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

Sveriges Radio (SR)
Type Public broadcasting
Country Sweden
Availability National
Launch date 1925 (radio)
1956 (television)
Former names Radiotjänst (1925-1957)
Official website www.sr.se
The Sveriges Radio building in Stockholm

Sveriges Radio AB (SR) 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 Riksdag. 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 (similar to BBC Local Radio); 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.

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

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

Main article: SR International – Radio Sweden

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

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

External links

References

  1. ↑ "Direktlänkar, kanaler i MP3 (192 kbps)", links to channels streaming in mp3 format. Sveriges Radio's webpage. Retrieved 9 May 2010.
  2. ↑ Radio Sweden Ends Medium, Short Wave, Sveriges Radio International, 16 March 2010.
  3. ↑ Radio Sweden to become an Internet-only station, Media Network, 17 March 2010.
  4. ↑ Radio Sweden Ends Medium, Short Wave, Sveriges Radio International, 16. March 2010.
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