SVERIGES RADIO

'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 Swedish broadcasting company was founded in 1925 as Radiotjänst (''Radio service''), and was renamed Sveriges Radio in 1957. SR was originally responsible for all broadcasting in Sweden and hosted the Eurovision Song Contest 1975; 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.

Contents

National radio

Local radio

Other channels

SR International

See also

External links

National radio

There are four radio channels, available nationally via FM as well as being relayed over the internet.

★ P1, "the spoken channel" for current affairs, science, culture etcetera (similar to BBC Radio 4 and ABC Radio National)

★ P2, broadcasting classical music, folk music, jazz and world music as well as programmes in minority languages (similar to BBC Radio 3)

★ P3, broadcasting music and comedy targeting a younger audience (similar to BBC Radio 1 and Triple J)

★ P4, made up of 25 local stations broadcasting locally for much of the day. Targets a more mature audience and also broadcasts sport.

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 Fyrstad, 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, Malmöbased station playing mostly hiphop and RnB (available in Malmö)

★ SR Metropol, multicultural youth station for Stockholm (available in Stockholm)

★ P6 89,6, mixing musical programming from P2 and SR Klassiskt and timeshifting minority and immigrant language programmign in the evening (available in Stockholm)

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, medium wave, short wave)

★ SR P7 Sisuradio, in Finnish and Meänkieli (DAB, web and cable)

★ SR Atlas, world pop music (Dab and web)

★ SR Bubbel, childrens 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 Rockster, new rock music (web)

★ SR P3 Star, hit music for teenagers (DAB and web)

★ SR P3 Street, hiphop, RnB and similar (web)

★ SR P3 Svea, young Swedish music (web)

★ SR Sápmi, for the Sami languages (web)

★ SR Världen, world music (web)

SR International

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

★ Albanian (''Radio Suedia'')

★ Arabic

★ Belarusian (''Радыё Швецыя'') - the newest addition, first broadcast on 7 November 2004

★ English (''Radio Sweden'')

★ Finnish

★ German (''Radio Schweden'')

★ Kurdish

★ Persian

★ Romani

★ Russian

★ Sámi

★ Serbo-Croatian

★ Somali

★ Spanish (''Radio Suecia Internacional'')

★ Syriac

See also

★ List of Swedish radio stations

★ Modern Times Group (commercial broadcaster)

★ Radiotjänst i Kiruna (licence fee agency)

★ Sveriges Utbildningsradio

★ Swedish Broadcasting Commission

★ Swedish Radio and TV Authority

★ Teracom (transmitters)

External links

★ Radio Sweden - Official site (in English)

★ Sveriges Radio - Official site (in Swedish)

★ SR International - Official site (multilingual)