Re-inventing itself: SVT.This year marks a new direction for Sveriges Television Sveriges Television AB (SVT, Pronunciation ) is a national government-run television broadcaster based in Sweden. (SVT SVT supraventricular tachycardia. SVT abbr. supraventricular tachycardia SVT Supraventricular tachycardia, see there ), Sweden's state broadcaster. Like most of Europe's public broadcasters SVT has recently had a sword hanging over two networks: Kanal 1 and TV2. Faced with the recession, Parliament threatened to reduce or remove funding for TV2, SVT's second channel which broadcasts from 10 regional offices. State officials even suggested the privatization privatization: see nationalization. privatization Transfer of government services or assets to the private sector. State-owned assets may be sold to private owners, or statutory restrictions on competition between privately and publicly owned of TV2. Growing competition from the commercial TV3, TV4 and about 15 international satellite networks has also cut the combined share of SVT's two networks to 50 per cent. The good news is that Kanal 1 continues to lead with a 29 per cent share. To survive, SVT has had to re-invent itself. Since last month, both Kanal 1 and TV2 are owned by a foundation, a development that ends the broadcaster's status as a limited company. The executive in charge of this transition is managing director Sam (1) (Security Accounts Manager) The part of Windows NT that manages the database of usernames, passwords and permissions. A SAM resides in each server as well as in each domain controller. See PDC and trust relationship. Nilsson. He is helped by Ingvar Bengtsson, programming director of Kanal 1, and Hans Bonnevier, programming chief for TV2. The broadcaster will continue to be financed mostly by the annual license fee of SKr 1,440 (about $183) per TVHH TVHH Television Households . The SKr2.86 billion budget for 1993 included SKr500 million not used in previous years. The budget projection for this year is expected to be SKr3 billion, 14 per cent of which is for programming. Of the more than 6,000 hours of programs that SVT transmitted, 2,711 hours were acquired from overseas. The U.S. supplied 31.4 per cent of the foreign programs. European countries combined accounted for 35.7 per cent. SVT International (SVTI SVTI Static Virtual Tunnel Interface ) is responsible for program acquisition and handles sales for SVT's in-house productions. It is also the agent for a large number of independent Swedish producers and has acquired the rights to the Nordic nations (plus some Benelux rights) from a small group of foreign producers and distributors. Ake Kallgvist heads SVTI. He is supported by Helena Aberg, head of program sales, Erene Bergman, head of fiction and music acquisition, Ignas Scheynius, head of feature film acquisition plus Helena Woody Woody Slang to describe when the market has a strong and quick upward movement. Notes: For example, you'll hear "the market has a woody," when the market is performing well... seriously, we don't make this stuff up. , head of negotiations and contracts. Although pay-TV in Scandinavia is still in its infancy infancy, stage of human development lasting from birth to approximately two years of age. The hallmarks of infancy are physical growth, motor development, vocal development, and cognitive and social development. . Sweden is the largest individual market for FilmNet, a leading pay-TV operation in Europe. Headquarters of the 24-hour service (known as FilmNet Plus), which is picked up in the Benelux and Scandinavia, is the Netherlands. But FilmNet Plus' transmission to the Nordic states originates from Stockholm, the Swedish capital. The Stockholm office is also responsible for the broadcast of The Complete Movie Channel, FilmNet's feature-dedicated network. The most significant development for FilmNet was the restructuring restructuring - The transformation from one representation form to another at the same relative abstraction level, while preserving the subject system's external behaviour (functionality and semantics). project that took place last September. The corporation. which is owned by Compagnie Financiere Richemont, South Africa's M-Net and Dutch service RTL (Register Transfer Level) A high-level hardware description language (HDL) for defining digital circuits. The circuits are described as a collection of registers, Boolean equations, control logic such as "if-then-else" statements as well as complex event sequences; 4, totally restructured its business units. They are now divided into two parts: the FilmNet Channel, which oversees all FilmNet Plus activities and MultiChoice, a newly formed autonomous organization that offers a package of services to 34 different countries, excluding Germany and the U.K. FilmNet competes fiercely with Scansat's TV1000 for the $200 million annual revenue pay-TV collects from Scandinavia. FilmNet's aim is to offer each of the countries served two channels for the price of one. FilmNet Plus offers films, sports and general entertainment programs, which include K-TV's children's programming. Each country receives a FilmNet Plus specifically packaged for the different national audience. The encrypted en·crypt tr.v. en·crypt·ed, en·crypt·ing, en·crypts 1. To put into code or cipher. 2. Computer Science FilmNet is also received in the Danish capital Copenhagen via the Kanal 2 channel. The Complete Movie Channel is also available to Scandinavia's direct-to-home markets via Norway's Thor satellite. Anders Lindh was recently appointed to be program director of FilmNet Plus Scandinavia. Kerstin Bystrom is program director for The Movie Channel in both Scandinavia and the Benelux. Similar in structure to Sky Multi-Channel in London, FilmNet's MultiChoice is already serving the Netherlands and Sweden. In the second quarter of this year 1994), it plans to launch MultiChoice in Portugal. |
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