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NRK1
NRK1 (pronounced as "NRK en" in Bokmål or "NRK ein" in Nynorsk) is the main television channel of the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK).
Test broadcasts started on 12 January 1954, regular test broadcasts began on 13 April 1958, and regular broadcasts started on 20 August 1960, formally opened by King Olaf V. At the time, there were plans to increase its transmitter network to cover 80% of the country by 1970. It is Norway's oldest and largest television channel and was the country's only free-to-air television channel until the launch of TV 2 in 1992.
The channel was formerly known as NRK Fjernsynet (NRK Television), but its name was colloquially abbreviated as just NRK or Fjernsynet ("the television"). On 1 September 1996, the channel was renamed NRK1 due to the launch of NRK2 that day. The channel was added to Viasat in September 1998.
Besides its productions, the channel also broadcasts co-productions with other Nordic countries through Nordvision, as well as a significant amount of programmes from English-speaking countries like the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia, and occasionally from Germany (Babylon Berlin, Das Boot), all in the original language with Norwegian subtitles. Its news programme is called Dagsrevyen.
In 2010, NRK HD was launched, broadcasting at 720p. NRK HD was set to make its first official broadcasting from the 2010 Vancouver Olympics opening ceremony, but the first HD broadcast was the slightly earlier Super Bowl XLIV on 7 February 2010. NRK1 eventually turned full-time HD, with the separate SD feeds shutting down approximately in 2016.
The programming lineup has varied over the years, with an increased focus on daytime news beginning in the 2020s, with newscasts almost uninterrupted from 06:30-20:00 on weekdays. Weekends during the daytime are filled with culture and sports programmes. The most prestigious entertainment programmes are broadcast on Friday and Saturday nights, including Nytt på nytt, Beat for Beat, Stjernekamp, and Maskorama. Late-night schedules after the 23:00 news (Kveldsnytt) consist primarily of documentaries and drama shows.
The channel de jure signs off sometime between 04:30 and 05:00, during which time it shows a TV guide, a news feed, and an audio simulcast of NRK P1 until it signs back on at 06:30 for the morning news.
The channel has no alternate audio tracks which can be selected; the text-to-speech mode (Lydtekst) instead has separate channel slots. This became an issue with the documentary series Melkeveien in 2014, for which both Norwegian Bokmål and Northern Sámi audio tracks were produced. The Bokmål feeds were aired on the initial broadcast, while the Sámi feeds were streaming-only on the initial broadcast, before airing on NRK2 the following weekend during daytime.
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NRK1
NRK1 (pronounced as "NRK en" in Bokmål or "NRK ein" in Nynorsk) is the main television channel of the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK).
Test broadcasts started on 12 January 1954, regular test broadcasts began on 13 April 1958, and regular broadcasts started on 20 August 1960, formally opened by King Olaf V. At the time, there were plans to increase its transmitter network to cover 80% of the country by 1970. It is Norway's oldest and largest television channel and was the country's only free-to-air television channel until the launch of TV 2 in 1992.
The channel was formerly known as NRK Fjernsynet (NRK Television), but its name was colloquially abbreviated as just NRK or Fjernsynet ("the television"). On 1 September 1996, the channel was renamed NRK1 due to the launch of NRK2 that day. The channel was added to Viasat in September 1998.
Besides its productions, the channel also broadcasts co-productions with other Nordic countries through Nordvision, as well as a significant amount of programmes from English-speaking countries like the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia, and occasionally from Germany (Babylon Berlin, Das Boot), all in the original language with Norwegian subtitles. Its news programme is called Dagsrevyen.
In 2010, NRK HD was launched, broadcasting at 720p. NRK HD was set to make its first official broadcasting from the 2010 Vancouver Olympics opening ceremony, but the first HD broadcast was the slightly earlier Super Bowl XLIV on 7 February 2010. NRK1 eventually turned full-time HD, with the separate SD feeds shutting down approximately in 2016.
The programming lineup has varied over the years, with an increased focus on daytime news beginning in the 2020s, with newscasts almost uninterrupted from 06:30-20:00 on weekdays. Weekends during the daytime are filled with culture and sports programmes. The most prestigious entertainment programmes are broadcast on Friday and Saturday nights, including Nytt på nytt, Beat for Beat, Stjernekamp, and Maskorama. Late-night schedules after the 23:00 news (Kveldsnytt) consist primarily of documentaries and drama shows.
The channel de jure signs off sometime between 04:30 and 05:00, during which time it shows a TV guide, a news feed, and an audio simulcast of NRK P1 until it signs back on at 06:30 for the morning news.
The channel has no alternate audio tracks which can be selected; the text-to-speech mode (Lydtekst) instead has separate channel slots. This became an issue with the documentary series Melkeveien in 2014, for which both Norwegian Bokmål and Northern Sámi audio tracks were produced. The Bokmål feeds were aired on the initial broadcast, while the Sámi feeds were streaming-only on the initial broadcast, before airing on NRK2 the following weekend during daytime.