Sveriges Radio
Sveriges Radio (SR) -
Radio of Sweden 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 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. SR was formerly also responsible for public-service
television in Sweden; however, since
1993 that function has been allocated to a separate organization,
Sveriges Television (SVT).
*
P1*
P2*
P3*
P4All of the above channels are broadcast nationally via
FM as well as being relayed over the internet. A large part of P4's programming, however, is regional with 25 regions each broadcasting their own local programmes during most of the day.
In some cases there are other local variants of the national channels, most notably the optional output of P2 in
Stockholm and
Malmö broadcasting classical music when there is minority language programming or
Utbildningsradion on "P2 Riks".
Additional regional stations:
*
P5 - Radio Stockholm*
P6 - Stockholm International*
P7 - Sisuradio (the Finnish channel)
Sveriges Radio also provides a number of channels through
Digital audio broadcasting, using the
DAB standard. These channels are also available via the internet, given the relatively limited number of DAB receivers in use at present.
DAB channels currently provided by SR are:
*
P3 Star*
P7 Sisuradio*
SR c*
SR Klassiskt*
SR Minnen*
SR Sverige*
SR XAs well as webcasting all of the above-mentioned FM and DAB channels, SR also provides a further three music channels available exclusively via the internet:
*
P3 Rockster*
P3 Street*
P3 SveaSR International is the international and multicultural channel of Sveriges Radio and offers programming in 19 languages:
*
Albanian (
Radio Suedia)
*
Arabic*
Belarusian (
Радыё Швецыя) - the newest addition, first broadcast on
7 November 2004*
English (
Radio Sweden)
*
Estonian (
Rootsi Raadio)
*
Finnish*
German (
Radio Schweden)
*
Kurdish*
Latvian (
Zviedrijas Radio)
*
Persian*
Polish*
Romanian*
Russian*
Serbo-Croatian*
Somali*
Spanish (
Radio Suecia Internacional)
*
Syriac*
Turkish*
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)
*
Radio Sweden - Official site (in English)
*
Sveriges Radio - Official site (in Swedish)
*
SR International - Official site (multilingual)
