Radio in the Soviet Union

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All-Union Radio
Всесоюзное радио
TypeBroadcast radio
Country
Soviet Union
History
Launch date1924
Closed1991
Coverage
AvailabilityNational
International 
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All-Union Radio (

dissolution of the USSR. The organization was based in Moscow
.

History

Beginning

Following the

Shukhov radio tower
. In 1925, the Radio Commission of the Central Committee of the RCP(B) was organized for overall supervision of radio broadcasting.

On 30 October 1930, from

Soviet propaganda.[2]

When the

Eastern bloc
.

Radio jamming

Beginning in 1948, the USSR made use of

Kol Israel, and others.[3] Total electricity consumed in the course of this jamming operation has been valued at tens of millions of dollars annually, exclusive of site construction and personnel costs.[3]

Jamming was initially attempted by means of superimposed random speech which mimicked station interference.

satellites generating swinging carrier signals were used to interfere even more effectively.[5]

Nevertheless, people continued (or attempted) to listen to Western broadcasts. In fact, there was even no jamming of these signals (excluding Radio Free Europe) at all, from 1963 to 1968[

oblast
.

The jamming stopped in 1988 (Radio Free Europe was, however, unblocked in August 1991).

Collapse of the USSR

See also: Dissolution of the Soviet Union

As the USSR began to fall in the 1980s, the radio organisation of the USSR began to shut down as private services were introduced and the USSR's stations were relaunched and refocused.[citation needed]

Stations

Domestic

  • USSR
    , focusing on the political and economic life of the Soviet Union.
  • Radio Mayak – music and speech based entertainment
  • Radio Yunost – the station for young people
  • Radio Orfey
    – culture, education, classical music

International

See also

Footnotes

  1. ^ Rodica Mahu, Radio Moldova se revendica de la Radio Tiraspol Archived 2013-05-21 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ Radiofonie românească: Radio Basarabia
  3. ^ a b c d George W. Woodard, "Cold War Radio Jamming," in A. Ross Johnson and R. Eugene Parta (eds.), Cold War Broadcasting: Impact on the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Budapest: Central European University Press, 2010, pg. 53.
  4. ^ "B.B.C. RUSSIAN BROADCASTS (JAMMING) (Hansard, 30 July 1949)". api.parliament.uk. Retrieved 2022-07-11.
  5. ^ a b c Woodard, "Cold War Radio Jamming," pg. 64.

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