Life – a user's manual Part II - Boksidan

Radio and moving pictures
Radio
1922-25 Private radio broadcasting.
1925 The national ”Radiotjänst” got
monopoly on radio and started regular
broadcasting.
Radio programs on an average day in 1932 (according to
the newspaper Dagens Nyheter). Note the "Today’s
herring prices" at 12.45. It may further be noted that talk
radio dominated. One explanation may, of course, be that
we could not get information from television. But in
addition probably also the habit of consuming music was
much smaller than today.
1955 The second radio channel started.
1958-62 Two private radio stations (Radio South and North) sent advertising funded radio with popular
music in Sweden, from boats stationed outside our territorial waters.
1962 Swedish radio starts a third channel focused on popular music.
1977 Swedish radio started local broadcast stations on various locations around the country.
1979 Organizations were allowed to broadcast radio shows, short-range, the so-called community radio.
1993 Advertising-funded radio was allowed.
At the end of the millennium most people (approximately 80%) listened 3 hours per day on the radio
(RUAB's Newsletter No. 1 in 2000, the study of radio listening in Sweden in different periods during the
years 1999-2000, RUAB, Stockholm). And we had, like, 40 analog radio channels in the Stockholm area
alone.
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