SVT1

### Broadcast area

Nationally, also broadcast in Denmark, parts of Norway and Finland (especially Ostrobothnia) near the Swedish border

## Ownership

### Sister channels

SVT 2SVT 24
SVT Barn
Kunskapskanalen

## Programming

### Picture format

SVT1: 576i (SDTV) (1956-); 720p (HDTV) (2010-)SVT1 HD: 1080i (HDTV)

## History

### Former names

Radiotjänst TV (1956-1957)Sveriges Radio TV (1957-1969)
TV1 (1969-1987)
Kanal 1 (1987-1996)

## Availability

### Terrestial

**Digital terrestrial, cable, satellite & DVB-T**Digital terrestrial networks: Channel 1 (HD)​

### Streaming live

SVT Play

**SVT1 (SVT 1)** is the primary television station of the Swedish public service broadcaster Sveriges Television (SVT) in Sweden. It is *Sveriges första kanal* (Sweden's first channel) and also the oldest channel in the country.

## Channel description

SVT1 is Sweden's largest television channel, with a wide range of programming for everyone. Here you can watch programs in all genres: news, debate, drama, entertainment, talk shows, sports, social and factual programs, and much more.

## History

As the Riksdag decides to introduce television in Sweden, regular TV broadcasts were introduced in Sweden on September 4, 1956, and this is usually seen as the channel's official start. Test broadcasts had, however, occurred before that, Radiotjänst's test broadcasts began on October 29, 1954, with the first test broadcast over the so-called TV Board's provisional transmitter at the Technical University in Stockholm. Already in 1955, the premiere of a southern Swedish news journal for viewers in Skåne was broadcast once a week from a transmitter in Copenhagen until the link chain with Stockholm was completed in 1958.

Initially, the program was broadcast under the designation Radiotjänst TV, before changing its name in the fall of 1957 to Sveriges Radio TV. In 1958, Aktuellt (television news) got premiered. The World Cup in soccer made many people buy televisions and at the same year, Sweden got first Eurovision broadcast, an opera from the Drottningholm Theater.

In 1967, a color television program was broadcast nationwide for the first time. The following year, the Riksdag decides to introduce regular color television.

In connection with the introduction of the two-channel system and the start of TV2 in December 5, 1969, a new organization was introduced, and the first channel was named TV1. The old "TV 0" broadcast for the last time on November 28, 1969 and the new TV1 was launched on November 29, 1969. The first evening included, among other things, an inaugural cabaret with Povel Ramel and Hans Alfredson . TV2 would start just under a week later, on December 5, 1969. In connection with the channel split, the news program Aktuellt was discontinued and replaced by TV-nytt on both channels. Regional programs are started in Sydnytt from Malmö (1970), Västnytt from Gothenburg, Mittnytt from Falun/Sundsvall and Nordnytt from Umeå/Luleå (1972), as well as Norrköping (1980), Växjö (1983) and Karlstad/Örebro (1986)

During 1987, a reorganization of the operations within SVT was carried out which would mean that the channel changed its name to Kanal 1 and mainly showed programs produced in Stockholm. TV2 was to become the "Sverigekanalen" where programs produced outside the country were shown. The Riksdag decides on regular regional news broadcasts. For those who worked at the TV house in Stockholm, the change meant that the newsrooms that existed for old TV1 and TV2 were merged and formed a large Kanal 1 organization.

Organizationally, the changes were launched on July 1, 1987. The new name and the new schedule were introduced on 31 August 1987. New from day one was a fixed block of children's programs after Aktuell's early evening broadcast (with the new " Bolibompavignette ") and that Aktuell's main broadcast moved to 9:30 p.m. The merger of the TV1 and TV2 newsrooms enabled rationalizations, which, over time, increased the program time. Kanal 1 got its own unit for drama production, Kanal 1 Drama, which soon became the Nordic region's largest producer of drama.

1988 was also the start of Uutiset, daily news program in Finnish.

In 1996, Kanal1 and TV2 changed their names to SVT1 and SVT2, and the connection to Stockholm was removed. Instead, any program could go on any channel.

On January 15, 2001, an extensive channel reshuffle was made, when SVT1 had to take care of broad programs that attracted many viewers, while SVT2 became a little narrower. Rapport and Aktuellt change channels with each other. This meant that Sweden's largest news program, Rapport 19.30, was moved to SVT1, while the more in-depth Aktuellt 21.00 was moved to SVT2. For SVT1, however, the changeover was successful, and the channel has since been roughly the same size as TV 4, Sweden's largest commercial TV channel. It's also the start of two more regional programs, Västerbottennytt and Värmlandsnytt, as well as the Sami news program Óddasat.

Digital free-to-air television for all of SVT's channels was introduced on January 1, 2003. The transition to only digital broadcasts in the terrestrial network began in September on Gotland and in the Gävle and Motala areas in 2005.

In 2006, SVT made the decision to start HDTV broadcasts, and as of October, some programs on SVT1 began to be broadcast in HDTV format via the channel SVT HD. In 2007, SVT Nyheter started broadcasting in widescreen. As a result, 95 percent of all SVT programs are broadcast in widescreen. The transition to only digital broadcasts on the terrestrial network was completed on October 15 of the same year.

On August 25, 2008, regional news was also made possible in SVT1, which made it possible to move SVT2's pre-evening block with news, regional news, and Go'kväll to SVT1. By 2008, SVT had 19 regional news programs.

On September 7, 2009, SVT1 became a 24-hour broadcasting channel when the nightly simulcast with SVT24 was replaced by essentially repeats. SVT HD was discontinued in 2010, as the premiere for the channels SVT1 HD and SVT2 HD.

In connection with SVT's 60th anniversary celebration on November 25, 2016, a new company logo was introduced, created by the agency Happy FB . Initially, SVT1's new logo was used with the old channel graphics.

A completely new look was introduced in June 2017 for both SVT1 and SVT2.

## Services

### Distribution

According to the so-called "must carry " agreement, SVT1 (and also SVT2) must be freely available to anyone connected to a major cable network. This means that the cable distributors must rebroadcast SVT1 to everyone connected to their cable network, even if they do not pay for a program offering to them.

SVT1 broadcast from the start in the analog terrestrial network and continued to do so until 2008, when the analog terrestrial network was switched off.

Broadcasts in the digital terrestrial network began in 1999 . In the beginning, SVT1, like the other SVT channels, was an encoded channel, but in 2003 they started broadcasting unencrypted .

SVT began its digital satellite broadcasts in 1999. At that time it was distributed only via Canal Digital but in 2003, an agreement was concluded with Viasat Thus, SVT1 was available through the two dominant satellite TV distributors. It should be noted that you do not have to subscribe to these providers' paid channels in order to receive SVT . Due to the "must carry" principles, it is possible to receive this channel completely free of charge via satellite dish (provided that you finance the purchase of a satellite dish , a suitable digital box , etc. yourself). More information about this can be found on the page about the Free Channel package .

#### Terrestrial television

The Swedish terrestrial network is completely digital and consists of approximately 50 different channels. SVT's channels SVT1 HD, SVT2 HD, SVT Barn/SVT24 and Kunskapskanalen are completely free and broadcast unencrypted. No subscription or program card is needed to see them.

SVT's channels reach 99.8 percent of all households in Sweden and the broadcasts take place from 54 major broadcasters, from Kiruna in the north to Malmö in the south. There are over 500 slave transmitters that improve transmission conditions in smaller areas. On Teracom's website (www.teracom.se/privat), there is more information about which transmitter is best suited for your area.

#### Satellite TV

In the Nordics, there is now only one satellite TV operator, Allente, which is a merger of Canal Digital and Viasat. All SVT channels are included, but the range of local broadcasts is somewhat limited via satellite. The broadcasts are encrypted and require a program card

#### Cable TV

There are several thousand different cable networks in Sweden. Partly large commercial players such as Tele2 (formerly Comhem) and Telenor, part small central television facilities and condominium networks.

#### IPTV

Telia is the largest Swedish distributor in IPTV, a way of broadcasting television images using broadband technology. Many broadband providers now offer television services linked to their subscriptions.

#### SVT Play

Today, more and more people choose to take part in SVT's offer when they want, on their mobile phone, tablet, computer or on another larger screen. You can either connect the computer and the TV with an HDMI cable or enjoy SVT Play via wireless playback with Android TV, Chromecast, Airplay or Apple TV. From 2017, SVT Play is also available as an HbbTV service for TVs and set-top boxes that support that standard.

### Teletext

The subtitle is broadcast in all channels on page 199 on teletext in SVT1, SVT2, SVT Barn, SVT24 and Kunskapskanalen. You can see which programs are subtitled in the coming week on pages 601-619. To see the text, select teletext page 199 with the remote control.

## Programming

### SVT Nyheter

Morgonstudion is shown every weekday morning from 6.00 until 9.10.

Since April 2015, the evening on SVT1 has consisted of a 45-minute news block at 6 p.m. that begins with Rapport and continues with Local news, Sportnytt and Kulturnyheterna . After that, the program Go'kväll is broadcast, among other things . This is followed by Rapport's main broadcast at 19.30, followed by a short edition of Lokala Nyheter.

#### Other information programs

* Landet runt - Reportage series
* Världens natur - Nature show
* Dokument utifrån
* Uppdrag granskning

### Lifestyle shows

* Hemmagympa med Sofia - Home gym series
* Min trädgård - Gardening show
* Engelska Antikrundan (2022-)
* Kan vi bara få njuta (2022-)
* Antikmagasinet
* Vilda kockar (2023-)

### Entertainment

SVT1's main entertainment segment usually starts at 8:00 p.m. Then follow mixed programs.

* Allsång på Skansen
* Antikrundan
* Debatt
* Doobidoo
* Eurovision Song Contest
* Go kväll
* Julkalendern
* Första dejten (First date, 2023-) - Dating reality show
* Melodifestivalen
* Mitt i naturen
* Plus
* På spåret
* Sportspegeln
* Svenska nyheter
* Sverige!
* Så ska det låta
* Strömsö
* Vinterstudion

### Other series

* Den blomstertid (2023)
* Kärlek kostar kilon (2020)
* Drömlandet (2023)
* Satanistmorden i Fall River (2021) - Documentary series
* Tunna blå linjen (2022)
* Spelskandalen (2022)

### Films

* Picassos äventyr (1978) - directed by Tage Danielsson

### Foreign

* Det søde liv (2014) - Danish lifestyle show by DR
* Sanditon (2019) - Historical fiction show by Britbox
* DNA (2019 - 2023) - Danish series by TV2 Danmark

### Former

* En kväll i New York (2016) - Entertainment show
* Gomorron Sverige