365

365 is a mass media company in Iceland; a service company in the fields of television and radio broadcasting and publication of newspapers and periodicals. The company operates six television channels, five radio stations, one newspaper and five periodicals.

365 operates six television stations and five radio stations. Stöð 2, which first went on the air in 1986, is the oldest and largest privately owned subscription station in the country and broadcasts a variety of top quality entertainment twenty-four hours a day. The Company’s television channels are enjoying increasing popularity and in the last half-year the number of subscribers topped all previous records. Sýn is a popular sports station, the only one of its kind in Iceland, where, among other things, the viewer may watch live transmission of all the main sports events in the world. NFS is the first and only Icelandic news station where the NSF newsroom broadcasts news and news-related material unscrambled from morning till midnight on Digital Ísland. Sirkus is a television channel for young people, an entertainment centre that broadcasts as part of the unscrambled agenda of Digital Ísland. Stöð 2 Bíó is a movie channel that shows new and older films twenty-four hours a day. PoppTíví is a music channel, also part of the unscrambled agenda of Digital Ísland, which shows music videos day twenty-four hours a day.

Fréttablaðið, which was first published in 2001, is distributed free, the most widely distributed and most read paper in Iceland. Birta, a weekly distributed free with Fréttablaðið on Fridays, is the most widely distributed and most read magazine in the country. DV is a weekend paper that comes out on Friday. Hér og nú and Sirkus Reykjavík are weeklies about people events and culture that come out with DV but are also distributed separately. Veggfóður is a monthly about design and living.

Stöð 2 is the oldest and biggest subscription television channel in private ownership, NFS is the first and only news channel in Iceland, Sýn is a sports channel, Stöð 2 Bíó is a movie channel. 365 also rebroadcasts a large number of foreign television channels over its digital system that reaches over 90% of Icelanders.

365 broadcast media also operates the most popular privately owned radio station in the country, Bylgjuna, which was established in 1986. In addition the company operates several other radio stations targeted to different age groups.