Danmarks Radio (Danish Broadcasting Corporation), commonly abbreviated DR, is the Danish state broadcaster. Founded in 1925 as a public service organization, DR is Denmark's oldest and largest electronic media enterprise. Note: broadcasting is also the old term for hand sowing. ...

DR runs four FM radio stations, eighteen Digital Audio Broadcast (DAB) stations, two television channels, and additional web radio stations. The abbreviations FM, Fm, and fm may refer to: Electrical engineering Frequency modulation (FM) and its most common applications: FM radio, used primarily to broadcast music and speech at VHF frequencies FM synthesis, a sound-generation technique popularized by early digital synthesizers Science Femtometre (fm), an SI measure of length... Digital Audio Broadcast or DAB is a standard for digital radio broadcast developed by EUREKA as a research project for the European Union. ... Web radio (or Internet radio) is a broadcasting service transmitted via the Internet. ...

See also the list of Danish television channels. List of Danish television channels Must-carry channels (all networks are required to carry these channels by law) DR 1 - broadcast by the Danish Broadcast Corporation (DR) DR 2 - broadcast by DR, not yet available everywhere by aerial TV 2 TvDanmark (also available by cable and satellite) Regional channels (broadcasting...

Radio

P1 / Programme 1

"The information channel": factual programming, reports, discussion and debate on public affairs, society and the community, plus in-depth news.

P1 is broadcast on FM and DAB radio.

P2 / Programme 2

Classical music, opera, jazz, radio drama, and coverage of other artistic performances and events.

P2 is broadcast on FM only, though DAB classical-music channel DR Klassisk shares programming with P2 between 0.00 and 8.00.

P3 / Programme 3

Hit radio, with popular entertainment shows and hourly three-minute news bulletins. P3 also covers major sporting events.

P3 is broacast on FM and DAB.

Also a TMC service is broadcast on P3. Traffic Message Channel, or TMC, is a technology for delivering traffic and travel information to drivers. ...

P4 / Programme 4

DR's most listened to radio channel: a "modern public service station" broadcast in nine regional versions, mixing popular music with national and local news.

P4 is broadcast on FM only.

DAB stations

• Music channels
  • DR Boogieradio
  • DR Jazz
  • DR Klassisk
  • DR Rock
  • DR Soft

• News channels
  • DR Erhverv – news and background on the economy, finance, employment and trade
  • DR Nyheder – rolling news
  • DR Politik – live coverage of parliamentary sessions
  • DR Sport

• Other channels
  • DR Barracuda – radio for 7- to 13-year-olds (from 17 May 2005)
  • DR Event – on-the-spot radio providing background to and live coverage of major national events
  • DR Gyldne Genhør – "time machine radio": repeats of drama, comedy and popular music from DR's radio archives
  • DR Kanon Kamelen – stories and songs for 3- to 6-year-olds
  • DR Kultur – 24-hour cultural programming and themed days
  • DR Litteratur – book readings and literary adaptations from DR's archives
  • P1 – see P1 FM (above)
  • P3 – see P3 FM (above)
  • P4 Danmark – see P4 FM (above): this is a national version composed from elements of the nine regional programmes

Webradio

All of the above FM and DAB stations are streamed on the internet, as well as additional music channels available only via web radio:

• DR Barometer – alt-rock and indie
• DR Country – country music
• DR Barometer – alt-rock and indie
• DR Hip Hop – formerly DR Ghetto, hiphop from undergrund to mainstream
• DR R&B – R&B, soul

TV

DR

DR is the first Danish TV channel.

DR2

DR2 is the third national subscription-free TV channel in Denmark (it followed the establishment of TV 2 and its sister channel). The Danish TV 2 is a government-owned television station broadcasting from Odense on Funen. ...

DR2 was known in its earliest years as den hemmelige kanal ("the secret channel") because it could not be seen nationwide at its launch — a situation much ridiculed by its competitors. Its early programme content was also fairly narrow. In recent times, however, it has on several occasions gained more viewers than TV 3. TV3 is the largest commercial television channel of Viasat, which is part of the Swedish media company Modern Times Group. ...

DR news reporting

Dansk Folkeparti (The Danish People's Party), a reactionary nationalistic political party, has long criticized DR's news for being unfavourable to them, attributing this partly to the political nature of appointments to the DR Board of Directors. In response, DR set up a "watchdog committee" intended to detect and report upon any anti-party bias. Not much has happened since. The Danish Peoples Party ( Danish: Dansk Folkeparti) is a nationalistic political party in Denmark. ...

External links

• DR's internet site (http://www.dr.dk/) (Danish with limited English language text)
• DAB stations (http://www.dr.dk/dab/)