''Ođđasat'' is a

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television news programme broadcast in

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and

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. Jointly produced by

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, SVT and

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, the public service broadcasters in their respective countries, the programme is presented from NRK's studio in Norway. It is broadcast from Monday to Friday, ten months a year. Each programme is around 15 minutes long and deals mostly with Sami issues but also has Nordic and world news, often dealing with other

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. Most reports are from the official Sápmi areas; only rarely are there news stories about other places with significant Sámi populations (e.g.

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) unless the stories also involve Sápmi areas. No Russian companies are known to have been involved in the production or by submitting stories. As of November 2023, episodes are broadcast more or less simultaneously on

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, and NRK Sámi Radio in the afternoon, usually at 17:30. Broadcasts in Finland were moved from Yle Teema & Fem to

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at some point in the late 2010s, where it airs as a late night newscast; and to TV Finland, where it airs during daytime the following day. Almost all audio in the program is in Northern Sami; one

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episode was known to have been broadcast in August 2018. Each episode concludes with a short weather forecast, focusing on Sápmi and the northern parts of the

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, leaving out

and

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but including

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and Lovozero.

History

When the production of the programme began, its titles and graphics were different from NRK's domestic television news bulletins. In around 2008, the programme saw a new look; while it still differed from the revamped look of the rest of NRK's bulletins at the time, the

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s (as well as the

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on NRK's broadcast) were set in the same grid of graphics that NRK's bulletins used. It also utilised the Neo Sans typeface (NRK's on-screen typeface at the time) for its presentation. In mid-2015, about a month after NRK's domestic bulletins revamped their look, ''Ođđasat'' followed with the new NRK news intro corporate look and theme music.

References

External links

Yle's online news in Sami

NRK Sápmi

SR Sameradion and SVT Sápmi
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History

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