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Magnus Faxén
Jonas Magnus Faxén (21 November 1930 – 29 March 2018) was a Swedish journalist, diplomat and TV executive. He was Sveriges Television's (SVT) first CEO from 1978 to 1981 and served as Swedish consul general to New York City from 1988 to 1992. Faxén was Swedish ambassador in Tunis and a number of West African countries during the 1990s. Early life Faxén was born on 21 November 1930 in Uppsala, Sweden, the son of Lars Faxén, a lector, and his wife Nina (née Stjernfelt). He had his very first journalism job in the 1940s when, for a few summers, he had a temporary work at the ''Dalpilen'' newspaper in Falun. He passed ''studentexamen'' in 1949 and studied in Uppsala and Stockholm. Career Faxén was employed by ''Svenska Dagbladet'' from 1951 to 1953 and by ''Norrlandsposten'' in Gävle in 1953 and in 1955. He was employed by Sveriges Radio, AB Radiotjänst in 1956 (which became Sveriges Radio in 1957) and worked as a program producer from 1959. Faxén made a large number of repo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sveriges Television
Sveriges Television AB ("Sweden's Television Stock Company"), shortened to SVT (), is the Sweden, Swedish national public broadcasting, public television broadcaster, funded by a public service tax on personal income set by the Riksdag (national parliament). Prior to 2019, SVT was funded by a television licence fee payable by all owners of television sets. The Swedish public broadcasting system is largely modelled after the system used in the United Kingdom, and Sveriges Television shares many traits with its British counterpart, the BBC. SVT is a public limited company that can be described as a quasi-autonomous non-government organisation. Together with the other two public broadcasters, Sveriges Radio and Sveriges Utbildningsradio, it is owned by an independent foundation, ''Foundation Management for SR, SVT, and UR, Förvaltningsstiftelsen för Sveriges Radio AB, Sveriges Television AB och Sveriges Utbildningsradio AB''. The foundation's board consists of 13 politicians, repr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
