{{Unreferenced, date=June 2019, bot=noref (GreenC bot) Urheiluruutu is a daily

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Broadcasting Company

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. The programme originally launched on August 18, 1962. The sportsreader was Anssi Kukkonen and the programme was gathered up by Seppo Kannas. Kukkonen is also the father of the name ''Urheiluruutu'' ("sports screen") which was inspired by Swedish ''Sportspegeln''. Before Urheiluruutu the sports news was read in the end of normal news broadcast. In the beginning Urheiluruutu was broadcast only once in a week: 15 minutes at Sunday evenings. Later it was broadcast also on Thursdays and Saturdays. In 1993 the daily broadcasting began. The audiovisual appearance of Urheiluruutu has changed many times during the years, previously in February 2013. The first opening sequence from 1963 included an animated

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, originating from a pun of Anssi Kukkonen's name ("kukko" being the Finnish word for rooster). The most well-known theme music is the

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song ''Tuhannen markan seteli'', used from 1983 to 1993. Nowadays the broadcasting times of Urheiluruutu are 7:16 p.m. in

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and 8:55 p.m. in YLE TV1 (the main broadcast). Also a short sports segment is included after the 9:50 p.m. news bulletin in YLE TV2, often clashing with the beginning of rival station

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's Ten O'Clock News.

Sportreaders

Current

* Laura Arffman * Antti Ennekari * Inka Henelius * Maija Kautto * Kristiina Kekäläinen * Manu Myllyaho * Petra Manner * Jere Nurminen * Antti-Jussi Sipilä * Riikka Smolander * Riku Salminen *

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Former

* Hannu-Pekka Hänninen * Inka Henelius * Juha Jokinen *

Niki Juusela Niki Juusela (born 1978) is a Finland, Finnish sportscaster and journalist. In 2017, Juusela moved to MTV3 to commentate Formula 1 -series. Before that, Juusela worked 15 years in a Finnish National Broadcasting Company Yle. In Yle, he announced Ice ...

* Ville Klinga * Anssi Kukkonen * Riku Riihilahti * Pentti Salmi * Laura Ruohola * Marko Terva-aho *

Bror-Erik Wallenius Bror-Erik "Bubi" Wallenius (born 1943) is a retired Finland, Finnish sports commentator who still occasionally works for Finland's National Broadcasting Company YLE. Wallenius had a great passion for sports since his childhood. When he was a lit ...

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