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10 unusual facts about NRK


Åge Ellingsen

Ellingsen is now a TV expert hockey commentator for NRK and SportN.

Etne

In 2013 NRK sayd that the place had inhabitatnts 2500 years ago.

Fossen

Erling Fossen (October 23, 1963) Norwegian nonfiction writer and former NRK-show host

Norsk TV1

As Norwegian state television (NRK) was particularly strong during week-ends, the station did not do very well.

Norwegian Long Haul

The airline claims the average salary is 15000 NOK a month but on the other hand, a neutral source, the public service broadcaster NRK have calculated it to be about 9800 NOK a month, which still is far lower than the minimum wage in Norway.

NRK

NRK's mediumwave transmitter at Kvitsøy on 1314 kHz used to be widely heard internationally and was one of the most commonly heard trans-Atlantic DX signals in eastern North America.

In recent years, the network has shown itself to be the leading producer of original comedy shows in Norway, with such notable successes as Lille Lørdag, Åpen Post, Uti vår hage and Team Antonsen, centered around the comedians Harald Eia and Bård Tufte Johansen.

Øivind Johnsen

In 1959 he joined the Norwegian radio and television company NRK as a sports commentator for which he commentated on football and tennis games.

Tommy Tee

Norway's national broadcaster NRK offered him a prime time show on its new P3 network.

Trust Us

In 1999, The song "Vortex surfer" was selected by the NRK P3 radio-station as the "song of the millennium", and was played continuously for 24 hours on December 31.


Anders Sømme Hammer

He delivered news and radio and television documentaries for NRK and TV 2, and wrote for national outlets such as Dagbladet, Dagsavisen, Dagens Næringsliv, Morgenbladet, the Norwegian News Agency and Samtiden.

Anne Marie Almedal

She is known to many as the composer and singer of the theme song for the TV series Himmelblå at NRK.

Åpen Post

After the show was taken of the air Harald Eia and Bård Tufte Johansen continued to created new successful NRK shows such as Uti vår hage (2003), Team Antonsen (2004), Tre brødre som ikke er brødre (2005), Ut i vår hage 2 (2008) and Storbynatt (2010).

Atle Gulbrandsen

He has since commentated Formula 1 for NRK, TV2, TV3 and Viasat Motor, and been a host for several TV shows about Formula 1, WRC and other motor sports.

Brønnøysund

The NRK series Himmelblå, a franchise of the British Two Thousand Acres of Sky, was filmed in part in Brønnøysund and on various locations nearby.

Davvi Girji

Davvi Girji also stands behind the subtitles of the Sámi news Ođđasat in NRK.

Einar Tørnquist

He has also been featured in the latenight show Storbynatt, hosted by his friends Bård Tufte Johansen and Harald Eia, as a drummer for the houseband "Svidd Gummi", which aired for one season on Norway's state channel NRK.

Fantorangen

Fantorangen is a Norwegian television character known from Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK), where he has his own program on the children channel NRK Super.

Jahn Otto Johansen

He worked for the newspaper Morgenposten from 1956 to 1966, for the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK) from 1966 to 1977, and was chief editor of Dagbladet from 1977 to 1984.

Knut Lystad

Lystad and Mjøen began their entertainment careers with the NRK radio show “Bedre sent enn alvor” (Better late than seriously) in 1975, a program heavily inspired by Monty Python.

Lars Mjøen

Mjøen and Lystad began their entertainment careers with the NRK radio show “Bedre sent enn alvor” (Better late than seriously) in 1975, a program heavily inspired by Monty Python.

Norkring

During the German occupation of Norway during World War II (1940–45), Nasjonal Samling (NS) and the German authorities took control over NRK.

Norway in the Eurovision Song Contest 1999

Melodi Grand Prix 1999 was held on 27 February 1999 at the NRK TV studios in Oslo, hosted by Rune Gokstad and Øystein Bache.

NRK P3 Pyro

NRK P3 Pyro is a Norwegian internet based music radio station within the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation, which profiles itself with the "hardest parts" of rock music, "from The Who to Morbid Angel".

Ole Ivars

Ole Ivars has won the Spellemannprisen awards several times, and in 2004, NRK labeled them as "Norway's dansband of all times".

Orit Wolf

She records regularly for many radio stations including the BBC, CBS, CBC, IBO, WGBH, NRK and GLR.

Peace Division

The duo have released EPs, remixes, and singles on Kickin Records, Eukahouse, Hooj Choons, Prolekult, Low Pressings, Junior, and NRK Sound Division among others.

Radioresepsjonen

The show was then taken off the air due to the trio's new TV project, but they returned in 2007 and was given a permanent air slot after Mina Hadjian was fired from NRK.

Steinar Bastesen

In 1997, Canadian anti-whaling activist Paul Watson claimed in a NRK interview that Bastesen had threatened to kill him.

Synnøve Svabø

Among these, was the leader of the Broadcasting Council in the NRK, Kjellaug Nakkim.

World System Teletext

WST is used for all teletext services in Europe & Scandinavia, including Ceefax from the BBC and services from Teletext on ITV in the United Kingdom, ZDFtext from ZDF and ARDText from ARD in Germany, and Tekst-TV from NRK in Norway, among many other teletext services offered by other television networks throughout the European continent.