Bengt Magnusson (born 26 November 1950, in Ystad) is a Swedish journalist and a TV presenter at TV4. Magnusson studied at Journalisthögskolan i Stockholm (Journalist School of

Stockholm Stockholm () is the Capital city, capital and List of urban areas in Sweden by population, largest city of Sweden as well as the List of urban areas in the Nordic countries, largest urban area in Scandinavia. Approximately 980,000 people liv ...

) and was employed at the

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(Swedish Radio) in 1973. In the late 1970s, he worked for Sveriges Radio Stockholm (Swedish Radio Stockholm) and came in 1979 to TV and

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, where he worked in ''TV-sporten'' program. In 1985 Magnusson moved to host the ''

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'', where he stayed until 1987 when he moved to host Stockholm regional news in ''ABC-nytt'' program in TV2. In 1990 Magnusson moved to the newly established commercial channel TV4 to work as a news presenter. In September 1990, he led the first broadcast of ''

Nyheterna ''Nyheterna'' ("the News") is the name of the news programme of the Swedish channel TV4. Unlike most other programmes on TV4, ''Nyheterna'' is produced in-house by the TV4 Group themselves. The main bulletins are broadcast at 7 and 10pm every day ...

'' program. In 1992 TV4 started broadcasting breakfast television program, '' Nyhetsmorgon'', which was hosted by Magnusson and Malou von Sivers. Since

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2005, he is the main host for the news broadcast at 7 PM on Sunday-Thursday evenings. He has also hosted several other programs, such as ''På liv och död'' ('' Rescue 911''), ''Jakten på den röda rubinen'' (''Hunt for the red ruby'') and ''

Vem vill bli miljonär? ''Vem vill bli miljonär?'' (English translation: ''Who wants to be a millionaire?'') was a Swedish game show based on the original British format of ''Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?''. The show was hosted by Bengt Magnusson. The main goal of the ...

'' ('' Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?'').

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* * Swedish television journalists 1950 births Living people {{sweden-journalist-stub