General information

Call No.:

300-1-8:7/8

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 #7 / No. 8

Digital ver. identifier

HU OSA 300-1-8_007-008

Legacy ID

rfe_workflow_3_008

Date

1985

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

ORIGINAL CAPTION:
Munich -- Ludmila Rakusan, a Senior Editor in the Czechoslovak Service of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, airs her daily commentary in a studio at the Munich headquarters of the Radio. RFE/RL broadcasts in more languages and for more hours to the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe than any other Western radio station. RL broadcasts in 15 of the languages spoken in the Soviet Union, including a 24-hour Russian service. RFE broadcasts in six major languages of Eastern Europe. Together they are on the air 953 transmitter hours and 146.2 programming hours daily. Each week RFE reaches an estimated audience of 25.3 million people in Eastern Europe and RL almost seven million people in the USSR.

Context

Associated Names

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (Copyright holder)

Associated Places

Munich

Subject / Coverage

Spatial Coverage

Munich

Germany

Collection Specific Tags

Cold War, Crusade for Freedom, Iron curtain, man, monitoring, Radio broadcasting, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, woman