TheBerliner Rundfunk (BERU) was a radio station set inEast Germany. The station formerly had a political focus and discussed events inEast Berlin. Nowadays, it is a commercial radio station with aclassic hits music format with the name "Berliner Rundfunk 91.4".

The Berliner Rundfunk was established in 1945 by theSoviet Military Administration in Germany. It initially broadcast from theHaus des Rundfunks building of the formerReichs-Rundfunk-Gesellschaft (Reich-Radio Association) GmbH on Masurenallee inBerlin-Charlottenburg. It is notable that this broadcaster was located in the British sector of what was to becomeWest Berlin. The station was merged with the regional broadcasters inPotsdam andSchwerin as well as the broadcast studio inRostock.

In the course of the centralization of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) in 1952, in which among other things fiveLänder were eliminated, the status of East German radio changed. In the meantime, the new radio headquarters of theRundfunk der DDR was established inFunkhaus Berlin on Nalepastraße inOberschöneweide, East Berlin. After 1952, all radio programs in the GDR emanated from there. The Berliner Rundfunk was changed to the programBerlin I with a political focus and allotted the transmitters in Schwerin andWeimar. The program also took over the shortwave transmission of the previousDeutschlandsender.

In August 1953 the radio system was reorganized. This reform created theDeutschlandsender, the Berliner Rundfunk, and theRadio DDR. From June 1954 until September 1955 the program of the Berliner Rundfunk was temporarily called "Berlin 1. Programm" in contrast to the program ofRadio DDR which was called "Berlin 2. Programm."

The Berliner Rundfunk transmitted its program set overmediumwave (657, 693, 999, 1170, 1431 and 1575kHz) andVHF.

In connection with the unification of the two German states, the Berliner Rundfunk ceased its transmission in February 1990. In Berlin an identically named private radio program broadcast on the VHF frequency 91.4 MHz. The other open frequencies of the Berliner Rundfunk were taken over by regional programs of the newly createdLänder.

• Broadcasting in East Germany
• Eastern Bloc information dissemination

• Petra Galle:RIAS Berlin und Berliner Rundfunk 1945-1949. Münster [u.a.]: Lit Verlag, 2003.ISBN 3-8258-6469-3

• Eastern Bloc mass media
• Radio in Germany
• Defunct radio stations in East Germany
• Radio stations in Berlin
• Radio stations established in 1945
• Radio stations disestablished in 1991
• 1945 establishments in Germany
• 1991 disestablishments in Germany

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