RADIO IN NORWAY
New Zealand DX Club re‘cently, ending "With best greetings from Norway, ‘the Land of the Midnight Sun, Yours faithfully, Arne Halvorsen, Shortwave | Editor," was handed to The Listener the ‘other day. It\reveals some interesting points about the use of radio in a country topographically like our own. Mr. Halvorsen, who looks after the short- , wave section of the Norwegian maga- | zine, Radio Teknikk, says that in Nor/wegian broadcasting there are 350 per‘sons "whereof 200 are in the programme department and administration, and 150 are technicians. Geographical conditions make broadcasting difficult in Norway because of*high mountains and deep val_leys, long fjords and unsheltered widths -features which prevent operating with only a few stations." Like New Zealand Norway has 26 _ Stations, in addition to the shortwave transmitters, and broadcasting is con trolled from the Kringkastingshuset, or A LETTER received by the
Broadcasting House, at Oslo, serving, out of a population of 3,217,000, about 710,000 listeners, by which Mr. Halvorsen means, presumably, licence-holders. The writer says that in a recent talk with Gunnar Nygaard, head of the Shortwave Division, he was told that the division had had many reports of good quality reception of Radio Norway in New Zealand, Australia and India. All Norwegian broadcasting is operated by the State company, Norsk Rikskringkasting, and the new shortwave transmitter was opened on January 3, 1948, by King Haakon VII. The division has one 100-kilowatt and two eight-kilo-watt transmitters. (Radio New Zealand was opened eight months later with a power of seven and a-half kilowatts.) Transmissions from Radio Norway are intended mainly for. Norwegians abroad, but there are several announcements in English both at the beginning and the end of transmissions. In every session there is a concert of Norwegian music of various types, introduced in English as well as Norwegian, and on Saturdays letters from listeners are answered and request recordings are played. The transmissions, according to Mr. Halvorsen, are opened and closed with "a very strong and distinctive stamp melody. It is built over the oldest hall-ing-a Norwegian folk tune from the Halling Valley." —
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 22, Issue 546, 9 December 1949, Page 24
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344RADIO IN NORWAY New Zealand Listener, Volume 22, Issue 546, 9 December 1949, Page 24
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