Starting on the first of July, the operational, day-to-day work of Nordvision will be led from NRK’s premises in Oslo, with the new Secretary General Arne Helsingen at the helm. The new secretariat hopes to continue lively contact with the employees of Nordic public service media.
The current Head of TV at NRK will take on the role as leader of the Nordic media cooperation on July 1, 2024. Helsingen already has extensive experience of collaboration through Nordvision, and currently serves as NRK’s representative both on the Fund Board as well as in the Media Directors’ meetings.
The Nordic public service TV and media collaboration is in the midst of a golden age. With a cornucopia of drama productions for children, young people and adults, the five Nordvision countries pooled their resources to produce 77 Nordic TV series last year. Now the collaboration is growing further. 200 new series have already gone into production.
The documentary series Arvinge okänd is a Nordic TV success story. In Sweden, the editorial team has been nominated for Stora journalistpriset (the Swedish Grand Prize for Journalism). In Denmark, the Danish National Archives are seeing a surge in public interest thanks to this show. And NRK’s version, Ukjent arving, is soon to hit the Norwegian small screen.
2018 was an eventful year, not least for the Nordvision news exchange. Thanks to the sharing of fast and reliable information, and fibre-optic networks connecting the capital cities, users are able to access news clips and live broadcasts from every corner of the Nordic region.
Over the past few years, Nordvision has occasionally organised staff seminars centred on four specific
themes. Interest in these meetings has become so great that the events will become a permanent fixture each year from now on.
With a successful version of DR’s Klassen in the bag, SVT now plans to pull off a similar trick. The target audience is a real challenge: 10 to 12-year-olds who have grown up online and are completely used to accessing content from every corner of the world.
Nordic public service providers face the same challenge to attract younger target groups. At the Social Media Academy in Oslo, Snapchat star Rasmus Kolbe explained to more than 100 social media experts how he gets thousands of people to like his posts.
50 developers met for the fourth time for Hack Day – to test new ideas, but also to compete and connect with their peers.
People’s media habits are changing so fast that the Nordic public service TV stations are struggling to keep up. While all of the providers face the same challenge, the solutions vary. This became apparent at a two-day seminar for publishing staff in March 2018.
