Kalaallit Nunaata Radioa

Kalaallit Nunaata Radioa (www.knr.gl) is the national public broadcasting corporation of Greenland, based in the country's capital city, Nuuk. An independent state-owned corporation, it is headed by a seven-person board. The network's activities are funded from a mixture of sources, including direct government funding and on-air advertising. KNR broadcasts radio and television programmes every day, which can be received throughout Greenland. KNR TV broadcasts about 300 hours of programmes in the Greenlandic language (Kalaallisut) and about 2,000 hours of Danish content per year. KNR Radio broadcasts about 5,400 hours of material each year, divided into 2,500 hours in Greenlandic, 900 in Danish and 2,200 hours of music. KNR's news departments in Nuuk, North Greenland, South Greenland and Copenhagen deliver news to the whole of Greenland in both Greenlandic and Danish. Domestic production in both the cultural and youth departments of Radio and TV is mostly in Greenlandic. Domestic production of radio and TV is financed partly by income from television advertisements. KNR TV also transmits daily television news from Danmarks Radio. Broadcasts from Danmarks Radio can be heard on another channel in Greenland. About 120 people are employed at KNR.