night frequency unjustified for propaganda purposes in English.
AFN TV Berlin began broadcasting in black and white on April 17, 1967 . In 1974 the color was added and from 1984 live broadcasts directly from the USA. In 1979 the company moved to Saargemünder Straße 28 in the Berlin district of Dahlem.
On July 15, 1994, a three-hour special broadcast simultaneously on VHF and medium wave , which was broadcast in 54 countries. Afterwards, AFN Berlin stopped broadcasting a few seconds before 2 p.m. by playing the national anthem of the United States .
reception
AFN Berlin had a medium wave transmitter on the frequency 1107 kHz, an FM transmitter on the frequency 87.85 MHz (later 87.90 MHz) and a TV transmitter on channel 29, which, however, only received with an NTSC color decoder and only in the south-west of Berlin was.
The medium wave transmitter broadcast on 935 kHz until November 23, 1978. On this day the Geneva Wave Plan came into force and the frequency changed to 1107 kHz. The 120-meter-high transmission mast was up until December 16, 1996 on the grounds of the Dahlem domain in Pacelliallee.
In-house productions
Radio (88FM)
- A morning show (Mon - Fri)
- An afternoon show (Mon - Fri)
- The Juice with Jim McCauley as "The Magnificent Magoo" (behind the mic)
- Disco
- 1605 to Nashville (MW)
- Frolic at Five (medium wave)
- Adventure in Good music (MW)
- Music in the Air
- Live special broadcasts from the German-American Volksfest on Hüttenweg in Berlin-Dahlem and the Open Day at the Tempelhof Airport
watch TV
- Berlin Tonight (daily news broadcast)
- Berlin PM (interview broadcast)
- Berlin Tonight late edition (late news)
- Discover Berlin (trailer series about the sights of Berlin)
- The Berlin Ramblers (live country music show, 1968 monthly every Saturday afternoon)
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Personalities
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Mark White (January 2, 1925 - December 26, 2013), the former program director of AFN-Berlin (1950–1988), died on December 26, 2013 with his family in Berlin.
On September 2, 2014 a memorial plaque was inaugurated in front of the former studio building at 28 Podbielskiallee. Among the guests were District Councilor for Culture Cerstin Richter-Kotowski, presenter Rik De Lisle , Siegrid White - the widow of program director Mark White - and presenter Bill Gaylord.
watch TV
- Jacques Bannamon
- Rebecca Easley
- Hank Minitrez
- Dan Quakkelaar
See also
- Radio Forces Françaises de Berlin (FFB)
- British Forces Broadcasting Service (BFBS)
- Radio Volga - transmitter of the Russian armed forces
- List of allied institutions in the western sectors of Berlin
Web links
- AFN Berlin - Unofficial website to remember (s) (Mirror Site)
- Sven Röver: Berlin music stories after 1945 ... then we take Berlin - The AFN on the Spree ( Memento from January 21, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- Page of the 6941st Gd Bn Kameradschaftsbund about AFN Berlin
- AFRTS Archive. blogspot.de, accessed on June 29, 2013 .
- The story of AFN RADIOJournal
Coordinates: 52 ° 27 ′ 0 ″ N , 13 ° 16 ′ 30 ″ E
Individual evidence
- ↑ Podbielskiallee 28 . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1943, Zehlendorf administrative district, Dahlem, p. 1419.
- ↑ Lentzeallee 7.9 . In: Berliner Adreßbuch , 1940, administrative district Zehlendorf, Dahlem, p. 1421 (last noted in 1940, then entered as "uninhabited").
- ↑ Frequency change of the medium wave transmitter ( Memento from March 2, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Tatjana Wulfert: Mark White (born 1925). Obituaries. Der Tagesspiegel, March 7, 2014, accessed on September 12, 2014 .
- ↑ Cay Dobberke: Memorial plaque for "The Great 88". AFN transmitter in Berlin-Zehlendorf. Der Tagesspiegel, September 2, 2014, accessed on September 12, 2014 .