Broadcasting Begins

Regular broadcasts in Sami started within YLE in October 1947. News in Sami could be heard from Oulu on the medium waves on Mondays 7.15 - 7.30 p.m. They were edited by Johan M. Nuorgam and Magga Pohjanraito. Unfortunately there are no tape recordings from this time.

In an interview made in 1977, Johan M. Nuorgam describes what it was like to be the first Sami-speaking radio journalist! The first religious program in Sami was broadcast on Sunday, February the 1st 1948, from the Cathedral of Oulu. After that, church services were transmitted from the Cathedral on the first Sunday of every month up until 1960. For decades to come, news and religious programs were the foundation on which Sami program production was based on.