Sender Freies Berlin
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| Type | Broadcast radio and television |
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| Country | Germany |
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First air date
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1 June 1954 |
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Broadcast area
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West Berlin up to 1991, then all of Berlin from 1992 to 2003. |
| Dissolved | Merged on 1 May 2003 with Ostdeutscher Rundfunk Brandenburg (ORB), to form Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (RBB). |
Sender Freies Berlin (SFB) (English: Radio Free Berlin) was the ARD public radio and television service for West Berlin from 1 June 1954 until 1990 and for Berlin as a whole from German reunification until 30 April 2003. On 1 May 2003 it merged with Ostdeutscher Rundfunk Brandenburg to form Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg.
In 1922, the Deutsche Stunde, Gesellschaft für drahtlose Belehrung und Unterhaltung mbH (German Society for Wireless Instruction and Entertainment Limited) was formed to promote the new science of radio broadcasting and reception. This institution began broadcasting on 29 October 1923 from Berlin.
In 1933, German broadcasting was brought under Nazi state control and the station became Reichssender Berlin, part of the national Großdeutscher Rundfunk, controlled by Dr Goebbels. The station was closed by the Allies at the end of the Battle of Berlin that brought the End of World War II in Europe.
In the post-war four-power occupation of Germany, the British Control Commission appointed Hugh Greene to restart German broadcasting in the British Zone. The first station on-air was Radio Hamburg. This was followed by the setting up of Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk (NWDR) as the broadcasting corporation for the entire British Zone and for Berlin. Similarly, the United States created Rundfunk im amerikanischen Sektor (RIAS) for their zone in Berlin.
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