Radio Forces Françaises de Berlin

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Radio Forces Françaises de Berlin (FFB) was a radio transmitter for the care of the French military contingent in the four-sector city Berlin . Its location was the Napoléon district near Tegel Airport in the French sector .

Radio

The transmission operation was on 8. May 1957 on the FM - frequency 93.6 MHz on the radio tower Berlin-Waidmannslust added. The most important part of the program was the takeover of programs from the national French national programs of the ORTF , initially a mixture of France Inter , France Culture and France Musique , since around the mid-1970s only France Inter.

Since the mid-1960s, the takeover program has been supplemented with German-language programs for listeners in the Berlin area, which were also produced by ORTF. There were also short self-produced bulletins for the members of the French garrison in Berlin.

Radio FFB ended its service when the Allies withdrew from Berlin in 1994. The 93.6 MHz frequency has since been used by Radio France Internationale , so that French radio broadcasts could still be heard in Berlin and the surrounding area. For a number of years rfi has been broadcasting the program in Berlin and Brandenburg on the frequency 106.0 MHz. Since then, the 93.6 MHz frequency has been used by various private broadcasters.

Furthermore, the program of Radio FFB has been broadcast since the 1980s on the frequency 92.7 MHz from Berg Schalke near Goslar in the Harz Mountains. Due to the exposed location, the station could be received as far as Hanover . The broadcasting operation was stopped on April 30, 1993.

watch TV

In the 1980s, a TV transmitter was installed in the Napoléon district to supply the French military. As with the radio station, the main part of the program was takeover of French domestic stations, which, however, changed several times over the years. Initially the first French program TF1 was taken over, a few years later the international French-language program TV5 (today TV5MONDE ) was activated. There was also an interlude with the 2nd French domestic program, Antenne 2 (today France 2 ).

Unlike the other allied TV channels AFN , SSVC and the Soviet TV channel that can be received in the city, the program was fed into the West Berlin cable network. The technical broadcast took place in SECAM , but not in the French version (SECAM-L), but in the GDR standard SECAM-G, so that reception with West and East German devices was possible without any problems.

In the mid-1980s, a second program for the French armed forces was fed into the West Berlin cable network. It was the private television channel La Cinq of the Berlusconi group. The feed was limited to the area of ​​the French sector.

A locally produced news bulletin for the Berlin garrison was broadcast on both channels once a week. The broadcast of both television programs also ended in 1994.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ German radio and television: organization and economic basis , Hans Brack, European Broadcasting Union, 1968, page 27
  2. ↑ World Radio TV Handbook , Volumes 45-46, O. Lund Johansen, 1991, page 80
  3. ↑ 750 Years Berlin 1987: Information , Press and Information Office of the State of Berlin, 1987, page 85
  4. ↑ Berlin in the Cold War: Schauplätze und Veranstaltungen , Klaus Behling , Christian Behling, K. Homilius, 2008, page 20
  5. ^ Medienstadt Berlin , Project Media and Communication Atlas Berlin, Vistas, 1988, pages 300–302
  6. ^ Berlin handbook: the lexicon of the federal capital , Horst Ulrich, Berlin (Germany). Press and Information Office, FAB Verlag, 1992, since 364

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