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The International Radio and Television Organisation (official name in ''Интервидение'', Polish ''Interwizja''), was an East European network of Radio and Television Broadcaster s established in 1946 with the primary purpose of exchanging productions amongst its members. The members of the OIRT were Bulgaria , Czechoslovakia , East Germany , Finland , Hungary , Poland , Romania , and the USSR . From 1950 onwards, its headquarters were located in Prague . Finland as a neutral country was also the member of EBU , which was the corresponding West-European organisation and used Western FM bands instead of Eastern OIRT FM bands in broadcasting. The Prefix ''inter-'' refers to the Internationalism , one of the key traits of Marxism-leninism . Between 1977 and 1980 the OIRT organised four contests of the Intervision Song Contest in Sopot , Poland , in an attempt to emulate the highly successful Eurovision Song Contest . In 1993 it merged with the European Broadcasting Union (which runs the Eurovision Network ). |
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