type radio network country sweden availability international owner sveriges radio key people ingemar l fgren head of sr international gundula adolfsson program director nidia hagstr m news director gaby katz head of english service launch date 1938 former names radio sweden international official website http radiosweden.org radio sweden swedish sveriges radio international is sweden s official international broadcasting station . swedish radio is a non commercial and politically independent public service broadcasting company . contents 1 history 2 current programming in english 3 former programs 3.1 sweden calling dxers 3.2 the saturday show 4 end of radio broadcasting 5 see also 6 references 7 external links history edit sr international is part of sveriges radio sr sweden s non commercial public radio broadcasting organization . the service was founded in 1938 at the approach of world war ii as a way of keeping swedes living abroad informed of happenings in sweden and of swedish opinion . programming was at first in swedish only but in 1939 english and german language broadcasts were added . after the war further language services were added in french portuguese russian and spanish . at the close of the cold war the services in french portuguese and spanish were gradually phased out and replaced by new services in estonian and latvian . the latter services were withdrawn once estonia and latvia had developed their own independent media and joined the european union . radio sweden also operated a service in belarusian between 2004 and 2009 . in the 1990s radio sweden was merged with sr s immigrant languages department to form the sr international channel . for a while immigrant language services such as those in arabic and kurdish were additionally carried on shortwave . current programming in english edit the radio sweden english service seeks to provide a window on the diverse perspectives and issues in sweden today . citation needed its programs and website offer a sm rg sbord of news and current affairs science and technology lifestyle and culture . former programs edit sweden calling dxers edit one of the most popular programs on radio sweden was sweden calling dxers founded in 1948 by arne skoog . he reasoned that shortwave listening or dxing was a very young hobby and that by providing information in a weekly program for shortwave listeners about their hobby radio sweden was teaching its own audience about how to listen better . while the first program was based solely on arne s own listening listeners were encouraged to write in with their own news and soon virtually all of the program was based on listener s letters an early example of interactvity . the program was carried on tuesdays in all of radio sweden s services except swedish . when arne skoog retired in connection with the program s 30th anniversary in 1978 the program was taken over by george wood a member of the radio sweden english service . after a number of years as media changed it began to cover less about shortwave and more about satellite radio and television . later coverage was extended to the internet the focus was shifted to concentrating on swedish media and the name of the english version of the program was changed to mediascan . mediascan was the first english language radio program in europe and the second overall in europe to post audio on the internet on the ftp sites ftp.funet.fi and ftp.sunet.se as well as via internet multicasting . in 2001 the program was discontinued but remains in a somewhat sporadic form on the radio sweden website . the saturday show edit another popular radio sweden program was the the saturday show with roger wallis and kim loughran which ran from 1967 to 1981 . the program was launched to showcase swedish rock and pop music in a world dominated by american and british rock . using radio sweden s relatively high powered medium wave transmitter on 1179 khz the entire program was 90 minutes in length and featured many satirical sketches often political and sometimes controversial . a 30 minute segment of the entire broadcast was the radio sweden shortwave program on saturdays . end of radio broadcasting edit on october 20 2010 radio sweden ceased broadcasts on shortwave and medium wave as swedish radio s management decided that the internet had matured enough to support international broadcasts . at the same time the english service was extended to national broadcasts on fm but programming on weekends was discontinued . services in english also continue on satellite both using swedish television s satellite and the world radio network . in the beginning of 2016 the international service underwent a major reorganization . english language news about sweden for overseas listeners were moved to a 30 minutes a week show on p2 and to social media . minority languages service was further focused on those minorities living in sweden and integrated with swedish language services . service in languages of the oppressed nations such as somali were moved to an independent organization . news for overseas listeners in foreign languages other than english such as russian and german has been canceled . 1 see also edit sweden portal radio portal external program hours comparison with some other external radio broadcasters sveriges radio the swedish publicly funded radio broadcaster references edit http sverigesradio.se sida artikel.aspx programid 2054 & artikel 6249380 external links edit sr international radio sweden website arabic english german kurdish persian romani russian somali coordinates 59 20 5 n 18 6 5 e 59.33472 n 18.10139 e 59.33472 ; 18.10139 v t e members of the world radio network akashvani all india radio banns radio international channel africa china radio international democracy now deutsche welle international radio serbia israel radio international kantor berita radio 68h kbs world radio npr pcj radio polish radio external service radio algeria international 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