Kringvarp Føroya
Broadcast area | Faroe Islands |
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Owner | Faroe Islands |
Key people | Ivan Niclasen (CEO) |
Launch date | 1 January 2005 |
Official website | kvf |
Kringvarp Føroya (English: Broadcasting Service of the Faroe Islands; KVF) is the national public broadcasting company of the Faroe Islands. It was founded on 1 January 2005 after a merger of the national radio and television networks Útvarp Føroya and Sjónvarp Føroya.
History
Útvarp Føroya
Útvarp Føroya ("Radio of the Faroe Islands"; ÚF) was founded in 1957, under the station's first director Axel Tórgarð. Niels Juel Arge took over the position in 1960 and remained until 1990. Prior to the establishment of Útvarp Føroya, the
Sjónvarp Føroya
Sjónvarp Føroya ("Television of the Faroe Islands"; SvF) was founded in 1984. It was the only public TV station in the country, and broadcast some content in Faroese.
The history of SvF goes back to the 1960s. In 1969, the Faroese parliament decided to create an organisation for developing TV facilities on the islands under public law. A 1978 law set into motion the establishment of the network, which was founded as Sjónvarp Føroya in 1981. A furniture store in the capital Tórshavn was converted into a TV studio in 1983. On 1 April 1984 the first Faroese programme was launched; however, private local TV associations had been transmitting for six years. The regular operation of SVF started on 1 September of that same year.
In spring 1985, the former freelancers of Faroese TV were engaged as staff by the Faroese government. Since 1990, other nearby buildings have been bought in order to enhance the network's premises.
In December 2002, the Faroe Islands became the first country in the world to completely disconnect of its analogue television signals, which had used the PAL standard, in favour of the digital DVB-T standard.
By law, SvF had a goal of broadcasting one-third of its programmes in Faroese. Other programmes were mostly taken from
Kringvarp Føroya
In 2005, the SvF and ÚF were merged into the current company, which is funded by a combination of
See also
- Media of the Faroe Islands
References
- ^ "Everyday life in the Faroes - Framtak". www.framtak.com. Retrieved 8 March 2019.
- ^ "Sjonvarp". Archived from the original on 16 August 2006. Retrieved 17 August 2006.
External links
- Kringvarp Føroya Homepage (with Faroese TV programmes for download)