Der schwarze Kanal

Overview

Der schwarze Kanal was a series of political propaganda programmes broadcast weekly between 1960 and 1989 by East German television. Each edition was made up of recorded extracts from recent West German television programmes re-edited to include a Communist commentary.

Details

Status

Returning series

First aired

March 21, 1960

Last aired

July 26, 1965

Episodes

278

Network

DFF 1

Original language

German

Spoken languages

German

Countries

East Germany

Creator

Karl-Eduard von Schnitzler