Danish Broadcasting Corporation
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Formerly called
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Radioordningen (1925–1926) Statsradiofonien (1926–1959) Danmarks Radio (1959–1996) |
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| Publicly funded, Public-service broadcaster | |
| Industry | Mass media |
| Founded | 1 April 1925 |
| Headquarters | DR Byen, Copenhagen, Denmark |
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Area served
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Kingdom of Denmark |
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Key people
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Maria Rørbye Rønn (Director-General) Michael Christiansen (Chairman) |
| Website | dr |
DR, officially Danish Broadcasting Corporation in English, is a Danish government-owned radio and television public broadcasting company. Founded in 1925 as a public-service organization, it is Denmark's oldest and largest electronic media enterprise. DR is a founding member of the European Broadcasting Union.
DR is funded by a media licence which is charged to all Danish households with television sets, computers, smartphones and other devices with internet access.
Today, DR operates six television channels, all of which are distributed free-to-air via a nationwide DVB-T network. DR also operates eight radio channels. All are available nationally on DAB radio and online, and the four original stations are also available on FM radio.
DR was founded on April 1, 1925 under the name of Radioordningen, which was changed to Statsradiofonien in 1926, to Danmarks Radio in 1959, and to DR in 1996.
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 FM radio station, Program 2 (P2), was added in 1951, followed by P3 in 1963.
Experimental television broadcasts started in 1949, with regular programming beginning on October 2, 1951 with the launch of Denmark's first television channel. Daily programming began in 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 April 1, 1970, although it wasn't until 1978 that their last black-and-white television program (TV Avisen) switched to colour.
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