''Urix'' is a
foreign affairs television
newsmagazine
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aired Monday to Thursday night on the
Norwegian
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*Something of, from, or related to Norway, a country in northwestern Europe
* Norwegians, both a nation and an ethnic group native to Norway
* Demographics of Norway
*The Norwegian language, including ...
television channel
NRK2
NRK2 (NRK To) is one of the TV channels of the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK). It was launched on 1 September 1996.
History
The channel started its regular broadcasts on 1 September 1996, but the evening before, a live simulcast, led ...
, a subsidiary channel of the
Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK). The first show aired on 2 September 2002, and is produced by the same crew as
Dagsrevyen
''Dagsrevyen'' (English: ''The Daily Review'') is the daily evening news programme for the Norwegian television channel NRK1, the main channel of the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK), broadcast at 19:00. In 2007, the programme started air ...
. The title is a play on the word ''Utenriks'', meaning "foreign (affairs)".
Former presenters include
Christian Borch
Christian Borch (born 2 June 1944) is a Norwegian television presenter and news anchor.
He was born in Bergen, but grew up in Holmenkollåsen. In his younger days he worked at sea and studied law, but ended these pursuits to become a journalist ...
,
Annette Groth
Annette Groth (born 16 May 1954 in Bielefeld) is a German politician from Baden-Wuerttemberg.
Career
From 1974 to 1979, she studied at the Free University of Berlin, in development sociology, economics and business administration and interna ...
,
Bjørn Hansen,
Sigrun Slapgard
Sigrun Slapgard (born 20 October 1953) is a Norwegian journalist and non-fiction writer.
Slapgard was born in Hemsedal, and graduated as cand.mag. from the University of Oslo in 1980. She has worked as journalist for NRK from 1988. Her 2002 boo ...
and
Gunnar Myklebust.
NRK foreign correspondents
NRK's correspondents are based in
Washington DC
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(2),
Nairobi
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(2),
Beijing
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,
London
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,
Moscow
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,
Berlin
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(2),
Rio de Janeiro
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and
Istanbul
)
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.
External links
NRK Urix website(in Norwegian)
NRK UrixTV Archives (in Norwegian)
NRK Urix SaturdaysRadio Archives (in Norwegian)
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2002 Norwegian television series debuts
NRK original programming