Sveriges Television

Sveriges Television AB (SVT, Sweden's German television) is the public television company of Sweden based in Stockholm, as well as production studios in several other Swedish cities.

Sveriges Television is a public company; the majority of the shares belong to a foundation, whose board is appointed by the Swedish Government. The financed exclusively by a license fee, the amount is determined by the Swedish Parliament ( Riksdagen ). Advertising will not be broadcast. The broadcasting fee is currently (March 2009) 166 crowns a month (about 17 euros ).

Originally, the Swedish television programs by Sveriges Radio ( SR ), the public radio in Sweden were produced in 1979, the television company SVT was spun off as an independent company. For the above foundation adjacent to the television SVT also the radio SR as well as the formation broadcasting UR include ( Utbildningsradion ). UR does not operate its own programs; the programs produced by UR be broadcast in the television programs of SVT or the radio programs of SR.

The broadcasting via terrestrial Sendeanlangen, satellite, cable, IP-TV and TV on mobile devices. In this case, no further costs for the reception may, according to Swedish legislation in addition to the statutory license fees and utility bills arise: the provider of pay-TV packages via satellite ( Canal Digital and Viasat ) must allow the free reception via satellite in Sweden without a pay- TV subscription; as well as the Swedish cable providers are obliged to provide the connected households at least the SVT programs available, although about the monthly cable fee has not been paid. About digital terrestrial TV programs from SVT are sent unencrypted. In these regulations the largest Swedish commercial broadcaster TV4 is included.

SVT is a member of the European Broadcasting Union and the North Vision, a merger of state broadcasters in the Nordic countries.

  • 2.1 Full Programs
  • 2.2 Additional programs
  • 2.3 Special Programs

Program

SVT sends a broad public law program. An important event is about Melodifestivalen, the annual discharged several rounds preliminary decision for the Euro Vision Song Contest, in which not only the selection of the Swedish contribution is the focus, but also an important impetus for the Swedish music industry are given and many new artists for the first time the possibility an appearance is offered on television.

Foreign language programs are not synchronized on Swedish television, but, as is common in the Scandinavian countries, sent in the original with subtitles. In contrast to the television in the German language sends SVT, apart from the news channel SVT24, not around the clock. In the no-transmit times a test image is shown still happening today.

Regional programs

In addition to the main program sends SVT in eleven regional programs local and regional news ( regionala nyhetsprogram ) from the areas.

Transmitter

Full programs

  • SVT 1
  • SVT 1 HD
  • SVT 2
  • SVT 2 HD

SVT1 and SVT2, the two traditional major programs of Sveriges Television represents the first test broadcasts started in 1954, since 1956 a regular television program is broadcast. The second program took its operation in 1969, with the existing program the name of TV1 and the new program was named TV2.

In the period from 1987 to 1996, the first program channel 1 and the second program was called TV2. In these years, only items that were shown in the first program, which were produced in the Stockholm headquarters, while on TV2 those programs were broadcast nationwide, who came from the various regional studios. For example, the children's program in Växjö has been compiled or challenging feature films always sent from Malmö. Channel 1 was also called Stockholm channels ( the Stockholm channel) and TV2 sverigekanalen ( the Swedish channel) - the capital of residents as a derogatory Bonde channels ( the farmer channel). In the 1980s, the technical requirements for the broadcast regional news programs on TV2 were created, similar to the same time in Austria on ORF FS2.

Since 1996, the two programs bear their present name SVT1 and SVT2, whereby the strict separation after production locations ( Stockholm / regional studios ) was abandoned. While in the second half of the 1990s, production of television programs was highly decentralized for both programs, most broadcasts are being produced in Stockholm in recent years.

In late summer 2008, some changes were made in the program design: SVT1 is to become a classic public full program with lots of information and sophisticated programs strengthened again. The regional news, which were previously only broadcast on SVT2 were partially relocated to SVT1 where they were 7:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. in conjunction with other information programs of the so-called " News Hour " ( nyhetstimmen ). The children's program that was previously scattered on SVT1 and SVT2, is now being aired exclusively on SVTB. SVT2 turns now to a niche audience and brings such as alternative cultural programs, religious programs or programs for immigrants.

Additional programs

  • SVT24 ( news channel )
  • SVTB ( children's program 06:00-20:00 clock ) Kunskapskanalen ( Science Programme 20:00-24:00 clock )

The programs SVT24 and SVTB / Kunskapskanalen were first introduced with the introduction of digital transmission technology DVB -T. In SVTB daytime running children's program in the evening under the name Kunskapskanalen a science program. SVT24 takes you around the clock news and information programs.

Special Programs

  • SVT World (international program )
  • SVT HD ( Selected items of the main programs in high resolution)

SVT World (until 2009: SVT Europe) consists of selected items of domestic programs and will be encrypted through several satellite world, but is unencrypted broadcast in the Swedish-speaking regions of Finland and fed into the local cable networks. The program is aimed primarily at Swedes who are staying abroad. For legal reasons, SVT World does not show any purchased items such as movies, sports events or reports of English language programs. A smart card to decrypt is sent surcharge to Germany. SVT World is encrypted available in wilhelm.tel cable networks.

With the introduction of digital terrestrial television from 1999 also some independent regional programs were introduced, but were discontinued after a trial period. Similarly, there was until 2008 with SVT Extra yet another digital additional program specifically for the live transmission of large or unexpected events (such as major sporting events to wars and political crises ) was created and was on only when needed. Since 2008, these tasks are taken over by the news channel SVT24 and SVT Extra set completely.

Under the name of SVT Play ( or Play Prima for high-definition video material) is an extensive range operated on the Internet where virtually all productions may be viewed free of charge worldwide.

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