Master Control Room at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

Call Number
300-1-8:10/10

General information

Call No.:
300-1-8:10/10
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 #10 / No. 10
Legacy ID
rfe_workflow_2_001
Date
1975
Level
Folder
Primary Type
Still image
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

Six men at work, operating the technical equipment in the Control Room. On the left side of the image, above the tape recorders there are 15 plaquettes, listing 15 languages within Radio Liberty's operations: Tatar Bashkir, Armenian, Azerbaijan, Georgian, Kirgiz, Tajik, Turkmen, Kazak, Uzbek, Belorussian, Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Russian. On the right hand side of the image there are 5 plaquettes next to each other, listing the 5 languages of Radio Free Europe's operations: Hungarian, Romanian, Czechoslovak, Polish, Bulgarian. The original cation, taped onto the back of the image is a recycled text, see HU OSA 300-1-8:1/9.

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)

Subject / Coverage

Spatial Coverage
Munich
Germany
Collection Specific Tags
Cold War, Crusade for Freedom, Iron curtain, monitoring, Radio broadcasting, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, technicians