Sveriges Radio
Sveriges Radio AB (SR) – Swedish Radio 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 - like Sveriges 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.
History
The company was founded on 1 January 1925 as AB Radiotjänst (Radio Service), and was 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 SR become the parent company of four subsidiaries:
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
Four radio channels are available nationwide on FM and via the internet.[1]
- P1: "the spoken channel" for current affairs, science, culture etcetera (similar to BBC Radio 4 and ABC Radio National). Almost no music is played, except as in Sommar where the hosts chooses the songs.
- P2: classical music, folk, jazz and world music (similar to BBC Radio 3); the channel also carries some minority language programming.
- P3: popular music and comedy targeted at a younger audience (similar to BBC Radio 1 and Triple J)
- 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
A large part of P4's programming is regional with 25 regions each broadcasting their own local programmes during most of the day.
- SR Blekinge, for Blekinge County
- SR Dalarna
- SR Gotland
- SR Gävleborg
- SR Göteborg
- SR Halland, for Halland County
- SR Jämtland
- SR Jönköping
- SR Kalmar, for Kalmar County
- SR Kristianstad, for the former Kristianstad County, now north and eastern Skåne County
- SR Kronoberg
- SR Malmö, for the former Malmöhus County, now south-western Skåne County
- SR Norrbotten
- SR Sjuhärad, for Sjuhärad, the south-eastern part of Västra Götaland County
- SR Skaraborg, for the former Skaraborg County, now north-eastern Västra Götaland County
- SR Stockholm
- SR Sörmland
- SR Uppland
- SR Värmland
- SR Väst, for western Västergötland, Dalsland and northern Bohuslän, north-western Västra Götaland County
- SR Västerbotten
- SR Västernorrland
- SR Västmanland, for Västmanland
- SR Örebro, for Örebro County
- SR Östergötland, for Östergötland County
Additional radio stations available locally on FM include:
- Din gata 100,6, Malmö-based station playing mostly hiphop and R&B (available in Malmö)
- SR Metropol (formerly SR P5 Radio Stockholm), multicultural youth station for Stockholm (available in Stockholm)
- SR P2 Music, rebroadcasts P2, replacing programmes in minority and foreign languages with additional music output (available on FM in Stockholm and on the web) Schedule
- P6 89,6, broadcasts in minority and foreign languages as well as rebroadcasts BBC World Service and CBC Radio 1 and parts of the SR Världen channel (available in Stockholm) Schedule
Other channels
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 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
SR International is the international and multicultural channel of Sveriges Radio and offers programming in 13 languages:
Programming in the minority languages Sámi and Finnish have dedicated channels, and is not part of SR International. 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 will only continue on the internet.[3] Language-services for immigrants to Sweden in Albanian, Syriac, Serbian, Bosnian, and Croat will also be discontinued, while programmes in English (also on the domestic service), German, Russian, Persian, Dari, and Kurdish will remain.[4]
See also
External links
References
- ^ "Direktlänkar, kanaler i MP3 (192 kbps)", 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.
- ^ 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.
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