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TV4 (''TV fyra'') is a
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free-to-air Free-to-air (FTA) services are television (TV) and radio services broadcast in unencrypted form, allowing any person with the appropriate receiving equipment to receive the signal and view or listen to the content without requiring a subscripti ...
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owned by
TV4 AB TV4 AB (formerly Nordisk Television AB; previously traded as ) is a Swedish media company owned by Telia Company through TV4 Media (formerly known as Bonnier Broadcasting). The company owns the largest commercial television channel in Sweden, ...
, a subsidiary of the TV4 Media AB. It started broadcasting by
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in 1990 and, since 1992, on terrestrial television. In 1994, TV4 became the largest channel and remained so for a number of years. The two channels of Sveriges Television (SVT) lost more and more viewers for a couple of years. After making schedule changes in 2001, SVT1 had practically the same numbers of viewers as TV4. From 2004 to 2019, the TV4 Group was a fully active member of the European Broadcasting Union.


History

TV4 was launched on 15 September 1990. The channel invested in an extensive news organisation and Swedish drama series. The premiere suffered from technical faults and the drama series weren't popular with critics. In 1991, two of the channel's oldest entertainment programmes premiered: the Swedish version of ''
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'' and the Saturday night bingo show ''
Bingolotto ''Bingolotto'' is a Swedish primetime television game show lottery that was first broadcast 1989 on local TV and since 1991 nationwide on the Swedish network TV4. The show is a collaboration work between Swedish TV channel TV4, the Swedish lottery ...
''. Bingolotto in particular became highly popular. This year also saw TV4 being awarded a license to broadcast terrestrially. Terrestrial broadcasts started on 2 March 1992. During that year, ''
Nyhetsmorgon ''Nyhetsmorgon'' is a Swedish morning news and talk show that is broadcast every morning on TV4. ''Nyhetsmorgon'' started airing on 14 September 1992. References External links * * TV4 (Sweden) original programming 1992 Swedish tel ...
'' started and marked the introduction of weekday
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in Sweden. During the 1990s, TV4 would broadcast several popular Friday night entertainment shows such as '' Fångarna på fortet'' (Swedish version of '' Fort Boyard''), ''
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'', '' Tur i kärlek'', '' På rymmen'', ''
Sikta mot stjärnorna ''Sikta mot stjärnorna'' (in English: ''Aiming for the stars'') is a Swedish singing talent show that was broadcast on TV4 between 1994 until 2002. The show featured people acting and imitating their favorite singers/bands performances. From the ...
'' ('' Soundmix Show''), '' Stadskampen'', (''
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'') and '' Småstjärnorna'' (''Mini Playback Show''). They have also broadcast several home-grown sitcoms such as '' Rena Rama Rolf'' and ''
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'' as well as the soap opera '' Tre kronor''. In the early 1990s, the TV4 Group decided to move their 7pm evening news to 7:30pm in order to compete with the most popular news programme, ''
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'', which, at that time, was broadcast on SVT2. This failed and the news was subsequently moved to 6:30pm. In 2004, the evening news was moved to 7pm, and the status quo reinstated. In 2004, TV4 began transitioning to become a digital-only service, starting by shutting down its analogue satellite signal. On 19 September 2005, TV4 began shutting down analogue terrestrial transmissions, starting at the island of Gotland. The analogue shutoff was completed by October 2007. Since 2004, TV4 has been broadcasting a Swedish version of the internationally popular Pop Idol format. In July 2018 it was announced that
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would be acquired by
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for 9.2 billion SEK, thus making Telia the new owner of TV4. The acquisition was completed on 2 December 2019.


Programming

TV4 offers a mix of news, sports, drama series, soaps, entertainment, current affairs programmes, sitcoms, feature films, documentaries and phone-in shows.
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is an important part of TV4. It broadcasts the news program ''
Nyheterna ''Nyheterna'' ("the News") is the name of the news programme of the Swedish channel TV4. Unlike most other programmes on TV4, ''Nyheterna'' is produced in-house by the TV4 Group themselves. The main bulletins are broadcast at 7 and 10pm every day ...
'', (The News) at 7pm & 10pm and ''Nyhetsmorgon'' (''News Morning'') in the mornings. On weekend mornings there is children's programming in Swedish before ''Nyhetsmorgon'' starts. After 11pm until ''Nyhetsmorgon'', it shows reruns and some Swedish and English television series. After the ''Nyhetsmorgon'' ends on weekdays the Efter tio ''(After ten)'' starts followed by English spoken TV series up until the news at 7pm. In the daytime on weekends there are often reruns and sports programs. Then main Swedish and English TV programs are broadcast up to the 10pm news. Friday nights have included family entertainment at 8pm since the early 1990s. ''Bingolotto'' occupied Saturday evenings from 1991 to 2004. TV4 then moved Bingolotto to Sundays and started broadcasting feature films instead. With the start of
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in 2006, family entertainment returned to Saturday nights. Later, there are other entertainment shows on Saturday evenings. On Sunday evenings, Swedish-produced television programs are shown until 9pm when they show a movie on Saturday nights. They also show a movie after the entertainment show. After about 11pm until Nyhetsmorgon starts they show reruns and some Swedish and English television series. The foreign programs are mainly from the UK and USA. All foreign programmes, as well as segments of local programmes with foreign language content (e.g. news interviews), are subtitled into Swedish. TV4 also offers
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programmes, most notably Kalla fakta ("Cold Facts").


Regional stations

As a part of its public service obligations, TV4 owns and operates a number of regional and local opt-out stations. When the local stations were set up, they were owned by both local investors and the TV4 Group themselves. Since the start of TV4 Uppland in 1996, the number of stations has been sixteen. Although some stations have closed and others have been set up, the total number of stations has stayed unchanged. The TV4 Group brought out many of the local stations and became the sole owner of fifteen stations in 2001. The only independent station, TV4 Fyrstad, went bankrupt in 2003 and was replaced by TV4 Väst, owned and operated by the TV4 Group. The TV4 Group later merged the stations into five regional companies and in 2004, a single company: TV4 Sverige AB. , these are the local TV4 stations: *TV4 Värmland (
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) *TV4 Väst ("West") *TV4 Göteborg ( Gothenburg) *TV4 Halland (
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) *TV4 Öresund ( The Sound) *TV4 Sydost ("Southeast") *TV4 Jönköping (
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) *TV4 Skaraborg (
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) *TV4 Öst ("East") *TV4 Stockholm (
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) *TV4 Mälardalen (
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) *TV4 Uppland (
Uppland Uppland () is a historical province or ' on the eastern coast of Sweden, just north of Stockholm, the capital. It borders Södermanland, Västmanland and Gästrikland. It is also bounded by lake Mälaren and the Baltic Sea. On the small uninhab ...
) *TV4 Gävle Dalarna ( Gävle and
Dalarna Dalarna () is a '' landskap'' (historical province) in central Sweden. English exonyms for it are Dalecarlia () and the Dales. Dalarna adjoins Härjedalen, Hälsingland, Gästrikland, Västmanland and Värmland. It is also bordered by Norwa ...
) *TV4 Mitt ("Central") *TV4 Västerbotten (
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) *TV4 Norrbotten (
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) After the closedown of the analogue transmitters and the termination of TV4's public service obligations, the pattern of the local stations is due to a major overhaul which will see the number of local stations increase.


TV4 Play and C More

TV4 Play is the brand used for the
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service offered by the TV4 Group, more specifically to the streaming services offered on the TV4 Play website
www.tv4play.se
Content on TV4 Play usually comes with advertisements, but users can watch the same content without advertisements on the subscription-based C More platform, which also provides a livestream of TV4 and its sister channels.


Jurisdiction

As TV4 is broadcast from Sweden, it has to follow much tighter advertising rules than its main competitors,
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(TV3) and
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(Kanal 5). Initially this meant that the TV4 Group was not allowed to include advertising breaks, meaning that the advertising had to be put in between the programmes. Nonetheless, the TV4 Group felt the urge to include advertising breaks. Therefore, it made several ''Inför'' programmes. The ''Inför'' programmes were short versions of TV4 programmes that were scheduled in the middle of programmes. For example, ''Fångarna på fortet'' would be divided into two parts and in between these, ''Inför Bingolotto'' would be shown. This allowed TV4 to broadcast advertising in the gaps between ''Inför Bingolotto'' and the two halves of ''Fångarna på fortet''. The Broadcasting Commission repeatedly ruled that the ''Inför'' programmes couldn't be considered as real programmes. In 2000 they were replaced by a programme called ''Dagens namn'', in which the current
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was mentioned. This was later on replaced by ''Om en bok'' in which famous people presented a book they enjoyed. This ended in April 2002 when a new Radio and TV Law came into force, allowing the TV4 Group to interrupt its programmes for advertising, but not to the same extent as TV3 and Kanal 5. The Radio and TV Law also restricted the amount of advertising that can be shown to ten percent of the programming. Since TV4 was the only commercial channel allowed to broadcast terrestrially, it had to pay a special fee to the government, consisting of a fixed fee and a variable element based on the amount of advertising that the TV4 Group sells. The TV4 Group worked to have this fee removed, especially with the launch of digital terrestrial television. The centre-right Reinfeldt Cabinet intended to relax the advertising rules. TV4 would then broadcast up to twelve minutes of advertising (as opposed to the previous ten minutes in prime time and eight minutes during other time). The amount of advertising overall would also raise from ten percent to fifteen percent, giving TV4 the same rules as the UK-based broadcasters.Annonstid i radio och TV
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Personalities

* Adam Alsing *
Agneta Sjödin Agneta Sjödin (born 20 July 1967 in Norrbo, Hudiksvall, Sweden) is a Swedish television presenter and personality of the Swedish television channel TV4. She presented the first two seasons of the popular show '' Let's Dance'' with David Hellen ...
* Bengt Magnusson *
David Hellenius David Hellenius (born 28 February 1974) is a Swedes, Swedish comedian, television presenter and actor, often co-operating with Peter Magnusson. Career Hellenius started his television career at ZTV (Sweden), ZTV and later TV3 (Sweden), TV3. In 2 ...
* Jessica Almenäs *
Linda Isacsson Linda Susanna Isaksson Lindorff, née ''Isaksson'' (born 9 February 1972) is a Swedes, Swedish television presenter, reporter and former weather presenter. She was crowned Miss Sweden in 1990 and represented her country at Miss Universe 1990, Miss ...
* Martin Timell *
Peter Eng Peter "Peppe" Eng, (born 20 December 1948) is a Swedish sports journalist and television presenter working for TV4. For many years he was the presenter for TV4's sports shows Sporten and Tipslördag along with Billy Lansdowne and Peter Antoine. He ...
* Peter Jihde *
Yvonne Ryding Yvonne Agneta Ryding (born 14 December 1962, in Eskilstuna, Södermanland County, Södermanland) is a Swedish dancer, model, TV Host and beauty queen who was crowned Miss Universe 1984 on 9 July 1984. She is the third Swede in history to win the ...


References


External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Tv4 (Sweden) Television channels in Sweden Television channels and stations established in 1990 TV4 AB European Broadcasting Union members 1990 establishments in Sweden