Television
- Yle TV1
- TV1 is the oldest of Yle's channels and also the flagship of Yle. It services as the main news, current affairs and factual journalism channel of Yle with also a number of documentaries, drama, cultural and educational programmes being shown. Satirical entertainment, cinema and shows of British production are also included in its programming.
- Yle TV2
- TV2 founded in 1964 is the main channel for children's, teenagers' and sports programmes though it also shows drama, entertainment and factual programmes. Emphasis in current affairs output is on domestic items, regional content and citizens' journalism. It broadcasts Eurovision Song Contest for Finland.
- Yle Fem
- Yle Fem (English: Five) is the Swedish-language full service channel broadcasting news, factual and children's programmes and entertainment. It also shows many Nordic films and series and Sami-language Ođđasat. Finnish subtitles are available for most programmes, they can be enabled using the digital set-top box. Outside prime time, Fem shows selected broadcasts from Sweden's Sveriges Television.
- Yle Teema
- Yle Teema (English: Theme) is the channel for culture, education and science. It focuses on recordings of performing arts, classical music, art and history documentaries, films and theme broadcasts.
- Yle HD
- is an HDTV channel which broadcasts simulcasts of Yle TV2 on weekdays and Yle TV1 on weekends in 1080i, broadcasting in the primetime hours of 5pm to 11pm. Some programs are in native HD but most are upscaled. For now Game of Thrones, Boardwalk Empire, True Blood, Pan Am, newest BBC programs and Yle's own drama production can be seen in native HD with 5.1 surround sound if available. Channel is broadcast by Canal Digital in satellite, terrestrially by DNA widely in southern Finland but also in other parts of the country. It reaches 60% of the population terrestrially. Channel is a "must carry" channel so anywhere where the channel is available in terrestrial cable operators operating in that area must broadcast it too.
- Yle Finland
- Yle Finland is Digital satellite channel showing a selection of Yle and MTV3 programmes in other parts of Europe.
- Teletext
- Teletext Finnish: Teksti-tv shows news, sport and programme information round the clock. Theme pages on the weather, traffic, work and leisure.
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Famous quotes containing the word television:
“In full view of his television audience, he preached a new religion—or a new form of Christianity—based on faith in financial miracles and in a Heaven here on earth with a water slide and luxury hotels. It was a religion of celebrity and showmanship and fun, which made a mockery of all puritanical standards and all canons of good taste. Its standard was excess, and its doctrines were tolerance and freedom from accountability.”
—New Yorker (April 23, 1990)
“Television ... helps blur the distinction between framed and unframed reality. Whereas going to the movies necessarily entails leaving one’s ordinary surroundings, soap operas are in fact spatially inseparable from the rest of one’s life. In homes where television is on most of the time, they are also temporally integrated into one’s “real” life and, unlike the experience of going out in the evening to see a show, may not even interrupt its regular flow.”
—Eviatar Zerubavel, U.S. sociologist, educator. The Fine Line: Making Distinctions in Everyday Life, ch. 5, University of Chicago Press (1991)
“They [parents] can help the children work out schedules for homework, play, and television that minimize the conflicts involved in what to do first. They can offer moral support and encouragement to persist, to try again, to struggle for understanding and mastery. And they can share a child’s pleasure in mastery and accomplishment. But they must not do the job for the children.”
—Dorothy H. Cohen (20th century)