Deutsche Welle

=== German reunification ===
With the [[German reunification]] in 1990, [[Radio Berlin International]] (RBI), [[East Germany]]'s international broadcaster ceased to exist. Some of the RBI staff joined {{Lang|de|Deutsche Welle|italic=no}} and DW inherited some broadcasting facilities, including transmitting facilities at [[Nauen]], as well as RBI's frequencies.

'''DW (TV)''' began as '''RIAS-TV''', a television station launched by the [[West Berlin]] broadcaster RIAS (Radio in the American Sector / [[Rundfunk im amerikanischen Sektor]]) in August 1988; they also acquired the German Educational Television Network in the United States. The rein of the [[Berlin Wall]] the following year and German reunification in 1990 meant that RIAS-TV was to be closed down. On 1 April 1992, {{Lang|de|Deutsche Welle|italic=no}} inherited the RIAS-TV broadcast facilities, using them to start a German- and English-language television channel broadcast via [[satellite]], DW (TV), adding a short Spanish broadcast segment the following year. In 1995, it began 24-hour operation (12 hours German, 10 hours English, 2 hours Spanish). At that time, DW (TV) introduced a new news studio and a new logo.

{{Lang|de|Deutsche Welle|italic=no}} took some of the former independent radio broadcasting service [[Deutschlandfunk]]'s foreign-language programming in 1993, when Deutschlandfunk was absorbed into the new [[Deutschlandradio]].

In addition to radio and television programming, DW sponsored some published material. For example, the South-Asia Department published ''German Heritage: A Series Written for the South Asia Programme'' in 1967 and 1984 published ''African Writers on the Air''. Both publications were transcripts of DW programming.