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1999 In Swedish Television
This is a list of Swedish television related events from 1999. Events *29 May - Sweden wins the 44th Eurovision Song Contest in Jerusalem. The winning song is " Take Me to Your Heaven", performed by Charlotte Nilsson. *Unknown - Agneta Sjödin takes over from Lasse Holm as host of '' Sikta mot stjärnorna''. *Unknown - Tom Nordahl performing as Jon Bon Jovi wins the fifth season of ''Sikta mot stjärnorna''. Debuts Television shows *1–24 December - Julens hjältar 1990s *'' Sikta mot stjärnorna'' (1994-2002) Ending this year Networks and services Launches Conversions and rebrandings Closures Births Deaths See also *1999 in Sweden Events from the year 1999 in Sweden Incumbents * List of Swedish monarchs, Monarch – Carl XVI Gustaf * Prime Minister of Sweden, Prime Minister – Göran Persson Events May * 28 May – The Malexander murders. * 29 May – Charlotte Perrel ... References {{Sweden-tv-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swedish Television
Sveriges Television AB ("Sweden's Television aktiebolag, Stock Company"), shortened to SVT (), is the Sweden, Swedish national public broadcasting, public television broadcaster, funded by a public service tax on personal income set by the Riksdag (national parliament). Prior to 2019, SVT was funded by a Television licensing in Sweden, television licence fee payable by all owners of television sets. The Swedish public broadcasting system is largely modelled after the system used in the United Kingdom, and Sveriges Television shares many traits with its British counterpart, the BBC. SVT is a public limited company that can be described as a "quasi-autonomous non-governmental organisation." Together with the other two public broadcasters, Sveriges Radio and Sveriges Utbildningsradio, it is owned by an independent foundation, ''Foundation Management for SR, SVT, and UR, Förvaltningsstiftelsen för Sveriges Radio AB, Sveriges Television AB och Sveriges Utbildningsradio AB''. The fou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eurovision Song Contest 1999
The Eurovision Song Contest 1999 was the 44th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest, held on 29 May 1999 at the International Convention Centre in Jerusalem, Israel. Organised by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and host broadcaster Israel Broadcasting Authority (IBA), the contest was held in the country following its victory at the with the song " Diva" by Dana International, and was presented by Dafna Dekel, Yigal Ravid, and Sigal Shachmon. Twenty-three countries participated in the contest. , , , , , and , having participated in the 1998 contest, were absent due to being relegated after achieving the lowest average points totals over the past five contests, while actively chose not to return. Meanwhile , , , and returned to the contest, having last participated in , while made its first contest appearance since . The winner was with the song " Take Me to Your Heaven", composed by Lars Diedricson, written by Gert Lengstrand and Marcos Ubeda and performed by Ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jerusalem
Jerusalem is a city in the Southern Levant, on a plateau in the Judaean Mountains between the Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean and the Dead Sea. It is one of the List of oldest continuously inhabited cities, oldest cities in the world, and is considered Holy city, holy to the three major Abrahamic religions—Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Both Israel and Palestine claim Jerusalem as their capital city; Israel maintains its primary governmental institutions there, while Palestine ultimately foresees it as its seat of power. Neither claim is widely Status of Jerusalem, recognized internationally. Throughout History of Jerusalem, its long history, Jerusalem has been destroyed at least twice, Siege of Jerusalem (other), besieged 23 times, captured and recaptured 44 times, and attacked 52 times. According to Eric H. Cline's tally in Jerusalem Besieged. The part of Jerusalem called the City of David (historic), City of David shows first signs of settlement in the 4th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Take Me To Your Heaven (song)
"Take Me to Your Heaven" is a song recorded by Swedish singer Charlotte Nilsson, with music composed by Lars Diedricson and English lyrics by Marcos Ubeda. It in the Eurovision Song Contest 1999 held in Jerusalem, winning the contest, having previously won 's Melodifestivalen as "Tusen och en natt" (; "A thousand and one night") with Swedish lyrics by Gert Lengstrand. On 24 April 1999, the Swedish-language version entered radio chart Svensktoppen as number-one and spent eight consecutive weeks on the top spot, remaining on the chart until 4 September 1999. The English-language version was internationally released as a single on 21 June 1999, produced by Mikael Wendt. At the singles charts, it peaked at number 2 in Sweden, number 5 in Flemish Belgium, number 10 in Norway, number 20 in the United Kingdom, and number 23 in the Netherlands. Background Conception "Tusen och en natt" was composed by Lars Diedricson with Swedish lyrics by Gert Lengstrand, and recorded by Cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charlotte Perrelli
Anna Jenny Charlotte Perrelli (; ; born 7 October 1974), known until 2003 by her maiden name, is a Swedish singer and television host. Under her maiden name, she won the 1999 Melodifestivalen and subsequently that year's Eurovision Song Contest with the song " Take Me to Your Heaven". Since 1999 Perrelli has released seven albums and multiple singles. She once again won Melodifestivalen in 2008 and represented Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest 2008 with her song "Hero". She is one of Sweden's most popular female singers, often performing at Sweden's top shows. Throughout her career, she has worked with different types of music, ranging from dansband and schlager, via modern pop, to soulful ballads and jazz melodies. Biography 1987–1998 Born in Hovmantorp, in the southern Swedish province of Småland, at the age of thirteen Nilsson joined a local dansband, Bengt Ingvars, which became "Bengt Ingvars med Charlotte". After finishing her compulsory school education, she ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agneta Sjödin
Agneta Sjödin (born 20 July 1967) is a Swedish television presenter and personality of the Swedish television channel TV4. She presented the first two seasons of the popular show '' Let's Dance'' with David Hellenius. Early life She was born in a small town, 300 km north of Stockholm. As a child she was fond of handball, badminton and track-and-field athletics but most of all she was in love with theatre. She frequented a theatre group ''”Slingerbultarna”'' with her friends and often performed in different local stage shows. Her passion to theatre resulted in moving to the capital of Sweden, but she returns to her native place at times, because she feels strong connection with her roots there. In 1985, she studied theatre in Stockholm and worked in a cafe. In 1989-1991 she moved to Göteborg where she worked in lighting technology at Stadsteatern. In 1991 she debuted together with Adam Alsing as a co-presenter on TV in the first show of ”Tur i Kärlek”(Happy in lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lasse Holm
Lars-Eric Gustav "Lasse" Holm (born 9 December 1943) is a Swedish singer, songwriter and television host. Holm has also hosted and appeared in several television shows. As singer Since childhood, he was interested in music and was a member of a lot of pop music and rock music groups in the 1960s: ''Doug and the Millsmen'', ''The Spacemen'' and ''The Moonlighters''. Holm and singer Monica Törnell represented Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest 1986 with the song "E' de' det här du kallar kärlek". As songwriter Holm is best known as a schlager composer. During the 1980s, he was a songwriter for Chips and country band Mats Rådberg & Rankarna. Holm often collaborated with Ingela 'Pling' Forsman Holm has, by himself or in collaboration with others, written five winning songs in the Swedish Melodifestivalen: " Dag efter dag" by (Chips, 1982), " Främling" (Carola Häggkvist, 1983), " Bra vibrationer" by (Kikki Danielsson, 1985), "E' de' det här du kallar kärlek" (a due ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sikta Mot Stjärnorna
''Sikta mot stjärnorna'' (in English: ''Aiming for the stars'') is a Swedish singing talent show that was broadcast on TV4 between 1994 until 2002. The show featured people acting and imitating their favorite singers/bands performances. From the 1996 season and forward the show worked as the Swedish pre-selection for the European final called European Soundmix Show. Several of Sweden's most known singers performed on the show before launching their singing careers. References Singing talent shows Swedish music television series TV4 (Sweden) original programming 1994 Swedish television series debuts 2002 Swedish television series endings 1990s Swedish television series {{Sweden-tv-prog-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jon Bon Jovi
John Francis Bongiovi Jr. (born March 2, 1962), known professionally as Jon Bon Jovi, is an American singer, songwriter, guitarist, and actor. He is best known as the founder and Lead vocalist, frontman of the rock band Bon Jovi, which was formed in 1983. He has released 16 studio albums with his band as well as two solo albums. In the 1990s, Bon Jovi started an acting career, starring in the films ''Moonlight and Valentino, The Leading Man, Little City, Homegrown (film), Homegrown'', Pay It Forward (film), ''Pay It Forward'''','' ''U-571 (film), U-571 and Cry Wolf (2005 film), Cry Wolf'' and appearing on television in shows such as ''Sex and the City'', ''30 Rock (season 4), 30 Rock'', ''Ally McBeal'', and ''The West Wing''. Bon Jovi was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2009. In 2012, he ranked number 50 on the list of ''Billboard (magazine), Billboard'' magazine's "Power 100", a ranking of "The Most Powerful and Influential People in the Music Business". Bon J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julens Hjältar
''Julens hjältar'' (''"The Heroes of Christmas"'') was the Sveriges Television's Christmas calendar ''Swedish Television's Christmas calendar'' () previously ''Swedish Television's Advent calendar'' () is a Christmas calendar TV series mainly for children, broadcast by Sveriges Television (Sweden's national public television broadcaster) sin ... in 1999. Plot By mistake, a box with Christmas tree decorations have ended up at the wrong place during the Christmas preparations. Video The series was released to VHS and DVD on 19 November 2001. References External links * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Julens hjaltar 1999 Swedish television series debuts 1999 Swedish television series endings Sveriges Television's Christmas calendar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
V Sport (Sweden)
V Sport is a group of Sweden, Swedish sports channels owned by Viaplay Group, broadcasting from the United Kingdom and constituting a part of the pan-Nordic V Sport offering. The Swedish V Sport channels except V Sport Motor and V Sport Extra are also distributed in Finland. History The channel was launched in 1999 as a pan-Scandinavian channel. It was launched to make use of the many sports rights in the MTG portfolio that weren't shown on TV3 and therefore were unused. In January 2002, Viasat Sport Denmark (later replaced by TV 2 Sport (Denmark), TV 2 Sport) was launched and the original version would now target Sweden and Norway. This continued until SportN for Norway launched in 2005. When Viasat launched two new sports channels in 2004, Viasat Sport 2 and Viasat Sport 3, the first channel got the name "Viasat Sport 1". In March 2008, Viasat received a licence to broadcast Viasat Sport 1 in the terrestrial network. As of August 2009, the terrestrial broadcasts were yet t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
