TV4 Sweden
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TV4 is a Swedish
television network
. It started broadcasting by satellite
in 1990 and, since 1992, on the terrestrial network. In 1994, TV4 became the largest channel and remained so for a number of years. The two channels of Sveriges Television
(SVT) lost more and more viewers for a couple of years. But after making schedule changes in 2001, SVT1
had practically the same numbers of viewers as TV4. Since 2004 the TV4 Group has been a fully active member of the European Broadcasting Union
.
In 1991, two of the channels oldest entertainment programmes premiered: the Swedish version of Jeopardy!
and the Saturday night bingo show Bingolotto
. Bingolotto in particular became highly popular. This year also saw TV4 awarded a license to broadcast terrestrially.
Terrestrial broadcasts started on March 2, 1992. During this year, Nyhetsmorgon
started and marked the introduction of weekday breakfast television
in Sweden
.
During the 1990s TV4 would broadcast several popular Friday night entertainment shows such as Fångarna på fortet (Swedish version of Fort Boyard
), Kär och galen
, Tur i kärlek, På rymmen, Sikta mot stjärnorna (Soundmix Show
), Stadskampen (Intervilles) and Småstjärnorna (Mini Playback Show).
They also broadcast several home-grown sitcoms such as Rena Rama Rolf and En fyra för tre
as well as the popular soap opera Tre kronor
.
In the early 1990s, the TV4 Group decided to move their 7 o'clock evening news to 7.30 in order to compete with the most popular news programme, Rapport
, which, at that time, was broadcast on SVT2
. This failed and the news was subsequently moved to 6.30. In 2004, the evening news was moved to 7 o'clock, and the status quo reinstated.
In 2004, TV4 began transitioning to become a digital-only service, starting by shutting down its analogue satellite signal. On September 19, 2005, TV4 began shutting down analogue terrestrial transmissions, starting at the island of Gotland. The analogue shutoff was completed by October 2007.
Since 2004, TV4 has been broadcasting a Swedish version of the internationally popular Pop Idol format
.
is an important part of TV4. It broadcasts the news program Nyheterna, (The News) at 7pm & 10pm and Nyhetsmorgon
(News Morning) in the mornings. On weekend mornings is children's programming on Swedish before Nyhetsmorgon
starting. After 11 pm until Nyhetsmorgon shown reruns and some Swedish and English television series.
After the Nyhetsmorgon
is end on weekdays the Efter tio starting (After ten) followed by english spooken TV series to the news at 7 pm. In the daytime on weekends is often reruns and sports programs. Then main Swedish and English TV programs to the 10 pm news. Friday nights have included family entertainment at 8pm since the early 1990s. Bingolotto
occupied Saturday evenings from 1991 to 2004. Then, TV4 moved Bingolotto to Sundays and started broadcasting feature films instead. With the start of Deal or No Deal
in 2006, family entertainment returned to Saturday nights. Later has other entertainment show go on Saturday evenings. Sunday evenings appear Swedish-produced television programs until 9 pm when they show a movie on Saturday nights they also show a movie after the entertainment show.
After about 11 pm until Nyhetsmorgon starting the show reruns and some Swedish and English television series. The foreign programs are mainly from UK and USA. All foreign programs are subtitled into Swedish. TV4 also offers investigative journalism
programmes, most notably Kalla Fakta ("Cold Facts").
The TV4 Group brought out many of the local stations and became the sole owner of fifteen stations in 2001. The only independent station, TV4 Fyrstad, went bankrupt in 2003 and was replaced by TV4 Väst, owned and operated by the TV4 Group. The TV4 Group later merged the stations into five regional companies and in 2004, a single company: TV4 Sverige AB.
As of 2008, these are the local TV4 stations:
After the closedown of the analogue transmitters and the termination of TV4's public service obligations, the pattern of the local stations is due to a major overhaul which will see the number of local stations increase.
service offered by the TV4 Group (Sweden), more specifically to the streaming services offered on the TV4 Play website, www.tv4play.se
Nonetheless, the TV4 Group felt the urge to include advertising breaks. Therefore, it made several Inför programmes. The Inför programmes were short versions of TV4 programmes that were scheduled in the middle of programmes. For example, Fångarna på fortet would be divided into two parts and in between these, Inför Bingolotto would be shown. This allowed TV4 to broadcast advertising in the gaps between Inför Bingolotto and the two halves of Fångarna på fortet.
The Broadcasting Commission
repeatedly ruled that the Inför programmes couldn't be considered as real programmes. In 2000 they were replaced by a programme called Dagens namn, in which the current namesday was mentioned. This was later on replaced by Om en bok in which famous people presented a book they enjoyed.
This ended in April 2002 when a new Radio and TV Law came into force, allowing the TV4 Group to interrupt its programmes for advertising, but not to the same extent as Modern Times Group (TV3) and ProSiebenSat.1 Media (Kanal 5).
The Radio and TV Law also restricted the amount of advertising that can be shown to ten percent of the programming.
Since TV4 was the only commercial channel allowed to broadcast terrestrially, it had to pay a special fee to the government, consisting of a fixed fee and a variable element based on the amount of advertising that the TV4 Group sells. The TV4 Group worked to have this fee removed, especially with the launch of digital terrestrial television.
The new centre-right government intends to relax the advertising rules. TV4 would then broadcast up to twelve minutes of advertising (as opposed to the previous ten minutes in prime time and eight minutes during other time). The amount of advertising overall would also raise from ten percent to fifteen percent, giving TV4 the same rules as the UK-based broadcasters.
film The Family Man
on 24 November 2007, the TV4 Group cut the movie prematurely for a commercial break only seconds from the climax of the movie. After the commercial break, the channel went on to show the next scheduled movie, Turn It Up
, instead of the final part of The Family Man.
In 2007, their edition of the Idol series
was won by Marie Picasso
, who was employed at the channel for several call-in game-shows at the time of her appearance.
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
television network
Television network
A television network is a telecommunications network for distribution of television program content, whereby a central operation provides programming to many television stations or pay TV providers. Until the mid-1980s, television programming in most countries of the world was dominated by a small...
. It started broadcasting by satellite
Satellite
In the context of spaceflight, a satellite is an object which has been placed into orbit by human endeavour. Such objects are sometimes called artificial satellites to distinguish them from natural satellites such as the Moon....
in 1990 and, since 1992, on the terrestrial network. In 1994, TV4 became the largest channel and remained so for a number of years. The two channels of Sveriges Television
Sveriges Television
Sveriges Television AB , Sweden's Television, is a national television broadcaster based in Sweden, funded by a compulsory fee to be paid by all television owners...
(SVT) lost more and more viewers for a couple of years. But after making schedule changes in 2001, SVT1
SVT1
SVT1 is the primary television station of the Swedish public service broadcaster Sveriges Television in Sweden.-History:The channel began broadcasting in 1956 and was known as Radiotjänst TV, A year later, it was renamed Sveriges Radio TV. In 1969, the second television station TV2 was launched and...
had practically the same numbers of viewers as TV4. Since 2004 the TV4 Group has been a fully active member of the European Broadcasting Union
European Broadcasting Union
The European Broadcasting Union is a confederation of 74 broadcasting organisations from 56 countries, and 49 associate broadcasters from a further 25...
.
History
TV4 was launched on September 15, 1990. The channel invested in an extensive news organisation and Swedish drama series. The premiere suffered from technical faults and the drama series weren't popular with critics.In 1991, two of the channels oldest entertainment programmes premiered: the Swedish version of Jeopardy!
Jeopardy!
Griffin's first conception of the game used a board comprising ten categories with ten clues each, but after finding that this board could not be shown on camera easily, he reduced it to two rounds of thirty clues each, with five clues in each of six categories...
and the Saturday night bingo show Bingolotto
Bingolotto
Bingolotto is a Swedish highly popular primetime television game show lottery that was first broadcast 1989 on local TV and since 1991 nationwide on the Swedish network TV4. The show is a collaboration work between Swedish TV channel TV4, the Swedish lottery game company Folkspel and the Swedish...
. Bingolotto in particular became highly popular. This year also saw TV4 awarded a license to broadcast terrestrially.
Terrestrial broadcasts started on March 2, 1992. During this year, Nyhetsmorgon
Nyhetsmorgon
Nyhetsmorgon is a Swedish morning news and talk show that airs every morning on TV4. It is similar to The Today Show. Nyhetsmorgon started airing in 1992....
started and marked the introduction of weekday breakfast television
Breakfast television
Breakfast television or morning show , is a type of infotainment television program, broadcast live in the morning...
in Sweden
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
.
During the 1990s TV4 would broadcast several popular Friday night entertainment shows such as Fångarna på fortet (Swedish version of Fort Boyard
Fort Boyard (TV series)
For the fortress see Fort Boyard Fort Boyard is a French game show created by Jacques Antoine that was first broadcast in 1990 and is popular to this day...
), Kär och galen
Kär och galen
-Personnel:* Ulf Lundell - vocals, guitar* Hasse Olsson - Hammond-orgel* Janne Bark - guitar* Pelle Alsing - drums, marimba* Martin Cerha - bass* Olle Nyberg - piano, marimba* Lasse Lindbom - vocals, guitar...
, Tur i kärlek, På rymmen, Sikta mot stjärnorna (Soundmix Show
European Soundmix Show
The European Soundmix Show was an imitation talent competition held yearly from 1996 to 1999, with two special shows in 2001 and 2002.The show was an international version of Joop van den Ende's "Henny Huisman Soundmixshow", which was aired on Dutch television the first time in 1985.Various...
), Stadskampen (Intervilles) and Småstjärnorna (Mini Playback Show).
They also broadcast several home-grown sitcoms such as Rena Rama Rolf and En fyra för tre
En fyra för tre
En fyra för tre is a Swedish television series from 1996. It is based on the American sitcom Three's Company...
as well as the popular soap opera Tre kronor
Tre kronor (TV series)
Tre kronor was a Swedish soap opera that aired on TV4 during the period 1994-1999. The series took place in the fictive middle class suburb Mälarviken, located in the vicinity of Stockholm. The exteriors were filmed in Sätra, a suburb of Stockholm, and the interiors were filmed in a studio in...
.
In the early 1990s, the TV4 Group decided to move their 7 o'clock evening news to 7.30 in order to compete with the most popular news programme, Rapport
Rapport (news programme)
Rapport is one of the two main news programmes from the Swedish television broadcaster Sveriges Television .Rapport's main bulletin is broadcast everyday at 7.30 p. m. on SVT1 and is thirty minutes long...
, which, at that time, was broadcast on SVT2
SVT2
SVT2, until 1996 TV2, is one of two television channels broadcast by Sveriges Television in Sweden. It was started by Sveriges Radio in 1969. SVT2 is generally more specialist, compared to SVT1.-History:...
. This failed and the news was subsequently moved to 6.30. In 2004, the evening news was moved to 7 o'clock, and the status quo reinstated.
In 2004, TV4 began transitioning to become a digital-only service, starting by shutting down its analogue satellite signal. On September 19, 2005, TV4 began shutting down analogue terrestrial transmissions, starting at the island of Gotland. The analogue shutoff was completed by October 2007.
Since 2004, TV4 has been broadcasting a Swedish version of the internationally popular Pop Idol format
Idol series
The British talent search television series Pop Idol has spawned spin-offs in 42 territories, in what is now referred to as the "Idols" format, as described by FremantleMedia...
.
Programming
TV4 offers a mix of news, sports, drama series, soaps, entertainment, current affairs programmes, sitcoms, feature films, documentaries and phone-in shows. NewsNews
News is the communication of selected information on current events which is presented by print, broadcast, Internet, or word of mouth to a third party or mass audience.- Etymology :...
is an important part of TV4. It broadcasts the news program Nyheterna, (The News) at 7pm & 10pm and Nyhetsmorgon
Nyhetsmorgon
Nyhetsmorgon is a Swedish morning news and talk show that airs every morning on TV4. It is similar to The Today Show. Nyhetsmorgon started airing in 1992....
(News Morning) in the mornings. On weekend mornings is children's programming on Swedish before Nyhetsmorgon
Nyhetsmorgon
Nyhetsmorgon is a Swedish morning news and talk show that airs every morning on TV4. It is similar to The Today Show. Nyhetsmorgon started airing in 1992....
starting. After 11 pm until Nyhetsmorgon shown reruns and some Swedish and English television series.
After the Nyhetsmorgon
Nyhetsmorgon
Nyhetsmorgon is a Swedish morning news and talk show that airs every morning on TV4. It is similar to The Today Show. Nyhetsmorgon started airing in 1992....
is end on weekdays the Efter tio starting (After ten) followed by english spooken TV series to the news at 7 pm. In the daytime on weekends is often reruns and sports programs. Then main Swedish and English TV programs to the 10 pm news. Friday nights have included family entertainment at 8pm since the early 1990s. Bingolotto
Bingolotto
Bingolotto is a Swedish highly popular primetime television game show lottery that was first broadcast 1989 on local TV and since 1991 nationwide on the Swedish network TV4. The show is a collaboration work between Swedish TV channel TV4, the Swedish lottery game company Folkspel and the Swedish...
occupied Saturday evenings from 1991 to 2004. Then, TV4 moved Bingolotto to Sundays and started broadcasting feature films instead. With the start of Deal or No Deal
Deal or No Deal
Deal or No Deal is the name of several closely related television game shows, the first of which was the Dutch Miljoenenjacht produced by Dutch producer Endemol. It is played with up to 26 cases with certain sums of money...
in 2006, family entertainment returned to Saturday nights. Later has other entertainment show go on Saturday evenings. Sunday evenings appear Swedish-produced television programs until 9 pm when they show a movie on Saturday nights they also show a movie after the entertainment show.
After about 11 pm until Nyhetsmorgon starting the show reruns and some Swedish and English television series. The foreign programs are mainly from UK and USA. All foreign programs are subtitled into Swedish. TV4 also offers investigative journalism
Investigative journalism
Investigative journalism is a form of journalism in which reporters deeply investigate a single topic of interest, often involving crime, political corruption, or corporate wrongdoing. An investigative journalist may spend months or years researching and preparing a report. Investigative journalism...
programmes, most notably Kalla Fakta ("Cold Facts").
Regional stations
As a part of its public service obligations, TV4 owns and operates a number of regional and local opt-out stations. When the local stations were set up, they were owned by both local investors and the TV4 Group themselves. Since the start of TV4 Uppland in 1996, the number of stations has been sixteen. Although some stations have closed and others have been set up, the total number of stations has stayed unchanged.The TV4 Group brought out many of the local stations and became the sole owner of fifteen stations in 2001. The only independent station, TV4 Fyrstad, went bankrupt in 2003 and was replaced by TV4 Väst, owned and operated by the TV4 Group. The TV4 Group later merged the stations into five regional companies and in 2004, a single company: TV4 Sverige AB.
As of 2008, these are the local TV4 stations:
- TV4 Värmland
- TV4 Väst
- TV4 Göteborg
- TV4 Halland
- TV4 Öresund
- TV4 Sydost
- TV4 Jönköping
- TV4 Skaraborg
- TV4 Öst
- TV4 Stockholm
- TV4 Mälardalen
- TV4 Uppland
- TV4 Gävle Dalarna
- TV4 Mitt
- TV4 Västerbotten
- TV4 Norrbotten
After the closedown of the analogue transmitters and the termination of TV4's public service obligations, the pattern of the local stations is due to a major overhaul which will see the number of local stations increase.
TV4 Play
TV4 Play is the brand used for the video on demandVideo on demand
Video on Demand or Audio and Video On Demand are systems which allow users to select and watch/listen to video or audio content on demand...
service offered by the TV4 Group (Sweden), more specifically to the streaming services offered on the TV4 Play website, www.tv4play.se
Jurisdiction
As TV4 was broadcast from Sweden, it has to follow much tighter advertising rules than its main competitors, Modern Times Group (TV3) and ProSiebenSat.1 Media (Kanal 5). Initially this meant that the TV4 Group was not allowed to include advertising breaks, meaning that the advertising had to be put in between the programmes.Nonetheless, the TV4 Group felt the urge to include advertising breaks. Therefore, it made several Inför programmes. The Inför programmes were short versions of TV4 programmes that were scheduled in the middle of programmes. For example, Fångarna på fortet would be divided into two parts and in between these, Inför Bingolotto would be shown. This allowed TV4 to broadcast advertising in the gaps between Inför Bingolotto and the two halves of Fångarna på fortet.
The Broadcasting Commission
Swedish Broadcasting Commission
Granskningsnämnden för radio och TV – English title: The Swedish Broadcasting Commission – was a Swedish government agency formed in 1994 to regulate already broadcasted radio and television in Sweden.-Jurisdiction:...
repeatedly ruled that the Inför programmes couldn't be considered as real programmes. In 2000 they were replaced by a programme called Dagens namn, in which the current namesday was mentioned. This was later on replaced by Om en bok in which famous people presented a book they enjoyed.
This ended in April 2002 when a new Radio and TV Law came into force, allowing the TV4 Group to interrupt its programmes for advertising, but not to the same extent as Modern Times Group (TV3) and ProSiebenSat.1 Media (Kanal 5).
The Radio and TV Law also restricted the amount of advertising that can be shown to ten percent of the programming.
Since TV4 was the only commercial channel allowed to broadcast terrestrially, it had to pay a special fee to the government, consisting of a fixed fee and a variable element based on the amount of advertising that the TV4 Group sells. The TV4 Group worked to have this fee removed, especially with the launch of digital terrestrial television.
The new centre-right government intends to relax the advertising rules. TV4 would then broadcast up to twelve minutes of advertising (as opposed to the previous ten minutes in prime time and eight minutes during other time). The amount of advertising overall would also raise from ten percent to fifteen percent, giving TV4 the same rules as the UK-based broadcasters.
Personalities
- Adam AlsingAdam AlsingRolf Adam Engelbrekt Alsing in Karlstad, Sweden, is a Swedish television host, best known for hosting Big Brother Sweden on Kanal 5. Subsequently he moved to TV4 in 2005, hosting the Swedish version of Jeopardy!. He also hosts his own show Adam Live.-External links:...
- Agneta SjödinAgneta SjödinAgneta Sjödin is a Swedish presenter and TV-personality on the Swedish television channel TV4. Hosted the first two seasons of the popular show Let's Dance on TV4, along with David Hellenius....
- Bengt MagnussonBengt Magnusson-External links:...
- David HelleniusDavid HelleniusDavid Hellenius is a Swedish comedian and television presenter, often co-operating with Peter Magnusson.Hellenius started his television carrier at ZTV. In 2004, he led the first season of the Swedish Idol series, "Idol 2004", on TV4 with Peter Magnusson. Hellenius and Magnusson were later joined...
- Jessica AlmenäsJessica AlmenäsJessica Magdalena Therése Almenäs, born 16 November 1975, in Jokkmokk, Sweden, is a Swedish TV personality, former model, and basketball player.Almenäs has studied science in media and is a TV personality on the Swedish channel TV4...
- Linda IsacssonLinda IsacssonLinda Susanna Lindorff is a former Miss Sweden* and a TV personality, hostess, reporter and weather forecaster. She represented her country at Miss Universe 1990.-References:...
- Martin TimellMartin TimellMartin Timell is a Swedish carpenter, actor and television presenter.Timell is married and has two children. He is the brother of Anders Timell, a Swedish restaurant keeper and radio host.-External links:...
- Peter EngPeppe EngPeppe Eng is a Swedish television host for the sports news on TV4. In 2007 he hosted Talang 2007 and is highly tipped to host Talang 2008.In 2007 he was also a contestant on TV4's reality show Let's Dance.-Source:**...
- Peter JihdePeter JihdePeter Jihde is a Swedish television host and sports reporter on TV4.Jihde was born in Malmö, Sweden. He has hosted "Sporten", "Fotbollskväll", and has presented Olympic games and football world championships. Jihde has also hosted his own talk show "Hos Jihde" on SVT and is a former floorball...
- Yvonne RydingYvonne RydingYvonne Agneta Ryding is a beauty queen from Sweden who was crowned Miss Universe 1984 on July 9, 1984...
Controversy
While showing the Nicolas CageNicolas Cage
Nicolas Cage is an American actor, producer and director, having appeared in over 60 films including Raising Arizona , The Rock , Face/Off , Gone in 60 Seconds , Adaptation , National Treasure , Ghost Rider , Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans , and...
film The Family Man
The Family Man
The Family Man is a 2000 drama film directed by Brett Ratner and starring Nicolas Cage and Téa Leoni. Cage's production company, Saturn Films, helped produce the film....
on 24 November 2007, the TV4 Group cut the movie prematurely for a commercial break only seconds from the climax of the movie. After the commercial break, the channel went on to show the next scheduled movie, Turn It Up
Turn It Up (film)
Turn It Up is a 2000 drama–musical film. It was directed by Robert Adetuyi and stars Ja Rule, Pras, Faith Evans and Jason Statham. The film grossed $1,247,949 during its brief theatrical run.-Cast:*Pras as Diamond*Ja Rule as David "Gage" Williams...
, instead of the final part of The Family Man.
In 2007, their edition of the Idol series
Idol (Sweden)
Idol is a Swedish reality-competition talent show airing on TV4. It debuted in August 2004, and it has since become one of the most popular shows on Swedish television...
was won by Marie Picasso
Marie Picasso
Marie Picasso is a Swedish singer, host and model who first rose to fame as a housemate on the popular reality television show Big Brother, before going on to win the fourth series of the Swedish singing competition Idol.-Big Brother:In 2002, Picasso appeared as a housemate on the hugely popular...
, who was employed at the channel for several call-in game-shows at the time of her appearance.