ESTONIAN TV GUIDE CARRIES FINNISH TV SCHEDULE

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP92-00053R000300270001-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 8, 2012
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: October 26, 1988
• Content Type: CABLE

Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/08/10: CIA-RDP92-00053R000300270001-2
DAN: 89721
TOR: 300143335
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SERIAL: L02610140488
PASS: COPY TO MUD (2). ESG
COUNTRY: USSR
SUBJ: Estonian TV Guide Carries
SOURCE: Tattinn HOMELAND in English 19 Oct 88 d2 [tentative]
TEXT:
[Jost Aav report: "Big News About the Sault Box"]
CExcernts] At the beginning of October Estonia's weekly
TV Guide with a print run of 240000 copies in Estonian and
100.000 in Russian carried for the first time the programme
schedule of Finnish TV.
This move can be seen as yet another fruit of glasnost or
openness in this country.
Due to geograph,icat proximity Finnish TV can be watched
in the northern pant of Estoniar including the capital
Tattinn. [passage omitted]
This summer floods of Letters started to arrive at the
Estonian SSR Radio and Television Committee from viewers in
southern Estonia who demand that the reception area of
Finnish TV be extended to the southern border of Estonia.
The save idea was voiced in one of the resolutions
adopted at the Estonian Popular Front Congress. Providing
the whole of Estonia with the possibility of viewing Finnish
TV is seen as one way of doing away with the present unequal
access of people to information in Estonia*
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Declassified in Part - Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2012/08/10: CIA-RDP92-00053R000300270001-2