 Logo used since 2012-2017 | |
| Country | Finland |
|---|---|
| Broadcast area | Finland |
| Programming | |
| Language | Swedish |
| Picture format | 1080iHDTV (downscaled to16:9576i for theSDTV feed) |
| Ownership | |
| Owner | Yle |
| Sister channels | Yle Fem HD Yle TV1 Yle TV2 Yle Teema Yle TV1 HD Yle TV2 HD Yle Teema HD |
| History | |
| Launched | 27 August 2001 |
| Closed | 24 April 2017 |
| Replaced by | Yle Teema & Fem |
| Former names | Finlands Svenska Television (1988 - 2001) YLE FST (August 2001 - August 2006) YLE FST5 (August 2006 - March 2012) |
| Links | |
| Website | svenska.yle.fi/fem |
| Availability | |
| Terrestrial | |
| Digital terrestrial television | Channel 5 (SD) Channel 35 (HD) |
Yle Fem (Yle Five) wasYle'sFinland-Swedish national television channel, providing television programmes in theSwedish language inFinland. It was a public-service channel principally intended forFinland's Swedish-speaking minority. Creating understanding over the language and culture border was also one of the channel's recognized objectives.[1]
Yle Fem was launched in 1988 as a late-evening programming block called FST (Finlands Svenska Television, literally"Finland's Swedish Television") which was broadcast on Monday nights onYle TV2 and on Tuesday nights onYle TV1, after the conclusion ofMTV3'sKymmenen Uutiset (10pm evening news) on either channel. It was relaunched as its own dedicated channel called YLE FST on 27 August 2001, and was called YLE FST5 from 2006 to 2012,[2] but the name was changed because the viewers thought the name was only a combination of letters (Fem is Swedish for five.). Initially, Finlands Svenska Television's output was formerly included in the programming of Yle's two main television channels,TV1 andTV2. Yle Fem andYle Teema were merged into one network on 24 April 2017, asYle Teema & Fem.
