Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Gerhart, who shares links to this short 1994 film, produced by Deutsche Welle TV, about the West Berlin radio station, RIAS:
Part 1:
Part 2:
I’m curious if any SWLing Post readers ever listened to or logged RIAS while living or travelling in West/East Berlin during the Cold War years. Please comment!
I listened to RIAS in the 1980s, but never wrote a reception report. The world didn’t look like if the station would close down any time soon, and there seemed to be no need to hurry.
Where I lived, in northwestern Germany, reception of RIAS, just as of Südwestfunk, Bayerischer Rundfunk, SFB or Radio Bremen on shortwave was always easy.
Here’s a link to a number of soundfiles – programs recorded by Hans Rosenthal for RIAS. Rosenthal was a media worker who also ran a nation-wide television show.
Some of his programs reflected history. So do these soundfiles.
I used to hear them and I think I have a QSL card from them somewhere.
Thanks for posting this — of course we have remnants of RIAS today with the transmitter being used in Germany by various stations.
I well remember listening to RIAS on 6005 khz in those far back days when numerous German regional stations were still on shortwave