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Bingolotto Bingolotto is a Swedish primetime television game show lottery that was first broadcast 1989 on local TV and since 1991 nationwide on the Swedish network TV4 . The show is a collaboration work between Swedish TV channel TV4 , the Swedish lottery game company Folkspel and the Swedish sports life . The show premiered on 16 January 1989 on the local TV channel Kållevisionen with the highly popular Leif Loket Olsson as show host . Since the beginning , the show has given 16 billion Swedish krona to the Swedish sports life centre . 1989–1999 : Early rise , success . In January 1989 , Bingolotto premiered and Olsson introduced the game show to the people in the Gothenburg area . The programme became very popular in this area and 10,000 lottery tickets were sold to every episode between 1989 and 1991 . In the autumn of 1990 , the game shows owner and C.E.O . Gert Eklund started his collaboration with TV4 to start broadcasting the show nationwide . Olsson , who had built the game and company together with Eklund in 1988 , owned a 25 percent share of the game but was bought of the company in 1999 . On 19 October 1991 , Bingolotto premiered nationwide on TV4 with the popular Leif Loket Olsson as show host . The premiere episode was watched by 1.3 million viewers in Sweden , a very high and surprising viewing figure . From October 1991 to March 1992 , Bingolotto had raised viewing figures from 1.3 million viewers to 2.1 million viewers . The success of the show was positively associated with the popularity of host Leif Loket Olsson . In 1992 , Loket received the television award The Lennart Hyland TV Prize for Best Male Show Host of the Year . Loket received this prize again in 1994 and 1997 . In 1993 , Loket received the prize Årets Göteborgare ( Gothenburg Citizen of the Year ) . In 1994 , Olsson attracted 3.5 million viewers to watch every single program throughout the whole year , a record-high viewing figure . In 1995 , Olsson attracted 4.5 million viewers to every programme , the highest viewing figure that has been registered in Swedish TV . In 1999 , Olsson left the show and was replaced by Lasse Kronér . The viewing figure crashed immediately down to only 900,000 viewers per programme and the viewers and fans of the show wanted Loket to return . In January 2004 , Kronér was fired and Loket was asked to return briefly to fill in for him . The price of the lottery ticket has been between 25 and 50 Swedish kronor , and in March 2005 , one billion tickets had been sold since the beginning . The surplus is given to Swedish sport associations , a fact which is commonly believed to have increased the penetration of the show . 31.5 million Swedish kronor ( approx £2.5 million ) is the highest won prize ever in the history of Bingolotto . It was won by a woman from Vara , Sweden . Leif Loket Olsson hosted the show from 1989 to 1999 ( and for a short period in 2004 ) . Since Olssons retirement , the show has been hosted by entertainer and musician Lars Kronér , skiing athlete Gunde Svan , and TV-personality Rickard Olsson , of which none has been able to maintain the shows earlier popularity . A significant rise in popularity developed when the singer Lotta Engberg took over the hosting in fall 2008 . From fall 2011 is the show hosting by Jan Bylund . Fore beginning the program shows in TV4 , after 2008 the program is on TV4 Plus . On 12 September 2011 change the channel name to Sjuan ( The Seven ) . In August 2015 was the program back on TV4 with Ingvar Oldsberg as host . Clips from Bingolotto are featured in the video of Madonnas 1998 song Ray of Light , directed by Swede Jonas Åkerlund . and in the 1998 film Show Me Love . In both cases clips from the period when Leif Loket Olsson hosted the show were used . A UK version was also produced , see BingoLotto ( UK ) . Both TV programs have had as media consultant professor Charlie Medina . Music . The programmes contains music pauses , where an artist or group appears . During the Leif Loket Olsson leadership era , Bingolotto was strongly dominated by dansband music . Later , other popular music also has become more common .