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Television channel
Kunskapskanalen
(in English:
The Knowledge Channel
) is a
Swedish language
television channel
broadcasting
educational
and factual
programming
between 15:00 and 01:00 (having previously aired from 09:00 and 01:00) all days of the week. The channel is operated by
Sveriges Television
(SVT) and
Sveriges Utbildningsradio
(UR) and is broadcast by
satellite
,
cable
and
digital terrestrial television
to
Sweden
as well as by cable to
Norway
and parts of
Finland
, and terrestrially on
Aland
. Because
Denmark
and Sweden borders so close at the
Øresund Strait
, the channel can also be received over DVB-T in
Copenhagen
.
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The channel officially started broadcasting on 27 September 2004, initially only between Sundays and Thursdays. Transmissions on Fridays and Saturdays started in January 2006. On weekdays, UR broadcast between 6-7:30 and 9:30-11 and SVT between 7:30-9:30. On weekends UR started at 6, handing over to SVT at 9. UR used in-vision
presenters
for their programmes until January 2007, when in-vision continuity was abolished. At night a simple caption is broadcast. The channel shares space with
Barnkanalen
, which broadcasts during the day.
On 1 September 2007 the channel got new broadcasting hours. Barnkanalen took over the 6-7 slot, while Kunskapskanalen extended its broadcasting time to 1 a.m.
In autumn 2008,
Barnkanalen
took over yet another hour of broadcast time. From 8 August 2008 Barnkanalen would broadcast until 7.30, and from on weekdays, and from 25 August 2008 Kunskapskanalen will commence it broadcasts at 8 p.m. every day of the week. SVT also cuts down on the amount of original programming they produce for Kunskapskanalen, letting the channel rerun programmes from SVT2 instead.
Starting 18 January 2010 Kunskapskanalen will have its broadcast hours dramatically increased when it takes over
SVT24
's channel space. It will then broadcast from 9 a.m. on Weekdays and from 12 p.m. on Weekends. During the daytime, it will broadcast
SVT Forum
(previously known as
24 Direkt
) which broadcasts seminars, debates and coverage of the
Riksdag
and the
European Parliament
.
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The channel's first and former logo was inspired by
Oscar Reutersvard's
impossible figures.
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