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RIAS is an abbreviation and stands for: “Radio im amerikanischen Sektor” (radio in the american sector). From 1946 until 1993 it was the name of a Berlin broadcast station. After World War II West-Berlin was seperated into three sectors: a french, a british and an american sector. Already in february 1946 the americans created and launched the first broadcast station of the new beginning in this devastated city and called it “Drahtfunk im amerikanischen Sektor” (DIAS) (wire broadcast in the american sector). The exclusively German employees, who were committed to the american ideal of a free and independent journalism, had to improvise a lot in this period.
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The former head of the RIAS school broadcasting, Rudolf Ossowski, initiated the foundation of the RIAS school braodcasting orchestra and his call for young talented scholars to play for audition had a great expansion. Since 1948 the RIAS-Youth Orchestra is still the only orchestra of a broadcast station for future orchestral musicians.
After the German reunification in 1991 and the withdrawal of the allied troops the RIAS as well as the Deutschlandfunk and the broadcast station DS-Kultur became a statutory corporation due to the rearrangement of the law (20th december 1993) concerning the broadcast stations. Since 1994 DeutschlandRadio broadcasts on the former RIAS-frequency UKW 89,6 and is based in the Funkhaus at the Hans-Rosenthal-Platz in Berlin-Schöneberg. The RIAS logo is still on top the roof of the Funkhaus and reminds everyone on the “free voice of a free word”. Today the RIAS Berlin commission stands for a continuous German-American journalistic cooperation.
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