Yle Fem (''Yle Five'') was

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 ...

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national television channel, providing television programmes in the

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. It was a public-service channel principally intended for Finland's Swedish-speaking minority. Creating understanding over the language and culture border was also one of the channel's recognized objectives.

History

Yle Fem was launched in 1988 as a late-evening programming block called FST (Finlands Svenska Television, literally ''"Finland's Swedish Television"'') which was broadcast on Monday nights on Yle TV2 and on Tuesday nights on

Yle TV1 Yle TV1 (, ) is a Finnish television channel owned and operated by Finnish public broadcaster Yle. It is the second-oldest television channel in Finland, after TES-TV, and is the oldest currently existing television channel in the country. More ...

, after the conclusion of

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's Kymmenen Uutiset (10pm evening news) on either channel. It was relaunched as its own dedicated channel called YLE FST on 27 August 2001, and was called YLE FST5 from 2006 to 2012,YLE FST5 changes name to Yle Fem
/ref> but the name was changed because the viewers thought the name was only a combination of letters (Fem is Swedish for five.). Initially, Finlands Svenska Television's output was formerly included in the programming of Yle's two main television channels, TV1 and TV2. Yle Fem and

Yle Teema Yle Teema was a Finnish television channel owned and operated by Finnish public broadcasting company Yle. The channel was dedicated to culture, science Science is a systematic discipline that builds and organises knowledge in the form of ...

were merged into one network on 24 April 2017, as

Yle Teema & Fem Yle Teema & Fem is a Finnish free-to-air television channel owned by Finnish state broadcaster Yle. It was launched on 24 April 2017, after Yle Teema and Yle Fem merged to form this channel. Teema & Fem is Yle's channel for culture, education, a ...

TV programmes

*'' 360 grader'' *'' Bettina S.'' *'' Buu-klubben'' - broadcasting cartoons for kids dubbed in Swedish *'' D-Dax'' *''

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'' *'' Falkenswärds möbler'' *'' Fribby'' *'' Idrottsbiten'' *'' JOX'' *'' Kortnytt'' *'' I Mumindalen'' *''

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'' *''

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'' *'' Nordiska videolistan'' *'' Närbild Svenskfinland'' *''

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'' *'' Oppåner å hitådit'' *'' Pussel'' *'' Ratatosk'' *'' Scen'' *'' Schlager på lager'' *'' Sicsac'' *'' Solarplexus'' *''Solo'' *'' Sportnytt'' *''Spotlight'' *'' Strömsö'' *'' TV-Nytt'' *'' Tärningen'' *'' Vad gör Petra?'' *'' X-tra'' In addition, Yle Fem simulcasts a significant amount of programming from

SVT World SVT World was an international television channel from the Sweden, Swedish broadcaster Sveriges Television. The channel was available on satellite in Europe and much of Africa, Australia and Asia, terrestrially in parts of Finland and worldwide vi ...

, the international channel of Sweden's Public Broadcaster SVT.

References

External links

Yle Fem
- Official site {{DEFAULTSORT:Yle Fem Yle television channels Publicly funded broadcasters Television channels and stations established in 1988 Television channels and stations disestablished in 2017 Finland-Swedish television shows Defunct television channels in Finland

History

TV programmes

See also

References

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