Arvi Lind

Arvi Lind (born December 21, 1940, Lauritsala) is a retired Finnish television news presenter. He worked as the news anchor on Yleisradio TV1 from 1965 to 2003. Along with Kari Toivonen, he was one of the longest-serving employees of Yleisradio news. Anchorman redirects here. ... YLE (Yleisradio in Finnish, Rundradion in Swedish), Finlands National Broadcasting Company, was founded in 1926. ... Finlands National Broadcasting Company YLE (Yleisradio in Finnish, Rundradion in Swedish) was founded in 1926. ... YLE (Yleisradio in Finnish, Rundradion in Swedish), Finlands National Broadcasting Company, was founded in 1926. ...

Lind's career as a reporter in Yleisradio TV news began in October 15, 1965. His last news broadcast was in Wednesday, October 15, 2003, 20:30, and he retired from his work at the beginning of year 2004. The farewell broadcast was seen by over 1.6 million viewers. Since then, he has lectured about his work in universities, and in 2005, the newspaper Keskisuomalainen appointed him as their reader ombudsman. He's often been called "the most trustworthy man in Finland" by the media. An Organizational Ombudsman works as a high-level internal employee within a corporation, university, government agency or other entity as an independent, confidential, neutral and informal resource for all employees and managers. ...

The biography Lindin Arvi was written by Heikki Hietamies.

Lind is also a sports hobbyist, and played ice hockey in a team called Zoom. His son Juha Lind has played in national and NHL level. A sport consists of a physical activity or skill carried out with a recreational purpose: for competition, for self-enjoyment, to attain excellence, for the development of a skill, or some combination of these. ... Ice hockey, known simply as hockey in areas where it is more common than field hockey, is a team sport played on ice. ... Juha Lind (born January 2, 1974 in Helsinki, Finland) is a Finnish ice hockey forward. ... NHL can also be an abbreviation for National Historic Landmark or Non-Hodgkins lymphoma. ...

In Suuret suomalaiset, Lind ranked 85th. Suuret suomalaiset (Great Finns) was a 2004 television show by YLE (the Finnish Broadcasting Company), which determined the 100 greatest Finns of all time according to the opinions of its viewers. ...

External links

• Arvi Lind televisiotoimittajana 1965-2003 (Finnish)
• Arvi Lind's last news broadcast (Finnish)

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