The Broadcasting Council ( no, Kringkastingsrådet, or ''K-rådet'' for short) is an advisory board to the

Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation NRK, an abbreviation of the Norwegian ''Norsk Rikskringkasting AS'', generally expressed in English as the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation, is the Norwegian government-owned radio and television public broadcasting company, and the larges ...

(NRK). The role of the Broadcasting Council is to discuss and comment on NRK's programming agenda for Norwegian

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and

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, and to advise on administrative and financial matters. Cases and appeals can be referred to the Council either by the NRK director-general or by NRK viewers and listeners. The Broadcasting Council is also free to consider matters of their own choosing. The Broadcasting Council meets eight to ten times annually and has 14 members. The

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appoints eight of the members, while the

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appoints the other six. One of the eight members appointed by the parliament will be especially responsible for Sami-language programming; this role is held by

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. From 2006 to 2009,

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, who had been deputy chair, served as chair of the Council. The chair for 2010 to 2013 was

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