Sveriges Radio P3


P3 is a mainstream CHR-formatted station operated by Sweden's national publicly funded radio broadcasting organization Sveriges Radio. Its output is oriented towards young people from junior high school age to 35. The P in P3 originally stood for Program but today has no official meaning and is simply a name.
P3 is broadcast nationwide on FM as well as being streamed on the internet. It also operated the web- and DAB-only channel P3 Star until June 2019.
The station claims that it plays 1,200 different songs every week and at least 1/3 of them is Swedish. It also welcomes musical suggestions from listeners and records from unsigned/independent artists.

Current programmes

As well as its music programming, P3 also provides a traffic message channel service.