Yle TV1

**Yle TV1** (Yleisradio TV1; Finnish: Yle TV Yksi, Swedish: Yle TV Ett) is a Finnish television channel owned and operated by Finnish public broadcaster Yle. It is the second oldest (after TES-TV) and the oldest existing television channel in Finland. More than 70% of the channel's programs are documentaries, news, or educational programmes. Its name is commonly referred to as Ykkönen.

## Channel description

Yle TV1 is Finland's most popular channel with its news, current affairs, affairs and drama offerings. Yle TV1 is Finland's most important news and current affairs channel, bold, reliable and fast-reacting in its journalism.

Do you want to stay up to date, are you thirsty for information? Do you want to influence, take a stand, share your opinion and be heard? Do you want to have fun, experience great emotions and share them with others?

TV1 is a shared living room. Finland's most watched channel. We make TV for all of you!

## History

In 1928, Uusi Suomi -lehti discussed the possibilities of remote viewing, i.e., television, in Finland. Yleisradio reporter Vuokko Arni experienced a visual radio broadcast at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin. "Now you can follow the events at the stadium on long-vision radio on a different side of Berlin. Doesn't it sound incredible that you can see and hear what is happening there, kilometers away from the stadium?"

In 1958, the miracle predicted by Vuokko Arni happened. Before that, the first public television broadcast in Finland was broadcast from the electrical laboratory of the Technical University on May 24, 1955. There were 15 television receivers in the country. Yleisradio started television test broadcasts via a transmitter installed on the Stadion tower in Helsinki in 1957, and on January 1 of the very next year, Yle started regular television broadcasts under the name Suomen Television and with the theme tune played by the Radio Orchestra.

The popularity of television was greater than anyone could have imagined. Domestic films, sports, and stage entertainment that became familiar on the radio attracted viewers, and in early 1964, the limit of half a million TV licenses was broken. The public's favorite was the entertainment program Palapeli, which started in 1958, with its most popular part, Laatikkoleikki, hosted by Niilo Tarvajärvi. This event was celebrated on television with a special broadcast of Niilo Tarvajärvi's Laatikkoleikki entertainment program.

Even though Uncle Markus and other radio celebrities were big names, the first megastar lit up on television. Teija Sopanen started as an announcer , but ended up as a television multitasker. Teija was Finland's most popular TV performer for almost twenty years.

The newscast started in 1959. In the early decades, Yle's news activities relied on the Finnish Information Agency, but in 1965 Yle started broadcasting its own news on radio and television. Yle's news is also what Finns trust the most. In surveys, Yle has repeatedly been named the overwhelming number one in news operations. Sports news got its own program for the first time in Finland when Urheiluruutu opened on Sunday, August 18, 1963.

TV 2 was born when Yle started broadcasting on two TV channels in 1965. In 1964, Yleisradio bought the share capital of Oy Tesvisio Ab, and Tamvisio was also owned by Yleisradio. In 1965, Suomen Televisio was renamed TV-ohjelma 1 and Tamvisio became TV-ohjelma 2.

The first live color TV broadcast was made in 1967. In 1968, technical color TV test broadcasts started in January. In August, the company completed a new office building at Kesäkatu 2 in Helsinki, and in 1969, the President of the Republic's New Year's speech started the programmatic color TV test broadcasts. When they started broadcasting in color in the 1970s, the channels were rebranded again, as TV1 and TV2.

Yle's regional TV news started at the end of 2000 and eventually expanded to cover the entire country. In 2007, Yle founded its own news agency. Finland switched to digital TV when analog TV broadcasts were stopped in August 2007.

Yle's TV channels started live streaming in Yle Areena on April 22, 2013, and Yle's Russian-language TV news Novosti Yle started on Yle TV1 on May 13, and the Sámi-language TV news Yle Ođđasat started on Yle TV1 on December 2.

Broadcasting of TV channels in high-definition format began in 2014, and in 2015, almost all TV programs made by Yle were in high-definition, or HD, quality. In 2019, Yle TV1's legendary Yle Aamu TV was renewed as Yle Aamuksi.

## Services

### Announcers

Yle TV1 still has announcers, unlike its sister channel Yle TV2, although since 2012 the vast majority of announcements have been pre-recorded.

* Maria Jungner
* Nina Sevelius
* Anna-Liisa Tilus

### Subtitles and teletext

Yle produces two types of subtitles: translation and program subtitles.

Subtitling refers to the translation of foreign language programs into Finnish or Swedish. All foreign-language (including Swedish) TV programs are translated into Finnish, and especially the Teema & Fem channel's programming as well as new Finnish-language drama productions and some foreign series for the general public are translated into Swedish.

Program subtitling is the subtitling of Finnish-language programs into Finnish and the subtitling of Swedish-language programs into Swedish, especially for hearing-impaired viewers.

Yle also sends the subtitles via Text TV, in which case there is automatically a dark bar behind the subtitles. The bar helps e.g. the visually impaired to distinguish the subtitles from the variegated picture background.

Subtitles in different languages ​​can be found on Teksti-tv on their own channel-specific subpages, like 333 for TV1 subtitles.

### Yle TV1+

**YLE TV1+** ​​was YLE TV1's parallel channel started on January 1, 2008 , replacing YLE Extra , which broadcast TV1's programs at the same time, but in such a way that the text of foreign-language programs was *"burned"* onto the picture, different from the DVB subtitles used by TV1 . YLE TV1+'s broadcasts ended on August 4, 2008, in order to use the freed up broadcast capacity for the Beijing Summer Olympics broadcasts. Later, the new television channel Liv started in the channel location.

## Programs

### Current

* 8 minuuttia
* A-studio - current affair program
* Akuutti
* Arto Nyberg - talk show
* Avara luonto (2022 - now) - nature program
* Egenlandin matkakohteet
* Elämäni biisi
* Ellan matkassa
* Eränkävijät - nature series
* Kandit (2016 - now) - Reality documentary series
* Luovia suhteita - Documentary series
* MOT - Investigative journalism series
* Minun musiikkini
* Muisti - History series
* Papisto - religious series
* Perjantai-dokkari - TV documentary on Yle TV1 on Fridays from 9:05 p.m. and on Saturdays at 10:45 a.m.
* Pisara - religious series
* Puoli seitsemän - 18:30 talk show
* Som alla andra/Kuin kaikki muut - Documentary series
* Superihmiset - piilotettua kykyä etsimässä (2023) - Documentary series
* Tervo & Halme tosisuomalaisuutta etsimässä (2023) - Travel documentary
* Timanttinen keikka - concert/music series
* Työuran jatkajat (2022) - Documentary series show

### Yle Uutiset

**Yle Uutiset** is Yleisradio's (Yle) news brand. Since 2013, all of Yle's news content and broadcasts in Finnish have been produced under the same name, which are produced for television, radio, and online.

TV news can be seen on Yle TV1 on weekday mornings at 6:30, 7:00, 7:30, 8:00, 8:30 and 9:00 (as part of Ylen aamu) and on Saturday mornings at 8, 9, and 10. In the afternoon and evening it is also broadcast at 17, 18, 20:30 and the 21:45 news. Except for the evening's long broadcasts (at 18:00 and 20:30), the news broadcasts last about five minutes. The news is presented by Matti Rönkä, Piia Pasanen and Jussi-Pekka Rantanen.

**Yle Uutiset 18** is a news magazine that lasts 20 minutes on weekdays. It is followed by regional news. It is shown on Yle TV1 every day at 18:00. Until 2013, the broadcast consisted of several different program sections, such as economic and cultural news. Already earlier, in the spring of 2010, the sign language news section was removed from the broadcast.

**Yle Uutiset 20:30** is the main TV news broadcast. It takes 25 minutes on weekdays, 20 minutes on Saturdays and 15 minutes on Sundays.

The regional news around 11:10 includes:

* Häme
* Itä-Suomi (Eastern Finland)
* Kaakkois-Suomi (Southeast Finland)
* Keski-Suomi ja Etelä-Savo (Central Finland and South Savo)
* Lappi (Lapland)
* Lounais-Soumi (Southwest Finland)
* Pirkanmaa
* Pohjanmaa (Ostrobothnia)
* Pohjois-Suomi (Northern Finland)
* Uusimaa

There's also a summary news section, Yle Uutiset Uutis-Suomi.

Yle produces Yle Ođđasat (news in Sami language) and also Ođđasat with SVT and NRK. Yle also airs Yle Uutiset viittomakielellä (News in sign language). on TV1.

### Sport

**Urheiluruutu** is a daily sports news program broadcast by Yleisradio.

Urheiluruutu is broadcast at 20:55 on TV1. On weekends, the main broadcast of the TV1 starts on Saturdays at 8:50 p.m., when it lasts 25 minutes, and on Sundays at 8:45 p.m., when the broadcast lasts 20 minutes. Urheiluruutu is not broadcast on Aamu-TV (it used to be, but the sports news is read by the same news anchor after the other news).

### Film & Documentary

* Ompelijatar (2015) - directed by Ville Suhonen
* Knock, Knock (Short 2020) - directed by Anssi Määttä
* Rakkaus on nopeampi Piiroisen pässiäkin (1950) - directed by Wilho Ilmari
* Vihdoinkin hääyö (1957) - directed by Aarne Tarkas
* Onni etsii asuntoa (1955) - directed by Thure Barne
* Toinen raide (2023) - documentary by Antti Lempiäinen
* Kieltolaki (2021) - documentary by Atro Lahtela
* Rantasuon raatajat (1942) - documentary by Orvo Saarikivi
* Kesämökin myymisestä (2023) - documentary by Helena Öst
* Suoerämaa (2018)

### Foreign

* Der Alte (1977 - now) - German series by ZDF
* Det sitter i väggarna (2015 - now) - Reality series by SVT
* Hotel Portofino (2022 - now) - British series by BritBox/ITV
* Husdrömmar Sicilien (2018 - now) - Swedish series by SVT
* Father Brown (2013 - now) - British series by BBC
* Ein Fall für zwei (2014 - now) - German series by ZDF
* Blue Lights (2023) - British series by BBC
* Freud (2020) - Austrian/German series premiered in ORF/Netflix
* Taken Hostage (2022) - American series by PBS
* Rojava, The Kurds, Turkey & Isis (2023) - Belgian documentary by Gulan and Kawa Akrawi, premiered on WDR.
* ZERV – Zeit der Abrechnung (2022) - German series by ARD
* Our Brain (2022) - Australian documentary by ABC
* You & Me (2023) - TV Miniseries by ITVX
* The Sinner (2017 - 2021) - American series by USA Network
* Unsere wunderbaren Jahre (2020) - German series by ARD
* A Very English Scandal (2018) - British miniseries by BBC
* Helene sjekker ut (2023) - Miniseries by NRK
* Back To Nature (2021) - Documentary series by ABC
* Love Your Garden with Alan Titchmarsh (2011 - now) - Series by ITV
* Eden: Untamed Planet (2021) - Nature documentary by BBC
* Midsomer Murders (2021) - British series by ITV
* Endeavour (2021) - British series by ITV
* Ukjent arving (2020) - Series by NRK
* Vigil (2021) - British series by BBC
* Doc Martin (2004 - 2022) - British series by ITV

### Former

* Kekkonen (2017) - Documentary series about Urho Kekkonen
* Merkkien salat (2019 - 2021) - Lifestyle cultural series
* Jarkko ja kuuro Amerikka (2016) - Reality series
* Strömsön talkoot (2011, 2013) - Lifestyle series
* Downshiftaajat (2015 - 2020) - Drama series
* SuomiLOVE (2014 - 2022) - Music program