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The Aspidistra antennas. The Deutscher Kurzwellensender Atlantik (German: "German Shortwave Radio Atlantic", popularly known as Atlantiksender – "Atlantic Channel"), [1] was a British propaganda radio station operational during the Second World War.
British propaganda during the First World War set a new benchmark that inspired the fascist and socialist regimes during the Second World War and the Cold War [citation needed]; Marshal Paul von Hindenburg stated, "This English propaganda was a new weapon, or rather a weapon which had never been employed on such a scale and so ruthlessly in the past."
The character was a Berlin woman married to a tradesman and World War I veteran. She commented on the shortages plaguing the German populace, the state of the war [9]: 49 and she launched subversive tirades against the Nazis, turning them into a laughing stock. Frau Wernicke became one of the most popular programs of the BBC's German Service.
Aspidistra broadcast on medium wave with 600 kW of power. The transmitter (originally 500 kW) had been built by RCA for WJZ radio in Newark, New Jersey, United States.But at the prompting of the United States Congress, spurred on by competition, [1] the Federal Communications Commission later imposed a 50-kW power limit on all US stations.
Germany Calling was an English language propaganda radio programme, broadcast by Nazi German radio to audiences in the British Isles and North America during the Second World War. Every broadcast began with the station announcement: "Germany calling! Here are the Reichssender Hamburg, station Bremen".
World War II propaganda radio stations (11 P) Pages in category "Radio during World War II" The following 49 pages are in this category, out of 49 total.
The last big media shift came with coverage of the Gulf War, in 1990, when "we had the first real 24-hour war and CNN became the war channel — they basically covered that very short war [six ...
Use of the Eiffel Tower as a listening station to intercept wireless telegraphy (French: télégraphie sans fil T.S.F.) 1914 British radio listening station from the Second World War, equipped with the National HRO shortwave radio receivers The radomes of listening station RAF Menwith Hill, England, often referred to as "golf balls", protect the parabolic antennas from the weather.