About Nordvision

Nordvision cooperate to strengthen Public Service Television in the Nordic region. The partners, DR (Denmark), NRK (Norway), SVT (Sweden), YLE (Finland) and RUV (Iceland), co-produce, exchange programs and know-how, yearly generating 4000 tv programmes. Nordvision was established in 1959 and Iceland joined the partnership in 1966.

On top of the five partners mentioned above, Sweden's Utbildningsradio (UR) Greenland's national broadcasting company (KNR) and Faroe Island's Sjønvarp Føroya (KVF) are associated members of the Nordvision partnership.

Current objectives

In addition to strengthening the sense of community in the region, Nordvision should also create added value for the participating companies. The companies cooperate in order to achieve more and better public service programming at lower cost.

Over the past five years they have also undertaken to improve the efficiency of the collabora-tion through, for example, optimizing program exchanges, working to heighten the quality and relevance of co-productions and using digital distribution.

Cooperation in programming

Nordvision collaboration stands on three legs: co-production, program exchanges and sharing knowledge and experience. The companies co-produce programs in virtually all the public service genres: TV fiction, children’s programs, science, educational programs, factual programs, cultural programs and investigative journalism.

The companies exchange programs and news coverage that they believe will interest viewers in the respective countries. The number of program exchanges has risen sharply over the past decade, from about 500 programs per annum to over 2,700.

Sharing of information and experience is another important ingredient in the collaboration in everything from corporate strategy, program development, scheduling and copyright.

Whatever we have, we share

Together, the five Nordvision partners – DR, NRK. SVT, RUV and YLE – have 17 television channels at their disposal. Nordivision collaboration is based on the principle, “what we have, we share”. That is, the Nordic public service channels make a concerted effort to offer their public service colleagues most of the programs they own rights to, either via program exchanges or co-production. We also coorperate on exchnage of archive material.