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Sveriges Television AB ("Sweden's Television Stock Company"), shortened to SVT (Swedish: [ˈsvæ̌rjɛs tɛlɛvɪˈɧuːn ɛsveːˈteː] ⓘ), is the Swedish national public television broadcaster, funded by a public service tax on personal income set by the Riksdag (national parliament). [2]
The advent of cable, satellite and commercial television in Sweden from the 1980s was considered to be a turbulent period within the Swedish mass media sector, which was until then entirely dominated by the monopoly public radio and television channels as well as the domestic press.
Sveriges Radio was reorganised and split into several new companies in 1979, one of which, Sveriges Television, now held total responsibility for television broadcasting. Cable television started becoming common in the 1980s. At this time, the cable companies also started relaying international satellite channels.
The Commission's primary function is to ensure that radio and television channels broadcasting in and from Sweden under licences issued by the government or the Swedish Radio and TV Authority observe the rules laid down in the Swedish Radio and Television Act. It has the power to impose fines on broadcasters it judges to have broken those rules.
These are privately owned television channels that are solely, or almost solely, directed at Sweden. Many such channels don't broadcast from Sweden, but nevertheless target a Swedish audience. TV4 is the only commercial channel ever to have broadcast nationally in the Swedish analogue terrestrial network, but the arrival of digital terrestrial ...
Sveriges Television is funded by a fee—fixed by Parliament and collected by the Kiruna-based Receiving Licence Agency, Radiotjänst i Kiruna AB—and is regulated, together with TV4, by the Swedish Broadcasting Commission. Sweden was an early adopter of digital terrestrial television, officially launching it in April 1999. The analogue ...
SVT World was an international television channel from the Swedish broadcaster Sveriges Television. The channel was available on satellite in Europe and much of Africa, Australia and Asia, terrestrially in parts of Finland and worldwide via IPTV. The broadcasts were mostly made up of the Swedish language programmes from SVT1 and SVT2.
The arrival of a second television network, TV2, led to the first channel relaunching as TV1 in 1969, remaining under the Sveriges Radio banner. In connection with the new system, the channel appointed Håkan Unsgaard as its director, and Aktuellt was replaced by TV-nytt , broadcasting on both channels (Aktuellt returned to TV1 in 1972).