DR2

DR2 is a Danish television station. It is part of Danmarks Radio, the public service broadcasting company of Denmark.

It was launched in 1996 as a satellite-/cable-only channel. This was highly controversial at the time, as it was considered close to a breach of public service principles that the new station did not reach all viewers. Adding to the critics' cause was the fact that DR did in fact have broadband spectrum available for terrestrial broadcasts. However, this was being reserved for digital broadcasting tests. The less-than-100%-coverage coupled with a "highbrow" reputation resulted in low ratings which in turn earned it the nickname "the secret channel" to the regret of the director general who had been pushing the line "my channel" (in the sense of programmes appealing to individuals, not the whole family as DR1 supposedly). This was finally remedied on March 31, 2006 when terrestrial digital broadcasts started.

It most resembles the British BBC Four in that its main output is experimental comedy, documentaries and in-depth news programmes. It has earned much praise for high quality shows, especially in the first category, with series like Casper & Mandrilaftalen and Drengene fra Angora. Den 11. time was a talkshow on the channel. It also broadcasts many British productions, e.g. crime dramas such as Inspector Morse, Midsomer Murders and Prime Suspect.

Other programmes broadcast from the channel are The Power of Nightmares (as Frygtens politik) and The Great Global Warming Swindle (as Den store løgn om global opvarmning, 12 July 2007).

Every Saturday DR2 broadcasts the greenlandic language News bulletin Nyheder fra Grønland produced by KNR^[2]

After the introduction of digital television in Denmark, on November 1:st 2009, the channel is broadcasted free via the DVB-T standard and MPEG4 code. It now reaches the whole country and also the nearby east side of Øresund sea to southernmost Sweden. (Swedish channels reaches the Copenhagen metropolitan area as well)

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External links

• DR2