Nettavisen was the first 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...

 online newspaper

Online newspaper

An online newspaper, also known as a web newspaper, is a newspaper that exists on the World Wide Web or Internet, either separately or as an online version of a printed periodical....

 that was not established in relation to a pre-existing real-life newspaper. It started up on 1 November 1996. TV 2

TV 2 (Norway)

TV 2 is the largest commercial television station in Norway. Over 30% of the time Norwegians spend watching TV is spent watching TV 2. The station has 65% of the market for TV commercials in Norway....

 bought the web site in 2003, and from then until 2006 it was called "TV 2 Nettavisen".

On October 23, 2008 the board of TV 2 decided to initiate negotiations with TV 2's owners, Egmont 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...

, to buy Nettavisen from TV 2.

Today Nettavisen is the 8th largest website in Norway according to the official TNS Scores system measured in daily visitors, with about as many daily visitors as Aftenposten

Aftenposten

Aftenposten is Norway's largest newspaper. It retook this position in 2010, taking it from the tabloid Verdens Gang which had been the largest newspaper for several decades. It is based in Oslo. The morning edition, which is distributed across all of Norway, had a circulation of 250,179 in 2007...

, Norways largest traditional newspaper.