Sveriges Radio

Sveriges Radio (SR)

Type	Public broadcasting
Country	Sweden
Availability	National
Launch date	1925 (radio) 1956 (television)
Former names	Radiotjänst (1925-1957)
Website www.sr.se

Sveriges Radio in Stockholm

Sveriges Radio AB (SR) – Sweden's Radio Ltd – is Sweden's national publicly funded radio broadcaster. The Swedish public-broadcasting system is in many respects modelled after the one used in the United Kingdom, and Sveriges Radio - like Sveriges Television - shares many characteristics with its British counterpart, the BBC.

Sveriges Radio is a public limited company, owned by an independent foundation, and funded through a licensing fee determined by the Swedish Parliament. No advertising is permitted. SR's status could be described as that of a quasi-autonomous non-governmental organization.

The company was founded in 1925 as Radiotjänst (Radio service), and was renamed Sveriges Radio in 1957. Sveriges Radio was originally responsible for all broadcasting in Sweden, both radio and television, and hosted the 1975 Eurovision Song Contest. A reorganization in 1979 saw SR become the parent company of four subsidiaries:

• Sveriges Riksradio (RR), Swedish National Radio;
• Sveriges Lokalradio (LRAB), Swedish Local Radio;
• Sveriges Utbildningsradio (UR), Swedish Educational Broadcasting; and
• Sveriges Television (SVT), Swedish Television.

This structure was dissolved in 1993 with the national and local radio companies merging under the name of the old parent company: Sveriges Radio AB.

National radio

Four radio channels are available nationally via FM as well as being relayed over the internet.

• P1, "the spoken channel" for current affairs, science, culture etcetera (similar to BBC Radio 4 and ABC Radio National)
• P2, broadcasting classical music, folk music, jazz and world music as well as programmes in minority languages (similar to BBC Radio 3). Not available in Stockholm.
• P3, broadcasting music and comedy targeting a younger audience (similar to BBC Radio 1 and Triple J)
• P4, made up of 25 local stations broadcasting locally for much of the day. Targets a more local audience and also broadcasts sport.

Local radio

A large part of P4's programming is regional with 25 regions each broadcasting their own local programmes during most of the day.

• SR Blekinge, for Blekinge County
• SR Dalarna
• SR Gotland
• SR Gävleborg
• SR Göteborg
• SR Halland, for Halland County
• SR Jämtland
• SR Jönköping
• SR Kalmar, for Kalmar County
• SR Kristianstad, for the former Kristianstad County, now north and eastern Skåne County
• SR Kronoberg
• SR Malmö, for the former Malmöhus County, now south-western Skåne County
• SR Norrbotten
• SR Sjuhärad, for Sjuhärad, the south-eastern part of Västra Götaland County
• SR Skaraborg, for the former Skaraborg County, now north-eastern Västra Götaland County
• SR Stockholm
• SR Sörmland
• SR Uppland
• SR Värmland
• SR Väst, for western Västergötland, Dalsland and northern Bohuslän, north-western Västra Götaland County
• SR Västerbotten
• SR Västernorrland
• SR Västmanland, for Västmanland
• SR Örebro, for Örebro County
• SR Östergötland, for Östergötland County

Additional radio stations available locally on FM include:

• Din gata 100,6, Malmö-based station playing mostly hiphop and R&B (available in Malmö)
• SR Metropol (formerly SR P5 Radio Stockholm), multicultural youth station for Stockholm (available in Stockholm)
• SR P2 Music, rebroadcasts P2, replacing programmes in minority and foreign languages with additional music output (available on FM in Stockholm and on the web) Schedule
• P6 89,6, broadcasts in minority and foreign languages as well as rebroadcasts BBC World Service and CBC Radio 1 and parts of the SR Världen channel (available in Stockholm) Schedule

Other channels

Sveriges Radio also provides a number of channels through Digital audio broadcasting, using the DAB standard, and via the internet.

• SR International - Radio Sweden (web, satellite, medium wave, short wave)
• SR P7 Sisuradio, in Finnish and Meänkieli (DAB, web and cable)
• SR Atlas, world pop music (Dab and web)
• SR Bubbel, children's radio (web)
• SR c, experimental arts radio (web)
• SR Klassiskt, classical music (DAB and web)
• SR Minnen, programmes from the SR archive (DAB and web)
• SR P3 Rockster, new rock music (web)
• SR P3 Star, hit music for teenagers (DAB and web)
• SR P3 Street, hiphop, RnB and similar (web)
• SR P3 Svea, young Swedish music (web)
• SR Sápmi, for the Sami languages (web)
• SR Världen, world music (web)

SR International

SR International is the international and multicultural channel of Sveriges Radio and offers programming in 20 languages:

• Albanian (Radio Suedia)
• Arabic
• Belarusian (Радыё Швецыя) - scheduled to close down on 1 September 2009 after almost 5 years of broadcasting.
• Bosnian (Radio Švedska)
• Croatian (Radio Švedska)
• English (Radio Sweden)
• Finnish
• German (Radio Schweden)
• Kurdish
• Persian
• Romani
• Russian (Радио Швеция)
• Sámi
• Serbian (Радио Шведска, Radio Švedska)
• Somali
• Spanish (Radio Suecia Internacional)
• Syriac
• Yiddish

See also

• List of Swedish radio stations
• Modern Times Group (commercial broadcaster)
• Radiotjänst i Kiruna (licence fee agency)
• Sveriges Utbildningsradio
• Swedish Broadcasting Commission
• Swedish Radio and TV Authority
• Teracom (transmitters)

External links

• Radio Sweden - Official site (in English)
• Sveriges Radio - Official site (in Swedish)
• SR International - Official site (multilingual)
• archive of daily podcasts (mp3) (English)