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...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...
Thousands of Berliners this week were dialing "23" on their telephones. What they got was not the time, the weather or Long Distance, but a three-minute report of the latest news from radio station RIAS (Rundfunk im Amerikanischen Sektor). Of the 20,000-30,000 daily calls, nearly half come from residents of Berlin's Soviet sector, who apparently want their telephoned news uncluttered by the party line...
Germany's Bayerische Rundfunk (Bavarian Radio) this week announced a gingerly experiment with U.S. techniques...
Beginning in September, the network will broadcast commercial advertising for the first time in its history. But the Rundfunk's directors added an original touch: all of the commercials will be jammed to gether in two half-hour periods; one at 6:30 in the morning, the other at noon. For the rest of the day Bavarian listeners will be on their...