''Dagens Eko'' ("Echo of the day") – often shortened to ''Ekot'' ("The echo") – is the news service of Swedish national radio broadcaster

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. It provides news bulletins of variable length which are known as ''Ekonyheter'' ("Echo news") and broadcast at the top of most hours on the P1 and P4 networks. Those on P4 are supplemented by local news reports. On P1 there are extra bulletins on the half-hour at 5.30–8.30 on weekdays as part of the nearly 4-hour-long morning

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''P1-morgon''. P1 also carries longer news programmes at 12.30 (''Luncheko'', concluding with a press review), 15.45 (weekdays only), 16.45, and 17.45. The 16.45 edition (''Dagens Eko kvart i fem'') is Sweden's most listened-to radio news programme claiming a daily audience of around two million. ''Dagens Eko'' made its first broadcast on 1 October 1937. The service was developed by the broadcaster Carl-Åke Wadsten who was inspired by visits he had made earlier in the year to study news broadcasting in the

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and

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– the name ''Dagens Eko'' is a direct translation of the German ''Echo des Tages''.

The ''Dagens Eko'' signature chimes

The three-note signal on chimes which introduces and closes each edition of ''Dagens Eko'' closely resembles that first broadcast by American station WSB in the 1920s.NBC
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References

External links

Sveriges Radio - Ekot
official website {{in lang, sv Swedish radio programs Sveriges Radio programmes News radio programs 1937 radio programme debuts 1937 establishments in Sweden