DR (broadcaster)
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| Type | Public-service radio and television broadcaster |
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| Country | Denmark |
| Availability | National |
| Owner | The Kingdom of Denmark |
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Key people
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Maria Rørbye Rønn, Director General Gitte Rabøl, Media Director Martin Præstegaard, D.o. Economy |
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Launch date
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1925 (founded) 1927 (nationwide radio) 1951 (television) |
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Former names
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Radioordningen (1925-1926) Statsradiofonien (1926-1959) Danmarks Radio (1959-1996) |
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Official website
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www.dr.dk |
DR (from the earlier Danmarks Radio, which was the organization's name until 1996), officially rendered into English as the Danish Broadcasting Corporation, is Denmark's national broadcasting corporation. Founded in 1925 as a public-service organization, it is today Denmark's oldest and largest electronic media enterprise. Danmarks Radio was one of the 23 broadcasting organizations that founded the European Broadcasting Union in 1950.
DR is funded by the levying of a broadcast receiving licence fee, payable in Denmark by all owners of radios, television sets, and, in recent years, computers and other devices capable of receiving DR's video content, whether or not they use DR's services.
DR operates four nationwide FM radio stations (P1 and P2 now share one FM network) as well as a total of eight DAB channels (including the 4 on FM). All stations can be listened to on the web and via mobile radio.
DR was founded on 1 April 1925 under the name of Radioordningen, changed to Statsradiofonien in 1926, and Danmarks Radio in 1959. The abbreviated form DR has been used in official documents since 2000.
During the German occupation of Denmark in World War II, radio broadcasts were censored – under particularly harsh conditions from August 1943 – leading many Danes to turn to Danish-language broadcasts from the BBC or the illegal press, as well as Swedish radio in 1944–1945.
Statsradiofonien's second radio station, Program 2 (P2), was added in 1951, followed by P3 in 1963. Experimental television broadcasts started in 1949, with regular programming from 1951 and daily programmes from 1954. Colour television test broadcasts were started in March 1967, with the first large-scale colour broadcasting occurring for the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, France. Danmarks Radio officially ended "test" transmissions of colour television on 1 April 1970, although it wasn't until 1978 that their last black-and-white television program (TV Avisen) switched to colour.
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