Since the mid-1920s radio and, eventually television, broadcasting in Sweden has been conducted by the Swedish Broadcasting Corporation. In 1925 broadcasting of radio programmes started and in 1956 time had come for television. 

During the last decades broadcasting in Sweden has undergone extensive changes. The former enterprise Swedish Broadcasting Corporation is today split up into three totally independent programme companies, each one with a mission to conduct public service broadcasts: Sveriges Television, Sveriges Radio and the Swedish Educational Broadcasting company, Sveriges Utbildningsradio, transmitting radio and television educational programmes in the SVT and SR channels.