Radio Berlin International
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| reception | terrestrial |
| Reception area | International |
| business | May 1959 to October 2, 1990 |
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Radio Berlin International (RBI) was from 1959 to 1990 the international broadcasting of the broadcast of the GDR .
history
Radio Berlin International was officially founded on May 20, 1959. Radio GDR had been broadcasting foreign language programs since April 1955 . RBI broadcast programs in German, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Danish, Arabic and Swahili .
The aim of the station was to “... bring the socialist German state closer to listeners all over the world ...” and to inform Germans living abroad about what was happening in the GDR . To strengthen the loyalty of listeners to the station, listeners' clubs were founded on almost every continent. In the course of time, the programs have been steadily expanded and the transmission times extended. The station's pause signals were the first eight tones of the GDR national anthem .
The RBI editorial team and studios were located in Block A of the Nalepastraße radio building in Berlin-Oberschöneweide , the central location of radio in the GDR. The programs were broadcast on shortwave via the Nauen , Königs Wusterhausen and Wiederau transmitters and medium wave via the Berlin-Köpenick transmitter , and in recent years (from 1986) also via the Burg near Magdeburg transmitter .
In 1990, RBI supplemented its shortwave offer with programs in Russian after the supply of these productions to Soviet radio (broadcast there as part of the series Voices of Friends ) , which had been practiced for years, was torn down during the turmoil of that time.
In the course of German reunification on October 3, 1990, RBI ceased broadcasting as the first GDR broadcaster to end on October 2, 1990. Only a few employees were taken over from Deutsche Welle on an individual basis.
Until 1991 (in the case of the distinctive frequency 6115 kHz, transmitter Königs Wusterhausen, until 1993) Deutsche Welle recorded the existing shortwave frequencies from RBI. She then used the Nauen transmitter until 2007 according to her own requirements. On the medium wave frequencies of RBI (Berlin 1359 kHz, Burg 1575 kHz) the Deutschlandfunk was broadcast from October 3, 1990 to 1993 .
See also
- Christof Kirschnek (RBI Director, 1962 to 1971)
- Erich Jungmann (Artistic Director 1971 to 1976)
Web links
- Vera Linß in conversation with Hannelore Steer , last editor-in-chief of RBI, about the management of the station
- Break characters from RBI in the break character database
- Once upon a time ... Radio Berlin International (RBI) - contribution from the RADIOJournal, 1995
Individual evidence
- ↑ 1995: Once upon a time ... Radio Berlin International (RBI). Retrieved December 23, 2018 .