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 than 70% of the channel's programs are documentaries, news, or educational programmes. It is commonly referred to as , deriving from Yle's ownership of channels Spots 1 and 2 by default in Finland, with the other channel spot being Yle TV2.

History

The channel started test transmissions on 13 August 1957 and began regular broadcasts on 1 January 1958 as Suomen Televisio, then the second television channel to operate in Finland. When Yleisradio took over the Tampere-based Tamvisio in 1964, Suomen Televisio was renamed TV-ohjelma 1, and Tamvisio became TV-ohjelma 2, and when they started broadcasting in colour in the 1970s, they were rebranded again, as TV1 and TV2.

In January 1970, it was made available in Åland.

Logos and identities

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File:Yle TV1 old.svg|Yle TV1 logo bug from 2005 to 2007

File:YLE TV1 logo.png|Yle TV1's seventh and previous logo used from April 2007 to 4 March 2012

File:Yle TV1 logo.svg|Yle TV1's eighth and current logo since 5 March 2012

File:Yle TV1 HD logo.png|HD logo since 2012

File:YLE TV1 - logo.jpg|Alternate design of the current logo

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Notable programming

thumb|Experimenting with using television in education at Lapinlahti primary school in Helsinki, 1957

  • Arto Nyberg
  • Sorjonen
  • Puoli Seitsemän (talk show)
  • Uutisvuoto
  • Urheiluruutu (sport news)
  • Ylen aamu (breakfast television)
  • Yle Uutiset (Yle News)
  • A Studio
  • Strömsö (Finland Swedish cooking show)
  • Ođđasat (Northern Sami newscasts, with both Finland-specific and all-Nordic versions airing)

Imports

  • A Good Girl's Guide to Murder
  • Black Snow
  • Blue Lights
  • Black Ops
  • Beyond Paradise
  • Domino Day
  • Champion
  • The Gone
  • Kin
  • Marie Antoinette
  • Rebus
  • Reasonable Doubt
  • SAS: Rogue Heroes
  • Scrublands
  • Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators
  • Silent Witness
  • Savages
  • Ten Pound Poms
  • The Capture
  • The Rig
  • The Tunnel
  • We Hunt Together

Discontinued imports

  • Fleksnes
  • Brødrene Dal
  • Borettslaget

Previous imports

  • 800 Words
  • 13 Reasons Why
  • ABBA The Music Hour
  • Agatha Christie's Marple
  • Agatha Christie's Poirot
  • A Place to Call Home
  • Anxious People
  • Better
  • Blue Bloods
  • Bedrag
  • Bloodlands
  • Biohackers
  • Baptiste
  • Call the Midwife
  • Coronation Street
  • Coronation Street
  • DCI Banks
  • Death in Paradise
  • Doctor Foster
  • Dawson's Creek
  • Doc Martin
  • Father Brown
  • Fauda
  • Happy Valley
  • Harlos
  • Heartbeat
  • House of Cards
  • Inspector George Gently
  • Luther
  • Liaison
  • Lupin
  • Line of Duty
  • Midsomer Murders
  • Murdoch Mysteries
  • Moving On
  • Marseille
  • Ozark
  • Our Girl
  • Peaky Blindes
  • Shetland
  • The Bridge
  • The Fall
  • The Returned
  • The Royal
  • Tell Me Your Secrets
  • Time
  • The Bureau
  • The Calling
  • The Blacklist
  • The Young Pope
  • Versailles
  • Waterloo Road
  • War of the Worlds
  • World on Fire
  • Wreck

Cartoons

  • Koulu-TV (School TV)
  • The Little Mole
  • Bannertail: The Story of Gray Squirrel (TV series)
  • Dogtanian and the Three Muskehounds
  • Maya the Honey Bee
  • Fushigi no Kuni no Alice
  • Taotao (TV series)
  • The Wonderful Adventures of Nils (TV series)
  • Doctor Snuggles
  • Sherlock Hound
  • Once Upon a Time... Man
  • Once Upon a Time... Life
  • The Snowman (moved to Yle TV2 in the 1990s)
  • Around the World with Willy Fog (broadcast in 1990–1991, when Yleisradio dubbed the series in Finnish)
  • Willy Fog 2
  • The Return of Dogtanian

References

  • Official site