Yle TV1

Yle TV1
Launched	1 January 1958
Owned by	Yle
Audience share	23.3% (2011, [1])
Country	Finland
Broadcast area	Finland
Formerly called	Suomen Televisio (1958-1965) TV-ohjelma 1 (1965-1971)
Sister channel(s)	Yle TV1 HD Yle TV2 Yle Fem Yle Teema Yle TV2 HD Yle Fem HD Yle Teema HD
Website	www.yle.fi/tv1
Availability
Terrestrial
Digital	Channel 1 Channel 31 (HD)
dna Welho	Channel 21 (HD)
Satellite
Thor 3	12.054 GHz H
Canal Digital	Channel 1 (HD)
Cable
Elisa	Channel 1
dna Welho	Channel 1 Channel 21 (HD)

Yle TV1 (YLE TV Yksi) is a Finnish television channel owned and operated by Finnish public broadcaster Yle. It is the first and oldest television channel in Finland. More than 70% of channel's programs are documentaries, news or educational programmes. Its name is commonly referred to as Ykkönen; the name is derived from Yle's ownership of channel spots 1 and 2 by default in Finland.

History

The channel started broadcasting on 1 January 1958 as Suomen Televisio. When Yleisradio took over Tampere-based^[2] Tamvisio in 1964, Suomen Televisio was renamed TV-ohjelma 1 and Tamvisio became TV-ohjelma 2 – and when they started broadcasting in colour in the 1970s, they were rebranded again, as TV1 and TV2.

Notable programming

• Arto Nyberg
• Yle Uutiset (Yle News)
• Puoli Seitsemän (At half past six talk-show)
• Sorjonen

Imports

• Agatha Christie's Marple
• Agatha Christie's Poirot
• BBC documentaries
• DCI Banks
• Death in Paradise
• Doc Martin
• Ein Fall für zwei
• Inspector George Gently
• Happy Valley
• Heartbeat
• Midsomer Murders
• Murdoch Mysteries
• The Royal
• Vera Stanhope

References

Former logo (2007–2012).

1. "Results From The TV Audience Measurement". Finnpanel. Retrieved 14 July 2012.
2. Hokka, Jenni: The changing local community of Finnish drama and comedy series. Nordisk Mediakonference August 2005, University of Tampere. Accessed: 17 December 2010.

External links

• Official site (Finnish)