24-hour live coverage of Sweden's epic moose migration ends after 20 days
Johan Erhag, SVT's project manager for 'The Great Moose Migration,' said this year's crew will have produced 478 hours of footage — 'which we are very satisfied with,' he wrote in an email to The Associated Press Saturday evening.
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Figures for this year's audience were not immediately available.
'The Great Moose Migration' is part of a trend that began in 2009 with Norwegian public broadcaster NRK's minute-by-minute airing of a seven-hour train trip across the southern part of the country.
The slow TV style of programming has spread, with productions in the United Kingdom, China and elsewhere. The central Dutch city of Utrecht, for example, installed a 'fish doorbell' on a river lock that lets livestream viewers alert authorities to fish being held up as they migrate to spawning grounds.
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