TV Avisen

TV Avisen (English: TV Newspaper; also shortened to TVA) is a Danish television newscast produced by Danish public broadcaster DR. History The first edition of TV Avisen was broadcast on 15 October 1965. – up until this point, television had already been broadcast regularly in Denmark for 14 years. This was due to an agreement signed between DR and the press in 1926 which guaranteed the press' control of the broadcast of news on television and radio. The agreement remained in place after the introduction of television and was rescinded on 1 July 1964. Initially, TV Avisen mostly consisted of footage from foreign news agencies with a musical accompaniment in the style of a newsreel. The programme began broadcasting in colour on 2 October 1978. Five years later, the television news operation moved from its small studios at Radiohuset in Rosenørns Allé to TV-Byen in Gladsaxe. In 1988, DR lost its monopoly on Danish television news when second government broadcaster TV2 (founded in 1988) began broadcasting its own news service. In an effort to compete, the main 19:30 programme was replaced in 1993 by two evening bulletins at 18:00 and 20:30. The following year, the programmes were