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Place of Birth: Jutland, Denmark
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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See Also
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