Nrk P1

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Regular radio broadcasts started in Norway in 1925 by the privately owned company Kringkastningselskapet, the predecessor to NRK which was founded in 1933. Based on a model similar to the BBC, and located in Oslo, it was a replacement for privately operated radio stations in the larger cities. NRK initially set out to get coverage over the entire country, and had a monopoly on broadcasting in Norway until the monopoly was gradually dissolved from 1975 onwards. NRK television tower in Trondheim During the World War II German occupation Norwegian transmitters were used for broadcasting German war propaganda to Northern Europe (particularly Scotland and the northern half of Ireland where the sea path ensured a good signal) and Scandinavia. NRK was also partly financed by commercials on radio up until the German occupation. NRK was one of 23 founding broadcasting organisations of the European Broadcasting Union in 1950. In 1954 NRK started broadcasting television shows on a trial basis, with regular broadcasts starting in 1960.

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