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Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation
Number of employees
3,419; 266 temporary staff (2017)[2]
Websitenrk.no

The Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (Norwegian: Norsk rikskringkasting, lit.'Norwegian Realm Broadcasting'), commonly known by its initialism NRK, is the Norwegian government-owned radio and television public broadcasting company, and the largest media organisation in Norway.

The NRK broadcasts three national TV channels and thirteen national radio channels on digital terrestrial television, digital terrestrial radio and subscription television. They also offer an

video on-demand and podcast streaming service, and produce online and broadcast news
.

The NRK is a founding member of the European Broadcasting Union and a member of the Norwegian Press Association.[3]

Financing

Until the start of 2020, about 94% of NRK's funding came from a mandatory annual licence fee payable by anyone who owns or uses a TV or device capable of receiving TV broadcasts. The remainder came from commercial activities such as programme and DVD sales, spin-off products, and certain types of sponsorships. NRK's license income in 2012 was more than 5 billion NOK. In the autumn of 2015, the government announced that it planned to change the way NRK is financed. This was in part a reaction to the decline of TV ownership in Norway. From the start of 2020, NRK funding is an item in the national budget and the costs are covered through taxation for each individual liable for income taxes in Norway.[4]

History

NRK television tower in Trondheim

Kringkastningsselskapet A/S, a privately owned company and the predecessor of NRK, started regular radio broadcasts in Norway in 1925. NRK itself was founded in 1933. Based on a model similar to that of the

TV 2 on 5 September 1992, that NRK's monopoly on television broadcasting in Norway ended.[citation needed
]

During the

Nazi German war propaganda to Northern Europe (particularly Scotland and the northern half of Ireland, where the sea path ensured a good signal) and Scandinavia
.

Prior to the Nazi German occupation, NRK had also been partly financed by radio commercials.

NRK was one of 23 founding broadcasting organisations of the European Broadcasting Union,[5] which was founded in 1950. In 1954, NRK started broadcasting television shows, on a trial basis. Regular broadcasts started in 1960.

In 1969, NRK adopted a new version of its corporate logo which consists of the lowercased "nrk" wordmark that has the letter "n" being made up of a rectangle and a reversed-italic rectangle, the letter "r" being made up of a rectangle and a circle, and the letter "k" being made up of a rectangle and reflecting-mirrored italic rectangles.[citation needed]

NRK was the last of the major European public broadcasters to introduce a second radio station,[

Alltid Nyheter
started in 1997, followed by a radio station for teenagers, mP3 in 2000, which mostly plays pop music.

On 1 September 1996, a second television channel called NRK2 was launched. The original television channel is now known as NRK1. On 3 September 2007, NRK launched its third channel: a youth channel called NRK3. Later that year, on 1 December, NRK launched its fourth television channel, NRK Super, which is aimed at children. NRK3 and NRK Super share the same channel, with NRK Super broadcasting from 06:00 to 19:30 and NRK3 from 19:30 to 06:00.

In 1999, following NRK Interaktiv's relaunch as NRK.no, NRK redesigned its corporate logo (that was introduced in 1969), so that it could be similar to its old version. This new version of NRK's corporate logo made its first appearance in an ident in 2000 by making its overhaul to NRK's radio and television channels.

A traditional music radio station, NRK Alltid folkemusikk (now known as "NRK Folkemusikk") was launched in 2004 on DAB and internet radio.[citation needed]

Broadcasting House, one of the main buildings at NRK headquarters at Marienlyst, Oslo

NRK's international radio transmissions, known as Utenlandssendingen, began

kHz used to be widely heard internationally and was one of the most commonly heard trans-Atlantic DX signals in eastern North America
. The frequency carried a mixture of NRK's radio channels P1 and P2, and was called Europakanalen (literally "The Europe Channel"). However, these mediumwave transmissions were discontinued on 1 July 2006.

All of NRK's

television programmes
are also available on the internet.

On 16 April 2015, the Norwegian

Ministry of Culture announced its intention to eventually switch off all FM transmitters in the country, with the first such transmitter expected to be switched off on 11 January 2017, therefore making Norway the first country in the world to completely transition to digital radio. According to the Ministry of Culture, the decision was justified because transmitting through the FM network was eight times more expensive than transmitting through digital audio broadcasting, and because only five national radio stations are transmitting on FM, compared to the 42 digital radio stations allocated in Norway, with 22 stations transmitting on the latter. NRK Radio is expected to transition from FM to digital radio before commercial radio stations do so.[6][7][8]

NRK claimed to have the longest-running radio show, Lørdagsbarnetimen (The Saturday Children's Hour), which ran from 20 December 1924 until 11 September 2010.[citation needed]

In 2017, NRK asked five architectural firms to present sketches for possible development and use of NRK's area at Marienlyst, should NRK move rather than improve the property.[9] In 2019, work began to find the best site for a new building,[10] and in 2020 the property on Marienlyst was sold to Ferd Eiendom for NOK 3.75 billion.[11][12]

Close to 100 different locations were considered for the new head office,[13] but Gamle Oslo, Bryn, Storo Løren, Lillestrøm-Puls and Lilleaker were the most relevant options. Director of relocation Jon Espen Lohne in NRK, said in 2020 that they have ambitions to get the country to choose a site before the end of the year.[14] In May 2021, it was announced that NRK had decided to move to Ensjø, and that the price for the property was NOK 800 million.[15]

Organisation

Entrance to Television House, another building at NRK's headquarters

The CEO began major organisational changes in 2008, with the aim of creating a more agile NRK, while still adhering to the principles of the broadcaster-producer model introduced in January 2001.[

internal market.[citation needed
] The programme-producing divisions are:

Nazi occupation), Kaare Fostervoll (1948–1962), Hans Jacob Ustvedt (1962–1971), Torolf Elster (1972–1981), Bjartmar Gjerde (1981–1988), Einar Førde (1989–2001), John G. Bernander (2001–2007),[16] Hans-Tore Bjerkaas (2007–2012) and Thor Gjermund Eriksen (2012-2022).[17] After WW2, all but Hans-Tore Bjerkaas and John G. Bernander had been active politically in socialist parties. The current director-general, Vibeke Fürst Haugen, came from the position of director of the Marienlyst-division of NRK in Oslo.[citation needed
]

The chairman of the board is Birger Magnus, Marius Lillelien heads the broadcasting department, and the head of the news department is Marius Tetlie.[18] In 2017, NRK employed 3419 and 266 temporary staff.[19]

Notable television programmes

NRK productions

Other shows

Channels

Radio

NRK P3 on DAB
  • NRK P1 – Generalist channel, with regional opt-outs.
  • NRK P1+ – A spinoff from P1, targeting elderly audience.
  • NRK P2 – Cultural channel.
  • NRK P3 – Youth-oriented channel.
  • NRK mP3
    – 24/7 dance music (also called mP3).
  • NRK P13 – 24/7 rock and indie music.
  • NRK Nyheter – 24/7 news, incl. news in Swedish (Dagens Eko) and English (BBC World Service).
  • NRK Vær — Offshore shipping weather reports, in regional versions.
  • NRK Trafikk — Looping status updates on closed car roads, in regional versions.
  • NRK Folkemusikk – 24/7 Traditional Norwegian folk music.
  • NRK Jazz
  • NRK Klassisk – 24/7 classical music.
  • Sami languages
    .
  • NRK Sport – Sports events with commentary, basic match score updates, and varied music the rest of the time.
  • NRK Super – 24/7 for kids. The vast majority of music is in Norwegian and themed around school life.

Television

Regional broadcasting

NRK has 12 regional offices around Norway. Each office has its own broadcasts on both television (on NRK 1) and radio (on NRK P1), as well their own news sites on the internet. They also contribute news coverage to national news programmes. NRK's headquarters are at Marienlyst in Oslo and Tyholt in Trondheim.

FM radio switch-off

NRK Alltid Nyheter
. Switch off started on 11 January 2017, and ended on 13 December 2017.

From 2018, all FM transmitters are replaced with broadcast via

DAB +, internet and cable.[20]

International carriage

Most original productions are available globally free of charge on NRK's VoD service NRK TV, including those listed in the "NRK productions" section above.

NRK1, NRK2, and NRK3 are known to be carried by some Swedish,[21] Danish[22] and Icelandic[23] pay-TV providers, while NRK1 and NRK2 are carried by some Finnish,[24] Ålandic[25] and Faroese providers.[26]

Yle Mondo, which broadcasts on FM in the greater Helsinki area, carries half an hour of unspecified NRK radio shows in Norwegian on weekdays at 13:30 as of November 2023.

2019 NRK Facebook controversy

In July 2019, a cartoon produced and posted on NRK’s Facebook page was widely panned for antisemitism. It featured an orthodox Jew participating in a game of Scrabble, where his opponent is hesitant to lay down his point-scoring yet deeply offensive word "Jew swine".[27][28][29][30] The network received over 300 complaint letters.[31] NRK denied accusations of antisemitism, but removed the description "tag a Jew" from the video. The network previously apologized for spoofing the Holocaust in a 2016 cartoon, which has still not been removed.[32][33][34]

See also

References

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  2. ^ "Årsregnskapet 2017 (Annual Report)" (PDF) (in Norwegian). nrk.no. Archived (PDF) from the original on 4 July 2018. Retrieved 8 August 2018.
  3. ^ "About NRK – information in other languages". Nrk.no. 26 March 2014. Archived from the original on 27 May 2014. Retrieved 17 May 2014.
  4. ^ "Ny finansiering av NRK – spørsmål og svar". NRK (in Norwegian Bokmål). 2 September 2019. Archived from the original on 18 April 2021. Retrieved 12 April 2021.
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  9. ^ Kommunikasjon, N. R. K. (24 October 2017). "Arkitektskisser Marienlyst". NRK (in Norwegian Bokmål). Retrieved 14 September 2022.
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  11. ^ Kommunikasjon, N. R. K. (20 December 2019). "Mange vil tilby NRK tomt". NRK (in Norwegian Bokmål). Retrieved 14 September 2022.
  12. ^ Kommunikasjon, N. R. K. (15 May 2020). "Salget av NRKs eiendom godkjent". NRK (in Norwegian Bokmål). Retrieved 14 September 2022.
  13. ^ Lepperød, Trond (18 May 2021). "NRK flytter til Ensjø - betaler 800 millioner for tomta". Nettavisen (in Norwegian). Retrieved 14 September 2022.
  14. ^ Kommunikasjon, N. R. K. (26 June 2020). "Disse tomtene er fortsatt med i vurderingen". NRK (in Norwegian Bokmål). Retrieved 14 September 2022.
  15. ^ Lepperød, Trond (18 May 2021). "NRK flytter til Ensjø - betaler 800 millioner for tomta". Nettavisen (in Norwegian Bokmål). Retrieved 14 September 2022.
  16. ^ "Kringkastingssjefene - Om NRK - Organisasjon" (in Norwegian Bokmål). Nrk.no. 22 April 2009. Archived from the original on 1 March 2014. Retrieved 17 May 2014.
  17. ^ Nina Berglund: New NRK boss gets down to work Archived 2013-05-09 at the Wayback Machine Views and News from Norway, 12 March 2012
  18. ^ "Slik er NRK organisert" (in Norwegian Nynorsk). nrk.no. 23 April 2009. Archived from the original on 17 October 2017. Retrieved 8 August 2018.
  19. ^ "Årsregnskapet 2017 (Annual Report)" (PDF) (in Norwegian Bokmål). nrk.no. Archived (PDF) from the original on 4 July 2018. Retrieved 8 August 2018.
  20. ^ "Norveška ukinja FM-radio". Val 202. Archived from the original on 21 June 2017. Retrieved 9 January 2017.
  21. ^ "Tv-kanaler" (in Swedish). Tele2 Sweden. Retrieved 4 November 2023.
  22. ^ "Priser" (in Danish). Parknet. Retrieved 4 November 2023.
  23. ^ "Hvaða stöðvar eru innifaldar í Síminn Heimur Allt?" (in Icelandic). Síminn. Retrieved 4 November 2023.
  24. ^ "Mix 3" (in Finnish). LPOnet. Retrieved 4 November 2023.
  25. ^ "Nordiska paketet" (in Swedish). Ålcom. Retrieved 4 November 2023.
  26. ^ "Haldini" (in Faroese). tv.fo. Retrieved 4 November 2023.
  27. ^ Hanne Christiansen (17 July 2019). "NRK-video med jødespøk vekker sterke reaksjoner i sosiale medier". Aftenposten (in Norwegian Bokmål). Retrieved 10 April 2020.
  28. ^ JTA (22 July 2019). "UK Jewish leaders condemn Norway broadcaster which aired 'Jewish swine' cartoon". Jewish News. Retrieved 10 April 2020.
  29. ^ "Norway's state broadcaster airs 'Jewish swine' cartoon". The Times of Israel.
  30. ^ "NRK kritiseres for jødevits" (in Norwegian Bokmål). 19 July 2019.
  31. ^ "Klagestorm etter "jødesvin"-sketsj" (in Norwegian Bokmål). 23 July 2019.
  32. ^ "Norwegian TV sorry for spoofing Holocaust". The Times of Israel.
  33. ^ "Hvor desperate blir studentene av boligmarkedet?". YouTube. Archived from the original on 21 December 2021.
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Notes

  1. ^ Minor changes to the logo were made in 1999.

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