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HISTORY At 13:15 March 15, 1999 the broadcasting of SVT24 started. It started with a news summary followed by an official opening by the CEO of SVT. In the beginning, SVT24 simulcasted with other channels a lot of the time, first in SVT2 and in the summer on SVT1 . SVT24 got to take care of extended broadcasts in case of special events. The channel broadcast news every fifteen minutes throughout the weekday. However there were no broadcasts in the weekends and the nightly broadcasts started some months later. At :00 and :30 SVT24 showed longer bulletins, but the :15 and :45 broadcasts were just news summaries. The channel also broadcast economic news twice every hour, lots of weather forecasts, reports from the Nordic countries and other featured stories. The material was mostly picked up from other news programmes. SVT24 used digital technology for broadcasting, so a bulletin from SVT24 was much cheaper to broadcast than a bulletin from '' Rapport '' or '' Aktuellt ''. That's why during 1999 and 2000 SVT24 took over all the short bulletins from ''Rapport'' and the morning programme was moved to the SVT24 studio. In 2000 SVT24 merged with ''Rapport'' and ''Aktuellt'' into one central newsdesk. After some time, the channel was hit by cost savings. All broadcasts between 9:30 to 16:00 PM ceased for some time and the economical news disappeared. On September 8, 2001, ''Aktuellt'' and ''Rapport'' moved to a new common studio and got a graphical make-over. That meant that all bulletins in SVT1 got the ''Rapport'' brand, making SVT24 only broadcasting digitally (and on SVT1 in the nights). SVT24 moved into the common studio a week later. In the end of 2002 SVT declared that they where going to launch two new channels. That meant that SVT24 was about to be merged with SVT Extra into a new channel, called only 24. 24 would include a wider range of programmes than SVT24 did, also including acquired programming, sports events and weekend broadcasts. The new channel was launched on February 24, 2003. It consisted of short three minute bulletins from ''Rapport'' every half hour. Between these many different programs were shown. In the day-time this consisted of ''24 Direkt'' ("24 Live", Swedish version of . Other prime time shows included ''24 Nöje'' ("24 Entertainment"), ''24 Konsument'' ("24 Consumer"), ''Sverige Nu'' ("Sweden Now") and acquired programming such as '' Saturday Night Live '', documentaries and World News from BBC World . During the weekends, the "interactive news service" ''24 Vision'' and sport events where shown. In the autumn of 2003 the channel was hit by cost savings. The short bulletins were now only shown every hour in the daytime and ''24 Direkt'' started occupying the rest of the day-time schedule. New shows included a taped radio show, ''Lantz i P3''. In 2004 the acquired programming and BBC World disappeared. ''24 Konsument'' and ''24 Nöje'' where however transformed into daily news casts and sport bulletins were included in the evening. In 2006 ''24 Konsument'' was axed and ''24 Nöje'' rebranded as ''Nöjesnytt'' with bulletins on both SVT1 (in the morning) and SVT2 (in the evening). NAME The channel started out as SVT24, but was renamed in 2003 to 24. This name was however hard to use, so variants such as ''24:an'' ("the 24") occurred along with the old name. About a year later the name SVT24 started to appear in EPG s and programme schedules again. DISTRIBUTION The channel is broadcasted Free-to-air in the Digital Terrestrial Television network in Sweden and Åland . Much of the time the channel is also simulcasted with SVT Europa . Satellite transmissions are made from the Thor and Sirius satellites, but are encrypted. A decoding card from Viasat or Canal Digital is needed to view the channel. The two largest cable networks ( Com Hem and UPC ) broadcast the channel in an analogue version. |
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