Controversy with regard to Soviet-occupied Estonia in the 1980s
The Helsinki-Espoo FM- and TV-mast originally used American technology, and since it also transmitted, unintentionally however, the Finnish TV broadcasts to TV sets in northern Estonia, there was a suspicion in the Soviet-occupied Estonia, and more specifically, within the Estonian Communist Party, that Americans had something to do with this FM- and TV-mast, and that it was in their interests that Finnish television broadcasts could be seen in Estonia, and that they had perhaps funded the mast. However, Sakari Kiuru, who functioned as the CEO of the Finnish state broadcasting corporation Yle during 1980–1989, stated to the Yle TV-news in February 2011, that this transmitter did not use excessive power and that the Americans had nothing to do with it: “We really needed this mast, we had to reach the interior of the country and long distances to the west and the east. It is located near the shoreline, there’s nothing more to it, and the talk that the Americans would have funded it … they had nothing to do with it, the mast was funded from the Yle budget.” Yrjö Länsipuro, who worked as the Yle correspondent in Moscow during 1981–1978, said in the same broadcast on 24 February 2011, that as far as he could recall, the Soviet Union tried to influence Yle concerning the use of the Espoo TV-mast, but the Finns had a clear answer to them: “This is what technology is like, we can’t do anything about it.” Besides American TV series such as Dynasty and Finnish TV commercials, the Soviet authorities were annoyed at theRadio transmissions of the Helsinki-Espoo Mast
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