Norsk Rikskringkasting (NRK; dt. Norwegian broadcast, literally translates Norwegian realm broadcast) is the national broadcasting corporation in Norway, which finances itself from the national budget and broadcast fees.

The NRK operates two television channels and nine radio channels, three of it country-wide.

History

Broadcast was radiated since 1924 in Norway by the private society Kringkastningselskapet A/S. This society was the predecessor 1933 created NRK. NRK is a state enterprise (since 1996 a national corporation) and held the broadcast monopoly into the 90's. The programs of NRK can be received since 2000 in the Internet.

In the first thirty years only radio was radiated. 1954 was taken up the first TV-Versuchssendungen. The regular transmit mode started 1960. The first color transmissions were radiated 1972, sent constantly in color starting from 1975. Videotex is radiated since 1983.

Regionalstudios were opened to radio (seat in the 70's and 80's-years, among other things: Karasjok), which supplies the seeds in the north of Scandinavia together with the Swedish one and the Finnish broadcast with a program in samischer language.

Related links

• www.nrk.no
• www.samiradio.org
• NRK programs on-line (audio Streaming, left for Windows Media, MP3, OGG)

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