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Country | Finland |
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Broadcast area | National; also distributed inNorway,Sweden,Estonia and via satellite across Europe and in certain areas by cable |
Headquarters | Pasila,Helsinki |
Programming | |
Language(s) | Finnish Swedish (Rare option as alternate digital subtitles, sporadic original productions) Northern Sami (Short daily newscasts) Russian (Short daily newscast) |
Picture format | 1080iHDTV (downscaled to576i for theSDTV feed) |
Ownership | |
Owner | Yle |
Sister channels | Yle TV2 Yle Teema & Fem |
History | |
Launched | 13 August 1957(test transmissions) 1 January 1958(regular programming) |
Former names | Suomen Televisio (1958–1965) TV-ohjelma 1 (1965–1972) |
Links | |
Website | www.yle.fi/tv1 |
Availability | |
Terrestrial | |
Digital terrestrial | Channel 1 (HD) Channel 21 (SD) |
Streaming media | |
Yle Areena | Watch live(Limited programming outside Finland) |
Yle TV1 (Finnish:Yle TV Yksi,Swedish:Yle TV Ett) is aFinnish television channel owned and operated by Finnish public broadcasterYle. It is the second-oldest television channel inFinland, afterTES-TV, and is the oldest currently existing television channel in the country. More than 70% of the channel's programs are documentaries, news, or educational programmes. It is commonly referred to asYkkönen, deriving from Yle's ownership of channels Spots 1 and 2 by default in Finland, with the other channel spot beingYle TV2.
The channel started test transmissions on 13 August 1957 and began regular broadcasts on 1 January 1958 asSuomen Televisio, then the second television channel to operate in Finland. When Yleisradio took over the Tampere-based[1]Tamvisio in 1964, Suomen Televisio was renamedTV-ohjelma 1, and Tamvisio becameTV-ohjelma 2, and when they started broadcasting in colour in the 1970s, they were rebranded again, as TV1 andTV2.