Dan Børge Akerø, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Dan Børge Akerø

Norwegian TV host

Date of Birth: 23-Jan-1951

Place of Birth: Jutland, Denmark

Profession: association football player, television presenter, journalist, sociologist

Nationality: Norway

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius


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About Dan Børge Akerø

  • Dan Børge Akerø (born 23 January 1951) is a Norwegian television personality. He took his education at the University of Oslo, graduating with a cand.mag.
  • degree.
  • From 1975 to 1980 he worked as a research assistant and research fellow at the International Peace Research Institute, Oslo.
  • He specialized in Latin American topics.
  • In his younger days he also played association football for Skeid and Viking FK.Before finishing his master's degree, he started his media career as a foreign affairs reporter in NRK Radio in 1979.
  • He was then promoted to news anchor in the national news show Dagsrevyen.
  • In 1986, he became a talk show host, for SenFredag, the first talk show on Norwegian television.
  • He followed up with LørDan, which ran from 1987 to 1990.
  • From 1990 to 1992 he was the sub-director of culture and entertainment in the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation.In 1992, when a rivalling channel TV 2 was opened, Akerø was headhunted there.
  • He hosted its opening show as well as other entertainment programmes. In the late nineties, he co-founded the online gambling company Global Money Games.
  • The chairman of the board was former libertarian politician Pål Atle Skjervengen.
  • The company later known as a stock market bubble, Akerø sold his shares some time before its demise in 1998.
  • He has later established a lucrative investment company, Danpower International AS.
  • However, on one occasion he personally lost NOK 1,500,000 through a failed investment in the hotel business.Akerø returned to the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation in 1999, and soon hosted the show Den store klassefesten.
  • Between 2000 and 2005, the show had between 986,000 and 1,411,000 viewers; in comparison the whole country had about 4,500,000 inhabitants at the time.
  • For this show, Akerø won two Gullruten awards, in 2001 and 2003.
  • He is also known for hosting the musical competition show Kjempesjansen, as well as a new round of LørDan.
  • He also hosted the annual show Idrettsgallaen and the 2007 and 2008 editions of the charitable fundraiser show TV-aksjonen.

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