Word: rundfunk
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...television section of Germany's Bayerische Rundfunk (Bavarian Radio) prepared to accept commercial advertising-but with a Teutonic difference. All commercial messages will be concentrated into one 25-minute period, and the remainder of each telecast day will then be sponsor-free...
...West Berlin, German set manufacturers displayed 16 new models priced from $285 up. Unsponsored programs, produced by northwest Germany's network NWDR (Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk) and telecast six to ten hours a week, will be supported by set owners, who will pay about $1.19 a month to the city. Next step in Germany's TV expansion: a Hamburg-Berlin hookup...
...Nazi Propaganda Ministry endorsed the old German nationalist movement for Sprachreinigung (language purification). Soon Verdeutschungen (Germanized words) began to appear officially. Radio was changed to Rundfunk, Telefon to Fernsprecher, Automobil to Kraftwagen. The Relativitdtstheorie of famed refugee from Nazidom, Albert Einstein, became Bezuglichkeitsanschauungs-gesetz (relativity perception...