Kjell Arnljot Wig (31 December 1924 – 18 January 2015) was a Norwegian media personality. He was born in

Stjørdal Stjørdal () or is a municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. It is part of the Stjørdalen region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Stjørdal, also called Stjørdalshalsen. Some of the villages in the municipalit ...

and died in

Bærum Bærum () is a municipality in the Greater Oslo Region in Norway that forms an affluent suburb of Oslo on the west coast of the city. Bærum is Norway's fifth largest municipality with a population of 128,760 (2021). It is part of the electoral ...

. He was a journalist for ''

Morgenbladet ''Morgenbladet'' is a Norwegian weekly, newspaper, covering politics, culture and science. History ''Morgenbladet'' was founded in 1819 by the book printer Niels Wulfsberg. The paper is the country's first daily newspaper; however, Adresseavi ...

'' from 1948, and was assigned with the

Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation NRK, an abbreviation of the Norwegian ''Norsk Rikskringkasting AS'', generally expressed in English as the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation, is the Norwegian government-owned radio and television public broadcasting company, and the largest ...

from 1963 to 1992. He hosted a series of television shows, including ''Aktuell debatt'', ''Vindu mot verden'' and ''Åpen post''. Among his books are ''Det skjulte Norge'' from 1969, ''Kongen ser tilbake'' from 1977, and ''Eventyret om Blaafarveværket'' from 1995.

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1924 births 2015 deaths People from Stjørdal Personnel of the legal purge in Norway Norwegian journalists Norwegian television presenters NRK people {{Norway-tv-bio-stub