General information

Call No.:

300-1-8:1/9

Part of series

HU OSA 300-1-8 Records of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Research Institute: General Records: Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty Public Affairs Photographic Files

Located at

Archival photo box #1 / No. 9

Digital ver. identifier

HU OSA 300-1-8_001-009

Legacy ID

rfe_workflow_009

Date

1970

Level

Item

Primary Type

Still image

Language

English

Notes

The black and white prints of RFE/RL were donated to OSA by the Hoover Institute, California in year 2015. The images are duplicates of those held at Hoover. The originals, and most probably the negatives are with the donor as well. OSA only received the paper prints with captions, and digitized the entire collection in year 2018.

Content

Form/Genre

Photograph

Contents Summary

Overall view of Master Control at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. Studio programs were tape recorded here and relayed to the short-wave transmitters in Spain and Portugal for broadcasting. In the photo there is a man in casual clothing operating a row of wall mounted tape recorders. At the bottom of the tape recorders there are drawers with boxed tapes and sheets of paper with program schedule. At the top, a sign says Hungarian. High up the wall, there is a television set. Cf. HU OSA 300-1-8:1/10, HU OSA 300-1-8:1/11, HU OSA 300-1-8:1/17, HU OSA 300-1-8:1/18, HU OSA 300-1-8:1/124.
ORIGINAL CAPTION:
Munich - An overall view of Master Control, the technical heart of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. Every word, every sound, whether it comes from a studio three meters across the hall, or from Washington, London, Paris or Rome, passes through Master Control, where it is master-taped and relayed to the short-wave transmitters in Spain and Portugal for automatic, instantaneous retransmission into the audience areas of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.

Context

Associated Names

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (Copyright holder)

Associated Places

Munich

Subject / Coverage

Spatial Coverage

Munich

Germany

Collection Specific Tags

broadcasting equipment, Cold War, machine, man, Master Control, monitoring, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, tape recorder