NRK_Sámi_Radio
NRK Sápmi
Sami-language broadcasting service from Norway
NRK Sápmi (previously, and with the radio station often still referred to as, NRK Sámi Radio) is a unit of the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation (NRK) that streams news and other programs in the Sámi languages for broadcast to the Sami people of Norway via radio, television, and internet. Regular radio news programs in Sami began in 1946, presented from Tromsø by the teacher Kathrine Johnsen (1917–2002), remembered today as "Sami Radio's Mother".[2]
In 1976, NRK Sámi Radio moved to Kárášjohka (Karasjok), and in 1984 to its current headquarters (also in Kárášjohka). NRK Sápmi has about 17 journalists based in Deatnu (Tana), Guovdageaidnu (Kautokeino), Olmmaivaggi in Gáivuotna, Tromsø, Skånland, Tysfjord, Snåsa, and Oslo. Approximately 60 people are employed at the unit's headquarters.
The radio station is available nationwide on DAB,[3] and was broadcast on FM radio in Finnmark County and in the cities of Oslo and Tromsø before Norway's shutdown of national and major regional FM stations.
The station is also available on DAB in the general Longyearbyen area on Svalbard, and in the radio sections on some digital TV providers. Due to distance limitations with DAB+ technology, signal spillovers into neighbouring countries are very small; according to official Norwegian signal charts, spillover villages supposedly include Utsjoki, Karigasniemi, Nikel, Gäddede, Storlien, Charlottenberg, and Strömstad.[4]