Nelonen Fyran
Country	Finland
Founded	June 1, 1997
Owner	Nelonen Media, part of SW Television Oy, a subsidiary of the electronic media business unit SWelcom of SanomaWSOY
Past names	PTV PTV4 (1989-1997)
Digital channel	Channel 4
Analog channel	Channel 4 (usually)
Website	www.nelonen.fi

Nelonen or (Fyran in Swedish) is a Finnish commercial TV channel. It serves most of Finland, bar Lapland (except on digital). It started out as Helsinki's local television channel PTV in 1989 on the HTV cable network, which name was changed first to PTV4 and then to Nelonen. It started on the 1 June 1997. Nelonen, in Finnish, means the glyph of the number four. The channel is mostly owned by SanomaWSOY Oyj, which owns the Helsingin Sanomat and Ilta-Sanomat newspapers. Its largest owner is Aatos Erkko. Much of its programming is American (50%) and European imports (20%), with Finnish subtitles. Its main market is the 25-44 demographic. Nelonen owns the digital channel Jim. Nelenon_logo rom Nelenon. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_Finland_(bordered). ... June 1 is the 152nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (153rd in leap years), with 213 days remaining. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... SanomaWSOY is the leading media group in the Nordic countries with operations in 20 European countries. ... 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Digital Terrestrial Television (DTTV or DTT) is an implementation of digital technology to provide a greater number of channels and/or better quality of picture and sound using aerial broadcasts to a conventional antenna (or aerial) instead of a satellite dish or cable connection. ... Analog television (or analogue television) encodes television picture and sound information as an analog signal, that is, by varying the amplitude and/or frequencies of the broadcast signal. ... National anthem Sámi soga lávlla Languages Sami, Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish, Russian Area ca. ... Digital television (DTV) is a telecommunication system for broadcasting and receiving moving pictures and sound by means of digital signals, in contrast to analog signals used by analog (traditional) TV. DTV uses digital modulation data, which is digitally compressed and requires decoding by a specially designed television set, or a... 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... June 1 is the 152nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (153rd in leap years), with 213 days remaining. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... variant glyphs representing the character a (allographs of a) in the Zapfino typeface. ... SanomaWSOY is the leading media group in the Nordic countries with operations in 20 European countries. ... Helsingin Sanomat is the biggest subscription newspaper in Finland. ... Ilta-Sanomat is a tabloid which is the second largest newspaper in Finland. ... Aatos Juho Michel Erkko (born 16 September 1933 in Helsinki) is a Finnish journalist and the main owner of SanomaWSOY and its Helsingin Sanomat newspaper. ... This article is 150 kilobytes or more in size. ... A subtitle can refer to one of two things: an explanatory or alternate title of a book, play or film, in addition to its main title, or textual versions of a film or television programs dialogue that appear onscreen. ...

Programmes

Some programmes may not air as of 2007. 2007 is a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

• The 4400
• Alias
• All in the Family
• America's Next Top Model
• American Chopper
• The Bachelor
• Bad Girls
• Big Love
• Brainiac
• Carnivale
• Siskoni on Noita (Charmed)
• The Comeback
• Commander in Chief
• Päivien Viemää (Days of our Lives)
• Deadwood
• Täydelliset Naiset (Desperate Housewives)
• Discovery Channel documentaries
• Dr. Phil
• Extreme Duudsonit
• Pelkokerroin (Fear Factor)
• Pelinaiset (Footballer's Wives)
• Aavekuiskaaja (Ghost Whisperer)
• Greyn Anatomia (Grey's Anatomy)
• Amyn lailla (Judging Amy)
• Las Vegas
• Less Than Perfect
• Lost
• Married... with Children
• Medium
• Newlyweds: Nick and Jessica
• NCIS
• Oprah (The Oprah Winfrey Show)
• Oz
• Pimp My Ride
• Punk'd
• Rome
• Tuho-osasto (Scrubs)
• Seinfeld
• The Shield
• Sopranos
• South Park
• So You Think You Can Dance
• Starsky and Hutch
• Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye
• That '70s Show
• The Cut
• The Golden Girls
• The West Wing
• Treshold
• (Trading Spouses)
• Tsunami: The Aftermath
• Ugly Betty
• Weeds
• What About Brian
• Vaimot Vaihtoon (Wife Swap)(Finnish, British and American versions)

The 4400 is a science fiction television program produced by the USA Network and Sky One. ... Alias was an American Spy-fi television series created by J. J. Abrams that aired on ABC from September 30, 2001 to May 22, 2006. ... All in the Family is a popular and acclaimed American situation comedy that was originally broadcast on the CBS television network from January 12, 1971 until April 8, 1979, when the final original episode aired. ... ANTM redirects here. ... American Chopper: The Series is a Learning Channel reality television series produced by Pilgrim Films & Television Inc. ... The Bachelor is an American reality television dating game show that debuted in 2002 on ABC. The series has been renewed through spring 2007, titled The Bachelor: Officer and a Gentleman. ... Bad Girls is Bad Girls (film), a 1994 western film. ... Big Love is an HBO television drama about a polygamous family, starring Bill Paxton, Chloë Sevigny, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Ginnifer Goodwin and Amanda Seyfried. ... Brainiac: Science Abuse is a television programme showing in the UK on Sky One (and repeated on Sky Mix). ... Carniv le is an American dramatic television series produced by HBO. Created by Daniel Knauf, it stars Nick Stahl and Clancy Brown. ... Charmed is an American television series that ran for eight seasons on The WB. It was produced by Aaron Spelling and is about three sisters who are the worlds most powerful good witches, known throughout the supernatural community as The Charmed Ones but known to everyone else as the... The Comeback is an HBO original series which stars former Friends star, Lisa Kudrow. ... Commander in Chief was a television drama that focused on the presidential administration and family of Mackenzie Allen (portrayed by Geena Davis), the first female President of the United States, who ascended to the role after the previous chief executive, Teddy Bridges (played by Will Lyman), died in office from... Days of our Lives (Days or DOOL) is an American soap opera. ... Deadwood is an American television drama series that premiered in March 2004 on HBO. The series is a Western set in the 1870s in Deadwood, Dakota Territory. ... Desperate Housewives is an Emmy and Golden Globe award-winning American television series of the dramedy genre, created by Marc Cherry, that began airing on October 3, 2004 on ABC. It is the most popular show in its demographic worldwide, with a worldwide audience of approximately 119 million viewers. ... Discovery Channel is a cable and satellite TV channel distributed by Discovery Communications that provides non-fiction programming focused on science, history and nature. ... This article is about the TV series. ... The Extreme Duudsonit (mangled Finnish for Extreme Dudesons, known as The Dudesons in English showings) are a group of men from Seinäjoki, Finland, with a Finnish television show now also being shown on Spike TV in the United States and channel V in Australia. ... Fear Factor is an American stunt/dare reality game show. ... Footballers Wives is a UK television drama surrounding the private lives of a group of professional footballers. ... Ghost Whisperer is an American television drama-fantasy-thriller about a young woman who can communicate with the spirits of the dead. ... Greys Anatomy is an Emmy and Golden Globe award-winning American primetime television medical drama. ... Judging Amy was an American television drama that aired from September 19, 1999 until May 3, 2005 on CBS. The show starred Amy Brenneman of NYPD Blue and Tyne Daly of Cagney & Lacey. ... Las Vegas is a critically-acclaimed dramatic television series about a team of people working in the fictional Montecito Resort and Casino in Las Vegas — dealing with issues that arise within the working environment, ranging from valet parking and restaurant management to casino security. ... Less Than Perfect was an American sitcom television program about a young female office employee (played by Sara Rue) and her co-workers that began airing on ABC on October 1, 2002. ... Lost is an Emmy and Golden Globe award-winning serial drama television series that follows the lives of a group of plane crash survivors on a mysterious tropical island, somewhere in the South Pacific. ... Married… with Children was a long-running American sitcom about a dysfunctional family living in Chicago. ... Medium is an American drama television series about a woman (played by Patricia Arquette) who acts as a research medium for the Phoenix, Arizona, district attorneys office. ... NCIS is a CBS network show about a team of special agents from the Naval Criminal Investigative Service of the United States Navy and United States Marine Corps. ... The Oprah Winfrey Show (also known as Oprah) is an American nationally syndicated talk show, hosted and produced by Oprah Winfrey and is the highest-rated talk show in American television history. ... Oz is the first one-hour dramatic television series to be produced by HBO. The show, which aired for six seasons (1997-2003), was created by Tom Fontana and produced by Barry Levinson. ... Pimp My Ride is a TV show produced by MTV. Each episode consists of taking one car in poor condition and restoring it, as well as customizing it. ... Punkd is an American hidden camera practical joke television series on MTV, produced and hosted by Ashton Kutcher, which first aired in 2003. ... Rome is a multiple Emmy Award-winning historical drama, produced in Italy for television by the BBC (UK), HBO (USA), and RAI (Italy). ... Scrubs is an American situation comedy that premiered on October 2, 2001 on NBC. It was created by Bill Lawrence, who also co-created Spin City. ... Seinfeld is an Emmy Award-winning United States based television sitcom that originally aired on NBC from July 5, 1989, to May 14, 1998, running a total of nine seasons. ... The Shield is an American police-drama television series shown on FX Networks in the U.S. and other networks internationally. ... The Sopranos is a popular HBO drama created by David Chase. ... South Park is an American, Emmy Award-winning[1] animated television comedy series about four fourth-grade school boys who live in the small town of South Park, Colorado. ... So You Think You Can Dance is an American dance reality show and competition that is broadcast on the Fox Network, on Fox Japan, on CTV in Canada, on Living in United Kingdom and Ireland and on Network Ten in Australia. ... For the film, see Starsky & Hutch (film). ... That 70s Show is an American television sitcom that centers on the lives of a group of teenagers living in Point Place, Wisconsin, a fictional suburb of either Kenosha, Wisconsin[1] or Green Bay, Wisconsin,[2] from May 17, 1976 to December 31, 1979. ... The Cut is a television reality show for aspiring designers hosted and sponsored by Tommy Hilfiger. ... The Golden Girls is an American sitcom that originally aired Saturday nights on NBC from September 14, 1985 to May 9, 1992. ... The West Wing is an American television serial drama created by Aaron Sorkin that was originally broadcast from 1999 to 2006. ... Threshold is a science fiction drama television series that first aired on CBS in September 2005. ... Trading Spouses is a FOX Network reality show in which two families, usually of vastly different social classes, swap wives or husbands for a week. ... Ugly Betty is a Golden Globe and Peabody Award winning American television dramedy series starring America Ferrera, Vanessa Williams, and Eric Mabius. ... Weeds is an American dark comedy television series about an affluent fictional California suburb and its residents, a handful of whom are involved in the distribution and consumption of marijuana. ... What About Brian is an American dramatic television series created by Dana Stevens and co-produced by J.J. Abrams company Bad Robot Productions. ... Wife Swap is a reality television program, produced by UK independent TV production company RDF Media. ...

Note

Despite its English name, "Channel Four," it is not owned by Channel 4 (UK), although it can be considered the Finnish equivalent in its focus on light and reality tv programming. It has been suggested that Channel Four Television Corporation be merged into this article or section. ...

Criticism

Nelonen was launched quickly and in an unprepared state. It has been criticised for importing "trash shows", instead of quality. Its documentaries, in particular, have been the subject of criticism. Entertainment value and the focus on highly emotive issues have earned the label of "the tabloids in documentary".

The role of Nelonen in the larger context of Aatos Erkko's corporation is interesting. The sole competitor of Nelonen in commercial television is MTV3. This channel threatens the position of Erkko's other media such as the newspaper Helsingin Sanomat in the competition for advertising revenue. As a result, Nelonen can be seen as a device to reduce the profits of MTV3 rather than introduce new television to Finland. Particularly in the beginning, Nelonen's haphazardly created concept added to this impression. Aatos Juho Michel Erkko (born 16 September 1933 in Helsinki) is a Finnish journalist and the main owner of SanomaWSOY and its Helsingin Sanomat newspaper. ... MTV3 is a Finnish commercial television station owned by Bonnier and Proventus. ... Helsingin Sanomat is the biggest subscription newspaper in Finland. ...

External links

• Nelonen