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Rundfunk im amerikanischen Sektor

RIAS (German: Rundfunk im amerikanischen Sektor; English: Radio in the American Sector) was a radio and television station in the American Sector of Berlin during the Cold War. It was founded by the US occupational authorities after World War II in 1946 to provide the German population in and around Berlin with news and political reporting.

Type

Broadcast radio and television

West Berlin, Germany

7 February 1946

31 December 1993

National

Transmitters[edit]

The station's most important transmitter was at Berlin-Britz (on 612 kHz). Later a second transmitter at Hof in Bavaria was added to improve reception in the southern parts of East Germany (on 684 kHz), which was switched on at sunset to cover Germany with skywave. In addition to medium wave, the station also transmitted on shortwave on a frequency of 6.005 MHz.[4] The Hof facility was closed and carted off to Mühlacker in 1994, though the Berlin-Britz facility remained in service until 2013, transmitting the programmes of Deutschlandradio Kultur; it was finally dismantled in 2015.

Radio Free Europe

Voice of America

Deutscher Fernsehfunk