DR (Danish Broadcasting Corporation) is Denmark’s oldest and largest electronic media enterprise. The corporation was founded in 1925 as a public service organisation. DR is an independent, licence financed public institution.

Facts on DR

DR Radio comprises four FM-stations: P1, P2 (classical music and culture), P3 (young people) and P4 (eleven regional stations). Since 1996 DR has transmitted radio on the Internet, including daily transmissions of Radioavisen (news) and Orientering (current affairs magazine). In 1999 DR introduced a new activity, DR Classical (with P2 and other classical music around the clock), which is accessible via satellite dish reception or cable and on the Internet. DR also offers 14 radio channels on DAB (Digital Audio Broadcasting) and more than 30 channels on the Internet.

DR TV comprises two channels, DR1 and DR2. DR1 was founded in 1951 and DR2 in 1996. Both channels are, from April 2006, broadcasted with full national coverage as free-to-air signals via the new digital terrestrial television (DTT) platform. Broadcast continues on the analogue terrestrial network (with some limitations for DR2) until analogue shut off by end of October 2009. Both channels are must carry on cable, and satellite operators offer both channels in their packages. In addition most of the channels content is freely available on demand as streaming and podcast on the Internet (and to a smaller degree to mobile phones).

DR Interactive/Online (www.dr.dk) offers a rapidly increasing number of radio and television programmes, also for podcasting, as well as service information, incl. daily news from Radioavisen, TV Avisen and Tekst-TV (tele-text). As the largest Danish Internet news provider, DR has introduced 24-hour staffing on this news service, which is widely used by Danes abroad.

DR Multimedia produces merchandise related to DR Radio and DR TV, such as books, videos, music-CDs, CD-ROMs, toys and games. DR Multimedia works on a commercial basis, and its budget is separate from the licence financed broadcasting activities.

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