11 Facts About Yle

Yle receives no advertising revenues as all channels are advertisement-free.

Yle has a status that could be described as that of a non-departmental public body.

Yle operates three national television channels, 13 radio channels and services, and 25 regional radio stations.

Yle was one of 23 founding broadcasting organisations of the European Broadcasting Union in 1950.

However, it was not until 1928 that Yle's broadcasts became available throughout the country.

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In 1957, Yle made its first television broadcast tests, and the following year regular TV programming was started under the name Suomen Televisio, which was later renamed Yle TV1.

In 1964, Yle obtained TES-TV and Tamvisio, which were merged to Yle TV2.

Yle phased out digital audio broadcasts by the end of 2005.

In radio, Yle was a legal monopoly until 1985, when local radio stations were permitted, and maintained a national monopoly until 1995, when national radio networks were allowed.

Yle was accused of favouring leftist student radicalism and young left leaning reporters with programs critical of capitalism that demanded reforms to bring Finland closer to the Soviet Union, and Yle was given the nickname "Reporadio".

Yle's underlined the fact that Yle is not under government control, but under indirect parliamentary supervision.