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Medium‐wave frequency allocations in postwar Europe: US foreign policy and the Copenhagen conference of 1948

1990; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 34; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/08838159009386732

1550-6878

R. Stephen Craig,

Media, Journalism, and Communication History

Abstract The European Broadcasting Conference of 1948 met in Copenhagen to realign medium‐wave frequencies in Europe. Although only a non‐voting observer, the US felt the Cold War necessitated the maintenance and expansion of American external voices in Germany, such as the Voice of America (VOA), Radio in the American Sector (RIAS), and the American Forces Network (AFN). When the allocation plan proposed unacceptably large cuts in the number of frequencies under which the Americans were operating, the US acted in defiance of the plan, and continued to broadcast in Germany on unauthorized channels and with unauthorized po wer for several years.