Sveriges Radio

Sveriges Radio AB (Swedish pronunciation: [ˈsvæ̌rjɛs ˈrɑ̌ːdɪʊ], "Sweden's Radio") is Sweden's national publicly funded radio broadcaster. Sveriges Radio is a public limited company, owned by an independent foundation, previously funded through a licensing fee, the level of which is decided by the Swedish Riksdag. As of January 1, 2019, the funds stem from standard taxation. No advertising is permitted. Its legal status could be described as that of a quasi-autonomous non-governmental organization.

"Radiotjänst" redirects here. For the private company, see Radiotjänst i Kiruna.

Sveriges Radio (SR)
TypePublic broadcasting
Country
Sweden
AvailabilityNational
Launch date
1 January 1925 (1925-01-01) (radio)
4 September 1956 (1956-09-04) (television)
Former names
Radiotjänst (1925-1957)
Official website
www.sverigesradio.se
The Sveriges Radio building in Stockholm

History

The company – which was founded as AB Radiotjänst ("Radio Service Ltd") by a consortium of newspaper companies, the TT news agency, and radio manufacturing interests on 21 March 1924 – made its first broadcast on 1 January 1925: a relay of High Mass from St James's Church in Stockholm. It was officially renamed Sveriges Radio in 1957.

Sveriges Radio was originally responsible for all broadcasting in Sweden, both radio and television, and hosted the 1975 Eurovision Song Contest. A reorganization in 1979 saw it become the parent company of four subsidiaries:

  • Sveriges Riksradio (RR), Swedish National Radio;
  • Sveriges Lokalradio (LRAB), Swedish Local Radio;
  • Sveriges Utbildningsradio (UR), Swedish Educational Broadcasting; and
  • Sveriges Television (SVT), Swedish Television.

This structure was dissolved in 1993, with the national and local radio companies merging under the name of the old parent company: Sveriges Radio AB.

National radio

Four radio channels are available nationwide on FM and via the internet.[1]

  • P1: news, culture, debate, readings, documentaries, etc. Almost no music is played, except in the daily summertime programme Sommar, in which guest presenters introduce their own choice of music.
  • P2: classical music, folk, jazz and world music; the channel also carries some minority-language programming.
  • P3: popular music and comedy targeted at a younger audience.
  • P4: popular music, entertainment and sport, chiefly targeted at an older audience; the network is made up of 25 local stations, each of which carries a mix of local and national programming.

Local radio

A large part of P4's programming is regional with 25 regions each broadcasting their own local programmes during most of the day.

Additional radio stations available locally on FM include:

  • Din gata 100,6 (in Malmö): playing mostly hiphop and R&B
  • Metropol 93,8 (in Stockholm): multicultural youth station for Stockholm (formerly SR P5 Radio Stockholm)
  • SR P2 Musik (in Stockholm): relays most of the output of P2, but replaces programming in minority and foreign languages (available in Stockholm from P6, see below) with additional music output – Schedule
  • SR P6 89,6 (in Stockholm): broadcasts in minority and foreign languages as well as relaying programmes from the web-based P2 Världen channel and (overnight) the BBC World Service – Schedule

Other channels

Sveriges Radio also provides a number of channels through Digital audio broadcasting, using the DAB standard, and via the internet.

  • SR International - Radio Sweden (web, satellite)
  • SR P7 Sisuradio, in Finnish and Meänkieli (DAB, web and cable)
  • Radioapans knattekanal, children's radio (web)
  • SR c, experimental arts radio (web)
  • SR P2 Världen, world music radio (DAB and web)
  • SR Klassiskt, classical music (DAB and web)
  • SR Minnen, programmes from the SR archive (DAB and web)
  • SR P3 Star, hit music for teenagers (DAB and web)
  • SR Sápmi, for Sami languages (web)
  • Alltid nyheter, news (web)

SR International
Main article: SR International – Radio Sweden

SR International is the international channel of Sveriges Radio and offers programming in the following languages:

SR International is not responsible for programming in the domestic minority languages, Finnish and Sámi, which have their own dedicated channels. See Other channels above.

On 16 March 2010, Radio Sweden announced the end of broadcasts on shortwave and medium wave as from 31 October 2010.[2] External service programmes would continue on the internet only.[3] Language services for immigrants to Sweden in Albanian, Syriac, Serbian, Bosnian, and Croat would also be discontinued, while programmes in English (also on the domestic service), German, Russian, Persian, Dari, and Kurdish would remain.[4]

Criticism

The public's trust in the company, along with its Public Service counterparts in Sweden, may have decreased slightly during the 2000s. The decrease is most significant among right wing citizens.[5][6]

gollark: As well as making it much more practical to drive arbitrarily long distances, it is nuclear and thus COOL and GOOD. No downsides!
gollark: No more range anxiety, just load a fresh fuel rod in every few years.
gollark: Actually, nuclear fission to power an *e-*bike is silly! It would be more efficient to directly drive the wheels with the turbines.
gollark: But only two of them, so it's a bike.
gollark: Why not put wheels on ITER, the experimental fusion thing?

See also

References
  1. "Direktlänkar, kanaler i MP3 (192 kbps) Archived 2012-07-16 at Archive.today", links to channels streaming in mp3 format. Sveriges Radio's webpage. Retrieved 9 May 2010.
  2. Radio Sweden Ends Medium, Short Wave, Sveriges Radio International, 16 March 2010. Archived July 23, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
  3. Radio Sweden to become an Internet-only station, Media Network, 17 March 2010.
  4. Radio Sweden Ends Medium, Short Wave, Sveriges Radio International, 16. March 2010. Archived July 23, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
  5. Förtroende för SVT fortsätter sjunka, 24 April 2018
  6. Medieförtroende, SOM-institutet 2018
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