Bingolotto
Swedish television gameshow
Bingolotto is a Swedish primetime television lottery game show that was first broadcast 1989 on local TV and since 1991 nationwide on the Swedish network TV4. The show is a collaboration work between Swedish TV channel TV4, the Swedish lottery game company Folkspel and the Swedish sports life. The show premiered on 16 January 1989 on the local TV channel Kållevisionen with the highly popular Leif "Loket" Olsson as show host. Since the beginning, the show has given 16 billion Swedish krona to the Swedish sports life centre.
History
In January 1989, Bingolotto premiered in Gothenburg, introduced by Leif "Loket" Olsson. The programme became popular in this area and 10,000 lottery tickets were sold to every episode between 1989 and 1991. In the autumn of 1990, the game show's owner and C.E.O. Gert Eklund started his collaboration with TV4 to start broadcasting the show nationwide. Olsson, who had built the game and company together with Eklund in 1988, owned a 25 percent share of the game but was bought out in 1999.
On 19 October 1991, Bingolotto premiered nationwide on TV4, still hosted by Olsson. The premiere episode was watched by 1.3 million viewers in Sweden, a surprisingly high viewing figure.
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