GLAD 20 YEARS - Flipbook - Page 8
When does
Something
Begin?
In all haste, the founded an association in order to apply for a broadcasting license. Next, the TV
station had to have a name. During a membership meeting in Lyrskovgade, Majbritt Holm, who was
26 at the time, said: “Glad is precisely what we will be if we get proper jobs that we like. Shouldn’t
we call ourselves Glad?”
Majbritt Holm’s suggestion was adopted. However, a car dealer owned the name, so ‘TV’ had to
be added; a fun detail as all communication of the foundation’s many branches now, 20 years later,
is simply Glad.
On 21 of March, 1999, the national Danish broadsheet Jyllands-Posten wrote: “… one of the many
new TV stations is TV-Glad, which as a first in Denmark - in Europe, and possibly the world – will broadcast TV produced, coined and executed by people who are have mental disabilities.” As of 1. April
1999 TV-Glad was licensed to operate. So, all of a sudden, there was half an hour’s slot to fill Monday
through Thursday from 12:30-1PM.
“We became incredibly busy. We had to find out what to produce; and we had to look up politicians and officials in order to get them to fund us so that we could hire people. Majbritt Holm smiles.
She was the very first to be employed with public wage subsidy. On the 28 of June 1999, viewers
were to experience for the very first time a group of people with disabilities walking the catwalk
during Copenhagen Fashion Week, but the screen read:
To all our expectant viewers: According to plan, TV-Glad was to broadcast regularly from today, but
as our partners in Copenhagen County and Municipality can only commit to the creation of work
places and training for people with mental disabilities in August, we have to postpone our opening
until 2 of August.” Instead, the viewers got an appetiser from the catwalk. TV-Glad was on air in its
own way.
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