Ordentlig Radio (English: Genuine Radio) is a

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station that was officially launched in 2012. Headquartered at Flytårnet på Fornebu outside

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, the initiative for the station came from recording artist

Øystein Sunde Øystein Olaf Sunde (born 24 January 1947) is a Norwegian folk singer and guitarist. He is known for his high-speed guitar and banjo style and his satirical lyrics. Although often regarded as a comedian, Sunde is a versatile guitarist who has p ...

and radio veteran Tor Andersen of Radio P4. The Internet-only radio format followed two rejections of application for land-based broadcasting licence in 2007 and 2008. The FM application was for the Oslo and

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. When the company subsequently folded in 2009, Sunde with his family company owned 21.8% of the shares. Andersen and his partner with their company owned an equally large share. Artist

Jonas Fjeld Jonas Fjeld (born Terje Lillegård Jensen; 24 September 1952) is a Norwegian singer, songwriter, and guitarist. He is best known in the English-speaking world for two albums recorded by Danko/Fjeld/Andersen, a collaboration with Canadian Rick ...

also held a 2.73% share of the company. The content of the 24-hour station is exclusively

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, and the music archive initially contained 12,000 songs. A particular focus of the station is to present artists that its bigger cousins such as

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will not give airtime to. The station mostly plays popular music during the day and airs special programming at night. Famous Norwegian recording artists

Hanne Krogh Hanne Krogh (born 24 January 1956) is a Norwegian singer and actress from Haugesund and Oslo. Krogh is among the most selling record artists in Norway ever and is internationally well known for winning the Eurovision Song Contest 1985 with Elisab ...

and

Halvdan Sivertsen Halvdan Sivertsen (born 5 January 1950) is a Norwegian singer-songwriter and guitarist. He was born in Tromsø, but raised and lives in Bodø. He has won Spellemannprisen awards five times, twice with his group Gitarkameratene, and received the ...

are also said to be involved in the project.

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