Popularity
In fact, television audiences largely ignored Aktuelle Kamera, as West German television was preferred (accounting for 10-15% of actual viewing). The East German authorities adopted the French colour standard SECAM rather than the PAL encoding used in the Federal Republic of Germany. The basic television standard remained the same. It did prevent reception in colour by native East German TV sets though the majority of them were monochrome (black and white) anyway.
East Germans responded by buying PAL decoders for their SECAM TV sets. Eventually the government in East Berlin stopped paying attention to so-called "Republikflucht via Fernsehen", or "defection via television" and from 1977 onwards permitted the sale of dual standard (PAL/SECAM) sets.
Aktuelle Kamera served as an example for the Estonian newscast Aktuaalne Kaamera that was first aired in Eesti Televisioon on March 11, 1956. Aktuaalne Kaamera, after several changes in format, still goes on air as daily newscast.
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