Sveriges Radio AB (, "Sweden's Radio") is

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's national publicly funded

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broadcaster. Sveriges Radio is a

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, owned by an independent foundation, previously funded through a licensing fee, the level of which is decided by the Swedish Riksdag. As of 1 January 2019, the funds stem from standard taxation. No advertising is permitted. Its legal status could be described as that of a quasi-autonomous non-governmental organization.

History

The company – which was founded as AB Radiotjänst ("Radio Service Ltd") by a consortium of newspaper companies, the TT news agency, and radio manufacturing interests on 21 March 1924 – made its first broadcast on 1 January 1925: a relay of High Mass from St James's Church in

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. It was officially 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 it become the parent company of four subsidiaries: * (RR), ''Swedish National Radio''; * (LRAB), ''Swedish Local Radio''; * Sveriges Utbildningsradio (UR), ''Swedish Educational Broadcasting''; and *

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(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.

Stations

National radio

Four radio channels are available nationwide on FM,

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and via the internet. * P1: news, culture, debate, readings, documentaries, etc. Almost no music is played, except in the daily summertime programme '' Sommar'', in which guest presenters introduce their own choice of music. * P2: classical music, folk, jazz and world music; the channel also carries some minority-language programming. * P3: popular music and comedy targeted at a younger audience. * P4: popular music, entertainment and sport, chiefly targeted at an older audience; the network is made up of 26 local stations, each of which carries a mix of local and national programming.

Local radio

A large part of P4's programming is regional with 26 regions each broadcasting their own local programmes during most of the day. * P4 Blekinge, for

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* P4 Dalarna * P4 Gotland * P4 Gävleborg * P4 Göteborg * P4 Halland, for Halland County * P4 Jämtland * P4 Jönköping * P4 Kalmar, for

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* P4 Kristianstad, for the former Kristianstad County, now north and eastern

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* P4 Kronoberg * P4 Malmöhus, for the former Malmöhus County, now south-western

* P4 Norrbotten * P4 Sjuhärad, for Sjuhärad, the south-eastern part of

Västra Götaland County Västra Götaland County ( sv, Västra Götalands län) is a county or '' län'' on the western coast of Sweden. The county is the second most populous of Sweden's counties and it comprises 49 municipalities (''kommuner''). Its population of 1 ...

* P4 Skaraborg, for the former Skaraborg County, now north-eastern

* P4 Stockholm * P4 Södertälje * P4 Sörmland * P4 Uppland * P4 Värmland * P4 Väst, for western

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, Dalsland and northern

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, north-western

* P4 Västerbotten * P4 Västernorrland * P4 Västmanland, for

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* P4 Örebro, for

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* P4 Östergötland, for

Östergötland County Östergötland County ( sv, Östergötlands län) is a county or ''län'' in southeastern Sweden. It has land borders with the counties of Kalmar to the southeast, Jönköping to the southwest, Örebro to the northwest, and Södermanland to t ...

Additional radio stations available locally on FM include: *

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(in Malmö): playing mostly hiphop and R&B * SR P2 Musik (in Stockholm): relays most of the output of P2, but replaces programming in minority and foreign languages (available in Stockholm from P6, see below) with additional music output �
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* SR P6 89,6 (in Stockholm): broadcasts in minority and foreign languages and relays the

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Digital channels

Sveriges Radio also provides a number of digital channels through DAB and via the internet. * P4 Plus, plays a broad mix of classic and current popular music (web) * Sveriges Radio Finska, in Finnish and

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(DAB, web and cable) * Radioapans knattekanal, children's radio (DAB and web) * SR Sápmi, for

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(web) * Ekot, news (web)

SR International

SR International is the international channel of Sveriges Radio and offers programming in the following languages: *

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SR International is not responsible for programming in the domestic minority languages, Finnish and Sámi, which have their own dedicated digital channels. On 16 March 2010, Radio Sweden announced the end of broadcasts on shortwave and medium wave as from 31 October 2010. External service programmes would continue on the internet only. Language services for immigrants to Sweden in Albanian, Syriac, Serbian, Bosnian, and Croat would also be discontinued, while programmes in English (also on the domestic service), German, Persian, Dari, and Kurdish would remain.

Criticism

The public's trust in the company, along with its Public Service counterparts in Sweden, may have decreased slightly during the 2000s. The decrease is most significant among right wing citizens. In 2022, it was revealed that SR had registered the word ”Sommar”, meaning Summer in Swedish, as a trademark, along with other names related to their show,

Sommar i P1 ''Sommar i P1'' (''Summer on P1'') is one of the most popular shows on Swedish radio. It has been broadcast every summer since 29June 1959, originally as ''Sommar'' on P3 and since 1993 on P1. About Each 90-minute-long programme in the serie ...

, much to the dismay of some podcast operators.