Cibicom since 1925
The story of Cibicom as an organization begins with the first radio broadcast in Denmark
1854 | The Telegraph Service is established with the first Danish telegraph line from Helsingør over Copenhagen and to Altona (Danish until 1864). | |
1902 | Blaavand Lighthouse is equipped with the first coastal radio system (powered by the Navy). | |
1907 | The first wireless telephony is conducted from the Coastal Radio (Lyngby Radio) in Gladsaxe by Peter L. Jensen. P. O. Pedersen, and Valdemar Poulsen have set up Lyngby Radio as a private trial-radio station. | |
1908 | OXA is set up by the Navy as the national naval radio station, but it gets instanty connected to the Danish telegraph and can be used by private ships. | |
1917 | The Telegraph Service acquires Blaavand Radio at the same time as Lyngby Radio. The Telegraph Service takes over all technical work on wireless communication in Denmark as a result of the Telecommunications Act of 1907. | |
1923 | The first Radiophony trial for "Denmark's Radio Club" is carried out by Lyngby Radio by the Telegraph Service with a Lorenz bow transmitter, normally used for telephony to Bornholm. | |
1925 | The State Radiophony broadcasts for the first time on April 1st with singer Emil Holm in the lead. | |
And with the creation of Radio Technical Service under the Post & Telegraph Service, the foundation of Cibicom was a reality. | ||
1927 | The two governmental organizations - the Postal Service and the Telegraph Service - are merged into one entity, the P&T (Post & Telegraph Service). | |
1948 | Danish actress, Lily Broberg, presents Denmark's first television show during a major television show in Tivoli, visited by more than 100,000 Danes. | |
1950 | The State Radiophony gets its own technical department. This will take over the engineers, who were previously employed by P&T. The transmission up to the transmitters and their operation are still handled by P&T Radio Technical Service. |
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1951 | The radio uses FM broadcasting technology and broadcasts two radio channels: Program 1 and 2. | |
1955 | The Gladsaxe transmitter is inaugurated with minister speeches, and most of Zealand can now watch TV. At the end of the year, the TV broadcast mast on Fyn is also ready. |
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1956 | The television station Søsterhøj at Aarhus is inaugurated. | |
1957 | Southern Jutland gets its own Rangstrup-transmitter. | |
1958 | TV broadcasting masts open at Aalborg and Holstebro. | |
1959 | Statsradiofonien changes its name to Denmark's Radio (later DR). The penultimate TV broadcast mast is ready at Næstved. | |
1960 | Bornholm gets a television broadcast mast, and thus the whole country is able to watch tv. | |
1987 | The Post & Telegraph Service is disbanded and its telephone services, including international telephony, are transferred to the State Telecommunications Service. | |
1988 | TV2 aires in Denmark on October 1st as a partially commercial-financed public service competitor for Denmark's Radio. A brand new television network is being built for this purpose. | |
1990 | The State Telecommunications Service changes its name to Telecom A/S. | |
At the end of the year, the parliament decides to establish Tele Denmark, and P&T's broadcast organization becomes a branch in Tele Denmark. | ||
1998 | Tele Danmark (TDC) is sold to Ameritech and the broadcast organization is separated into an independent company, BSD (Broadcast Service Denmark), located in Taastrup, which is jointly owned by DR and TV2. | |
2009 | BSD establishes a new nationwide digital television network, and the analogue TV signal is closed in Denmark. | |
2010 | Teracom Group AB acquires Broadcast Service Danmark A/S, including all masts, properties and fiber networks of DR and TV2. | |
2015 | Teracom A/S wins the task of digitalising the Coastal Radio (Lyngby Radio) and takes over the technical operation and monitoring of the emergency radio system for the Danish territorial sea. | |
2017 | Through the subsidiary Digital Radio Teracom A/S, Teracom wins the rights to establish and operate a new nationwide commercial digital radio network - called DAB block 1 - which broadcasts in the new DAB+ format. The company is renamed Digital Radio Cibicom A/S in 2018. |
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2018 | Teracom establishes the first national IoT network in Denmark based on LoRaWAN technology using its own transmitters. Teracom A/S in Denmark is sold at the end of the year to Agilitas (UK) and changes its name to Cibicom A/S. |
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2019 |
Cibicom A/S purchases Relacom's Danish activities at the beginning of the year. |
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2020 |
Cibicom upgrades the nationwide digital television network to the DVB-T2 standard and makes room for the 5G mobile network on 700 MHz frequency band. The entire upgrade operation is done in less than 24 hours. |