Áramótaskaupið

Áramótaskaup (Eng. "New Year comedy" ) is a television program of the Icelandic TV station RÚV emitted annually at New Year. It was originally broadcast from 1948 to 1965 on the radio and since the founding of public television in 1966 on television. The consignment consists of a number of comedy sketches and songs that parody Islands, the political and cultural developments of the past year.

Some of Iceland's best known comedians and actors are regularly part of the program, including about Jón Gnarr, Ágústa Eva Erlendsdóttir and Steindinn okkar. Known directors Islands led directed the Áramótaskaupið, such as Hrafn Gunnlaugsson, Ágúst Guðmundsson and Þorhildur Þorleifsdóttir. Since 2009, Björn Gunnar Guðmundsson director of the shipment. The cartoonist Hugleikur Dagsson wrote the script for the 2006 show.

The show received the highest ratings in the Icelandic television. In 2002, the show reached a record 95.5 % of all insertions; Páll Magnússon, Director General of RÚV stated that this was probably a world record in the Western world. Advertising placements around the mission are the most expensive of the year; a 30-second advertising cost in 2003 about 350,000 crowns. Since then, the audience for the show is steadily decreasing. 2013 received the transmission, a ratio of 77 %.

During his one-hour broadcast time " the streets completely silent " were, the Reykjavík Grapevine. The program will traditionally seen especially in the family.