Radio Wolga
{{short description|Soviet radio station in East Germany}}
Radio Wolga ({{langx|ru|Радио Волга|Radio Volga}}) was a radio station for the Soviet armed forces stationed in the former East Germany and Czechoslovakia, broadcasting mainly in Russian.[https://books.google.com/books?id=djFiAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Radio+Volga%22+gdr The Mass Media of the German-speaking Countries], John Sandford, Oswald Wolff, 1976
Broadcasting station
Based in Potsdam, Radio Wolga broadcast from the Königs Wusterhausen radio facility near Berlin, as well as the Burg AM transmitter near Magdeburg.[https://books.google.com/books?id=ENI6AAAAIAAJ&q=%22Radio+Volga%22++K%C3%B6nigs+Wusterhausen World Radio TV Handbook], Oluf Lund-Johansen
Cardfont Publishers under license from Billboard Publications, 1974, page 70
From 1967 to 1976 Radio Wolga used the 350-meter SL-3 tower, 2.2 kilometers from the transmitter. After it collapsed in 1976, one of the site's two 210-meter high steel tube masts was used instead. Radio Wolga originally broadcast on the longwave frequency 283 kHz.[https://books.google.com/books?id=YAwiAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Radio+Wolga%22+261+kHz Radio und Musik von und für Soldaten: Kriegs- und Nachkriegsjahre : 1939-1960], Günter Grull, Herbst, 2000, page 16
Programming
Beside programs for the Soviet soldiers stationed in the GDR, Radio Wolga also broadcast German language programmes from Radio Moscow.[https://books.google.com/books?id=KXxJzHGJas0C&dq=%22FFB%22+Radio+%22Berlin%22+%221994%22&pg=PA41 Radiogeschichten: Zeitreise und Exkursionen in die Berliner RadioWelten], Die Radionauten, BoD, 2005, page 41 After German reunification in 1990, transmitting time was rented to the German-language news station Radioropa Info, broadcasting on 261 kHz.[https://books.google.com/books?id=wcxNAAAAYAAJ&q=%22Radio+Volga%22+261+kHz World Radio TV Handbook, Volume 48], O. Lund Johansen, 1994, page 81
Television
Soviet Central Television's main channel, TSS-1, was also relayed in East Germany via satellite.[https://books.google.com/books?id=jMdNAAAAYAAJ&q=TSS-1+ World Radio TV Handbook], Volume 39, Billboard Publications, 1984, page 398
Shutdown
With the departure of Russian troops from Germany, Radio Wolga ceased broadcasting in June 1994. Radioropa Info took over its frequency, broadcasting from late 1994 to 2000, first from Daun and then from Leipzig.[https://books.google.com/books?id=qTUqAQAAIAAJ&q=Radioropa+Info World Radio TV Handbook], Volume 51, Cardfont Publishers under license from Billboard Publications., 1997, page 88 In 1999 a new cage aerial was mounted on the 324-meter radio mast in Burg.[http://www.radioheritage.net/europe/profile_burg.htm Station Profile - Burg 261 kHz]
See also
References
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External links
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20050403112242/http://www.asamnet.de/~bienerhj/0261.html Burg, früher 261 kHz] {{in lang|de}} — brief history of transmissions on 261 kHz in Germany
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