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unusual facts about Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation



Bjartmar Gjerde

Gjerde was later director-general of the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation from 1981 to 1989.

Brynjar Aa

Brynjar Aa has published over a dozen different works, all by established publishing houses, including Aschehoug, and The Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation.

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 Tvedt

He was acting chief executive of the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation from 1946 to 1948.

Lille Graah

She worked for the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation for more than thirty years, and is particularly known from the popular radio program Ønskekonserten.

Lørenskog Station

The station building is best known as the facility for filming all outdoor scenes for the popular children's television show Sesam Stasjon that ran on the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation from 1991 to 1998.

Nordkalotten 365

Nordkalotten 365 was a popular eight episode TV series starring Lars Monsen and broadcast by Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation with high ratings.

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".

Rolf Brahde

He also published popular science books and articles, he was a common guest in radio and television programmes and provided commentary for the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation during the television coverage of the Apollo 11 moon landing.

Thomas Numme

He worked in the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation in P3 radio and with juvenile shows before switching to TV 2 in 2003.

Turid Birkeland

She was then a producer and manager at Rubicon TV from 1999 to 2001, and director of cultural programming in the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation from 2001 to 2004.

Two Thousand Acres of Sky

In 2008, the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation created a remake of the series called Himmelblå (in English: Skyblue) taking place on the island of Ylvingen, which is the island's actual name, in the county of Nordland in northern Norway.


see also

Arne Hjeltnes

In the mid-1990s he was a presenter in the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation radio show Herreavdelingen for a short time.

Norway Scholarship

In the late 1970s Alf Bøe (Wadham 1952), head of the Committee, called on Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation’s Andor Birkeland (Wadham 1946), former Accountant Sven Guldberg (Wadham 1937) and former Minister for Culture Helge Sivertsen (Wadham 1938).