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NRK license fee set to disappear

Norwegians' longtime manner of financing their state broadcaster NRK, though a license fee charged to all households with a TV, is likely to be replaced in...

‘Skam’ creator keen to see US version

While local media was full of reports about how Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK)'s hit series Skam (Shame) had been sold to the US, its creators...

Brekke keeps his job at Telenor

Sigve Brekke has survived a reported attempt by the leader of Telenor's board of directors to force his resignation as the company's chief executive....

Media storm batters troubled Telenor

As reasons for a lack of confidence in Telenor CEO Sigve Brekke continued to leak out of the company this week, one of its major employee organizations tried...

‘Norge Rundt’ celebrates 40 years on the air

One of Norway's best-loved TV programs, Norge Rundt (Around Norway), was celebrating its 40th anniversary on the air this week. State broadcaster NRK was...

FM radio owners lost out to DAB

A last-ditch effort by some top politicians to postpone the looming shutdown of Norway's FM radio network failed in Parliament on Wednesday. That means FM radio will still...

Transition to DAB radio faces more protests

Norway's Progress Party wants to block the pending shutdown of Norway's FM radio network, which is due to begin early next year. The Center Party...

Facebook stunt backfires on everyone

Immigration Minister Sylvi Listhaug, established Norwegian media outlets, local actor Kristoffer Joner, the asylum advocacy organization NOAS and around 30,000 donors to NOAS all found...

Trade union federation funds two newspapers

Norway's largest trade union federation, LO, has voted to grant millions of kroner in funding to two newspapers, one of them the struggling Oslo-based Dagsavisen, in...

Facebook still rejects an editor’s role

Facebook's so-called "Director of Media Partnership" came to Oslo this week to face the social media powerhouse's critics in Norway, who set off an international...

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