TV-Byen, 2860 Søborg

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The non-socialists saw red

By Flemming Steen Nielsen , Cand.mag. med hovedfag i historie. (6 stories)

The 14-storey high-rise block by the motorway to Farum stands as a monument to TV City, which housed Danmarks Radio's TV administration and production from 1964–2006/07. At the end of the 1950s, Radio House at Rosenørns Allé could no longer contain both the radio and TV units. A whole new TV city was needed. The task was left to the architectural firm of Vilhelm Lauritzen, which had designed the Radio House. In 1964, the first TV departments moved in. In 1970, the high office block was opened and in 1983 the TV-Avisen news team was the last to move in to Gyngemosen". But in 2006 the tide turned, everyone began moving out to the newly built DR City in Ørestad, and the building was sold. "

Not a public place

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A political battleground

Story written by Flemming Steen Nielsen

Time / Periode 1964

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Danmarks Radio still had a monopoly on TV broadcasting in Denmark back in 1964. Its mandate was mainly to spread general knowledge and raise public awareness. DR-TV was therefore a powerful medium and Danmarks Radio's management – until 1987 called the political Radio Council – often disagreed about the content. The conflict also included the alleged political bias of the programmes, the language and not least the children's and youth programmes. For example, a programme called The Pepper Mill" got the non-socialist parties seeing red. The monopoly continued until satellite dishes in the 1980s allowed people to see foreign channels, and then in 1988 the rival TV 2 was founded, signalling a new era. "