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Regular Swedish television broadcasts begin

SVT records regular Swedish TV broadcasts beginning from Nackamasten on 4 September 1956. The event marks television entering the postwar folkhem before the 1958 World Cup made it a mass household medium.

Tier
B
Confidence
B
Bias risk
Low
Kind
culture
Date
1956-09-04

SVT records regular Swedish television broadcasts beginning from Nackamasten on 4 September 1956.

Television was still a luxury, but this start matters because it sets up one of the late-1950s everyday-life shifts: the TV set becoming part of the folkhem home, especially after the 1958 World Cup.

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