BTV was a local
television
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station in
Bergen, Norway
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. It was owned by the largest local
newspaper
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Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, sports a ...
in Norway,
Bergens Tidende
''Bergens Tidende'' is Norway's fifth-largest newspaper, and the country's largest newspaper outside Oslo.
''Bergens Tidende'' is owned by the public company Schibsted ASA. Norwegian owners held a mere 42% of the shares in Schibsted at the end ...
.
Programs
Apart from news, the station also shows popular programs like Bøljan and Valgbar.
The channel was launched as TVHordaland in 1996. Programs from
TVNorge
TVNorge (literally "TVNorway"; originally abbreviated TVN, now just abbreviated N in the logos) is a Norwegian television channel owned by Warner Bros. Discovery EMEA.
History
TVNorge went on the air on 5 December 1988 and was the first adver ...
were broadcast when BTV doesn't broadcast any programs. It has transmitters in Bergen and other locations in
Hordaland
Hordaland () was a county in Norway, bordering Sogn og Fjordane, Buskerud, Telemark, and Rogaland counties. Hordaland was the third largest county, after Akershus and Oslo, by population. The county government was the Hordaland County Municipal ...
county.
References
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Mass media in Bergen
Defunct television channels in Norway
Television channels and stations established in 1996