Sveriges Radio

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Sveriges Radio (SR)
SR logo
Type Public broadcasting
Founded 1925
Headquarters Flag of Sweden Sweden
Website www.sr.se

Sveriges Radio (SR) - Radio of Sweden Ltd - is Sweden's national publicly funded radio broadcaster. The Swedish public-broadcasting system is in many respects modelled after the one used in the United Kingdom, and Sveriges Radio - and television - shares many characteristics with its British counterpart, the BBC.

Sveriges Radio is a public limited company, owned by an independent foundation, and funded through a licensing fee determined by the Swedish Parliament. No advertising is permitted. SR's status could be described as that of a quasi-autonomous non-governmental organization.

The company was founded in 1925 as Radiotjänst (Radio service), and was renamed Sveriges Radio in 1957. SR was formerly also responsible for public-service television in Sweden; however, in 1979 SR was organised into a group of companises consisting of Sveriges Riksradio (RR) Swedish National Radio, Sveriges Lokalradio (LRAB)Swedish Local Radio, Sveriges Utbildningsradio (UR) Swedish Educational Radio and Sveriges Television (SVT) Swedish Television . SR then continued as a parent company. In 1993 the parental organisation was dissolved and the National and Local radio merged into one new radio company under the old parent company name; Sveriges Radio AB ).

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[edit] List of FM radio stations

All of the above channels are broadcast nationally via FM as well as being relayed over the internet. A large part of P4's programming, however, is regional with 25 regions each broadcasting their own local programmes during most of the day.

In some cases there are other local variants of the national channels, most notably the optional output of P2 in Stockholm and Malmö broadcasting classical music when there is minority language programming or Utbildningsradion on "P2 Riks".

Additional regional stations:

  • P5 - Radio Stockholm
  • P6 - Stockholm International
  • P7 - Sisuradio (the Finnish channel)

[edit] Digital audio broadcasting

Sveriges Radio also provides a number of channels through Digital audio broadcasting, using the DAB standard. These channels are also available via the internet, given the relatively limited number of DAB receivers in use at present.

DAB channels currently provided by SR are:

  • P3 Star
  • P7 Sisuradio
  • SR c
  • SR Klassiskt
  • SR Minnen
  • SR X
  • SR Atlas

[edit] Web channels

As well as webcasting all of the above-mentioned FM and DAB channels, SR also provides a further three music channels available exclusively via the internet:

  • P3 Rockster
  • P3 Street
  • P3 Svea
  • SR Världen

[edit] SR International

SR International is the international and multicultural channel of Sveriges Radio and offers programming in 19 languages:


[edit] See also

[edit] External links

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