RFE/RL is marking the 60th anniversary of its first broadcast service today with an event hosted by Johns Hopkins University in Washington. Those first broadcasts were to a country that no longer exists today: Czechoslovakia. To commemorate the start of the broadcasts JHU’s School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) is holding a roundtable at its campus.(R Netherlands Media Network Weblog)
Full story at RFE/RL:
http://www.rferl.org/content/rferl_marks_60th_anniversary_of_czechoslovak_service/24213050.html