Kunskapskanalen
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| Kunskapskanalen | |
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| Launched | September 27, 2004 |
| Owned by | Sveriges Utbildningsradio Sveriges Television |
| Audience share | ~0.4% (Aug '07, [1]) |
| Country |  Sweden |
| Website | http://www.kunskapskanalen.se/ |
| Availability | |
| Terrestrial | |
| Digital terrestrial | Channel 98 |
| Satellite | |
| Canal Digital | |
| Viasat | Channel 39 |
| Cable | |
| Com Hem | Analogue Channel 153 |
| Canal Digital | |
| Tele2Vision | |
| IPTV over ADSL | |
| Canal Digital | |
| FastTV | |
| Telia Digital-tv | |
| Viasat | |
Kunskapskanalen (in literal translation: the Knowledge channel) is a Swedish language television channel broadcasting educational and factual programming between 6 p.m. and 11 p.m. all days of the week. The channel is operated by Sveriges Television (SVT) and Sveriges Utbildningsradio (UR) and is broadcasted by satellite, cable and digital terrestrial television to Sweden as well as by cable to parts of Finland and terrestrially on Åland. Because Denmark and Sweden borders so close at the Øresund Strait, the channel can also be received over DVB-T in Copenhagen.
The channel was officially opened on September 27, 2004 and did initially only broadcast between Sundays and Thursdays. Transmissions on Fridays and Saturdays started in January 2006. On weekdays, UR did broadcast between 6-7:30 and 9:30-11 and SVT between 7:30-9:30. On weekends UR started at 6, handing over to SVT at 9. UR use in-vision presenters for their programmes until January 2007, when in-vision continuity was abolished at UR. During the night a simple caption is broadcast. The channel shares space with Barnkanalen, which broadcast in the day-time.
On September 1, 2007, the channel got new broadcasting hours. Barnkanalen took over the 6-7 slot, while Kunskapskanalen extended its broadcasting time to 1 a.m.
The channel logo has been present since the start and is inspired by the Oscar Reutersvärd impossible figures.
Counterparts could be said to be BBC Four in the UK, SBS in Australia, PBS in USA, 3sat in Germany and Austria, Nederland 4 in The Netherlands, France 5 in France, 2: in Portugal or YLE Teema in Finland.
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Månadsrapport Augusti 2007, Mediamätning i Skandinavien, <http://www.mms.se/manrapp/Månadsrapport_2007-08.xls>
[edit] External links
- Official site (Swedish)
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