HISTORIC RIAS sign taken off BUILDING for repairs BUT BACK NOW

On May 7, 2009, the historic RIAS sign was returned to the top of the RIAS Funkhaus (broadcast building). It had been removed on March 16, 2009 for urgently required repairs. Only two years after starting to broadcast on February 7, 1946, the “Rundfunk im Amerikanischen Sektor” (RIAS) had moved into the RIAS Funkhaus and began its broadcast under the well-known RIAS sign on top of the roof. From July 6, 1948, to December 31, 1993, the building was home to legendary RIAS Berlin, also known as “a free voice of the free world” to millions of listeners in former communist East Germany. After the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989, and the German Unification on October 3, 1990, RIAS was transformed into the public German radio station DeutschlandRadio Kultur at the end of 1993. The RIAS sign — put under landmark status about a decade ago — still reminds today’s passers-by of the glorious times of RIAS Berlin as a renown radio station in Berlin during the Cold War.

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