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Welcome to KNR - Kalaallit Nunaata Radioa

Kalaallit Nunaata Radio (The Greenlandic Broadcasting Corporation) is an independent public body administered by the Greenlandic Government. It is headed by a 7-man board, with its day-to-day running in the hands of a management committee. KNR - Radio and TV - broadcasts both radio and television programmes every day, which can be received throughout Greenland.

KNR, which is the most important media enterprise in Greenland, is financed by contributions from the national treasury, by advertising, sponsorship, etc. Its range of programmes include social affairs, youth programmes, cultural material, entertainment, music and news, both domestic and from all over the world.

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 mainly produce material in Greenlandic. Domestic production on both radio and TV are financed partly by TV advertisement earnings.

KNR TV also transmits TV news from Danmarks Radio every day of the year, while broadcasts from Danmarks Radio can be heard on another channel in Greenland.

About 100 people are employed at KNR.