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 Logo used since 2012 | |
| Country | Finland |
|---|---|
| Broadcast area | Nationwide |
| Headquarters | Ristimäki,Tampere |
| Programming | |
| Languages | Finnish Swedish Karelian Sámi |
| Picture format | 1080iHDTV |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | Yle |
| Sister channels | Yle TV1 Yle Teema & Fem |
| History | |
| Launched | 7 March 1965 |
| Former names | TV-ohjelma 2 (1965–1971) TV2 (1971–1992) |
| Links | |
| Website | tv2.yle.fi |
| Availability | |
| Terrestrial | |
| Digital terrestrial | Channel 2 (HD) |
| Streaming media | |
| Yle Areena | Watch live |
Yle TV2 (Finnish:Yle TV Kaksi;Swedish:Yle TV Två) is aFinnish television channel owned and operated byYle. TV2 was launched in 1965 as the successor to the former television channelsTES-TV (Tesvisio) andTamvisio [fi] and broadcasts public service programming, sports, drama, children's, youth, and music programmes. WithYle TV1, it is one of the three main television channels of Yle.
AnHD simulcast of Yle TV2 began broadcasting in January 2014.
Kakkoskanava, or TV Programme 2, originated with the purchase ofTesvisio by Yleisradio in 1964, which was unable to compete with Yle's Suomen Television for viewers and with Mainostelevision for advertising revenue and was running into bankruptcy. A few weeks later, Yle also bought Tamvision in Tampere. The deal, considered overpriced, weakened Yle's finances for a long time. Finland was the first in the Nordic countries to have a second television channel, while in Sweden, SVT2 (then TV2) did not start until four years later, in December 1969. In Norway and Denmark, only one channel remained until the mid-1980s and 1990s. TV2's reach gradually extended throughout Finland, and it was not until the late 1980s that the channel reached the entire Finnish population.[1]
TV2's first manager wasdocentHelge Miettunen, who favoured locating the channel in Helsinki. However, because of regional policy, the Board of Directors of Yle decided to locate the station in Tampere. In terms of party politics, TV2 was initially under the mandate of theNational Coalition Party, whose alternatives for the management of the channel were TV and radio personalityNiilo Tarvajärvi [fi] and film director and set designerHannu Leminen, who was then elected. The channel was running at a loss of ten millionmarkka a year. In 1967, the director-general of Yle,Eino S. Repo, proposed that the production units of the two television channels should be separated from their channels so they could produce programmes for both channels. The proposal was narrowly defeated by the board of directors of Yle.[1] The future of Channel Two was unclear until 1969, when, after the threat of closure, the YLE Board finally decided to expand the channel's transmission network.[2]
