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Yle FSR (Finlands Svenska Radio) was the Swedish-language radio department of
Finland Finland, officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It borders Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of Bothnia to the west and the Gulf of Finland to the south, ...
's national broadcaster
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 ...
(Yleisradio). The department is responsible for the Swedish-language radio stations of Yle; the speech station Radio Vega and the pop music station Radio X3M. Both these channels are available in areas of Finland where the Swedish-speaking minority is found (mainly the coastal areas). In some parts of the country without a strong Swedish-speaking presence, Radio Vega can be received. Some programmes of FSR's channels are also simulcast on Yle's international radio channel, Radio Finland.


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* Media of Finland Swedish-language mass media in Finland FSR {{Media-company-stub