YLE (Yleisradio in Finnish, Rundradion in Swedish), Finland's National Broadcasting Company, was founded in 1926. YLE is a public-broadcasting organization which shares many of its characteristics with its British counterpart, the BBC, on which it was largely modelled. Image File history File links Yleisradio_Finland_radio. ... 1926 (MCMXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... Public broadcasting, also known as public service broadcasting or PSB (though this term has a specific different meaning in the United Kingdom - see public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom) is the dominant form of broadcasting around the world, where radio, television, and potentially other electronic media outlets receive funding... This article is an overview article about the Crown chartered British Broadcasting Corporation formed in 1927. ...

A public limited company, owned by the Finnish state (with a 99.98 % share) and funded through a television fee and private television broadcasting license fees allocated by the cabinet, YLE has a status that could be described as that of a non-departmental public body. It is governed by a parliamentary governing council. Today YLE operates five national television channels, 13 radio channels and services, and 25 regional radio stations. Finland being a bilingual country Рaround 6% of the population have Swedish as their mother-tongue РYLE provides radio and TV programming in Swedish through two departments: Finlands Svenska Television and Finlands Svenska Radio. A television licence is an official licence required in some countries for all owners of a television receiver. ... The Council of State (Finnish: Valtioneuvosto, Swedish: Statsr̴det) is Finlands cabinet; it directs the Government of Finland. ... The term Quasi-Autonomous Non-Governmental Organisation (or QUANGO), attributed to Sir Douglas Hague, was originally invented as a joke, but fell into common usage in the United Kingdom to describe the agencies produced by the growing trend of government devolving power to appointed, or self-appointed bodies. ... Finlands Svenska Television (FST) is the Finnish Broadcasting Company YLEs Swedish department, which provides television programmes in the Swedish language for the Swedish minority in Finland. ... Finlands Svenska Radio (FSR) is the Swedish-language radio department of Finlands national broadcaster Rundradion (generally known as YLE, from its Finnish name Yleisradio). ...

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List of YLE managing directors

• L. M. Viherjuuri 1926 - 1927 acting
• Yrjö Koskelainen 1927 - 1927 acting
• A. Deinert 1927 - 1927 acting
• Hjalmar Voldemar Walldén - 1927- 1945 (changed name in 1935 to J. V. (Jalmar Voldemar)
• Hella Wuolijoki 1945 - 1949
• Einar Sundström 1950 - 1964
• Eino S. Repo 1965 - 1969
• Erkki Raatikainen 1970 - 1979
• Sakari Kiuru 1980 - 1989
• Reino Paasilinna 1990 - 1994
• Arne Wessberg 1994 - 2005
• Mikael Jungner 2005 -

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Television

• YLE TV1: The news, current affairs and factual journalism channel, documentaries, drama, cultural and educational programmes. Satirical entertainment, quality cinema and shows of British production.
• YLE TV2: The main channel for children's, teenagers' and sports programmes, also drama, entertainment and factual programmes. Emphasis in current affairs output is on domestic items, regional content and citizens' journalism.

Digital Channels

• YLE24: The digital channel for news, current affairs and events. 24-hour news output also to e.g. internet and mobile receivers.
• YLE Teema: The digital channel for culture, education and science. Recordings of performing arts, classical music, art and history documentaries, films and theme broadcasts.
• YLE FST: The digital Swedish-language full service channel broadcasting news, factual and children's programmes and entertainment. Nordic films and series. Many programmes carry Finnish subtitles.

International Channels

• TV Finland: Digital satellite channel showing a selection of YLE and MTV3 progammes.

Other

• Teletext (Teksti-tv): News, sport and programme information round the clock on both analogue and digital television. Theme pages on e.g. the weather, traffic, work and leisure.

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Radio

• YLE Radio 1: A radio channel for culture, in-depth current affairs and talk programmes. Classical music (concerts by the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra), jazz, folk, world music and religious music.
• YLEX: A fast-tempoed programme-flow channel featuring new music and in tune with popular culture, targeted at 17 to 27-year-olds. Percentage of music is 70%. New domestic and foreign pop and rock and several special music programmes.
• YLE Radio Suomi: The national and regional news, service and contact channel, also sport and entertainment. Musical fare comprising domestic and foreign hits, adult and nostalgic pop.
• YLEQ: Everyday features, politics and popular culture of interest to young adults. Analogue reception area Greater Helsinki and environs, digitally the South of Finland. New and fairly new pop and rock. Broadcasts also on digital television.
• YLE Radio Extrem (RADIO X3M): A Swedish-language channel for current affairs debate and popular culture broadcasting also news and sport. New pop and rock and special music programmes.
• YLE Radio Vega: 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: A Sámi-language network covering most of Lapland. Co-operation with Sweden and Norway.

Digital Services

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• YLE Radio Peili: The digital news and current affairs channel presenting talk programmes from YLE's other radio and television channels. Classical jazz. Also broadcast on digital television and MW (analog).
• Ylen Klassinen: The 24-hour digital supplementary service of classical music also broadcast on digital television.
• YLE VegaPlus

International Services

• YLE Radio Finland: The external service of YLE broadcasting in Finnish, Swedish, English and Russian on SW, MW satellites and on the Internet.
• YLE World and YLE Mondo: Radio Finland's digital programme services in English and other languages.
• Capital FM: channel compiled from Radio World's and Mondo's programming in Greater Helsinki, and partly in Turku, Lahti and Kuopio.
• Educational Channels: in Turku, Kuopio, Lahti and Mikkeli.

See also 

List of Finnish television channels

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Television fee

The television fee in Finland is 200.70€ per annum which pays for YLE. The paid sum is average in comparison with other European countries that collect the fee. A television licence (or more correctly broadcast receiver licence, as it usually also pays for public radio) is an official licence required in many countries for all owners of television and radio receivers. ... The euro (plural euro--but note linguistic issues concerning the euro, symbol: €; banking code: EUR) is the official currency of the European Union and single currency for over 300 million Europeans in the following twelve European Union member states: Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands... The aim of this page is to act as a comparison between European countries in many different aspects, such as population, GDP, life expectancy, etc. ...

External links

• YLE - Official site
• svenska.yle.fi - Svenska YLE. Official site in Swedish.
• Nuntii Latini - News in Latin
• TV Maksuhallinto (the licence people)

Audio streams

• Radio Peili, Real Audio, 22 kBit/s
• Radio Peili, Media Player, 32 kBit/s
• Multifoorumi, Real Audio, 21 kBit/s
• Multifoorumi, Media Player, 48 kBit/s
• YLE Arkki, Real Audio, 22 kBit/s
• YLE Arkki, Media Player, 32 kBit/s
• Latest Radio Vega Aktuellt news bulletin in Swedish, Real Audio, 22kBit/s

Video streams

• Latest YLE news in English
• Some of the latest YLE news in Finnish
• Latest FST Tv-nytt Swedish-language tv news bulletin, Real Video