SR International – Radio Sweden
 | |
| Type | Radio network |
|---|---|
| Country | Sweden |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | Sveriges Radio |
Key people | Ingemar Löfgren (Head of SR International) Gundula Adolfsson (Program Director) Nidia Hagström (News Director) Gaby Katz (Head of English Service) |
| History | |
| Launch date | 1938 |
Former names | Radio Sweden International |
| Coverage | |
| Availability | International |
| Links | |
| Website | http://radiosweden.org/ |
Radio Sweden (Swedish: Sveriges Radio International) is Sweden's official international broadcasting station. It is a non-commercial and politically independent public service broadcasting company.
History
SR International is part of
After the war, further language services were added: in French, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. At the close of the Cold War, the services in French, Portuguese, and Spanish were gradually phased out and replaced by new services in Estonian and Latvian. The latter services were withdrawn once Estonia and Latvia had developed their own independent media and joined the European Union.
Radio Sweden also operated a service in Belarusian between 2004 and 2009.
In the 1990s Radio Sweden was merged with SR's Immigrant Languages Department to form the SR International channel. For a while, immigrant language services, such as those in
Programming in other languages
The Radio Sweden English Service seeks to provide a window on the diverse perspectives and issues in Sweden today.[citation needed]
Its programs and website offer a ”smörgåsbord” of news and current affairs, science and technology, lifestyle, and culture.
In the beginning of 2016, the international service underwent a major reorganization. English language news about Sweden for overseas listeners were moved to a 30 minutes-a-week show on P2 and to social media. Minority languages service was further focused on those minorities living in Sweden and integrated with Swedish language services.
Service in languages of the oppressed nations, such as Somali, were moved to an independent organization. News for overseas listeners in foreign languages other than English, such as Russian and German, has been canceled.[1] There have been several foreign-languages services in the history of Radio Sweden. The German Program was discontinued after 76 years of service.[2]
Former programs
Sweden Calling DXers
One of the most popular programs on Radio Sweden was
The program was carried on Tuesdays in all of Radio Sweden's services except Swedish.
When Arne Skoog retired in connection with the program's 30th anniversary in 1978, the program was taken over by
In 2001 the program was discontinued, but remains in a somewhat sporadic form on the Radio Sweden website.
The Saturday Show
Another popular Radio Sweden program was
End of radio broadcasting
On October 20, 2010, Radio Sweden ceased broadcasts on shortwave and medium wave, as Swedish Radio's management decided that the Internet had matured enough to support international broadcasts. At the same time the English Service was extended to national broadcasts on FM, but programming on weekends was discontinued. Services in English also continue on satellite, both using Sveriges Television's satellite and the
See also
- Sveriges Radio, the Swedish publicly funded radio broadcaster
References
- ^ "Relaunch for Radio Sweden". Sveriges Radio. 7 September 2015.
- ^ https://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=2108&artikel=6379933 German Service of SR
External links
- SR International - Radio Sweden website (in Arabic, English, German, Kurdish, and Persian) (Romani) (in Russian and Somali)