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Country | Finland |
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Broadcast area | National; also distributed in Norway, Sweden, Estonia and via satellite across Europe and in certain areas by cable. |
Headquarters | Pasila, Helsinki |
Programming | |
Language(s) | Finnish Swedish (Rare option as alternate digital subtitles, sporadic original productions) Northern Sami (Short daily newscasts) Russian (Short daily newscast) |
Picture format | 1080i HDTV (downscaled to 576i for the SDTV feed) |
Ownership | |
Owner | Yle |
Sister channels | Yle TV2 Yle Teema & Fem |
History | |
Launched | 13 August 1957 (test transmissions) 1 January 1958 (regular programming) |
Former names | Suomen Televisio (1958–1965) TV-ohjelma 1 (1965–1972) |
Links | |
Website | www.yle.fi/tv1 |
Availability | |
Terrestrial | |
Digital terrestrial | Channel 1 Channel 21 (HD) |
Streaming media | |
Yle Areena | Watch live (Limited programming outside Finland) |
Yle TV1 (Yleisradio - Finnish Broadcasting Company 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; it derives from Yle's ownership of channels Spots 1 and 2 by default in Finland; the other, spot 2 channel, is Yle TV2.