Sjónvarp Føroya
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Sjónvarp Føroya (SvF) means Television of the Faroes. It is the first and only local TV station of the small country with its 48,000 inhabitants, speaking their own Faroese language.
The history of SvF goes back to the 1960s. In 1969, the Faroese parliament (Løgting) decided to found a stock for developing TV facilities on the islands under public law. The law of 1978 arranged the realisation of the network, which was finally founded as Sjónvarp Føroya in 1981. An old furniture store in the capital Tórshavn was from 1983 rebuild to a TV studio, where on April 1, 1984 the first Faroese programme was launched. The regular operation of SVF started on September 1 that year.
In spring 1985, the former freelancers of Faroese TV were engaged as staff by the Faroese government. Since 1990, other buildings in the neighbourhood were bought in order to enhance the network's premises.
By Faroese law, SvF has the goal of broadcasting 1/3 of its programmes in the Faroese language. The other programmes are mostly taken from Danmarks Radio and are Danish subtitled movies. In 2003, 27 percent of the SvF's programmes were in Faroese.
SvF funds itself from a combination of television licence fees, commercials, and bingo [1][2].
[edit] External links
- SVF.fo - Homepage (Faroese TV programmes for download)
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