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	HU OSA 300-40-8
Fonds 300:	Records of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Research Institute
Subfonds 40:	Hungarian Unit
Series 8:	Monitoring

Date(s) 1951-1994

Extent and medium 497 Archival boxes, 62 linear meters

Scope and content

This series contains transcripts of broadcasts of the main Hungarian radio stations monitored by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty on a daily basis.

The most interesting part of these materials are the transcripts of broadcasts covering the 1956 Revolution, when RFE/RL also monitored - when jamming allowed - broadcasts of independent, local radio stations. During those weeks a good number of so called free, but ephemeral radios began operating in Budapest and almost all major towns (Miskolc, Győr, Debrecen, Szolnok, Kaposvár).

Beginning with January 1993, news programs of the Hungarian TV have been also monitored.

System of arrangement

• Arranged chronologically

Language/scripts of material Hungarian

Finding aids

• 497 containers

Related units of description

• HU OSA 300-40-10 Press Survey, 1955-1994
• HU OSA 300-40-11 Press Survey in English, 1956-1975
• A magyar forradalom és szabadságharc a hazai rádióadások tükrében: 1956. október 23 - november 9 (The Hungarian Revolution in Domestic Radio Broadcasts: October 23 - November 9, 1956). New York: Free Europe Press, 1957

Date(s) of descriptions

Arranged by Lajos Ludman; described by Csaba Szilagyi on January 26, 1999; revised by Csaba Szilagyi on April 11, 2002.
Online version updated 6 January 2012