15 Facts About NRK

NRK is a founding member of the European Broadcasting Union.

NRK initially set out to cover the entire country and had a monopoly on broadcasting in Norway.

NRK was one of 23 founding broadcasting organisations of the European Broadcasting Union, which was founded in 1950.

In 1954, NRK started broadcasting television shows, on a trial basis.

NRK was the last of the major European public broadcasters to introduce a second radio station, officially starting as late as 1984.

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In 1993, NRK launched a third radio station, the youth-oriented P3.

On 3 September 2007, NRK launched its third channel: a youth channel called NRK3.

All NRK broadcasting activities on shortwave ceased on 1 January 2004.

NRK Radio is expected to transition from FM to digital radio before commercial radio stations do so.

NRK claimed to have the longest-running radio show, Lørdagsbarnetimen, which ran from 20 December 1924 until 11 September 2010.

Director of relocation Jon Espen Lohne in NRK, said in 2020 that they have ambitions to get the country to choose a site before the end of the year.

In May 2021, it was announced that NRK had decided to move to Ensjø, and that the price for the property was NOK 800 million.

NRK's headquarters are at Marienlyst in Oslo and Tyholt in Trondheim.

NRK has an HD outside broadcast van, producing high-definition video.

In preparation for the Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver, NRK announced that they would launch a high-definition channel, and their first native HD broadcast would be from Vancouver.