Rapport (TV programme)

Rapport ("Report") is one of the two main news programmes from the Swedish television broadcaster Sveriges Television (SVT).

Rapport's main bulletin is broadcast every day at 19:30 on SVT1. It runs for thirty minutes every day except Saturday, when it runs for fifteen minutes. Ever since the 1970s, it has been the most watched news bulletin in Sweden. A shorter version of the show is aired weekdays at 18:00 as part of a thirty-minute bloc on SVT1 that includes Kulturnyheterna (culture and entertainment news) and Sportnytt (sport news). On weekends the 18:00 edition runs on SVT1 for fifteen minutes.

Since 2005, the show has usually been presented by Katarina Sandström, Lisbeth Åkerman and Morgan Olofsson. In the summer, both Aktuellt and Rapport 19:30 are frequently hosted by temps.

A feature of Rapport at 19:30 is that the bulletin consists solely of filmed reports and some telegrams with almost no studio interviews done.

Rapport also used to refer to shorter news bulletins that aired on SVT1 and SVT2 throughout the day but since late 2016, they have all been renamed as SVT Nyheter. This means all Rapport bulletins now air exclusively on SVT1.

Rapport started in December 1969 with the launch of the second television channel, TV2. It went out between 19:10 and 19:30 each weekday following a 10-minute news bulletin from TV-nytt at 19:00 and preceding a longer TV-nytt programme at 19:30 on TV1. Rapport at this time focused on the in-depth coverage of selected news items. It was often considered left-leaning, thereby earning for TV2 as a whole the nickname of "the red channel".

As part of a large-scale reorganization of news programming in 1972, the news on TV1 was rebranded as Aktuellt (in fact, a revival of its original name), with bulletins at 18:00 and 21:00 each evening, allowing Rapport to take over the popular 19.30 slot. At the same time Rapport's was broadened (the old formula had never been very popular with viewers) and it soon became Sweden's most widely viewed news programme.

Bengt Öste presented Rapport between 1978 and 21 January 1992. In January 1979, a late edition, known as Rapport 2, was added to the end of the day's schedule.