Klaus Flaming (born 1958, in

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) is Finnish

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. He began his radio career in

Yle Yleisradio Oy (; ), abbreviated as Yle () (formerly styled in all uppercase until 2012), translated into English as the Finnish Broadcasting Company, is Finland's national public broadcasting company, founded in 1926. It is a joint-stock comp ...

, in 1988, as personnel of the Finnish radio channel

Radiomafia Radiomafia was a Finnish radio station owned by Yle and mainly directed to teenagers and young adults. It was established on 1 June 1990 and decommissioned on 12 January 2003. It was followed by YleX, with some of the programmes moved to other ...

.https://www.hs.fi/kulttuuri/art-2000005942107.html He worked there from the channel's founding to its end. From 1990 to 2006 Flaming hosted a

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on Radiomafia and

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called " Metal Alliance". He made 772 broadcasts of the program. In January, 2007, Flaming moved from Yle to a channel called

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, owned by

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. He hosts his own show from Monday to Thursday, from 20.00 - 22.00. In this program, there is a theme for each day's broadcast.

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Radio Rock - Klaus Flaming
Finnish journalists Living people 1958 births People from Helsinki {{Finland-bio-stub