TV Finland
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TV Finland is a Finnish television channel available in Europe via satellite and on some cable television networks in Sweden, Norway and Estonia. The channel was originally created for free-to-air broadcast in Sweden as part of a reciprocal agreement between the Finnish and Swedish governments that also established SVT Europa (Originally SVT4) broadcasts in areas of Finland with Swedish-speaking populations. As of 2006 it is broadcast on terrestrial free-to-air television in parts of Sweden, but digitalization threatens to stop both broadcasts.
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TV Finland is offered by Finland's National Broadcasting Company YLE, and its contents are taken from programs regularly broadcast on public channels YLE TV1 and YLE TV2 (including Swedish language FST productions) and commercial channel MTV3.
Most of the programming consists of locally made productions and national sports events, and does not include commercials (any commercial breaks or gaps between consecutive programs are filled with on-screen stills). It includes the YLE teletext service.
Despite being owned by public broadcaster YLE, TV Finland is not a free-to-air channel: it can be received only through a subscription to private broadcaster Canal Digital, which includes both a fee for the access card and an annual viewing fee.
List of television channels in Finland
- TV Finland - YLE pages on TV Finland (main page, in Finnish)
- TV Finland in english - YLE pages on TV Finland (in English)
- Canal Digital - Commercial info on TV Finland
- Lyngsat - Technical data on TV Finland satellite channel.
