(shorten to Förvaltningsstiftelsen; abbreviated to SRT or Foundation Management for SR, SVT, and UR) is a Swedish

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broadcasting organisation that administers the SVT, SR and the UR.

History

The advent of

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and

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in Sweden from the 1980s was considered to be a turbulent period within the Swedish mass media sector, which was until then entirely dominated by the monopoly public radio and television channels as well as the domestic press. In the spring of 1993, the

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decided, after a one-man investigation, to change the ownership of the public service broadcasters to reflect the greatly altered mass media landscape. Prior to the amendment, the shares of the Swedish public broadcasting service had been divided between the Swedish

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s (''folkrörelser''; 60% ntil 1967 40%, the business community (''näringslivet''; 20%) and the daily press (''dagspressen''; 20% ntil 1967 40%. The three ownership groups now no longer wanted to continue as owners, in part because some of them had engaged in competing activities. Through this amendment, the three public broadcasters (SVT, SR and UR) came to be owned by separate management foundations from 1 January 1994. However, these three fiduciary foundations had an identical board composition and the same overall objectives. As an alternative to the foundation form, it was discussed, among other things, to place them directly under state ownership, but this option was considered inappropriate as such a solution would place the organisation directly under the executive branch of the Swedish government. ''Förvaltningsstiftelsen'' was formed in 1997 through the merger of the foundations managing SVT, SR and UR. The Swedish government and the Riksdag considered this organisational change to be justified because the three management foundations had the same overall goals.

Representation in international organisations

''Förvaltningsstiftelsen'' (and its predecessors) holds the Swedish membership of the

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References

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* Foundations based in Sweden Foundation Management for SR, SVT, and UR Publicly funded broadcasters Organizations based in Sweden Television channels in Sweden European Broadcasting Union members Mass media in Stockholm State media Mass media companies established in 1997 {{Sweden-media-stub