Radio forces françaises de Berlin

Radio Forces Françaises de Berlin (FFB ) was a radio station for the care of the French military contingent in the four sectors of Berlin. Its location was the Quartier Napoléon near the airport Tegel in the French sector.

Radio

The Broadcasting began 93.6 MHz over the radio tower Berlin- Waidmannslust on 8 May 1957 the FM frequency. The most important component of the program was the acquisition of programs of public French domestic programs of the ORTF, initially a mixture of France Inter, France Culture and France Musique, since the mid- 1970s, only France Inter.

Since the mid- 1960s, the transfer program was supplemented with the German broadcasts for listeners in the Berlin area, which were also produced by the ORTF. These self-produced short bulletins for members of the French garrison arrived in Berlin.

With the Allied withdrawal from Berlin 1994 Radio FFB finished his service. The frequency of 93.6 MHz has since been used by Radio France Internationale, so that further French radio broadcasts in Berlin and the surrounding area were audible. For several years, the program of rfi in Berlin and Brandenburg will be broadcast on the frequency 106.0 MHz. The frequency of 93.6 MHz has since been used by various private channels.

TV

In the 1980s, a TV station was installed to supply the French military personnel in the Quartier Napoléon. As with the radio station was the main component of the program acquisition of French domestic transmitters, however, over the years changed several times. Initially, the first French TF1 program was adopted, some years later, the international French language channel TV5 (now TV5MONDE ) switched. There was also an interlude with the 2nd French domestic program Antenne 2 (now France 2 ).

The program was, unlike the other receivable in the city of Allied TV station AFN, SSVC and Soviet TV station, fed into West Berlin cable network. The technical broadcast took place in SECAM, but not in the French version ( SECAM -L), but in the GDR - SECAM -G, so that the reception with West and East German equipment was easily possible.

Mid-1980s, a second program for the French armed forces was fed into the cable network in West Berlin. This was around the private television channel La Cinq the Berlusconi Group. The feed was limited to the territory of the French sector.

On both channels, even a locally produced news bulletin for the Berlin garrison was broadcast a week. The broadcasting both television programs also ended in 1994.