60th Anniversary-Czech Service
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On July 4, 1950, RFE went on the air for the first time with a broadcast to communist Czechoslovakia from a studio in New York City. Sixty years later, RFE/RL reaches more than 23 million people in 28 languages and 21 countries. Here's a look at our history. (Photos courtesy Czech Tourism and the Security Service Archive in Prague.)