Swedish Educational Broadcasting Company ( or simply ; UR) is a public-service corporation providing educational programming on

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. The company is a member of the

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and

Nordvision Nordvision is a cooperative venture, established in 1959, between five Nordic public service broadcasters: Denmark's DR, Norway's NRK, Iceland's RÚV, Sweden's SVT and Finland's YLE. Sweden's SR and UR, Greenland's KNR, Åland's ÅRTV and ...

History

The company originates from experiments with (school radio) by the (National Board of Education) in 1928, a business that became permanent in 1929. In 1931, Radiotjänst became the principal for its broadcasts. In 1961, test broadcasts of school television began, an activity that in 1964 merged with school radio. To this was later added SR's adult education and the activity was financed with tax funds. In 1967, Kommittén för Television och Radio i Utbildningen (TRU), the committee for television and radio, was started in the education of the state as an experimental activity of sending wireless teaching materials to universities and preschools. The location was in

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and the business continued until 1978 when it was taken over by the newly started Sveriges Utbildningsradio AB. In 1978, an extensive reorganization was carried out in which

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(SR) was split into four subsidiaries owned by SR: (RR), ''Swedish National Radio''; (LRAB), ''Swedish Local Radio''; Sveriges Utbildningsradio (UR), ''Swedish Educational Broadcasting''; and

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(SVT), ''Swedish Television''. In 1985, the tax financing ceased and UR's program was financed by the television fee. In 1994, another reorganization was made and UR became an independent company. Between 1999 and 2006, a series of books on the history of educational programs and UR have been published by . A total of 16 volumes were published in this series of publications. In 2016, UR was rejected by the Discrimination Ombudsman after placing a job advertisement where dark skin color was included in the applicant's qualifications.

Distribution

UR broadcasts their programming on

's channels P1, P2, P3 and P4 as well as

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and

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. On 27 September 2004,

Kunskapskanalen Kunskapskanalen () is a Swedish television channel operated by Sveriges Television (SVT) and Sveriges Utbildningsradio (UR) broadcasting educational and factual programming. The channel broadcasts between 15:00 and 01:00 on all days of the week ...

(The Knowledge Channel) started broadcasting. The channel is run as a collaborative project between UR and SVT. Each company accounts for fifty percent of the content and airtime.

Management

CEOs: * (1977–1986) * (1986–1998) *Rolf Svensson (1998–1999, acting) * (2000–2009) * (2009–2015) * (2015–2017) *Per Bergkrantz (2017–2018, acting) * (2018–2023) * (2023–)

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* Foundation Management for SR, SVT, and UR European Broadcasting Union members Radio in Sweden Television in Sweden Swedish companies established in 1978 Educational broadcasting Education companies of Sweden Television production companies of Sweden Companies based in Stockholm {{Sweden-org-stub

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