Master Control Room

Call Number
300-1-8:1/124

General information

Call No.:
300-1-8:1/124
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. 124
Digital ver. identifier
HU OSA 300-1-8_001-124
Legacy ID
rfe_workflow_124
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
Overview of the Master Control Room. The row of tape decks are by the far wall on both sides of a door. On the right hand side there are the tape decks of for Radio Free Europe broadcast languages, indicated with signs saying Hungarian, Rumanian, Czechoslovak, Polish, Bulgarian on the wall above the decks, while the decks on the left are marked the Soviet Union languages Tatar, Bashkir, Armenian, Azerbaijani, Georgian, Kirghiz, Tajik, Turkmen, Kazak, Uzbek, Belorussian, Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Ukranian, Russian. A man is standing in front of the the decks of the Soviet Union. He is dressed casually. On the wall above the decks there is a television set and two clocks reading three o'clock. In front of the decks there are desks with control panels, telephones and swivel chairs. 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 300-1-8:1/9.
ORIGINAL CAPTION:
Munich, West Germany - Through this Master Control Room at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty passes every word, every note of music, each actuality - the entire programming of 21 different language services. Left, as the language signs indicate, are the tape decks for the programs of Radio Liberty which broadcasts in 15 of the languages spoken in the USSR, including a 24-hour Russian service. To the right are the tape decks for Radio Free Europe programming. RFE broadcasts in the six major languages of Eastern Europe. Together they are on the air 816 transmitter hours and 145 programming hours daily.

Context

Associated Names
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (Copyright holder)
Associated Places
Munich

Subject / Coverage

Spatial Coverage
Munich
Germany
Collection Specific Tags
clock, Cold War, control panel, man, Master Control, monitoring, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, telephone, television