Stöð 2

During the big BSRB strike in the fall of 1984, almost all of RÚV's activities shut down and several illegal radio stations sprung up. As a result, consideration was given to revising the broadcasting laws during the tenure of Minister of Education Ragnhildar Helgadóttir. A new law, which allowed private radio and television stations, was approved by Alþingi on June 13, 1985, and came into effect at the beginning of 1986. Until that time, there had been two radio stations and one television station operating in Iceland, Rás 1 and Rás 2 and Ríkissjónvarpið.

Stöð 2 went on the air on October 9 that same year as a subscription station with a scrambled program where the subscriber had to buy a code number and enter a video code to unscramble the broadcast. Television presenter Jón Óttar and Vala Matt were prominent on the screen during the first days of the station. The line-up was made up of imported entertainment, dramatized Icelandic entertainment and news. It was difficult to get investors to participate in the activity to begin with. At the beginning of 1987, there were about five thousand subscribers, but by the end of the year there had been almost thirty thousand. At the same time, the number of employees increased and the station began to compete with RÚV for programmers and reporters, which was considered unheard of.

Many sister stations were operated under the same company, but in 2008 they were all united under the name of station 2, thus the sports station became Sýn a Stöð 2 Sport. Sirkus became Stöð 2 Extra and Fjölvarpið became Stöð 2 Fjölvarp, on the other hand, Stöð 2 Bíó kept its name.

• Fréttir, an evening news program, every evening at 6:30 pm
• Ísland í dag, a daily magazine covering various aspects of life in Iceland such as politics, culture and entertainment. It also includes sport, news and weather

• Adventure Time
• Danger Mouse
• Dora the Explorer
• Maya the Bee
• Mia and Me
• The New Adventures of Lucky Luke
• The Smurfs
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
• Wow! Wow! Wubbzy!
• Zigby

• True Detective

• Top 20 Funniest

• Grand Designs
• Grand Designs Australia
• Jamie Cooks Italy
• Jamie's Quick & Easy Food
• Jamie's Ultimate Veg
• Jamie & Jimmy's Food Fight Club

• 60 Minutes

• Brother vs. Brother
• First Dates
• The Great British Bake Off
• Love in the Wild
• The X Factor: Celebrity
• The X Factor UK

• Westworld

• Fresh Off the Boat
• Friends
• The Goldbergs
• Modern Family
• Mom
• New Girl

• The Bold and the Beautiful
• Neighbours

• Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
• Real Time with Bill Maher

• LazyTown

• Spaugstofan

• Réttur, a legal drama series

• Viltu vinna milljon?, the Icelandic version of Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?.

• Kompás, A weekly newsmagazine
• Silfur Egils, Sunday talkshow with interviews of those who made the news in the past week

• Idol stjörnuleit, the Icelandic version of Pop Idol and related shows
• The X Factor, the Icelandic version

• Dagvaktin
• Fangavaktin, a comedy series continuation of Næturvaktin and Dagvaktin
• Næturvaktin

• Fóstbræður

• Sjálfstætt fólk, an interview and talk show hosted by Jón Ársæll Þórðarson

• American Horror Story

• America's Funniest Home Videos

• You Are What You Eat

• Fear Factor
• Total Wipeout
• Wipeout

• The F Word

• Mildred Pierce

• Entertainment Tonight

• Little Britain
• The Muppet Show

• Dallas
• Doctors
• Falcon Crest
• Hollyoaks
• Melrose Place

• The Daily Show
• The Doctors
• The Oprah Winfrey Show
• Vibe

• Breaking Bad