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.
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.