Radio Hill (

Finnish Finnish may refer to: * Something or someone from, or related to Finland * Culture of Finland * Finnish people or Finns, the primary ethnic group in Finland * Finnish language, the national language of the Finnish people * Finnish cuisine See also ...

: ''Radiomäki'') is a hill located in the city centre of

Lahti Lahti (; sv, Lahtis) is a city and municipality in Finland. It is the capital of the region of Päijänne Tavastia (Päijät-Häme) and its growing region is one of the main economic hubs of Finland. Lahti is situated on a bay at the southern e ...

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. It is part of the

Salpausselkä Salpausselkä (; "Bar Ridge") is an extensive ridge system left by the ice age in Southern Finland. It is a large terminal moraine formation that formed in front of the Baltic ice lake during the Younger Dryas period about 12,250–10,400 years ...

ridge system, with its peak at an elevation of . The hill's earlier name was ''Selänmäki'' ('Ridge Hill'). After a

cemetery A cemetery, burial ground, gravesite or graveyard is a place where the remains of dead people are buried or otherwise interred. The word ''cemetery'' (from Greek , "sleeping place") implies that the land is specifically designated as a buri ...

was established there in the 1890s, the hill became known as ''Hautausmaanmäki'' ('Cemetery Hill'). The cemetery, known today as ' ('Old Cemetery'), is closed to new

interment Burial, also known as interment or inhumation, is a method of final disposition whereby a dead body is placed into the ground, sometimes with objects. This is usually accomplished by excavating a pit or trench, placing the deceased and objec ...

s. The hill gets its present name from the

Lahti longwave transmitter The Lahti longwave transmitter was a facility for longwave transmission on the Radio Hill in Lahti, Finland on 252 kHz. It was inaugurated in 1927 and used a T-type aerial strung between two freestanding steel framework towers. The Lahti lo ...

station established there in 1927–1928, and operated by the country's

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Yle Yleisradio Oy (Finnish, literally "General Radio Ltd." or "General Broadcast Ltd."; abbr. Yle ; sv, Rundradion Ab, italics=no), translated to English as the Finnish Broadcasting Company, is Finland's national public broadcasting company, founde ...

, until its decommissioning in 1993. The Finnish Radio and TV Museum, known as ''Mastola'', is now located on the site, operated as part of the City of Lahti municipal museums. As a highly visible reminder of the radio station, the twin radio masts remain, standing high and apart, forming a well-known landmark of Lahti. The hilltop milieu surrounding the earlier radio station has been designated by the

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as a nationally important built cultural environment (''Valtakunnallisesti merkittävä rakennettu kulttuuriympäristö''). The city's oldest

track and field Track and field is a sport that includes athletic contests based on running, jumping, and throwing skills. The name is derived from where the sport takes place, a running track and a grass field for the throwing and some of the jumping events ...

venue (converted in winter to an open-air

ice rink An ice rink (or ice skating rink) is a frozen body of water and/or an artificial sheet of ice created using hardened chemicals where people can ice skate or play winter sports. Ice rinks are also used for exhibitions, contests and ice shows. The ...

), opened in 1922, is also located on the hill by the foot of the radio masts.

References

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