Kreuzberged: Berlin Companion

Kreuzberged: Berlin Companion

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Today in Berlin: 19 February 1952

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Feb 19, 2026
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On this day in 1952 in Berlin a special jury convening on behalf of the Berliner Senat chose the winner in a contest organised to find a name for a new independent West Berlin radio station – mind you, one which did not even exist yet.

Sender Freies Berlin (Radio Free Berlin), or SFB, was to become West Berlin equivalent to Soviet-controlled Berlin's Berliner Rundfunk…

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