Sveriges Radio AB –
Swedish Radio Ltd – is
SwedenSweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
's national publicly funded
radioRadio programming is the Broadcast programming of a Radio format or content that is organized for Commercial broadcasting and Public broadcasting radio stations....
broadcaster. The Swedish
public-broadcastingPublic broadcasting includes radio, television and other electronic media outlets whose primary mission is public service. Public broadcasters receive funding from diverse sources including license fees, individual contributions, public financing and commercial financing.Public broadcasting may be...
system is in many respects modelled after the one used in the
United KingdomThe United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
, and Sveriges Radio - like
Sveriges TelevisionSveriges Television AB , Sweden's Television, is a national television broadcaster based in Sweden, funded by a compulsory fee to be paid by all television owners...
- shares many characteristics with its British counterpart, the BBC.
Sveriges Radio is a
public limited companyA public limited company is a limited liability company that sells shares to the public in United Kingdom company law, in the Republic of Ireland and Commonwealth jurisdictions....
, owned by an independent foundation, and funded through a
licensing feeA television licence is an official licence required in many countries for the reception of television broadcasts...
determined by the
Swedish ParliamentThe Riksdag is the national legislative assembly of Sweden. The riksdag is a unicameral assembly with 349 members , who are elected on a proportional basis to serve fixed terms of four years...
. 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
RadiotjänstRadiotjänst can refer to several entities:* Sveriges Radiotjänst, the name of Sweden's national public broadcaster from 1925 until 1958, when the company was reorganized as Sveriges Radio...
(
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 ContestThe Eurovision Song Contest 1975 was the 20th edition of the contest hosted by SR and held in Stockholm, Sweden. The arena for the event was the newly built Stockholm International Fairs in Älvsjö in southern Stockholm. ABBA's victory in Brighton the previous year gave Sweden the right to host the...
. A reorganization in 1979 saw SR become the parent company of four subsidiaries:
- Sveriges Riksradio (RR), Swedish National Radio;
- Sveriges Lokalradio (LRAB), Swedish Local Radio;
- Sveriges Utbildningsradio
Sveriges Utbildningsradio — the Swedish Educational Broadcasting Company — is a public-service corporation dedicated to serving the needs of the Swedish general public by providing educational programming on radio and television.-External links:**...
(UR), Swedish Educational Broadcasting; and
- Sveriges Television
Sveriges Television AB , Sweden's Television, is a national television broadcaster based in Sweden, funded by a compulsory fee to be paid by all television owners...
(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
Four radio channels are available nationwide on FM and via the
internetThe Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide...
.
- P1: "the spoken channel" for current affairs, science, culture etcetera (similar to BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4 is a British domestic radio station, operated and owned by the BBC, that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes, including news, drama, comedy, science and history. It replaced the BBC Home Service in 1967. The station controller is currently Gwyneth Williams, and the...
and ABC Radio National). Almost no music is played, except as in SommarSommar is one of the most popular Swedish radio programs ever. It has been broadcast every summer on P1 since 28 June 1959. Before 1993 it aired in P3...
where the hosts chooses the songs.
- P2
P2 is one of the four main radio channels operated by Sweden's national publicly funded radio broadcasting organization Sveriges Radio . It broadcasts music and also carries educational programming as well as programmes in minority languages.The channel began life in 1955 as Sweden's second radio...
: classical music, folk, jazz and world music (similar to BBC Radio 3BBC Radio 3 is a national radio station operated by the BBC within the United Kingdom. Its output centres on classical music and opera, but jazz, world music, drama, culture and the arts also feature. The station is the world’s most significant commissioner of new music, and its New Generation...
); the channel also carries some minority language programming.
- P3: popular music and comedy targeted at a younger audience (similar to BBC Radio 1
BBC Radio 1 is a British national radio station operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation which also broadcasts internationally, specialising in current popular music and chart hits throughout the day. Radio 1 provides alternative genres after 7:00pm including electronic dance, hip hop, rock...
and Triple Jtriple j is a nationally networked Australian radio station intended to appeal to listeners between the ages of 18 and 30. The government-funded station is a division of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation...
)
- P4
SR P4 is one of the four main radio networks from Sveriges Radio. It targets the entire population and is the corporation's most popular radio channel. In the daytime on weekdays its is used by 25 different local stations, but in the evening and weekends it broadcasts national programming...
: 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
Blekinge County is a county or län in the south of Sweden. It borders the Counties of Skåne, Kronoberg, Kalmar and the Baltic Sea. The capital is Karlskrona...
- SR Dalarna
- SR Gotland
- SR Gävleborg
- SR Göteborg
- SR Halland, for Halland County
Halland County is a county on the western coast of Sweden. It corresponds roughly to the cultural and historical province of Halland. The capital is Halmstad....
- SR Jämtland
- SR Jönköping
- SR Kalmar, for Kalmar County
Kalmar County is a county or län in southern Sweden. It borders the counties of Kronoberg, Jönköping, Blekinge and Östergötland. To the east in the Baltic Sea is the island Gotland....
- SR Kristianstad, for the former Kristianstad County
Kristianstad County was a county of Sweden from 1719 to 1 January 1997 when it was merged with Malmöhus County to form Skåne County.The seat of residence for the Governor was in Kristianstad.- List of Governors :...
, now north and eastern Skåne CountySkåne County is the southernmost administrative county or län, of Sweden, basically corresponding to the historical province Scania. It borders the counties of Halland, Kronoberg and Blekinge. The seat of residence for the Skåne Governor is the town of Malmö...
- SR Kronoberg
- SR Malmö, for the former Malmöhus County
Malmöhus County was a county of Sweden until 1997 when it was merged with Kristianstad County to form Skåne County.It had been named after Malmöhus, the castle in Malmö, which also was where the Governor originally resided....
, now south-western Skåne CountySkåne County is the southernmost administrative county or län, of Sweden, basically corresponding to the historical province Scania. It borders the counties of Halland, Kronoberg and Blekinge. The seat of residence for the Skåne Governor is the town of Malmö...
- SR Norrbotten
- SR Sjuhärad, for Sjuhärad, the south-eastern part of Västra Götaland County
Västra Götaland County is a county or län on the western coast of Sweden.The county is the second largest of Sweden's counties and it is subdivided into 49 municipalities . Its population of 1,550,000 amounts to 17% of Sweden's population...
- SR Skaraborg, for the former Skaraborg County
Skaraborg County, or Skaraborgs län, was a county of Sweden until December 31, 1998 when it was merged with the counties of Gothenburg and Bohus and Älvsborg to form Västra Götaland County....
, now north-eastern Västra Götaland CountyVästra Götaland County is a county or län on the western coast of Sweden.The county is the second largest of Sweden's counties and it is subdivided into 49 municipalities . Its population of 1,550,000 amounts to 17% of Sweden's population...
- SR Stockholm
- SR Sörmland
- SR Uppland
- SR Värmland
- SR Väst, for western Västergötland
', English exonym: West Gothland, is one of the 25 traditional non-administrative provinces of Sweden , situated in the southwest of Sweden. In older English literature one may also encounter the Latinized version Westrogothia....
, DalslandDalsland is a Swedish traditional province, or landskap, situated in Götaland in southern Sweden. Lying to the west of Lake Vänern, it is bordered by Värmland to the north, Västergötland to the southeast, Bohuslän to the west, and Norway to the northwest....
and northern Bohuslän' is a Swedish traditional province, or landskap, situated in Götaland on the northernmost part of the country's west coast. It is bordered by Dalsland to the northeast, Västergötland to the southeast, the Skagerrak arm of the North Sea to the west, and the county of Østfold in Norway to the north...
, north-western Västra Götaland CountyVästra Götaland County is a county or län on the western coast of Sweden.The county is the second largest of Sweden's counties and it is subdivided into 49 municipalities . Its population of 1,550,000 amounts to 17% of Sweden's population...
- SR Västerbotten
- SR Västernorrland
- SR Västmanland, for Västmanland
' is a historical Swedish province, or landskap, in middle Sweden. It borders Södermanland, Närke, Värmland, Dalarna and Uppland.The name comes from "West men", referring to the people west of Uppland, the core province of early Sweden.- Administration :...
- SR Örebro, for Örebro County
Örebro County is a county or län in central Sweden. It borders the counties of Västra Götaland, Värmland, Dalarna, Västmanland, Södermanland and Östergötland.- Province :...
- SR Östergötland, for Östergötland County
Östergötland County is a county or län in southeastern Sweden. It borders the counties of Kalmar to the southeast, Jönköping to the southwest, Västra Götaland to the west, Örebro to the northwest, Södermanland to the northeast, and the Baltic Sea to the east.Östergötland County has a population of...
Additional radio stations available locally on FM include:
- Din gata 100,6
Din Gata 100,6 is a Swedish radio station owned by Sveriges Radio produced in Malmö. It airs on an FM transmitter over Malmö, but is also available on the Internet. Its slogan is "Alla talar Skånska" , meaning that all hosts talk the local dialect...
, Malmö-based station playing mostly hiphop and R&BContemporary R&B is a music genre that combines elements of hip hop, soul, R&B and funk.Although the abbreviation “R&B” originates from traditional rhythm and blues music, today the term R&B is most often used to describe a style of African American music originating after the demise of disco in...
(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
The BBC World Service is the world's largest international broadcaster, broadcasting in 27 languages to many parts of the world via analogue and digital shortwave, internet streaming and podcasting, satellite, FM and MW relays...
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 broadcastingDigital Audio Broadcasting is a digital radio technology for broadcasting radio stations, used in several countries, particularly in Europe. As of 2006, approximately 1,000 stations worldwide broadcast in the DAB format....
, using the
DABDigital Audio Broadcasting is a digital radio technology for broadcasting radio stations, used in several countries, particularly in Europe. As of 2006, approximately 1,000 stations worldwide broadcast in the DAB format....
standard, and via the internet.
- SR International - Radio Sweden
SR International - Radio Sweden is Sweden's official international broadcasting station.-History:SR International is part of Sveriges Radio , Sweden's non-commercial public-radio broadcasting organization. The service was founded in 1938, at the approach of World War II, as a way of keeping Swedes...
(web, satellite)
- SR P7 Sisuradio, in Finnish
Finnish is the language spoken by the majority of the population in Finland Primarily for use by restaurant menus and by ethnic Finns outside Finland. It is one of the two official languages of Finland and an official minority language in Sweden. In Sweden, both standard Finnish and Meänkieli, a...
and MeänkieliMeänkieli is the name used in Sweden for Finnish dialects spoken in the northernmost parts of the country, around the valley of the Torne River....
(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
Sami or Saami is a general name for a group of Uralic languages spoken by the Sami people in parts of northern Finland, Norway, Sweden and extreme northwestern Russia, in Northern Europe. Sami is frequently and erroneously believed to be a single language. Several names are used for the Sami...
(web)
- Alltid nyheter, news (web)
SR International
SR International is the international and multicultural channel of Sveriges Radio and offers programming in 13 languages:
- Albanian
Albanian is an Indo-European language spoken by approximately 7.6 million people, primarily in Albania and Kosovo but also in other areas of the Balkans in which there is an Albanian population, including western Macedonia, southern Montenegro, southern Serbia and northwestern Greece...
(Radio Suedia)
- Arabic
Arabic is a name applied to the descendants of the Classical Arabic language of the 6th century AD, used most prominently in the Quran, the Islamic Holy Book...
- Bosnian
Bosnian is a South Slavic language, spoken by Bosniaks. As a standardized form of the Shtokavian dialect, it is one of the three official languages of Bosnia and Herzegovina....
(Radio Švedska)
- Croatian
Croatian is the collective name for the standard language and dialects spoken by Croats, principally in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Serbian province of Vojvodina and other neighbouring countries...
(Radio Švedska)
- English
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...
(Radio Sweden)
- German
German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....
(Radio Schweden)
- Kurdish
Kurdish is a dialect continuum spoken by the Kurds in western Asia. It is part of the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian group of Indo-European languages....
(Radio Zayele)
- Persian
Persian is an Iranian language within the Indo-Iranian branch of the Indo-European languages. It is primarily spoken in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan and countries which historically came under Persian influence...
- Romani
Romani or Romany, Gypsy or Gipsy is any of several languages of the Romani people. They are Indic, sometimes classified in the "Central" or "Northwestern" zone, and sometimes treated as a branch of their own....
- Russian
Russian is a Slavic language used primarily in Russia, Belarus, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. It is an unofficial but widely spoken language in Ukraine, Moldova, Latvia, Turkmenistan and Estonia and, to a lesser extent, the other countries that were once constituent republics...
(Радио Швеция)
- Serbian
Serbian is a form of Serbo-Croatian, a South Slavic language, spoken by Serbs in Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia and neighbouring countries....
(Радио Шведска, Radio Švedska)
- Somali
The Somali language is a member of the East Cushitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic language family. Its nearest relatives are Afar and Oromo. Somali is the best documented of the Cushitic languages, with academic studies beginning before 1900....
- Syriac
Syriac is a dialect of Middle Aramaic that was once spoken across much of the Fertile Crescent. Having first appeared as a script in the 1st century AD after being spoken as an unwritten language for five centuries, Classical Syriac became a major literary language throughout the Middle East from...
Programming in the minority languages Sámi and
FinnishFinnish is the language spoken by the majority of the population in Finland Primarily for use by restaurant menus and by ethnic Finns outside Finland. It is one of the two official languages of Finland and an official minority language in Sweden. In Sweden, both standard Finnish and Meänkieli, a...
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. External service programmes will only continue on the internet. 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.
See also
- List of Swedish radio stations
- Modern Times Group
Modern Times Group is a Swedish media company. MTG was formed out of the media holdings of investment company Kinnevik, which in 1997 was distributed to the company stockholders. Among the assets were Viasat and Metro International...
(commercial broadcaster)
- Radiotjänst i Kiruna
Radiotjänst can refer to several entities:* Sveriges Radiotjänst, the name of Sweden's national public broadcaster from 1925 until 1958, when the company was reorganized as Sveriges Radio...
(licence fee agency)
- Sveriges Utbildningsradio
Sveriges Utbildningsradio — the Swedish Educational Broadcasting Company — is a public-service corporation dedicated to serving the needs of the Swedish general public by providing educational programming on radio and television.-External links:**...
- Swedish Broadcasting Commission
Granskningsnämnden för radio och TV – English title: The Swedish Broadcasting Commission – was a Swedish government agency formed in 1994 to regulate already broadcasted radio and television in Sweden.-Jurisdiction:...
- Swedish Radio and TV Authority
- Teracom
Teracom is a terrestrial broadcast transmission service company owned by the Swedish Government. Teracom owns all Swedish broadcast transmission sites, and distributes all terrestrial radio and TV channels, private as well as public-service, analogue as well as digital.Teracom Components is a...
(transmitters)
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