TV Avisen

TV Avisen is the name of the news programme of the Danish TV channel DR1.

History

TV Avisen was broadcast for the first time on 15 October 1965. At this point television had already been broadcast regularly in Denmark for 14 years. This was due to an agreement signed between DR and the press in 1926 which guaranteed the press' control of the broadcast of news on television and radio. The agreement remained in place after the introduction of television and was rescinded on 1 July 1964. The following year, the first episode of TV Avisen was broadcast. Initially it mostly contained footage from foreign news agencies with a musical accompaniment in the style of a newsreel. The first colour episode of TV Avisen was broadcast in 1978.

In 1993 DR lost its monopoly in news broadcasting when private broadcaster TV2 (founded in 1988) began broadcasting its own news programme.

In 2006, the morning edition of TV Avisen was axed due to low viewing figures. In the same year the TV and radio studios of DR were combined in the new DR Byen complex in Copenhagen. TV Avisen received a new design and began to be transmitted in 16:9.

Current Broadcasting Times

• Daily at 18:30 for 30 minutes.
• Daily (except Saturday) at 21:30, Monday-Friday for 25 minutes and Sunday for 15 minutes.

Features of the Programme

TV Avisen always begins with a short summary of the news. The top story tends to concern a Danish issue. TV Avisen has its own permanent correspondents in Washington DC, New York, Rome, Brussels, China and the Middle East, as well as a special climate correspondent.

As is usual for Danish television, reports which contain foreign languages (for example interviews with foreign politicians or foreign press conferences) are not dubbed in Danish, but subtitled.

Online Streaming

All episodes of TV Avisen from the previous 30 days are available from the DR website. Livestreaming is only possible when using an IP Address from Denmark.

Further reading

• TV Avisen website [1]