Edda Media is a Norwegian

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 media group

Mass media

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 that owns a number of Norwegian newspaper

Newspaper

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s, television channel

Television channel

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s, radio channels and website

Website

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s. The company is part of the Mecom Group

Mecom Group

Mecom Group plc is a newspaper publishing company headquartered in London, United Kingdom.It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and was a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index until 22 December 2008, when it became one of three media companies to fall out of the index.-History:The company was...

 and is the remaining domestic part of Orkla Media. In 2006 the newspapers in the Edda Group had 1,250,000 daily readers, a circulation of 257,128 and 800,000 unique web users. The corporation has 1,801 employees and head office in Oslo

Oslo

Oslo is a municipality, as well as the capital and most populous city in Norway. As a municipality , it was established on 1 January 1838. Founded around 1048 by King Harald III of Norway, the city was largely destroyed by fire in 1624. The city was moved under the reign of Denmark–Norway's King...

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Among the newspapers owned are Drammens Tidende

Drammens Tidende

Drammens Tidende is Norway's tenth largest newspaper, with a circulation of 40,954. Owned by Edda Media, the newspaper convers central parts of Buskerud as well as Drammen with seven weekly issues...

, Fjordenes Tidende

Fjordenes Tidende

Fjordenes Tidende is a Norwegian newspaper, published three times a week in Måløy in Sogn og Fjordane county.It started on 5 April 1910 as the Liberal Left Party organ in the region Nordfjord. Måløy, where it was based, had become a mercantile hub...

, Fjuken

Fjuken

Fjuken is a local newspaper published in Skjåk, Norway. It is a local newspaper for Skjåk, Lom and Vågå.It has a circulation of 4,109, of whom 3,895 are subscribers....

, Fredriksstad Blad

Fredriksstad Blad

Fredriksstad Blad is the biggest local newspaper in Fredrikstad, Norway. Having a rivalry with Demokraten, it is published six days a week. The chief editor is Erling Johannes Omvik....

, Gjengangeren

Gjengangeren

Gjengangeren is a local newspaper published in Horten, Norway. It was established in 1851.It has a circulation of 5867, of whom 5732 are subscribers.-References:*...

, Haugesunds Avis

Haugesunds Avis

Haugesunds Avis is a daily newspaper published in Haugesund, Norway, but with branches in Bømlo, Kopervik, Odda, Sauda and Stord.Founded in 1895, it is today owned by the investment group Mecom Group, and is as such part of the media group Edda Media. In 2006, Haugesunds Avis had a circulation of...

, Indre Østfold Avis, Kanalen, Kragerø Blad, Lierposten, Laagendalsposten

Laagendalsposten

Laagendalsposten is a regional newspaper for Kongsberg and the Numedal, in Buskerud, Norway. Their main office is in the city of Kongsberg. The newspaper is printed in 10.500 copies and has about 50,000 readers....

, Nordstrands Blad

Nordstrands Blad

Nordstrands Blad is a daily newspaper of Oslo, Norway that was established in 1925. It was disestablished in the 1930s, and reestablished a few years later. The newspaper has a circulation of 6240 sold copies . Editor-in-chief is Tore Bollingmo....

, Moss Avis

Moss Avis

Moss Avis is a local newspaper in Moss, Norway. Having a rivalry with Moss Dagblad, it is published six days a week. The chief editor is Pål Enghaug....

, Romsdals Budstikke

Romsdals Budstikke

Romsdals Budstikke is a daily newspaper published in Molde, Norway. The newspaper was established in 1843, and prints 18,648 copies daily as of 2002. Politically it is liberal, but independent from any political party. The coverage area includes Molde, Rauma, Vestnes, Midsund, Aukra, Sandøy,...

, Røyken og Hurums Avis, Sande Avis, Sandefjords Blad

Sandefjords Blad

Sandefjords Blad is a newspaper published daily in Sandefjord, Norway, except on Sundays. It is available in Norwegian language only. Sandefjords Blad is a private company, owned by Mecom with a circulation of 14,780 copies and 50 employees ....

, Sarpsborgavisa

Sarpsborgavisa

Sarpsborgavisa was a free newspaper published in Sarpsborg, Norway.It was owned by Mediehuset Østfold, which is owned 99.3% by Edda Media.It was closed from 31 May 2009....

, Sunnmørsposten

Sunnmørsposten

Sunnmørsposten is a newspaper published by Mecom Group in Ålesund, Norway. Published in compact format six days a week, it consists of two sections; one for local news, sports and classified ads, and one for culture, weather, opinions and editorials and obituaries...

, Svelviksposten, Telen

Telen

Telen is a daily local newspaper published in Notodden, Norway. It has a circulation of 5,142 and owned by the Skien-newspaper Varden, a subsidiary of Edda Media....

, Tønsbergs Blad

Tønsbergs Blad

Tønsbergs Blad is a local newspaper published in Tønsberg, Norway. The newspaper was founded by printer Hans Jørgen Magnus Hansen on 3 August 1870, with an initial circulation of 210 copies. By the turn of the century the circulation had grown to 2,600. In 1881 the newspaper was purchased by...

, Ullern Avis Akersposten

Ullern Avis Akersposten

Ullern Avis / Akersposten is a free, weekly local newspaper serving Western Oslo, Norway. It had a circulation of 2,677 . The newspaper is owned by Edda Media and Editor-in-Chief is Ivar Brynildsen, who is also responsible for eight other local newspapers in Oslo. Until 2007 the newspaper was owned...

, Varden

Varden

Varden is a local newspaper published in Skien, Norway. It was first established with a test issue on 17 December 1874, with Johan Christian Tandberg Castberg as its first editor-in-chief. It has a circulation of 27,341, of whom 25,859 are subscribers...

, Vikebladet Vestposten

Vikebladet Vestposten

Vikebladet Vestposten is the major local newspaper of Ulstein and Hareid in the Sunnmøre region of Norway.-Ownership:Vikebladet Vestposten is owned by Sunnmørsposten, which again is owned by Edda Media. The newspaper originally was named Vikebladet...

, Vigga and Åndalsnes Avis. The company also has partial ownership of Budstikka

Budstikka

Budstikka, prior to 2004 known as Asker og Bærum Budstikke, is a daily local newspaper published out of Billingstad in Asker, Norway. It covers the municipalities of Asker and Bærum, and is the only newspaper issued in the area.-History:...

(31.5%), Gudbrandsdølen Dagningen, (24%), Hamar Dagblad

Hamar Dagblad

Hamar Dagblad is a weekly, free, local newspaper published in Hamar, Norway. It is part of Edda Media.The newspaper was first published on 1 December 1971, with three weekly issues. In 2005 it was reorganized from a subscription to free newspaper, and is distributed to 17,000 households in Hamar,...

(66.9%), Ringsaker Blad (66.9%), Østlandets Blad

Østlandets Blad

Østlandets Blad is a regional newspaper published in Ski, Norway.It was established in 1908 under the name Øieren, named after a local lake. It was based in Kråkstad at that time. The name Østlandets Blad was taken in 1919. The political stance was Conservative.After 1945 it gradually increased...

(79.9%) and Østlendingen

Østlendingen

Østlendingen is a daily, regional newspaper published in Elverum, Norway. With a circulation of 19,000, it covers the regions of Østerdalen, Solør, Glåmdalen, Trysil and Engerdal. The newspaper is controlled by Edda Media....

(66.9%). Among the television channels are TV Buskerud and TV Vestfold. The websites are organized under Edda Digital and consist of 27 online newspaper

Online newspaper

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s as dt.no (Drammens Tidende), sb.no (Sandefjords Blad), tb.no (Tønsbergs Blad) and ostlendingen.no (Østlendingen), and commercial services as tinde.no, toppfotballkort.no and opoint.no,

History

Edda Media dates back to 1983 when the Orkla Group

Orkla Group

Orkla Group is a Norwegian industrial conglomerate operating in the Nordic region, Eastern Europe, Asia and the US. The company's main divisions are branded consumer goods, aluminium solutions, materials, associates and financial investments.-Operations:...

 entered the mass media market through the company Orkla Communications, later Orkla Media. The company acquired through the 1980s and 1990s a number of smaller, independent newspapers and local television channels throughout the country, and quickly became on of the big three within the newspaper market in Norway, along with Schibsted

Schibsted

Schibsted is a Norwegian media conglomerate with operations in 20 countries, the most important being Norway and Sweden. The company has its headquarters in Oslo, Norway and is listed on Oslo Stock Exchange....

 and A-Pressen

A-pressen

A-pressen is one of the three largest media companies in Norway and was established on May 27, 1948 with the name Norsk Arbeiderpresse . It got its present name in 1994...

. In 2005 Orkla announced it would leave the media market, and sold its shares in Adresseavisen

Adresseavisen

Adresseavisen is a regional newspaper published daily, except Sundays, in Trondheim, Norway. It is an independent, conservative newspaper with a daily circulation of approximately 85,000. It is also informally known as Adressa. The newspaper covers the areas of Trøndelag and Nordmøre.Adresseavisen...

 and Bergens Tidende

Bergens Tidende

Bergens Tidende is Norway's fourth largest newspaper and largest newspaper outside Oslo, with a circulation of about 87,000 copies . Founded in 1868, it is a Norwegian-language newspaper published daily in Bergen. It reaches approximately 260,000 readers every day , mainly in the counties of...

. The remaining stakes, were sold to Mecom Media, and the company split into three holding companies

Holding company

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: Edda Media, Berlingske Officin and Rzeczpospolita

Rzeczpospolita (newspaper)

Rzeczpospolita is a Polish national daily newspaper, with a circulation around of 160,000. Issued every day except Sunday. Rzeczpospolita was printed in broadsheet format, then switched to compact at October 16, 2007...

. Edda Media retained the Norwegian portfolio of media.