Yleisradio Oy (

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, literally "General Radio Ltd." or "General Broadcast Ltd."; abbr. Yle ; sv, Rundradion Ab, italics=no), translated to

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as the Finnish Broadcasting Company, is

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's national

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company, founded in 1926. It is a

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which is 99.98% owned by the Finnish state, and employs around 3,200 people in Finland. Yle shares many of its organizational characteristics with its British counterpart, the BBC, on which it was largely modelled. For the greater part of Yle's existence the company was funded by the revenues obtained from a broadcast receiving licence fee payable by the owners of radio sets (1927–1976) and television sets (1958–2012), as well as receiving a portion of the broadcasting licence fees payable by private television broadcasters. Since the beginning of 2013 the licence fee has been replaced by a public broadcasting tax (known as the

Yle tax The Yle tax (, ) is a Finnish tax collected to fund the operation of the country's public broadcasting company, Yle. The tax has been collected since 2013, when it replaced the television licence payment (''televisiomaksu'', ''televisionsavgift'') ...

), which is collected annually from private individuals and corporations together with their other taxes. By far the largest part of the Yle tax is collected from individual taxpayers, with payments being assessed on a sliding scale. Minors, as well as persons with an annual income of less than

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7,813 are exempt. At the lower limit the tax payable by individuals amounts to €50 per annum and the maximum (payable by an individual with a yearly income of €20,588 or more) is set at €140. The rationale for the abolition of the previous television licence fee was the development of other means of delivering Yle's services, such as the

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, and the consequent impracticality of continuing to tie the fee to the ownership of a specific device. Yle receives no advertising revenues as all channels are advertisement-free. Yle has a status that could be described as that of a

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. It is governed by a parliamentary governing council. Yle's turnover in 2010 was €398.4 million. In 2018, Yle's annual budget was about €530 million. Yle operates three national television channels, 13 radio channels and services, and 25 regional radio stations. As Finland is constitutionally bilingual — around 5.5% of the population speaks

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as their mother-tongue — Yle provides radio and TV programming in Swedish through its Swedish-language department, Svenska Yle. As is customary in Finnish television and cinemas, foreign films and TV programmes, as well as segments of local programmes that feature foreign language dialogues (e.g. news interviews), are generally

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on Yle's channels.

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is used in

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intended for young children who have not yet learned to read; off-screen narration in documentaries is also frequently dubbed. In the field of international broadcasting, one of Yle's best known services was

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, the news in

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, which was broadcast worldwide and made available over the

. Yle was one of 23 founding broadcasting organisations of the

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in 1950. Yle hosted the

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History

''Suomen Yleisradio'' (Finland's General Radio) was founded in

on 29 May 1926. The first

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programme was transmitted on 9 September in that year, and this is the date generally considered to be the birthday of regular broadcasting activities in Finland. However, it was not until 1928 that Yle's broadcasts became available throughout the country. After this the broadcasting network was developed and by the beginning of the 1930s, 100,000 households were able to listen to Yle programmes. In 1957, Yle made its first television broadcast tests, and the following year regular TV programming was started under the name ''Suomen Televisio'' (Finland's Television), which was later renamed Yle TV1. The popularity of television in the country grew rapidly. In 1964, Yle obtained

TES-TV Tesvisio (earlier TES-TV) was the first television channel in Finland. It began regular broadcasts on March 21, 1956 and continued broadcasting until March 1965, when it was turned into Yle TV2. The channel began as a television experiment by R ...

and

Tamvisio Tesvisio (earlier TES-TV) was the first television channel in Finland. It began regular broadcasts on March 21, 1956 and continued broadcasting until March 1965, when it was turned into Yle TV2. The channel began as a television experiment by R ...

, which were merged to

Yle TV2 Yle TV2 ( fi, Yle TV Kaksi; sv, Yle TV Två) is a Finnish television channel owned and operated by Yle. TV2 was launched in 1965 as the successor to the former television channels TES-TV (Tesvisio) and Tamvisio, and broadcasts public service p ...

. In 1969, the Finnish Broadcasting Company began broadcasting television programs in colour, but due to the high cost of technology, virtually all programs appeared in colour only in the late 1970s. On May 1, 1977, ''Tv-uutiset'' (~ TV-news) and TV-nytt switched to colour. In the 2000s, Yle has founded a number of new radio and television channels. In 2007 there was a

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switchover. A completely new digital channel, ''Yle Teema'' (~ Yle Theme) was introduced, and the Swedish-language FST (''Finlands Svenska Television,'' ~ Finland's Swedish Television) was moved from reserved analogue channel time to its own digital channel YLE FST5, which was later renamed to Yle Fem. In addition to these four channels (TV1, TV2, Teema, and Fem), a fifth channel, called YLE24, was launched in 2001 for 24-hour news programming. However, this channel was replaced by YLE Extra, a channel attempting to cater to the youth, which was in turn decommissioned in 2007. Until 4 August 2008, the fifth channel was used to broadcast Yle TV1 with Finnish subtitles broadcast on programmes in foreign languages (without having to enable the TV's or digital set-top box's subtitle function).

Logo history

File:Oy-Suomen-Ab-Logo-1930.png, alt=, Yle's First logo 1926 to 1940 File:Yleisradio logo 1965.svg, Yle's second logo used from 1940 to 1991 File:Yleisradion logo 1990.svg, Yle's third logo used from May 1990 to 30 September 1999. File:YLE logo.svg, Yle's fourth logo used from 1 October 1999 to 4 March 2012. File:Ylen logo.svg, Yle's fifth and current logo since 5 March 2012. File:Ylen logo (white).svg, Variant of Yle's fifth and current logo since 5 March 2012.

Television

* Yle TV1: TV1 is the oldest of Yle's channels and also the flagship TV channel of the institution. It serves as the main news, current affairs and factual journalism outlet for Yle, and is also used to broadcast a number of documentaries, drama, cultural, and educational programmes. Satirical entertainment, cinema, and shows of British production are also included in its programming. The channel's headquarters are located in

. *

: TV2, founded in 1964, is the main channel for sports programmes and children's and teenagers' broadcasting. The channel is also used to broadcast drama, entertainment, and factual programmes. Emphasis in current affairs output is on domestic items, regional content and

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. The channel's headquarters are located in

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. *

Yle Teema & Fem Yle Teema & Fem is a Finnish free-to-air television channel owned by Finnish state-broadcaster Yle. It was launched on 24 April 2017, after Yle Teema and Yle Fem merged to this channel. Teema & Fem is Yle's channel for culture, education, and sci ...

: Yle Teema & Fem (~ Yle Theme & Five) combines the operations of the previously separate Teema and Fem channels. Teema & Fem is Yle's channel for culture, education, and science. It focuses on recordings of performing arts, classical music, art, and history documentaries, films, and theme broadcasts. The channel also broadcasts Swedish-language full service channel broadcasting news, factual and children's programmes and entertainment. It also shows many Nordic films and series and

Sami Acronyms * SAMI, ''Synchronized Accessible Media Interchange'', a closed-captioning format developed by Microsoft * Saudi Arabian Military Industries, a government-owned defence company * South African Malaria Initiative, a virtual expertise net ...

-language

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. Finnish subtitles are available for most programmes, they can be enabled using the digital set-top box. Outside

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, Teema & Fem shows selected broadcasts from

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, Sweden's equivalent of Yle. *

TV Finland TV Finland is a Finland, Finnish free-to-air television channel broadcasting in Sweden. It was originally created broadcast in that country as part of a reciprocal agreement between the Finnish and Swedish governments that also established SVT Eur ...

: TV Finland is a digital satellite channel showing a selection of Yle's programmes in Sweden. * Yle Text-TV: Yle Text-TV ( fi, Yle Teksti-tv) shows news, sport and programme information round the clock. Theme pages on the weather, traffic, work and leisure. As of January 2014, all of Yle's TV-channels except TV Finland are available in high definition.

Radio

Hoppakaupan talo Henrik Mattjus (16372171897)

* : A radio channel for culture, in-depth current affairs, and other speech-based programmes. Classical music (concerts by the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra), jazz, folk, world music, and religious music also feature. *

YleX YleX (formerly known as YLEX) is one of the major radio stations of the Finnish Broadcasting Company (Yle) featuring pop music and cultural programming. The station started as Radiomafia, and name changed to YleX in 2003. Programming targets the yo ...

: A fast-tempo programme-flow channel featuring new music and in tune with popular culture, targeted at 17- to 27-year-olds. The percentage of music is 70%. New domestic and foreign pop and rock and several special music programmes. *

Yle Radio Suomi Yle Radio Suomi is a radio channel owned and operated by Finland's national public service broadcaster Yleisradio (Yle). The station's main focus is on music and sport, but it carries a variety of other programmes, including news and phone-ins, as ...

: The national and regional news, service and contact channel, also sport and entertainment. Musical fare comprising domestic and foreign hits, adult and nostalgic pop. * (formerly Yle Radio Peili): The news and current affairs channel presenting talk programmes from Yle's other radio and television channels. Classical jazz. Also broadcast on digital television. *

Yle X3M Yle X3M ( kstrẹ:m ''Radio Extrem'') is a Finnish Swedish-language radio station, owned and operated by Yle. It is generally aimed at the youth audience, and the target audience is 15- to 30-year-olds. It was established in 1997. In 1998, X3M ...

: The Swedish-language youth channel for current affairs debate and popular culture, broadcasting also news. New pop and rock and special music programmes. *

Yle Vega Yle Vega (prior to 1 September 2016 – Yle Radio Vega) is a Finnish radio channel broadcasting in the Swedish language. It is operated by Finland's national public service broadcaster Yle (known in Swedish as Rundradion), which has its headquart ...

: News, current affairs and culture in Swedish for all audience groups, also offering culture and regional programmes. Adult pop, jazz and classical music. *

Yle Sámi Radio Yle Sámi Radio ( se, Sámi Radio) is a regional unit of the Finnish Broadcasting Company (Yle) that produces radio news for the Sámi people. The first regular radio programs in Sámi were broadcast in fall 1947. Sámi Radio has journalists in I ...

: A Sami-language network covering most of Lapland. Produced in co-operation with SVT and

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. ;Digital services Yle phased out digital audio broadcasts by the end of 2005. Three channels continued to be available as

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audio services. DVB audio services were shut down on 30 June 2016. * : The 24-hour digital supplementary service of classical music also broadcast on digital television. ;International services * : Broadcasts in English and other languages, mostly compiled from international radio services. Yle Mondo is available on FM in Helsinki and throughout the country as an audio attached to digital TV.

Yle tax

Until the end of 2012, Finnish citizens paid Yle a license fee for the use of a television, set at 252 euros per year in 2012. The license fee was per location, which could hold several sets (e.g. in a living room as well as a bedroom). The public broadcasting tax, also known as the Yle tax, replaced the license fee in 2013. The tax ranges from 50 euros to 140 euros per person and per year, depending on income. Minors and persons with low income are exempt from the tax.

Controversies

In radio, Yle was a legal

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until 1985, when local radio stations were permitted, and maintained a national monopoly until 1995, when national radio networks were allowed. In the past, Yle has been seen in Finland as a "red" or

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medium. This was true especially in 1965–1969, during the term of Director-General

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, who got the position with the backing of the Agrarian League and President

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(who was a member of the Agrarian Party), as he was Kekkonen's personal friend. He was accused of favouring leftist student radicalism and young left leaning reporters with programs critical of capitalism that demanded reforms to bring Finland closer to the Soviet Union, and Yle was given the nickname "Reporadio". After his resigning, he was demoted to the position of director of radio broadcasting, on the

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-led People's Democratic League mandate. Repo resigned in 1969, but according to Yle, the "political mandate" remained, as Erkki Raatikainen was named director directly from the

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office. Subsequently, all directors after him until 2010 were Social Democrats. This was ended by appointment of the right-wing National Coalition Party's Lauri Kivinen as director in 2010. During

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and the leftist radicalization of the 1970s, Yle contributed to Kekkonen's policy of "neutrality" by broadcasting the programme ''Näin naapurissa'' about the Soviet Union. This programme was produced in cooperation with the Soviets and as such, supported Soviet propaganda without criticism. The appointment of Lauri Kivinen in 2010 received much criticism as he was previously head of

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, which had sold monitoring equipment to the

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, allowing them to arrest political dissidents throughout the protests in the fall of 2009. English-language newscaster Kimmo Wilska was fired on 13 August 2010 – after pretending to be caught drinking on-camera following an alcohol-related news story on ''Yle News''. Wilska's stunt was not well received by Yle management who fired him that same day. Wilska received a lot of support after his termination. Yle has been criticized for buying many

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series. Yle has responded to criticism emphasizing suitability of series to channels with no ad breaks, quality and low price of HBO programming and stating that American programs even with HBO form only 7% of Yle programming.

Decision to close shortwave

The broadcasts on

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from Yle

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were closed at the end of 2006. Expatriate organisations had been campaigning for a continued service, but their efforts did not succeed in maintaining the service or even in slowing the process. The decision also affected a high-powered medium wave on 963 kHz (312m). A smaller medium wave covering the Gulf of Finland region (558 kHz, 538m) remained on air one more year.

Parliamentary question about shortwave

In November 2005, MP Pertti Hemmilä ( N) submitted a question in

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about the plans of Yle to end its availability on international shortwave bands. In his question, Hemmilä took up the low cost of the

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to the consumer travelling or living abroad. In her response the Minister of Transport and Communications, Susanna Huovinen ( S) noted that Yle would now be available via other means, such as

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and the Internet. She also underlined the fact that Yle is not under government control, but under indirect parliamentary supervision.

YLE Gate 2017

The

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criticized Yleisradio for restricting news reports about Prime Minister

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's investments and business in 2017. The chief editor of Yle threatened that Yle would resign from the Council. PM Sipilä had been angry over Yle reports on the

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and Ketera Steel (a company owned by relatives of Sipilä). Several reporters were barred from publishing stories about of political connections between Sipilä and companies owned by his relatives, and state financing of the Talvivaara mine (Terrafame mine).Mitä Missä Milloin. ''2018 Annual News Book''. Otava 2017. pages 109 and 341-342

List of YLE directors

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, 1926–1927 (acting) * Yrjö Koskelainen, 1927 (acting) * Armas Deinert, 1927 (acting) * Hjalmar Woldemar Walldén (since 1935 Jalmar Voldemar Vakio) 1927–1945 *

Hella Wuolijoki Hella Wuolijoki (née Ella Marie Murrik; 22 July 1886 – 2 February 1954), also known by the pen name Juhani Tervapää, was an Estonian-born Finnish writer known for her ''Niskavuori'' series.Wuolijoki, Hella. Eesti Entsüklopeedia 10. Estonian ...

, 1945–1949 *

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, 1950–1964 *

, 1965–1969 * Erkki Raatikainen, 1970–1979 * Sakari Kiuru, 1980–1989 *

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, 1990–1994 * Arne Wessberg, 1994–2005 * Mikael Jungner, 2005–2010 * Lauri Kivinen, 2010–2018 *

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, 2018–in office

Notable news anchors

Marjo Rein Marjo Rein (born 1967) is a Finnish news presenter and television personality. She is best known as the host of the show Yle Uutiset, by the Finnish Broadcasting Company Yleisradio Oy ( Finnish, literally "General Radio Ltd." or "General Broadca ...

Matti Rönkä Matti Rönkä (born 9 September 1959) is a Finnish TV journalist and novelist. He received the Glass Key award in 2007 for the crime novel ''Ystävät kaukana'' and the ''Deutscher Krimi Preis'' third prize in 2008 for the German translation of h ...

* Tommy Franti * Jussi-Pekka Rantanen *

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* Marjukka Havumäki * Piia Pasanen