Øresundsregionen Media is born
on Nov 9, 2009 in Stora nordiska kriget Henrik "Henke" Larsson Öresundsregionen HIF Frederik 4. Helsingborg Karl XII Øresundsregionen media Magnus Stenbock Great Nordic War A new TV-channel has been born in the Øresund region.The channel is found on www.youtube.com/oresundsregionen with entries from 'Øresundsregionen Media'. An unknown player in the Øresund media landscape, up until now that is.Their first documentar...

Digital Denmark
on Nov 1, 2009 in Bornholm Sverige Halland Själland Tyskland DR mpeg4 Nordiska Rådet Skåne Blekinge Nordic council Skåneland Danmark mpeg2 Zealand Scania Alas, it is time for the new Danish digital TV-channels in mpeg4/HD-format.Unfortunately, Sweden is not converting to HD-format for a couple of years, which means that much of  the TV-equipment in Sweden right now cannot decode the Danish signal...

Reintroducing the Kalmar union
on Oct 27, 2009 in Sweden Carl XVI Gustav Sverige Greenland Gustav Vasa Norge Norway Finalnd Kalmarunionen Kalmar Union Skåne Island Iceland Danmark Denmark Margarethe Scania Grönland Today on the 27th of October 2009 in several of the biggest Swedish newspapers the historian Gunnar Wetterberg propose (1, 2, 3, 4, 5) to reintroduce the Kalmar union (Picture 1, 'Rigens baner' the flag introduced by Eric of Pomerania).As a supreme r...

The language on Bornholm is now Swedish
on Oct 11, 2009 in SIL FUEN Bornholm Sweden Skåne UNPO Sverige Danmark Denmark Scania UNESCO According to the latest SIL rapport (Lewis, M. Paul (ed.), 2009. Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Sixteenth edition. Dallas, Tex.: SIL International. Online version: http://www.ethnologue.com/) the Danish on the Danish island of Bornholm is...

Det skånska språket blir internationell fråga
on Sep 27, 2009PressmeddelandeSkåne, Halland, Blekinge och Bornholm kommer i år att vara representerade under FUEN:s (The Federal Union of European Nationalities) konferens mellan den 29 september och 2 oktober i Bryssel. FUEN är med 84 medlemsorganisationer i 3...

Swedish dubbing of Scanians and Gotlanders
on Sep 22, 2009 in Gotland Skåneland Wallander dubbing Language Germany Scania Språk Today the 22nd of September it is reported in several media (1, 2, 3) that the Scanian actor Thomas Lindblad in the movie 'Flickan som lekte med elden' (The girl who played with fire) has been dubbed in Swedish. The dubbing had shamefully even been d...

Efterlysning: Danmark
on Aug 22, 2009 in Skåne Sverige Blekinge Danmark Halland Sydslesvig Scania Øresund Var är ni? Var ni varit de senaste 351 åren? Skåne, Halland och Blekinge vill ha Danmark tillbaka. Hur kan drottning Margrethe i varje nyårstal hälsa till danskarna i Sydslesvig, i nuvarande Tyskland men inte göra detsamma för de danskar so...

Scanian artists alive and in memoriam - a selction
on Aug 7, 2009Anna Hertzman in TV4. What a nice attitude!Her debut single.Anna Hertzman together with Perikles.Perikles.Wilmer X.Scanian girls with Dennis Trulsson.Frida.Other clips with Frida here.Timbuktu rocks...Peps is the king...Danne Stråhed.Björn Afzelius...

Scanian artists
on Aug 7, 2009Anna Hertzman in TV4. What a nice attitude!Her debut single.Anna Hertzman together with Perikles.Scanian girls with Dennis Trulsson.Timbuktu rocks...Peps is the king...Björn Afzelius (R.I.P).Danne Stråhed.Frida.Andra klipp med Frida här.

Scanian on UNESCO list - five months too late in Swedish media
on Jul 12, 2009 in Skåne Sverige Danmark Försvenskning Scania UNESCO Swedification In February this year I wrote about Scanian is being regarded as so called 'unsafe' (now 'vulnerable') according to UNESCO's listing of endangered languages.How is it that Swedish media in general and Swedish media in Scania in particular has missed...