User:Poppland

Poppland is a popular radio show at the Icelandic national broadcasting service and it airs on it's biggest radio station Rás 2. It first started in 1998 and has been broadcasted ever since. It is on the air Monday's through Friday's and started as a show from 9:00-12:00 and than moved to 12:45-16:00 but June first 2008 it became a bigger show and is now airing weekdays from 9:00-16:00. It's founder is an Icelandic radio legend Ólafur Páll Gunnarsson who also hosts a very popular radio show called rokkland which first started in September of 1995 and has been one of Iceland's most popular radio shows ever since. It airs every Sunday afternoon on Rás 2. Ólafur Páll, or Óli Palli as the people of Iceland know him, has had several co-hosts in Poppland through the years but in 1999 Guðni Már Henningson also a well known radio host joined Óli Palli in Poppland as his co-host and they still work together to make Poppland even bigger and better. Poppland has had 3 hosts in the past but now it has 4 hosts since the show airs longer every day. The new hosts are Matthías Már Magnússon who has worked in the radio field for years and among being a host on several radio shows he was the first Program Controler and helped launch a whole radio station called X-Fm. He studied Radio Production at Bornemouth University in the Uk, and Heiða Ólafsdóttir an Icelandid singer. The name Poppland means The land of Pop and it comes from Óli Palli's other radio show Rokkland which means The land of Rock. Poppland is famous for being open about music and you can hear all kinds of music but it is also well known for playing a lot of Icelandic music and giving young, new and upcoming artists a chance and giving them the benefit of the doubt. That is why almost every young artist in Iceland starts with Poppland on Rás 2 when they introduce their new music.