Berliner Rundfunk

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The Berliner Rundfunk (BERU) was a radio program set in East Germany. It had a political focus and discussed events in East Berlin. Now it is a private radio station broadcasted with the name "Berlin Rundfunk 91.4".

[edit] 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) in Berlin. It's notable that this broadcaster was located in the British sector in the Masurenallee. The station was merged with the regional broadcasters in Potsdam and Schwerin as well as the broadcast studio in Rostock.

In the course of the centralization of the GDR in 1952, 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 in Oberschöneweide. After 1952, 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 and Weimar. The program also took over the shortwave transmission of the previous Deutschlandsender.

In August 1953 the radio system was reorganized. This reform created the Deutschlandsender, the Berliner Rundfunk, and the Radio DDR. From June 1954 until September 1955 the program of the Berliner Rundfunk was temporarily called "Berlin 1. Programm" in contrast to the program of Radio DDR which was called "Berlin 2. Programm."

The Berliner Rundfunk transmitted its program set over mediumwave (657, 693, 999, 1170, 1431 and 1575 kHz) and VHF.

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.