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<p>This article opens a new perspective on Finland’s Cold War history by highlighting the role of the Finnish Broadcasting Company (YLE) in providing information about the German Democratic Republic as a particular polity, economy, and key player in the European Cold War landscape. The analysis is based on search results from the YLE digital database (Metro) from 1970–1989, and it is supported by documents from the German Broadcasting Archive [Deutsches Rundfunkarchiv] and the YLE company archive. The archive documents and metadata testify about a long-term interest in East Germany in Finnish television, as well as long-term contacts and collaboration between East German and Finnish television companies, in the executive as well as at grass roots levels.</p>
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This article opens a new perspective on Finland’s Cold War history by highlighting the role of the Finnish Broadcasting Company (YLE) in providing information about the German Democratic Republic as a particular polity, economy, and key player in the European Cold War landscape. The analysis is based on search results from the YLE digital database (Metro) from 1970–1989, and it is supported by documents from the German Broadcasting Archive [Deutsches Rundfunkarchiv] and the YLE company archive. The archive documents and metadata testify about a long-term interest in East Germany in Finnish television, as well as long-term contacts and collaboration between East German and Finnish television companies, in the executive as well as at grass roots levels.

Cold War Television Diplomacy: The German Democratic Republic on Finnish television

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This article opens a new perspective on Finland’s Cold War history by highlighting the role of the Finnish Broadcasting Company (YLE) in providing information...

Cold War Television Diplomacy: The German Democratic Republic on Finnish television

Publié en ligne: 07 févr. 2020

Pages: 19 - 31

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/nor-2020-0002

Mots clés
Cold War, the Finnish Broadcasting Company (YLE), the German Democratic Republic (GDR), public diplomacy, television diplomacy

© 2020 Laura Saarenmaa et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Cold War Television Diplomacy: The German Democratic Republic on Finnish television

Publié en ligne: 07 févr. 2020

Pages: 19 - 31

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/nor-2020-0002

Mots clésCold War, the Finnish Broadcasting Company (YLE), the German Democratic Republic (GDR), public diplomacy, television diplomacy

© 2020 Laura Saarenmaa et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Mots clés
Cold War, the Finnish Broadcasting Company (YLE), the German Democratic Republic (GDR), public diplomacy, television diplomacy