TKTV, known as TV Nordvest before 2008, was a local

television station A television station is a set of equipment managed by a business, organisation or other entity, such as an amateur television (ATV) operator, that transmits video content and audio content via radio waves directly from a transmitter on the earth ...

servicing

Nordmøre Nordmøre (English: North- Møre) is a traditional district in the Norwegian county of Møre og Romsdal. The area comprises the northern third of the county including the municipalities of Kristiansund, Averøy, Tingvoll, Surnadal, Aure, Halsa, ...

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and t ...

. It had until 2008 serviced the regions of

Sunnmøre Sunnmøre (, en, South- Møre) is the southernmost traditional district of the western Norwegian county of Møre og Romsdal. Its main city is Ålesund. The region comprises the municipalities ( no, kommuner) of Giske, Hareid, Herøy, Norddal ...

and

Romsdal Romsdal is a traditional district in the Norwegian county Møre og Romsdal, located between Nordmøre and Sunnmøre. The district of Romsdal comprises Aukra, Fræna, Midsund, Molde, Nesset, Rauma, Sandøy, and Vestnes. It is named after the val ...

as well. It was owned by the holding company , of which the newspaper

Tidens Krav ''Tidens Krav'' (''TK'') English: ''The Time's Demands'' is a local newspaper published in Kristiansund, Norway. It was founded in 1906, is published Tuesday through Saturday, and reports news from Nordmøre. The newspaper owned the local televis ...

held the largest share by the time of the TV station's dissolution in 2015.

History

TV Nordvest was established in 1988, and in short time partnered with

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 ...

, one of the first to do so. After disagreements surrounding money and airing hours in 2002, their then partnership with

TV Norge 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 ...

came to an end, after which they remained a private company until their purchase in 2005 by the holding company . The editor stated that this decision was made to better establish themselves in the

district surrounding

Molde Molde () is a town and municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Romsdal. It is located on the Romsdal Peninsula, surrounding the Fannefjord and Moldefjord. The administrative centre of the m ...

after being mostly focused on the

region surrounding

Kristiansund Kristiansund (, ; historically spelled Christianssund and earlier named Fosna) is a municipality on the western coast of Norway in the Nordmøre district of Møre og Romsdal county. The administrative center of the municipality is the town of ...

further east. They also stated their intention to avoid being purchased by

Adressa ''Adresseavisen'' (; commonly known as ''Adressa'') is a regional newspaper published daily, except Sundays, in Trondheim, Norway. The paper has been in circulation since 1767 and is one of the oldest newspapers after Norske Intelligenz-Seddeler ...

, two local newspapers, to not create a media

monopoly A monopoly (from Greek language, Greek el, μόνος, mónos, single, alone, label=none and el, πωλεῖν, pōleîn, to sell, label=none), as described by Irving Fisher, is a market with the "absence of competition", creating a situati ...

in the region. After the purchase, the holding company was created in 2006, which now owned both , the local TV station for

. In 2004, the TV station was warned of potential sanctions by the Mass Media Authority along with three others, , TVTromsø, . Though the other three were warned for violations of guidelines surrounding sponsorships, TV Nordvest's warning remains unknown. In 2007, the newspaper

purchased 36% of shares in the media group Mediegruppen Møre. Later the same year, TV Sunnmøre was merged with TV Nordvest. A year later in 2008, Tidens Krav announced their plan to split TV Nordvest into TKTV and , which would service the regions of

and

respectively. Additionally, TV Sunnmøre would again start airing over a different channel. After years of economic stagnation from stiff online competition, Tidens Krav announced their plans to cease the production of local radio and TV in 2015. TKTV's final broadcast aired on 30 October 2015, before being shut down permanently two days later on 1 November.

References

{{reflist Television channels in Norway Mass media in Møre og Romsdal