Vær sød og kigge denne oversættelse igennem for små fejl.

It is June 8 o’clock and the weather is nice. It has cleared up after a couple of heavy showers in the morning and in the early afternoon. The air is cool, but bracing, and quite a few children and adults are taking a stroll, fishing near the wharf or are talking together in smaller groups on the street corners.
Why are a big amount of all these good people not in front of the television receiver looking at the latest catastrophes with a cup of coffee within the easy reach of the armchair?
The explanation is simple. We are in Reykjavik in Iceland, one of the North Atlantic’s bigger islands, and it is Thursday today. On Thursdays and in the hole of July month for that matter, is the Icelandic television sending it’s most activating program: black frame.
It is impossibly to assess with any accuracy, what this has meant for the nuclear family, people reading habits etc. There is that possibility that people can turn on their radio and listen to excellent programs of a high cultural standard, and it is possible to do other things, while you are listening. All this does however not explain what there is written in the text about, an American television network had to turn down its airtime.
In 1941 Iceland got occupied by American forces, which build an airbase approximately 30 miles, i.e. 50 kilometers south-west of Reykjavik. In return of the right to keep the base, also after the war, the U.S.A has taken over the responsibility for the republics defence.
The Icelanders does not want too much foreign influence trough the broadcasting media’s, so an Icelandic TV-commercial like “have a coke, have a smile” slogans like that has to be translated onto Icelandic.