Nordic humour
NRK’s animated satire programme ’Halvseint’ is going to be followed by a Danish counterpart. This type of co-operation is a rare example of Nordic concept development on humour and satire. Read more in Norwegian...
EU promotes stricter regulation of Public Service
The European Union’s Directorate General for Competition intends to force EU member states to asses all significant public service initiatives before they can be launched. Read more in Swedish...
Several commissioning editors at the Nordic pitch day
Nordic commissioning editors showed great interest in the Nordvision pitch day that was held in Copenhagen the 28th of October. Read more in Danish...
Nordvision investigative journalism tries out new co-operation methods
In the coming week three Nordic broadcasters (DR, NRK and SVT) are going to send the same story - but in three different versions. The basic materials for these three programs are the same, but some elements have been exchanged so that the programmes have gotten a more national feeling. Read more in Danish...
New Nordic website for school children
The new website 'Norden - før og nu' is built to inspire Nordic youngsters and others to take a trip of discovery to Nordic geography, language and way of life. Read more in Danish...
Succes for new Nordic children's TV-channels
Recently established children's channels NRKSuper (Norway) and SVTB (Sweden) present fine results. Read more in Norwegian...
Yr.no website to be exchanged to Sweden and Finland
Yr.no is the most popular NRK website with over a million weekly visits. The concept behind yr.no will now be exchanged to SVT and YLE. Read more in Danish...
'Ping Pong' and 'Forbrydelsen' nominated for iEmmy
Nominations for the International Emmy award were good news to the Nordic broadcasters who were altogether nominated in three categories. Read more in Norwegian...
NV-Fund’s application deadline in the fall
Deadline for this fall’s application round to the NV-Fund is the 3rd of November, 2008. Read more in Danish...
Invitation to factual programme pitch day
Nordvision factual programme pitch day will take place on Tuesday the 28th of October in Copenhagen. Read more in Danish...
Summer - the high season of exchange programmes
Television viewers in the Nordic countries had ample opportunity for watching programs from their neighbouring countries this summer. Many Nordvision exchange programmes were shown - even in prime time. Read more in Danish...
Nordvision Fund’s allocations, June 2008
The Nordvision Fund allocated approximately 40 million DKK in this spring’s application round. Read more in Norwegian...
Changes in the NV-Fund's rules
The board of directors of the NV-Fund updated the rules for receiving support in their meeting last week. Read more in Norwegian...
New programme group structure and development group
New programme group structure, development group for the Factual programme area and new rules for the Research and Development Fund were some of the topics that the Nordic tv- and media directors decided in their meeting in Helsinki. Read more in Danish...
Summer greetings from NVS
The programme group meetings are over and the summer holidays are here. It is time to look back at the results of the Nordvision partnership this spring. Read more in Danish...
Nordic investigative journalism
The Nordvision investigative journalism network started as an inspiration forum. After four years of co-operation the group has become a vital meeting place for the producers of investigative journalism. Read more in Norwegian...
Nordic Melodi Grand Prix Jr. preparations in full swing
The biggest challenge for the Nordic finale of the Melodi Grand Prix Jr. 2008 is to create a common Nordic arena. Visual humour is an important element in lowering the language barrier among the Nordic audiences. Read more in Norwegian...
Pay for one - get three documentaries
A new joint Nordic TV documentary reveals how Scandinavia’s biggest telecommunications companies, Swedish Ericsson and Norwegian Telenor have been ignoring their company code of conduct rules for manufacturers and contractors for more than ten years. Read more in Danish....
NV Fund's application dealine in the spring
The Nordvision Fund will allocate approximately 25 million DKK in this spring’s application round. Deadline for applications for Nordic co-productions and research & development projects is the 5th of May 2008. Read more in Norwegian...
New commissioning editor site on nordvision.org
18 Nordic commissioning editors have contributed to the new commissioning editor site on www.nordvision.org. The site presents among other things national program strategies for different program genres. The site is now available in the closed section of the Nordvision website. Read more in Danish...
Sanningen om Marika wins iEmmy
The drama series ‘Sanningen om Marika’ by Sveriges Television has won an International Interactive Emmy Award for the best interactive television service. Read more in Norwegian...
NRK Super after four months on air
NRK’s children’s channel NRK Super has exceeded all expectations - is the conclusion four months after the channel was launched. Read more in Danish...
More exchange in the programme groups?
The new digital distribution system ‘Nordif 2’ will be made available for all Nordvision programme and network groups in the fall of 2008. This spring’s group meetings provide an excellent opportunity for the groups to discuss the requests or wishes that they may have regarding the new system. Read more in Norwegian...
Our biggest challenge: The Internet
Johanna Hultman from Sweden’s Utbildningsradio evaluates the impacts and challenges that Public Service broadcasters face in relation to new forms of communication technologies. Read more in Swedish...
‘Life swap’ - for Nordic teachers
‘Lärare på bortaplan’ is a series about four Nordic teachers who swapped countries and worked in each others class rooms for one week. The series which has four episodes was produced in co-operation between UR, YLE, SVT and NRK. Read more in Swedish...
Nordic literary atlas debuts
The Nordic literary atlas - an internet-based service containing information and archive materials of more than a hundred Nordic writers, was launched in the end of February. The project brought Nordic Public Service broadcasters in five countries together in sharing archive materials for the first time ever. Read more in Danish...
A commissioning editor seeks greater ’relevancy’
The Nordvisions meeting decided in 2006 that commissioning editor participation was important in order to secure the future of Nordvision. Anniken Næss, the commissioning editor for children’s and factual programmes in NRK participated in most programme group meetings in 2007. She describes here what she has gained from these meetings. Read more in Norwegian...
What do you say, dear viewers and listeners?
In future we won’t have to remember combinations of numbers and passwords to take part in quizzes and polls on television and radio via our mobile phones. The Nordvision Normob group is working on a way around it. Read more in Danish...
Public Service viewing rates falling in the Nordic countries
Public Service channels in the Nordic countries have in the recent years lost viewers to their competitors and this development continued in 2007. Read more in Danish...
RUV backing Icelandic drama
Icelandic and Nordic television drama are both popular in Iceland. RUV will be going for at least two drama series a year in the future, if possible with participation by the other Nordvision broadcasters, the head of programme production, Thorhallur Gunnarsson (RUV) tells in this interview. Read more in Danish...
A splendid year for Nordvision
2007 was yet another superb year for the Nordvision partneship. The partnership generated a total of 1.848 hours of television amongst the Nordvision broadcasters. Read more in Danish...
440 hours of Nordic TV-drama in 2007
The Nordic drama group has enjoyed a great rating success and has had a considerable volume in its co-operation. 440 hours of Nordic television drama emerged from the partnership in 2007. We present an interview with the chair of the group, Hans Rossiné, head of drama at NRK. Read more in Norwegian...
Polar recordings in a shared bank
Science desks are setting new standards for sharing expensive television recordings from Greenland, the Himalayas and Antarctica through a joint reportage bank. Other desks could easily benefit from the idea, say the people behind it. Read more in Danish...
A record year for Nordic news exchange
In 2007 the Nordic news exchange set yet another record for the number of news stories exchanged. During the year 1237 stories were used out of a total of 1413 made available. Read more in Danish...
