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<P align="justify">Sámi Radio is the … <P align="justify">Sámi Radio is the oldest and most established Saami mass medium. Begun as a joint Nordic cooperative project, it has become an ever more significant means of communication for the Saami. The concept of Saami unity Sápmi has been manifest in the operations of Sámi Radio ever since the 1960s. A joint Nordic news programme was broadcast from Tromsø in Norway in 1964, and a current affairs programme from Kiruna in Sweden from 1973 to 1986. Since 1986 broadcasts have been shared between the different countries. In Finland, the reception range of Sámi Radio is limited to the Saami area although over a third of Saami people live outside it. In Norway and Sweden most of the transmissions can be heard throughout these countries. </P>
<P align="justify"> On Christmas Eve 1936, a religious service was broadcast from Pulmang Church in Norway. The next time the Saami language was heard on the radio was in a news broadcast from Tromsø in 1946. A permanent post was created for a programming secretary based in Vadsø, Norway, and it was given to Kathrine Johnsen, the Voice of Sámi Radio , who occupied it for the next thirty years. Transmissions from Finland and Sweden got under way a couple of years later; there were newscasts from Oulu in Finland once a week with less frequent religious programmes, while in Sweden there were regular transmissions from Jokkmokk from 1953 on, and the first radio editor s post was established in Luleå in 1966 , followed by another one in Kiruna four years later. A Saami broadcasting service in Inari, Finland with its own with its own editor and programme council was established in 1973. It got separate broadcasting facilities of its own in 1977. A year earlier a similar unit had been created in Karasjok, Norway. The Saami broadcasting stations began to become independent in the 1980s. In 1985, Finnish Sámi Radio broke away from the regional radio transmission service of the Finnish Broadcasting Company (Yleisradio). In the 1990s it had a staff of sixteen and branches in Utsjoki and Kaaresuvanto, and in 1991 it began to transmit over its own network. In Norway, Saami broadcasting progressed rapidly after the [[Alta-dispute|Alta case]]; in 1984 a large radio studio was built in Karasjok, and new TV studio facilities were added in the 1990s. Today Norwegian Sámi Radio employs almost a hundred persons, and it has several branch editorial offices. In Sweden, the first Saami-language broadcasting unit was established in Kiruna in the 1970s, and a second one was created in Gällivare ten years later. These were later amalgamated to form Swedish Sámi Radio.</P>
<P align="justify"> The programmes of Norwegian and Swedish Sámi Radio are broadcast in North, South and Lule Saami, while in Finland there are almost daily transmissions in Inari and Skolt Saami in addition to programmes in North Saami. Air time is approximately the same in all the Nordic countries: each country s Sámi Radio transmits nearly nine hours of Saami-language programmes a week, in addition to which there are pan-Nordic transmissions. Annual transmissions amount to about 2000 hours, of which the majority are in North Saami.</P>
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