Sveriges Radio
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Coordinates: 59°20′5″N 18°6′5″E / 59.33472°N 18.10139°E / 59.33472; 18.10139
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| Type | Public broadcasting |
|---|---|
| Country | Sweden |
| Availability | National |
Launch date | 1 January 1925 (1925-01-01) (radio) 4 September 1956 (1956-09-04) (television) |
Former names | Radiotjänst (1925-1957) |
Official website | www.sverigesradio.se |
The Sveriges Radio building in Stockholm
Sveriges Radio AB (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈsværjɛs ˈrɑːdɪʊ], "Sweden's Radio") is Sweden's national publicly funded radio broadcaster. Sveriges Radio is a public limited company, owned by an independent foundation, and funded through a licensing fee, the level of which is decided by the Swedish Riksdag. No advertising is permitted. Its legal status could be described as that of a quasi-autonomous non-governmental organization.
Contents
1 History
2 National radio
3 Local radio
4 Other channels
5 SR International
6 See also
7 References
8 External links
History[edit]
The company – which was founded as AB Radiotjänst ("Radio Service Ltd") by a consortium of newspaper companies, the TT news agency, and radio manufacturing interests on 21 March 1924 – made its first broadcast on 1 January 1925: a relay of High Mass from St James's Church in Stockholm. It was officially renamed Sveriges Radio in 1957.
Sveriges Radio was originally responsible for all broadcasting in Sweden, both radio and television, and hosted the 1975 Eurovision Song Contest. A reorganization in 1979 saw it become the parent company of four subsidiaries:
- Sveriges Riksradio (RR), Swedish National Radio;
- Sveriges Lokalradio (LRAB), Swedish Local Radio;
Sveriges Utbildningsradio (UR), Swedish Educational Broadcasting; and
Sveriges Television (SVT), Swedish Television.
This structure was dissolved in 1993 with the national and local radio companies merging under the name of the old parent company: Sveriges Radio AB.
National radio[edit]
Four radio channels are available nationwide on FM and via the internet.[1]
P1: news, culture, debate, readings, documentaries, etc. Almost no music is played, except in the daily summertime programme Sommar, in which guest presenters introduce their own choice of music.
P2: classical music, folk, jazz and world music; the channel also carries some minority-language programming.
P3: popular music and comedy targeted at a younger audience.
P4: popular music, entertainment and sport, chiefly targeted at an older audience; the network is made up of 25 local stations, each of which carries a mix of local and national programming.
Local radio[edit]
A large part of P4's programming is regional with 25 regions each broadcasting their own local programmes during most of the day.
P4 Blekinge, for Blekinge County
- P4 Dalarna
- P4 Gotland
- P4 Gävleborg
- P4 Göteborg
P4 Halland, for Halland County
- P4 Jämtland
- P4 Jönköping
P4 Kalmar, for Kalmar County
P4 Kristianstad, for the former Kristianstad County, now north and eastern Skåne County
- P4 Kronoberg
P4 Malmöhus, for the former Malmöhus County, now south-western Skåne County
- P4 Norrbotten
P4 Sjuhärad, for Sjuhärad, the south-eastern part of Västra Götaland County
P4 Skaraborg, for the former Skaraborg County, now north-eastern Västra Götaland County
- P4 Stockholm
- P4 Sörmland
- P4 Uppland
- P4 Värmland
P4 Väst, for western Västergötland, Dalsland and northern Bohuslän, north-western Västra Götaland County
- P4 Västerbotten
- P4 Västernorrland
P4 Västmanland, for Västmanland
P4 Örebro, for Örebro County
P4 Östergötland, for Östergötland County
Additional radio stations available locally on FM include:
Din gata 100,6 (in Malmö): playing mostly hiphop and R&B
Metropol 93,8 (in Stockholm): multicultural youth station for Stockholm (formerly SR P5 Radio Stockholm)
SR P2 Musik (in Stockholm): relays most of the output of P2, but replaces programming in minority and foreign languages (available in Stockholm from P6, see below) with additional music output – Schedule
SR P6 89,6 (in Stockholm): broadcasts in minority and foreign languages as well as relaying programmes from the web-based P2 Världen channel and (overnight) the BBC World Service – Schedule
Other channels[edit]
Sveriges Radio also provides a number of channels through Digital audio broadcasting, using the DAB standard, and via the internet.
SR International - Radio Sweden (web, satellite)
SR P7 Sisuradio, in Finnish and Meänkieli (DAB, web and cable)
Radioapans knattekanal, children's radio (web)
SR c, experimental arts radio (web)
SR P2 Världen, world music radio (DAB and web)
SR Klassiskt, classical music (DAB and web)
SR Minnen, programmes from the SR archive (DAB and web)
SR P3 Star, hit music for teenagers (DAB and web)
SR Sápmi, for the Sami languages (web)
Alltid nyheter, news (web)
SR International[edit]
SR International is the international channel of Sveriges Radio and offers programming in the following languages:
Arabic – website
English – website
German – website
Kurdish – website
Persian – website
Romani – website
Russian – website
Somali – website
SR International is not responsible for programming in the domestic minority languages, Finnish and Sámi, which have their own dedicated channels. See Other channels above.
On 16 March 2010, Radio Sweden announced the end of broadcasts on shortwave and medium wave as from 31 October 2010.[2] External service programmes would continue on the internet only.[3] Language services for immigrants to Sweden in Albanian, Syriac, Serbian, Bosnian, and Croat would also be discontinued, while programmes in English (also on the domestic service), German, Russian, Persian, Dari, and Kurdish would remain.[4]
See also[edit]
- List of Swedish radio stations
- Åke Blomström Award
Modern Times Group (commercial broadcaster)- NORMOB
Radiotjänst i Kiruna (licence fee agency)- Sveriges Utbildningsradio
- Swedish Broadcasting Commission
Teracom (transmitters)
References[edit]
^ "Direktlänkar, kanaler i MP3 (192 kbps) Archived 2012-07-16 at Archive.today", links to channels streaming in mp3 format. Sveriges Radio's webpage. Retrieved 9 May 2010.
^ Radio Sweden Ends Medium, Short Wave, Sveriges Radio International, 16 March 2010. Archived July 23, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
^ Radio Sweden to become an Internet-only station, Media Network, 17 March 2010.
^ Radio Sweden Ends Medium, Short Wave, Sveriges Radio International, 16. March 2010. Archived July 23, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
External links[edit]
 | Wikimedia Commons has media related to Sveriges Radio. |
Radio Sweden - Official site (in English)
Sveriges Radio - Official site (in Swedish)
SR International - Official site (multilingual)
Archive of daily podcasts (mp3) (in English)
Categories:
- Media companies of Sweden
- Radio in Sweden
- Publicly funded broadcasters
- European Broadcasting Union members
- Multilingual broadcasters
- Media companies established in 1925
- Radio stations established in 1925
- Television channels and stations established in 1956
- Swedish companies established in 1925
- State media
- Sveriges Radio
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