Chris Hanretty

'svt' Category

• Feb

  26

  2008

  Interview with Erik Fichtelius

  My interview this morning with Erik Fichtelius started with a misunderstanding: I had implied that he had come from the party press, when in fact he had been a foreign correspondent with Aftonbladet – hardly the same thing. He went further though, and said that I had the wrong outlook on journalism in Sweden: the [...]

  posted in fichtelius, interview, svt, sweden by Chris

• Feb

  11

  2008

  Former SVT CEO suggests merging SR and SVT

  Former SVT CEO Christina Jutterström has suggested that SR and SVT should be merged, arguing that separate radio and television companies are an anachronism in the modern age. Current SVT CEO Eva Hamilton says it’s a “political question” , which is a polite way of saying that SVT is interested; SR CEO Kerstin Brunnberg rejects [...]

  posted in sr, svt, sweden by Chris

• Jul

  25

  2007

  Besök till TV-huset

  Despite the awful (brutalist) architecture outside, I spent an enjoyable afternoon being shown around  Sveriges Television (SVT) today. The building itself – the TV-hus – is large, with six stages and a large props department. The wisdom of having stages, carpentry and costume teams in what is relatively expensive real estate north of Djurgarden and [...]

  posted in berlusconi, italy, scotland, svt, sweden by Chris

• May

  28

  2007

  Description of SVT’s governance

  Establishment of public broadcasters by charters has its upsides and its downsides.
  Upsides: it maintains the independence of the broadcaster.
  Downsides: I have to read through Sweden’s 1996 Television and Radio Law, the 2007 Licence Agreement, and the Supplement to the Licence Agreement, before finding that none of them contain anything on the governance of SVT.
  Thankfully, this [...]

  posted in law, svt, sweden by Chris

• Apr

  24

  2007

  Journalists’ partisan leanings in Sweden & SVT

  I’m currently waiting on the data from Journalist ‘05, a regular (every five years) survey of Swedish journalists, which are as I write being turned into book form by Prof. Kent Asp and colleagues. In the meantime, here are some results from the 2000 survey:

  Public
  Journalists
  SVT Journalists

  Left
  15
  31
  33

  Social Democrats
  32
  27
  23

  Centre
  4
  3
  2

  People’s Party
  5
  14
  17

  Moderates
  25
  10
  6

  Greens
  6
  10
  14

  Christian Democrats
  13
  5
  5

  Journalists in general are more left-libertarian [...]

  posted in journalists, survey, svt, sweden by Chris

• Oct

  16

  2006

  New Director-General for Sveriges Television

  Eva Hamilton, SVT’s Head of Fiction, was last Friday appointed Director General of the Swedish public broadcaster. With experience in SVT’s News department, she comes to SVT after having worked for Aftonbladet (”independent social democrat”) and Svenska Dagbladet (”independent, conservative”) [Source for these judgements: BBC Media monitoring].

  posted in appointments, svt, sweden by Chris

• Aug

  22

  2006

  Sveriges Television

  I’m hoping to include Sveriges Television as one of my cases in my PhD. I had thought that Nordic stoicism might make SVT less interesting than, say, Rai or RTVE. Not if Rapport keeps putting out news like this it won’t be.
  Technorati Tags: sveriges+television, svt

  posted in svt, sweden by Chris