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TV2 starts and Swedish television gains a second national channel

SVT records that a second national television channel was added in 1969, extending the public-service media system beyond the single-channel era.

Tier
B
Confidence
B
Bias risk
Medium
Kind
culture
Date
1969

SVT records that a second national television channel was added in 1969. In the public timeline this matters as media infrastructure, not only entertainment.

A second channel widened the shared public-service space through which sport, news, culture, and political communication reached Swedish households.

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