Sveriges Radio
AB (, "Sweden's Radio") is
Sweden's national publicly funded
radio
Radio is the technology of signaling and communicating using radio waves. Radio waves are electromagnetic waves of frequency between 30 hertz (Hz) and 300 gigahertz (GHz). They are generated by an electronic device called a transmi ...
broadcaster. Sveriges Radio is a
public limited company
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, owned by an independent foundation, previously funded through a
licensing fee, the level of which is decided by the
Swedish Riksdag
The Riksdag (, ; also sv, riksdagen or ''Sveriges riksdag'' ) is the legislature and the supreme decision-making body of Sweden. Since 1971, the Riksdag has been a unicameral legislature with 349 members (), elected proportionally and se ...
. As of 1 January 2019, the funds stem from standard taxation. No advertising is permitted. Its legal status could be described as that of a
quasi-autonomous non-governmental organization.
History
The company – which was founded as AB Radiotjänst ("Radio Service Ltd") by a consortium of newspaper companies, the
TT news agency
TT News Agency (Swedish: TT Nyhetsbyrån or simply TT; formerly ''Tidningarnas Telegrambyrå'' until 2013) is a Swedish news agency, the largest in Scandinavia, owned jointly by the country's newspapers and the media groups behind them. TT's serv ...
, and radio manufacturing interests on 21 March 1924 – made its first broadcast on 1 January 1925: a relay of High Mass from
St James's Church in
Stockholm. It was officially renamed Sveriges Radio in 1957.
Sveriges Radio was originally responsible for all broadcasting in Sweden, both radio and television, and hosted the
1975 Eurovision Song Contest
The Eurovision Song Contest 1975 was the 20th edition of the annual Eurovision Song Contest. It took place in Stockholm, Sweden, following the country's victory at the with the song " Waterloo" by ABBA. Organised by the European Broadcasting Un ...
. A reorganization in 1979 saw it become the parent company of four subsidiaries:
* (RR), ''Swedish National Radio'';
* (LRAB), ''Swedish Local Radio'';
*
Sveriges Utbildningsradio
Swedish Educational Broadcasting Company ( sv, Sveriges Utbildningsradio or ''Utbildningsradion'', UR) is a public-service corporation dedicated to serving the needs of the Swedish general public by providing educational programming on radio and ...
(UR), ''Swedish Educational Broadcasting''; and
*
Sveriges Television (SVT), ''Swedish Television''.
This structure was dissolved in 1993, with the national and local radio companies merging under the name of the old parent company: Sveriges Radio AB.
Stations
National radio
Four radio channels are available nationwide on
FM,
DAB and via the internet.
*
P1: news, culture, debate, readings, documentaries, etc. Almost no music is played, except in the daily summertime programme ''
Sommar'', in which guest presenters introduce their own choice of music.
*
P2: classical music, folk, jazz and world music; the channel also carries some minority-language programming.
*
P3: popular music and comedy targeted at a younger audience.
*
P4: popular music, entertainment and sport, chiefly targeted at an older audience; the network is made up of 26 local stations, each of which carries a mix of local and national programming.
Local radio
A large part of P4's programming is regional with 26 regions each broadcasting their own local programmes during most of the day.
*
P4 Blekinge P4 may refer to:
Computing
* Intel Pentium 4, a 7th-generation processor design
** The P4 power connector introduced to power it and later CPUs in the ATX12V 1.0 standard
* The i486DX (P4) model of the Intel 80486, a high-performance microprocess ...
, for
Blekinge County
Blekinge County ( sv, Blekinge län) is a Counties of Sweden, county or ''län'' in the south of Sweden. It borders the Counties of Skåne County, Skåne, Kronoberg County, Kronoberg, Kalmar County, Kalmar and the Baltic Sea. The capital is Karl ...
*
P4 Dalarna P4 may refer to:
Computing
* Intel Pentium 4, a 7th-generation processor design
** The P4 power connector introduced to power it and later CPUs in the ATX12V 1.0 standard
* The i486DX (P4) model of the Intel 80486, a high-performance microprocess ...
*
P4 Gotland P4 may refer to:
Computing
* Intel Pentium 4, a 7th-generation processor design
** The P4 power connector introduced to power it and later CPUs in the ATX12V 1.0 standard
* The i486DX (P4) model of the Intel 80486, a high-performance microprocess ...
*
P4 Gävleborg P4 may refer to:
Computing
* Intel Pentium 4, a 7th-generation processor design
** The P4 power connector introduced to power it and later CPUs in the ATX12V 1.0 standard
* The i486DX (P4) model of the Intel 80486, a high-performance microprocess ...
*
P4 Göteborg P4 may refer to:
Computing
* Intel Pentium 4, a 7th-generation processor design
** The P4 power connector introduced to power it and later CPUs in the ATX12V 1.0 standard
* The i486DX (P4) model of the Intel 80486, a high-performance microprocess ...
*
P4 Halland P4 may refer to:
Computing
* Intel Pentium 4, a 7th-generation processor design
** The P4 power connector introduced to power it and later CPUs in the ATX12V 1.0 standard
* The i486DX (P4) model of the Intel 80486, a high-performance microprocess ...
, for
Halland County
Halland County ( sv, Hallands län, link=no, ) is a county (''län'') on the western coast of Sweden. It corresponds roughly to the cultural and historical province of Halland. The capital is Halmstad.
It borders the counties of Västra Götal ...
*
P4 Jämtland
*
P4 Jönköping
*
P4 Kalmar, for
Kalmar County
Kalmar County () is a county or '' län'' in southern Sweden. It borders the counties of Kronoberg, Jönköping, Blekinge and Östergötland. To the east in the Baltic Sea is the island Gotland.
The counties are mainly administrative units. G ...
*
P4 Kristianstad P4 may refer to:
Computing
* Intel Pentium 4, a 7th-generation processor design
** The P4 power connector introduced to power it and later CPUs in the ATX Power Connector#ATX12V 1.0, ATX12V 1.0 standard
* The i486DX (P4) model of the Intel 80486, ...
, for the former
Kristianstad County
Kristianstad County ( sv, Kristianstads län) was a county of Sweden from 1719 to 31 December 1996 when it was merged with Malmöhus County to form Skåne County.
The seat of residence for the Governor was in Kristianstad.
See also
* List of g ...
, now north and eastern
Skåne County
*
P4 Kronoberg
*
P4 Malmöhus, for the former
Malmöhus County
Malmöhus County ( sv, Malmöhus län) was a county of Sweden 1719–1996. On 1 January 1997 it was merged with Kristianstad County to form Skåne County. It had been named after Malmöhus, a castle in Malmö, which was also where the governor o ...
, now south-western
Skåne County
*
P4 Norrbotten
*
P4 Sjuhärad, for
Sjuhärad, the south-eastern part of
Västra Götaland County
Västra Götaland County ( sv, Västra Götalands län) is a county or '' län'' on the western coast of Sweden.
The county is the second most populous of Sweden's counties and it comprises 49 municipalities (''kommuner''). Its population of 1 ...
*
P4 Skaraborg, for the former
Skaraborg County
Skaraborg County ( sv, Skaraborgs län ) was a county of Sweden from 1634 until 1997. It was disestablished at the end of 1997 when it was merged with the counties of Gothenburg and Bohus and Älvsborg to form Västra Götaland County.
The count ...
, now north-eastern
Västra Götaland County
Västra Götaland County ( sv, Västra Götalands län) is a county or '' län'' on the western coast of Sweden.
The county is the second most populous of Sweden's counties and it comprises 49 municipalities (''kommuner''). Its population of 1 ...
*
P4 Stockholm
*
P4 Södertälje
*
P4 Sörmland
*
P4 Uppland
*
P4 Värmland
*
P4 Väst, for western
Västergötland
Västergötland (), also known as West Gothland or the Latinized version Westrogothia in older literature, is one of the 25 traditional non-administrative provinces of Sweden (''landskap'' in Swedish), situated in the southwest of Sweden.
Väs ...
,
Dalsland
Dalsland () is a Swedish traditional province, or ''landskap'', situated in Götaland in southern Sweden. Lying to the west of Lake Vänern, it is bordered by Värmland to the north, Västergötland to the southeast, Bohuslän to the west, and ...
and northern
Bohuslän, north-western
Västra Götaland County
Västra Götaland County ( sv, Västra Götalands län) is a county or '' län'' on the western coast of Sweden.
The county is the second most populous of Sweden's counties and it comprises 49 municipalities (''kommuner''). Its population of 1 ...
*
P4 Västerbotten
*
P4 Västernorrland
*
P4 Västmanland, for
Västmanland
Västmanland ( or ), is a historical Swedish province, or ''landskap'', in middle Sweden. It borders Södermanland, Närke, Värmland, Dalarna and Uppland.
Västmanland means "(The) Land of the Western Men", where the "western men" (''väst ...
*
P4 Örebro, for
Örebro County
Örebro County ( sv, Örebro län) is a county or '' län'' in central Sweden. It borders the counties of Västra Götaland, Värmland, Dalarna, Västmanland, Södermanland and Östergötland. It is frequently culturally divided into the hilly ...
*
P4 Östergötland, for
Östergötland County
Östergötland County ( sv, Östergötlands län) is a county or '' län'' in southeastern Sweden. It has land borders with the counties of Kalmar to the southeast, Jönköping to the southwest, Örebro to the northwest, and Södermanland to the ...
Additional radio stations available locally on FM include:
*
Din gata 100,6 (in Malmö): playing mostly hiphop and
R&B
*
SR P2 Musik (in Stockholm): relays most of the output of
P2, but replaces programming in minority and foreign languages (available in Stockholm from P6, see below) with additional music output
Schedule*
SR P6 89,6 (in Stockholm): broadcasts in minority and foreign languages and relays the
BBC World Service at night
Schedule
Digital channels
Sveriges Radio also provides a number of digital channels through DAB and via the internet.
*
P4 Plus, plays a broad mix of classic and current popular music (web)
*
Sveriges Radio Finska
Sveriges Radio AB (, "Sweden's Radio") is Sweden's national publicly funded radio broadcaster. Sveriges Radio is a public limited company, owned by an independent foundation, previously funded through a licensing fee, the level of which is d ...
, in
Finnish
Finnish may refer to:
* Something or someone from, or related to Finland
* Culture of Finland
* Finnish people or Finns, the primary ethnic group in Finland
* Finnish language, the national language of the Finnish people
* Finnish cuisine
See also ...
and
Meänkieli
(literally 'our language') is a group of distinct Finnish dialects or a Finnic language spoken in the northernmost part of Sweden along the valley of the Torne River. Its status as an independent language is disputed, but in Sweden it is recogn ...
(DAB, web and cable)
*
Radioapans knattekanal, children's radio (DAB and web)
*
SR Sápmi, for
Sami languages (web)
*
Ekot
''Dagens Eko'' ("Echo of the day") – often shortened to ''Ekot'' ("The echo") – is the news service of Swedish national radio broadcaster Sveriges Radio. It provides news bulletins of variable length which are known as ''Ekonyheter'' ("Echo ...
, news (web)
SR International
SR International is the international channel of Sveriges Radio and offers programming in the following languages:
*
Arabic
Arabic (, ' ; , ' or ) is a Semitic language spoken primarily across the Arab world.Semitic languages: an international handbook / edited by Stefan Weninger; in collaboration with Geoffrey Khan, Michael P. Streck, Janet C. E.Watson; Walter ...
website*
English
English usually refers to:
* English language
* English people
English may also refer to:
Peoples, culture, and language
* ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England
** English national ide ...
website*
Kurdish
Kurdish may refer to:
*Kurds or Kurdish people
*Kurdish languages
*Kurdish alphabets
*Kurdistan, the land of the Kurdish people which includes:
**Southern Kurdistan
**Eastern Kurdistan
**Northern Kurdistan
**Western Kurdistan
See also
* Kurd (dis ...
website*
Persian
Persian may refer to:
* People and things from Iran, historically called ''Persia'' in the English language
** Persians, the majority ethnic group in Iran, not to be conflated with the Iranic peoples
** Persian language, an Iranian language of the ...
website*
Romani
Romani may refer to:
Ethnicities
* Romani people, an ethnic group of Northern Indian origin, living dispersed in Europe, the Americas and Asia
** Romani genocide, under Nazi rule
* Romani language, any of several Indo-Aryan languages of the Roma ...
website*
Russian
Russian(s) refers to anything related to Russia, including:
*Russians (, ''russkiye''), an ethnic group of the East Slavic peoples, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries
*Rossiyane (), Russian language term for all citizens and peo ...
website*
Somali website*
Tigrinya
(; also spelled Tigrigna) is an Ethio-Semitic language commonly spoken Eritrea and in northern Ethiopia's Tigray Region by the Tigrinya and Tigrayan peoples. It is also spoken by the global diaspora of these regions.
History and literatur ...
website*
Ukrainian
Ukrainian may refer to:
* Something of, from, or related to Ukraine
* Something relating to Ukrainians, an East Slavic people from Eastern Europe
* Something relating to demographics of Ukraine in terms of demography and population of Ukraine
* So ...
website
SR International is not responsible for programming in the domestic minority languages,
Finnish
Finnish may refer to:
* Something or someone from, or related to Finland
* Culture of Finland
* Finnish people or Finns, the primary ethnic group in Finland
* Finnish language, the national language of the Finnish people
* Finnish cuisine
See also ...
and
Sámi
The Sámi ( ; also spelled Sami or Saami) are a Finno-Ugric-speaking people inhabiting the region of Sápmi (formerly known as Lapland), which today encompasses large northern parts of Norway, Sweden, Finland, and of the Murmansk Oblast, Ru ...
, which have their own dedicated digital channels.
On 16 March 2010, Radio Sweden announced the end of broadcasts on shortwave and medium wave as from 31 October 2010. External service programmes would continue on the internet only. Language services for immigrants to Sweden in Albanian, Syriac, Serbian, Bosnian, and Croat would also be discontinued, while programmes in English (also on the domestic service), German, Persian, Dari, and Kurdish would remain.
Criticism
The public's trust in the company, along with its Public Service counterparts in Sweden, may have decreased slightly during the 2000s. The decrease is most significant among right wing citizens.
In 2022, it was revealed that SR had registered the word ”Sommar”, meaning
Summer in Swedish, as a trademark, along with other names related to their show,
Sommar i P1
''Sommar i P1'' (''Summer on P1'') is one of the most popular shows on Swedish radio. It has been broadcast every summer since 29June 1959, originally as ''Sommar'' on P3 and since 1993 on P1.
About
Each 90-minute-long programme in the series ...
, much to the dismay of some podcast operators.
See also
*
List of Swedish radio stations
*
Åke Blomström Award
*
Modern Times Group (commercial broadcaster)
*
Radiotjänst i Kiruna
Radiotjänst i Kiruna AB (literally, ''"Radio Service in Kiruna"'') was Sweden's TV licensing body. It was a private corporation, formed in 1988 and based in Kiruna, and upon its formation took over the administration and handling of TV licenc ...
(licence fee agency)
*
Sveriges Utbildningsradio
Swedish Educational Broadcasting Company ( sv, Sveriges Utbildningsradio or ''Utbildningsradion'', UR) is a public-service corporation dedicated to serving the needs of the Swedish general public by providing educational programming on radio and ...
*
Swedish Broadcasting Commission
Swedish or ' may refer to:
Anything from or related to Sweden, a country in Northern Europe. Or, specifically:
* Swedish language, a North Germanic language spoken primarily in Sweden and Finland
** Swedish alphabet, the official alphabet used by ...
*
Teracom
Teracom Group AB is a Swedish state-owned company that delivers information and communication services aimed at operators of essential functions within the Swedish civilian and military systems.
Teracom was established in 1992 as a spin-off from ...
(transmitters)
References
External links
Radio Sweden- Official site
Sveriges Radio- Official site
SR International- Official site (multilingual)
Archive of daily podcasts (mp3)
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