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| Country | Norway |
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| Headquarters | Bergen |
| Programming | |
| Language(s) | Norwegian |
| Picture format | 720p HDTV |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | TV 2 Group (Egmont Group) |
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| History | |
| Launched | 5 September 1992 |
| Replaced | TV 2 |
| Links | |
| Website | tv2 |
| Availability | |
| Terrestrial | |
| Digital terrestrial television | 92% household coverage |
| Streaming media | |
| TV 2 Play | Watch live (only in EEA) |
TV 2 Direkte (English: TV 2 Live) is a Norwegian terrestrial television channel. Its headquarters are located in Bergen. TV 2 began test broadcasting on 13 November 1991, and a year later, it was officially launched on 5 September 1992, becoming Norway's first commercial free-to-air television channel. In 1992, TV 2 A/S was admitted as full active member of the European Broadcasting Union.
As is common with television (and cinema) in Norway, most foreign-language shows and segments of local programmes with foreign language dialogues (e.g. interviews with foreigners) are subtitled in Norwegian, not dubbed (with a notable exception being children's programmes). Since 2012, TV 2 has been owned by one of its co-founders, the Danish media company Egmont Group.
The channel was renamed from TV 2 to TV 2 Direkte in 2023, in an attempt to differentiate it from their streaming service TV 2 Play (not to be confused for the Danish service with the same name). Although direkte means "Live", far from all programming on the channel is actually broadcast live.
The channel was free-to-air on terrestrial TV from its launch date until 1 January 2010, when it became a pay-TV channel. On cable TV and satellite it was de facto a pay-TV channel from the start.