P1 is a national radio channel produced by the Swedish public broadcaster

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(SR). It was launched in 1925 as the first national radio station in Sweden, and adopted its current format in 1966.

History

Until 12 January 2015, SR P1 closed down between 2.30 am and 5.30 am every day, with the "Vågskvalpet" ( sv) looping tune and an

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talking newspaper broadcast for the vision impaired filling the off-air hours. SR P1 began 24-hour transmission on 13 January 2015.

Programming

P1, which subtitles itself "The spoken channel" (''Den talade kanalen''), is the principal radio channel in Sweden for news, community programmes, culture, radio drama, debate, science, philosophy, the expression of opinion and international issues. Many of the programmes on P1 are repeated at least once – at a different time of day – during each broadcast week:P1 schedule (in Swedish)
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in Australia,

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in Japan,

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in Canada).

Broadcasting

SR P1 can be heard in Sweden on FM and

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, also worldwide via the internet. Part of the P1 schedule is also relayed by the

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satellite channel. The name P1 was originally an abbreviation of ''Program 1''. This is however no longer the case and the channel is now formally called just P1 (''pe ett'' in Swedish).

References

External links

Official website
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