Radio Free Europe’s Audience Reach Behind the Iron Curtain

A graphic displaying RFE/RL's viewership behind the Iron Curtain.

The data graphics below demonstrate Radio Free Europe’s weekly audience reach from 1963 to 1989 in Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria. Audience reach for other foreign broadcasters is shown.

CZECHOSLOVAKIA

Source: Data from the RFE/RL East European Audience and Opinion Research traveler surveys, as published in Cold War Broadcasting: Impact on the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe: A Collection of Studies and Documents (CEU Press, 2010) co-edited by A Ross Johnson and R. Eugene Parta, pp. 142-144.

Source: Data from the RFE/RL East European Audience and Opinion Research traveler surveys, as published in Cold War Broadcasting: Impact on the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe: A Collection of Studies and Documents (CEU Press, 2010) co-edited by A Ross Johnson and R. Eugene Parta, pp. 142-144.

POLAND

Source: Data from the RFE/RL East European Audience and Opinion Research traveler surveys, as published in Cold War Broadcasting: Impact on the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe: A Collection of Studies and Documents (CEU Press, 2010) co-edited by A Ross Johnson and R. Eugene Parta, pp. 142-144.

Source: Data from the RFE/RL East European Audience and Opinion Research traveler surveys, as published in Cold War Broadcasting: Impact on the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe: A Collection of Studies and Documents (CEU Press, 2010) co-edited by A Ross Johnson and R. Eugene Parta, pp. 142-144.

HUNGARY

Source: Data from the RFE/RL East European Audience and Opinion Research traveler surveys, as published in Cold War Broadcasting: Impact on the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe: A Collection of Studies and Documents (CEU Press, 2010) co-edited by A Ross Johnson and R. Eugene Parta, pp. 142-144.

Source: Data from the RFE/RL East European Audience and Opinion Research traveler surveys, as published in Cold War Broadcasting: Impact on the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe: A Collection of Studies and Documents (CEU Press, 2010) co-edited by A Ross Johnson and R. Eugene Parta, pp. 142-144.

ROMANIA

Source: Data from the RFE/RL East European Audience and Opinion Research traveler surveys, as published in Cold War Broadcasting: Impact on the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe: A Collection of Studies and Documents (CEU Press, 2010) co-edited by A Ross Johnson and R. Eugene Parta, pp. 142-144.

Source: Data from the RFE/RL East European Audience and Opinion Research traveler surveys, as published in Cold War Broadcasting: Impact on the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe: A Collection of Studies and Documents (CEU Press, 2010) co-edited by A Ross Johnson and R. Eugene Parta, pp. 142-144.

BULGARIA

Source: Data from the RFE/RL East European Audience and Opinion Research traveler surveys, as published in Cold War Broadcasting: Impact on the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe: A Collection of Studies and Documents (CEU Press, 2010) co-edited by A Ross Johnson and R. Eugene Parta, pp. 142-144.

Source: Data from the RFE/RL East European Audience and Opinion Research traveler surveys, as published in Cold War Broadcasting: Impact on the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe: A Collection of Studies and Documents (CEU Press, 2010) co-edited by A Ross Johnson and R. Eugene Parta, pp. 142-144.