Happy Birthday, Slow TV - Gratulerer med dagen, Sakte TV

Gratulerer med dagen, Sakte TV - NRK 'Bergensbanen'

8 years ago today, Slow TV was born! The 7 hours 14 train journey from Bergen to Oslo was shown by NRK and a new TV format was created.

Quietly disruptive, powerfully ordinary, love it or hate it, Slow TV properly done is a celebration, an experience, a meditation, a documentary.

Yes, there are antecedents and some styles of TV and film which are similar, but this is something new. 

On this day in 2009, "Slow" and "TV" were first deliberately conjoined to describe something happening on a linear TV broadcast - and the ripples (well, waves) continue to be felt around the globe to this day.

So, happy birthday, Slow TV - gratulerer med dagen, Sakte TV. 

Keep it coming. The world needs you!

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Skibladner - Paddle Steamer Slow TV

"Skibladner" is the name of a ship and as a Slow TV show, a week on and around the historic paddle steamer on the big lake Mjøsa not that far north from Oslo Gardermoen airport.

There is minute by minute broadcast daytime from 09.30 to 14.00 local time (08:30 to 13:00 BST), and an evening show as well as on radio, from Tuesday 12th July to Saturday 16th. More details about timings and the route (which includes several stops) in Norwegian HERE (if you don't know Norwegian, in Chrome, right click and set 'translate to...' whichever language is your default language.

You can watch live HERE during the transmission.

Lots of opportunities for interaction.An active Facebook page HERE for Skibladner and another for NRK Hedmark op Oppland, and Instagram feed for NRK Hedmark op Oppland HERE.

Hashtags to watch are #Skibladner, #MinuttForMinutt (Minute by Minute), and #NRKSommer.

There's already been a choir and lots of flag waving, and lots of following boats. A wide array of high quality camera angles of the scenery, people, the boat and the journey. It continues as a celebration of everyday activities and journeys. This will be Norwegian Slow TV as we know (and love) it.

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NRK Slow TV Projects - 1814 på 24 timar (2014)

Not so much slow and without the aesthetics of a journey through stunning landscapes - a 24 hour minute by minute lecture was broadcast on NRK2, adding to the concept of 200 years in 200 minutes lecture in February 2014.

From 6pm on the 9th May 2014 until 24 hours later, there was a 'minutt for minutt' history marathon with lectures in the National Hall, the Eidsvoll Museum covering the climactic events which led to the Constitution of Norway in 1814. Why and how did the Constitution become the way it is? And what does it do for us today? Get ready for academic marathon in Eidsvoll.

More in Norwegian

http://tv.nrk.no/serie/1814-paa-24-timar/DVFJ62003114/sesong-1/episode-1
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NRK Slow TV Projects - Piip Show (2014)

From March to early June 2014, NRK2 broadcast lengthy segments in real time from birdboxes made to look like human homes. A variety of birds and squirrels featured in an array of behaviours as the extended 'Springwatch' style show continued.
http://www.nrk.no/piipshow/about-the-piip-show-1.11575642

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NRK Slow TV Projects - Salmeboka (2014)

Salmeboka (Hymn Book)

Midday Friday 28th November to midnight on Sunday 30th November 2014.

A live broadcast of the 2013 edition of the Norske Salmebok with 899 hymns over 60 hours estimated and 237 choirs and soloists making up around 3,000 participants from all over Norway.

Courtesy of NRK.

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NRK Slow TV Projects - 200 år på 200 minutter (2014)

200 years in 200 minutes - lecture on 200 years of Norwegian history performed by professor Frank Aarebrot.

Broadcast on Friday 28 February 8:05 pm to 11:30 pm on NRK2.

Live transmission. 700.000 tuned in. Market share: 15 %.

http://tv.nrk.no/program/dvfj62001014/200-aar-paa-200-minutter

Courtesy of NRK.

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NRK Slow TV Projects - Nasjonal Strikkekveld (2013)

National Knitting Night

Broadcast from Friday 1 November 8:05 pm to Saturday 2 November 9:20 am on NRK2.

Live transmission. 1 million tuned in. Market share: 15 %.

First part: http://tv.nrk.no/serie/nasjonal-strikkekveld/dvnr30004013/01-11-2013

Second part, record attempt: “From Sheep to Sweater” or "back to back": http://tv.nrk.no/serie/nasjonal-strikkekveld

Courtesy of NRK.

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NRK Slow TV Projects - Nasjonal Vedkveld (2013)

National Wood Night

Broadcast from Friday 15 February 8:05 pm to Saturday 16 February 8:00 am on NRK2. 

Live transmission. 

Approximately 1 million Norwegian viewers tuned in. Market share: 9 %.

http://vedvedved.nrk.no

Courtesy of NRK.

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NRK Slow TV Projects - Nordlandsbanen (2012)

Nordlandsbanen minute by minute – season by season – train journey in the Arctic Circle

Broadcast 29 December 4:00 pm on NRK2

Recorded, 9 hours 50 minutes. 

About 1.2 million tuned in, market share 13 %

http://tv.nrk.no/serie/nordlandsbanen-minutt-for-minutt/dvfj60010112/sesong-1/episode-1

Courtesy of NRK.

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NRK Slow TV Projects - Telemarkskanalen (2012)

Telemarkskanalen minute by minute – canal boat trip

Broadcast on Sunday 26. August 9:50 am

Live transmission, 12 hours.

1.3 million Norwegians tuned in. Market share: 29 %.

http://www.nrk.no/telemarkskanalen

Courtesy of NRK.

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NRK Slow TV Projects - Salmon Fishing - Lakseelva (2012)

Salmon fishing minute by minute

Broadcast from Thursday 31 May to Friday 1 June.

24 hour live transmission on NRK1/NRK2 from Gaula in South-Trøndelag on the opening day of the salmon fishing season. Kicked off with 40 minute build-up on NRK1, followed by about 18 hours of salmon fishing minute by minute on NRK2, then three hour “ordinary” broadcast on NRK1. Approximately 1.6 million Norwegians tuned in, market share 10 %

http://tv.nrk.no/serie/lakseelva-minutt-for-minutt

Courtesy of NRK.

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NRK Slow TV Projects - Hurtigruten (2011)

Hurtigruten minute by minute – a coastal voyage from Bergen to Kirkenes

Broadcast on NRK2 from Thursday 16 to Wednesday 22 June 2011.

Live transmission: 134 hours, 42 minutes and 45 seconds.

3.2 million tuned in. NRK2 most watched channel during the broadcast. 

Market share: 36 %.

http://nrk.no/hurtigruten/?lang=en

Courtesy of NRK.

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NRK Slow TV Projects - Holmenkollbanen (2011)

Prerecorded 23 minutes. 
During the World Ski Championships there were hundreds of thousands of people in Holmenkollen. Many of them used Holmenkollbanen to get out into the countryside and into the arenas. When the Holmenkollen Line was opened in 1898 it was the first Nordic suburban railway, today the line part of Oslo's Underground network and carrying residents and tourists to Holmenkollen and Frognerseter. 
NRK1 08/03/2011 10:35 pm
http://tv.nrk.no/program/DVFJ65002011/holmenkollbanen-minutt-for-minutt

Courtesy of NRK.

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NRK Slow TV Projects - Flåmsbana (2010)

Flåmsbana minute by minute – scenic tourist route

Broadcast Sunday 5 September 8:05 pm on NRK1.

Prerecorded, 58 minutes. 

About 500,000 followed the entire journey

Market share 40 %.

Watch the program here: http://tv.nrk.no/program/dvfj64001010/flaamsbana-minutt-for-minutt

Courtesy of NRK.

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NRK Slow TV Projects - Bybanen i Bergen (2010)

Bergen Light Rail opening on Tuesday 22 June, Nesttun to Bergen.

NRK1 22/06/2010 8:00 p.m.

Prerecorded 28 minutes.

http://tv.nrk.no/program/DVFJ64002010/bybanen-i-bergen-minutt-for-minutt

Courtesy of NRK.

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NRK Slow TV Projects - Bergensbanen (2009)

Bergensbanen minute by minute – a train journey across Southern Norway, Bergen to Oslo.

Broadcast Friday 29 November at 7:55 p.m. on NRK2.

Prerecorded, 7 hours 14 minutes. 

Approximately 1.2 million Norwegians tuned in to the show.

Market share: 15 %.

More on: http://nrkbeta.no/2009/12/18/bergensbanen-eng/

Courtesy of NRK.

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