Norwegian media links
General media statistics
Newspapers
  • Norwegian Media Businesses' Association
    (formerly The Norwegian Newspaper Publishers' Association). Media trade and tariff organization in Norway, of which most of the members are newspaper groups.
  • The Association of Local Newspapers
    organizes approx. 100 local newspapers in Norway (website in Norwegian only).
  • The Norwegian Media Authority
    is an administrative body under the Ministry of Culture, handling media issues. Can provide information about media companies and owners, media legislation, press subsidies and broadcasting licenses.
  • The Norwegian Union of Journalists
    has a website with information about Rights and duties for the editor and the Code of ethics of the Norwegian Press.
Books
Film
  • Norwegian Film Institute
    is an executive body under the Ministry of Culture, administering all national support for film production in Norway. The Institute preserves, support and distributes Norwegian films.
  • The Ministry of Culture
    is responsible for cultural policy, regulations and other matters regarding the media, e.g. subsidy schemes for film production and the press.
  • The Norwegian Film and TV Producers' Association
    is a trade and employers' association of production companies involved in film and TV production.
  • The Norwegian Media Authority
    classifies film and video, as well as video and computer games (information in Norwegian only).
Radio
Television
  • Canal Digital
    is a TV-distibutor operating in the Nordic region. Owned by the Norwegian company Telenor.
  • Norges Televisjon
    is licensed to operate a digital terrestrial network for television in Norway. Owned jointly by NRK, TV 2 and Telenor.
  • NRK (Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation)
    is Norways' national public service broadcasting company.
  • The Ministry of Culture
    is responsible for cultural policy and media matters.
  • The Norwegian Media Authority
    administers broadcasting regulations and issues licences to local television broadcasting.
  • TV 2
    is the largest commercial television broadcaster in Norway, owned jointly by the media groups A-pressen and Egmont (Denmark).
  • TV3
    is a commercial television broadcaster under Viasat Broadcasting, owned by the Swedish media group MTG.
  • TVNorge
    is a commercial television broadcaster owned by the German media group ProSiebenSat.1.
  • Viasat
    is a distributor of satellite television in Scandinavia and the Baltic region. Owned by the Swedish media company MTG.
ICT
  • Abelia
    is a business association of Norwegian knowledge- and technologybased enterprises.
  • ICT Norway
    is trade organization for the ICT sector in Norway (website in Norwegian only).
  • Statistics Norway
    has statistics on the Norwegian information society and different topics related to ICT.
 
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