Kringkastingsselskapet

The financing of their broadcasting operations was based on the revenues received from on-air advertising and the license fees payable by those purchasing and owning a radio set.

To avoid some of the problems encountered in the United States, the administration tried to restrict the extent to which the manufacturers of radio sets could also own broadcasting stations.

A scandal hit the broadcasting company in 1929, in which a new transmitter at Lambertseter in Oslo had too little effect, and secondly, following the discovery of management, was enriching themselves.

At first, Minister of Trade and Industry Lars Oftedal proposed a model whereby the transmission would be the responsibility of the Telegraphy Administration, and a new, private program company would be established, owned by the Oslo newspapers.

By the time the issue was being voted over by Parliament, Mowinckel's Third Cabinet was in place, suggesting that the budgetary responsibility lies with the broadcasting company, not the Telegraphy Administration.