Swedish Educational Broadcasting Company ( sv, Sveriges Utbildningsradio or ''Utbildningsradion'', UR) is a public-service corporation dedicated to serving the needs of the Swedish general public by 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 and the Faroe Island ...

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

Sveriges Television Sveriges Television AB ("Sweden's Television Stock Company"), shortened to SVT (), is the Swedish national public television broadcaster, funded by a public service tax on personal income set by the Riksdag (national parliament). Prior to 2019 ...

(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 Sveriges Radio's channels P1, P2, P3 and P4 as well as

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SVT2 SVT2 (SVT Två; commonly referred to as Tvåan), is one of the two main television channels broadcast by Sveriges Television in Sweden. Launched in 1969 by Sveriges Radio, the channel was until the 1990s the most watched in Sweden for many yea ...

and SVT Barn. On 27 September 2004,

Kunskapskanalen Kunskapskanalen (in English: ''The Knowledge Channel'') is a Swedish language television channel broadcasting educational and factual programming between 9 a.m. and 01 a.m. all days of the week. The channel is operated by Sveriges Television (SVT) ...

(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–)

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External links

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Official site: About UR
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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