It offers the opportunity to exhibitors to present their latest products and developments to the general public.

As a result of daily reporting in almost all the German media, the radio exhibition and the showcased technology receives a large amount of attention around the globe.

[3] German physicist and inventor Manfred von Ardenne Ardenne gave the world's first public demonstration of a fully electronic television system using a cathode ray tube for both transmission (using flying-spot image scans, not a camera) and reception, at the 1931 show.

Ordered by Joseph Goebbels, designed by Otto Griessing, sold by Gustav Seibt, it was presented at the tenth Berliner Funkausstellung on 18 August 1933,[6] its price fixed at 76 Reichsmark (RM).

In 1938 the DKE 38 (Deutscher Kleinempfänger 38, i.e. German miniature receiver 1938) followed, the price fixed at 35 RM.