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{{Short description|Swedish public TV channel}}
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{{Infobox television channel
| name            = SVT1
| logo            = [[File:SVT1 logo 2016.svg|frameless|class=skin-invert]]
| launch_date     = {{Start date and years ago|1956|09|04|df=y}}
| owner           = [[Sveriges Television]]
| picture_format  = [[High-definition television|HDTV]] ([[1080i]] [[16:9]])
| country         = [[Sweden]]
| language        = [[Swedish language|Swedish]] {{small|(main; foreign language programmes shown in original language but with Swedish subtitles)}}<br>[[Danish language|Danish]] {{small|(subtitles for select Swedish original productions)}}<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.svt.se/kontakt/sa-aktiverar-du-undertexter-syntolkning-och-teckensprakstolkning|title=Så aktiverar du undertexter, syntolkning och teckenspråkstolkning|language=sv|access-date=3 April 2024|publisher=SVT|quote=Vissa egenproducerade program erbjuder Dansktextning. Dansktextningen kan ses följande sidor: 591 för SVT1 (…)}}</ref>
| area            = National; also distributed in [[Norway]], [[Finland]], [[Denmark]], [[Germany]], [[Poland]] and via [[satellite television|satellite]] across [[Europe]] and in certain areas by [[cable television|cable]].
| former_names    = Radiotjänst TV (1956–1957)<br>Sveriges TV (1957–1969)<br>TV1 (1969–1987)<br>Kanal 1 (1987–1996)
| website         = http://www.svt.se/
| sister_channels = [[SVT2]], [[SVT Barn]], [[Kunskapskanalen]], [[SVT24]]
| terr_serv_1     = [[Digital terrestrial television in Sweden|DTT (Sweden)]]
| terr_chan_1     = Channel 1 ([[High-definition television|HD]])
| terr_serv_2     = [[RiksTV]] {{small|(Norway)}}
| terr_chan_2     = Channel 44<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.rikstv.no/tv-pakker/rikspakken/|title = RiksPakken – vår mest komplette TV-pakke}}</ref>
| terr_serv_3     = [[Digital terrestrial television in Finland|SveaTV]]  {{small|(only in Ostrobothnia, Finland)}}
| terr_chan_3     = Channel 70
| terr_serv_4     = [[Boxer TV A/S|Boxer]] {{small|(Denmark)}}
| terr_chan_4     = Channel 35<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.boxertv.dk/tv/kanaler/|title = Norlys - Energi, internet og tv fra samme sted - Bliv kunde nu}}</ref>
| terr_serv_5     = Televarpið {{small|(Faroe Islands)}}
| terr_chan_5     = Channel 6<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.tv.fo/oss/|title=Hvørjar rásir eru á hvørjum MUX?|publisher=Televarpið|lang=fo|access-date=21 March 2024}}</ref>
| online_serv_1 = [[SVT Play]]
| online_chan_1 = [https://www.svtplay.se/kanaler/svt1 Watch live] {{small|(only in Sweden)}}
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'''SVT1''' ('''SVT Ett'''; commonly referred to as '''Ettan''') is the primary television station of the [[Sweden|Swedish]] public service broadcaster [[Sveriges Television]] in [[Sweden]].

==History==
Television in Sweden officially launched on 4 September 1956 with the launch of ''Radiotjänst TV'', renamed ''Sveriges Radio TV'' a year later. It would take a few years before achieving national coverage. From 1955 to 1958, [[DR (broadcaster)|Danish television]] carried a program in Swedish (''[[:sv:Sydsvenska journalen|Sydsvenska journalen]]'') aiming at viewers in Skåne until the link with Stockholm was finished in 1958.

The arrival of a second television network, [[SVT2|TV2]], led to the first channel relaunching as ''TV1'' in 1969, remaining under the Sveriges Radio banner. In connection with the new system, the channel appointed Håkan Unsgaard as its director, and ''Aktuellt'' was replaced by ''TV-nytt'', broadcasting on both channels (Aktuellt returned to TV1 in 1972). The old "TV0" was shut down on 29 November 1969 and the new TV1 started the following day. Among the programs shown on the launch night of the renamed service was a special variety show (Cabaret Canalhumorn) with Povel Ramel and Hans Alfredson. Full-time colour broadcasting started in 1970 before both networks were placed under the management of [[Sveriges Television]] (SVT) on 1 July 1979.

To encourage competition between the two channels, ''TV1'' relaunched as ''Kanal 1'' on 31 August 1987 with the entirety of its homegrown programming produced in [[Stockholm]], including the national news and current affairs programme ''[[Aktuellt]]'' (''Current''). Organizationally, these changes were launched on 1 July, less than two months before the rebrand was made official.<ref name="hednius1998s290">{{cite book |last1=Hadenius |first1=Stig |title=Kampen om monopolet : Sveriges radio och TV under 1900-talet |date=1998 |publisher=Prisma |url=http://webbshop.ur.se/Content/Images/uploaded/download/Kampen_om_monopolet.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150804051918/http://webbshop.ur.se/Content/Images/uploaded/download/Kampen_om_monopolet.pdf |archive-date=4 August 2015 |language=sv |format=pdf}}</ref>

The merger of the teams behind the two channels created a larger team for Kanal 1. Such merger allowed rationings that, over time, led to an increase in programming time. Kanal 1 got its drama unit, Kanal 1 Drama, which became the largest drama producer in the Nordic region. Increased competition from commercial channels, including [[TV4 (Sweden)|TV4]], led to another relaunch as SVT1 in 1996, incorporating programming produced from across the country again.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.dn.se/arkiv/teater/svart-med-nya-kanalnamn-rattelse-tack-for-att-nytt-om/|title=Svårt med nya kanalnamn|newspaper=Dagens Nyheter|date=8 January 1996|access-date=13 August 2016|archive-date=13 August 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160813125343/http://www.dn.se/arkiv/teater/svart-med-nya-kanalnamn-rattelse-tack-for-att-nytt-om/|url-status=dead |language=sv}}</ref>

A major corporate revamp in 2001 saw the channel repositioned as SVT's flagship network to make it the most-watched television station in Sweden - a position previously held by SVT2. As part of the revamp, TV2's popular news programme ''[[Rapport (TV programme)|Rapport]]'' (''Report'') moved to the first network while ''Aktuellt'' moved to the second network.

Alongside ''Rapport'', SVT's main entertainment shows air on the first channel, including ''[[Melodifestivalen]]'', ''[[Så ska det låta]]'' and ''[[På spåret]]'' are broadcast on this channel.

In October 2006, some programs on SVT1 began to be broadcast in HDTV format via the channel SVT HD. In June 2008, SVT HD started broadcasting upscaled programs from SVT1 when there were no HD programs available.

On 25 August 2008, a further change was made. The biggest change, which received a lot of criticism, was that ''[[Bolibompa]]'''s 18:00 (6:00{{nbsp}}pm) broadcast, after more than twenty years on SVT1, as well as more programs from the children's range, were moved to Barnkanalen.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.aftonbladet.se/nojesbladet/tv/article3142335.ab |title=SVT:s nya stil |access-date=25 September 2009 |date=20 August 2008 |publisher=Aftonladet |language=sv }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=http://sydsvenskan.se/kultur-och-nojen/article359399/SVT-moblerar-om---det-har-ar-nytt.html |title=SVT möblerar om – det här är nytt |access-date=25 September 2009 |date=21 August 2008 |publisher=Sydsvenskan |language=sv |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120524215804/http://sydsvenskan.se/kultur-och-nojen/article359399/SVT-moblerar-om---det-har-ar-nytt.html |archive-date=24 May 2012 }}</ref> At the same time, regional news moved to SVT1, which made it possible to move SVT2's pre-evening block with news, regional news and Go'kväll to SVT1.<ref>[https://www.svt.se/omoss/media/filer_public/18/f3/18f36e58-642a-4387-86b3-b9ee37c597f0/public_service-redovisning_2008.pdf Sveriges Televisions public service-redovisning 2008], s. 24</ref>

On 7 September 2009, SVT1 became a 24-hour broadcasting channel when the nightly simulcast with SVT24 was replaced by essentially repeats.<ref>{{Cite web | title = SVT dygnet runt| url = http://gd.se/noje/1.1288919| date = 20 August 2009 | publisher = Gefle Dagblad |language=sv}}</ref>

On 17 June 2010, SVT received permission from the government to start broadcasting two HDTV channels in the digital terrestrial network.<ref>{{Cite web|title=SVT och UR får sändningstillstånd för två hd-tv-kanaler|url=http://regeringen.se/sb/d/12622/a/148246|date=17 June 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100918214748/http://www.regeringen.se/sb/d/12622/a/148246|archive-date=18 September 2010}}</ref> On 20 September 2010, SVT HD was discontinued and replaced by a full-time simulcast of SVT1 in HDTV format. On 1 November, HD broadcasts began in the terrestrial network in several locations.

==Logos and identities==
<gallery class="center" height="100px">
File:TV1 logo 1980s.svg|SVT1's third logo, designed by [[Sid Sutton]], used from 1980 to 7 January 1996.
File:SVT1 1997.svg|SVT1's third logo used from March 1997 to 2001.
File:SVT1 logo 2012.svg|SVT1's seventh and previous logo, used from 25 August 2008 to 24 November 2016.
File:SVT1 logotyp.png|SVT1's seventh and previous logo on a purple rectangle used until 4 March 2012.
File:SVT1 HD Channel Logo.jpg|HD logo, used from 2010 to 2012.
File:SVT1 HD logo.svg|HD logo, used from 2012 to 2016.
File:SVT1 logo 2016.svg|SVT1's eighth and current logo since 25 November 2016.
File:SVT1 HD.png|HD logo since 2016.
</gallery>

=== 1956 to 1969 ===
Initially known as ''Radiotjänst TV'', the channel was renamed as ''Sveriges Radio TV'' after its parent company. It was usually referred to as ''TV'' for short, as it was the only television service available at the time.

During the 1960s, the television service usually used the Sveriges Radio logo as identification. It was designed by [[Karl-Erik Forsberg]] and is still in use by [[Sveriges Radio]]. At start up and closedown, the service used an ident slide consisting of an [[art deco]] version of central [[Stockholm]], with the [[Stockholm City Hall]] in the centre.

=== 1969 to 1980 ===
When a second channel launched in December 1969, 'Sveriges Radio TV' was renamed TV1. As colour television arrived a year later, TV1 started using a blue background behind their logo.

=== 1980 to January 1996 ===
TV1 and TV2 became part of [[Sveriges Television]] in 1980. The new company received a new logo a year later, designed by [[Sid Sutton]], with similarly designed logos for both networks.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://svt.se/svt/jsp/Crosslink.jsp?d=60395&a=704481|title=SVTs logotyper sedan starten|access-date=2009-03-21}}</ref>

On screen, the TV1 and TV2 logos were usually seen accompanying picturesque slides of the country and the station clock, although in-vision continuity was generally favoured for most junctions.

The ''Kanal 1'' revamp in 1987 saw the introduction of a computer-animated ident featuring Stockholm landmarks surrounding the logo. In-vision continuity was abandoned in favour of out-of-vision presentation over captions, although in-vision returned during the Christmas holidays, usually for the annual Christmas Eve continuity shift, handled by veteran broadcaster [[Arne Weise]].

Full-time in-vision continuity returned as part of a further revamp in 1994, two years before both networks launched a new look.

===January to October 1996===

===October 1996 to 2001===
The initial graphics for SVT1 and SVT2 were replaced a year later with a predominantly blue theme.

=== 2001 to 2008 ===
In 2001, a corporate rebranding by Timothy Wilkinson and Darrell Pockett from English & Pockett led to a further revamp, featuring SVT's new ''starflower'' logo. A warmer orange and red theme was adapted for the first network and updated two years later. The SVT logo consisted of an orange square with the numeral "1" in the [[Myriad (typeface)|Myriad]] font next to the starflower.

A new package was unveiled on 22 September 2003, marked by a warm color scheme.<ref>{{cite web |title=Sveriges Televisions public service-redovisning 2004 |url=https://omoss.svt.se/download/18.7c348ba01715d7a6e918cfb/1587649644411/public_service-redovisning_2004.pdf |page=27 |language=sv}}</ref>

All SVT presentation switched to widescreen in 2007.

=== 2008 to 2016 ===
SVT1 underwent another relaunch on 25 August 2008, designed by Stockholm-based ''Liberty''. While the new look did not feature the corporate logo, SVT1's idents featured a violet rectangle theme centred around a TV screen - the new graphics were designed by Dallas Sthlm.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://dagensmedia.se/mallar/dagensmedia_mall.asp?version=183007|title=Här är SVTs nya utseende|publisher=Dagens Media|date=19 August 2008 |language=sv}}</ref>

A review of SVT presentation led to the end of in-vision continuity on the network on Sunday 4 March 2012 - the last announcer to appear on camera was Justine Kirk. SVT1 now utilises out-of-vision announcers.

==Programming==
On weekdays, a typical broadcast day on SVT1 begins with the [[Breakfast television|breakfast programme]] ''Morgonstudion'' (lit., "The Morning Studio") followed by a mix of repeats of the previous night's primetime lineup, films, TV series, magazine shows, and documentaries throughout the day as well as live sport. The main evening schedule usually airs from around 17:00 (5:00{{nbsp}}pm) until midnight with the main 25-minute edition of ''Rapport'' at 19:30 (7:30{{nbsp}}pm), alongside shorter bulletins at 18:00 (6:00{{nbsp}}pm) and later in the evening. Repeat programming airs throughout the night.

SVT1 is usually the channel for annual events of national significance such as the announcement and awarding of the various Nobel Prizes and the [[Eurovision Song Contest]].

===Regional programming===
Since August 2008, SVT1 also broadcast regional news programming, including opt-outs in ''Morgonstudion'', a main 15-minute bulletin at 18:30 (6:30{{nbsp}}pm) and a mid-evening update at 19:55 (7:55{{nbsp}}pm). Stories from SVT's regional newsrooms also feature in the national programme ''Sverige idag'' (''Sweden Today'') on weekdays. As of April 2015, there are 21 regional news services, under the ''SVT Nyheter'' banner, although most are pre-recorded from centralised studios.

==See also==
* [[SVT2]]
* [[List of Swedish television channels]]

==References==
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==External links==
* [http://www.svt.se SVT] {{in lang|sv}}

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