- Berliner Rundfunk
The Berliner Rundfunk (BERU) was a radio program set in
East Germany . It had a political focus and discussed events inEast Berlin . Now it is a private radio station broadcasted with the name "Berlin Rundfunk 91.4".History
The Berliner Rundfunk was established in
1946 in the Soviet occupation zone. It broadcast from the buildings of the Reichs-Rundfunkgesellschaft GmbH ("Reich"-Radio Association GmbH) inBerlin . It's notable that this broadcaster was located in the British sector in the Masurenallee. The station was merged with the regional broadcasters inPotsdam andSchwerin as well as the broadcast studio inRostock .In the course of the centralization of the
GDR in1952 , in which among other things five "Länder" were eliminated, the status of East German radio changed. In the meantime, the new radio headquarters was established on the Nalepastraße inOberschöneweide . After1952 , all radio programs in the DDR emanated from there. The Berliner Rundfunk was changed to the program "Berlin I" with a political focus and allotted the transmitters in Schwerin andWeimar . The program also took over the shortwave transmission of the previousDeutschlandsender .In August
1953 the radio system was reorganized. This reform created theDeutschlandsender , the Berliner Rundfunk, and theRadio DDR . From June1954 until September1955 the program of the Berliner Rundfunk was temporarily called "Berlin 1. Programm" in contrast to the program ofRadio DDR which was called "Berlin 2. Programm."The Berliner Rundfunk transmitted its program set over
mediumwave (657, 693, 999, 1170, 1431 and 1575 kHz) andVHF .In connection with the unification of the two German states, the Berliner Rundfunk ceased its transmission in February
1990 . In Berlin an identically named private radio program broadcast on the VHF frequency 91.4 MHz. The other open frequencies of the Berliner Rundfunk were taken over by regional programs of the newly created "Länder".ee also
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Broadcasting in East Germany References
* Petra Galle: "RIAS Berlin und Berliner Rundfunk 1945-1949". Münster [u.a.] : Lit Verlag, 2003. ISBN 3-8258-6469-3
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