Also known as Danish Broadcast Corporation, Danish Radio, Danmarks Radio
Danish public service broadcaster
Key facts
- Formerly
- Radioordningen (1925–1926), Statsradiofonien (1926–1959), Danmarks Radio (1959–1996)
- Company type
- Publicly funded public-service broadcaster
- Industry
- Mass media
- Founded
- 1 April 1925 ; 101 years ago ( 1925-04-01 )
- Headquarters
- DR Byen , Copenhagen , Denmark
- Area served
- Kingdom of Denmark
- Key people
- Bjarne Corydon , ( Director-General ) Marianne Bedsted, ( Chairman )
- Revenue
- 3,789,800,000 Danish krone (2021)
- Net income
- −95,400,000 Danish krone (2021)
- Total assets
- 5,773,300,000 Danish krone (2021)
- Number of employees
- 2,439 (2021)
- Website
- Official website
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
DR ( pronounced [ˈte̝ˀˌɛɐ̯]), officially the Danish Broadcasting Corporation in English, is a Danish public-service radio and television broadcasting company. Founded in 1925 as a public-service organization, it is Denmark's oldest and largest electronic media enterprise. DR shares many of its organisational characteristics with its British counterpart, the BBC, on which it was largely modelled. DR is a founding member of the European Broadcasting Union.
DR was originally funded by a media licence, however since 2022, the media license has been replaced by an addition to the Danish income tax.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “DR” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.