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Welcome to Yle – get to know more about us!

Yle is a public service broadcasting company and the most diverse community of creative work in Finland. Here we will tell you more about how Yle works and how we serve all the Finns.

Press releases

Yle broadcasts the summit of Trump and Putin all over the world

Yle will produce the international feed of the summit

The Finnish Broadcasting Company Yle is in charge of the TV and radio arrangements of Trump's and Putin's summit meeting in Helsinki, in cooperation with the European Broadcasting Union (EBU). Yle will produce the international feed of the summit between Trump and Putin in cooperation with EBU.

Merja Ylä-Anttila appointed CEO of Yle

She will join Yle on 1 September 2018.

Yle’s Board of Directors has appointed Merja Ylä-Anttila CEO of the company. She will join Yle on 1 September 2018.

Press releases

Board of Directors' report and financial statements 2017

Annual financial report.

Annual financial report is available as an web article and an e-book.

SuomiLOVE to be produced at Mediapolis in Tampere

Popular SuomiLOVE will continue for at least two seasons.

SuomiLOVE, Yle's popular and award-winning music series, will move to Mediapolis studios in Tampere.

Crime in the Costa del Sol: The Paradise will start shooting in 2018

The Paradise is a story about memory.

Yle is producing a drama series together with the Spanish media company Mediapro.

There will be a change of CEO at Yle

Yle’s Board of Directors starts looking for successor.

The company’s Board of Directors starts looking for Lauri Kivinen’s successor.

Opinions

Mirette Kangas: Turn your company into the benchmark of the new company culture

Here is Yle’s Lean Culture Toolkit for you to use.

This blog by Mirette Kangas was published at the Agile 2018 conference on 7 August 2018 in San Diego, where she talked with Antti Kirjavainen about the development of Yle’s company culture implemented through its Lean-Agile Accelerator.

Eija Moisala and Anne Hyvärilä: Better service and understanding of user contexts with new data

With the data, we can develop our online services

New ways to better understand the everyday lives of Finns have been under development at Yle for a long time. We have been strongly developing analytics and enriching it in various ways, such as modelling age and gender, as well as making sense of user contexts.

Opinions

Yle in English

This is Yle

Finland's national public service broadcasting company

Yle (Yleisradio, Finnish Broadcasting Company) is Finland's national public service broadcasting company. What do we do and why?

Yle Sales brings Finnish tv-programs available worldwide

A selection of Yle programs available worldwide

Yle Sales brings a selection of Yle programs available for tv-channels and other media services around the world.

International Programme Acquisitions

If you have a program to offer for Yle, let us know about it

If you have a program to offer for Yle, let us know about it!

Yle's strategy

Yle strengthens the Finnish society and culture.

Contact Us

Yle international contact information in one page.

Do you need more information about Yle? Read here whom to contact.

Yle Brochure in English

The basic facts of Yle in a handy form

The basic facts of Yle in a handy form, in English.

Yle's customer relationships

How did we react the audience on television and radio?

Yle reached every individual in Finland, with the Presidential Independence Day Reception and municipal elections attracting large audiences.

How Yle works

Yle's organisation, management, and responsible editors.

Get to know Yle's organisation, management, and responsible editors.

Yle's financing and the cost structure

Yle is financed by a tax paid by individuals and companies.

Since 2013, Yle has been financed by a tax paid by individuals and companies.

What do we offer to the public abroad?

Yle's programmes can be watched overseas

Follow our radio and tv channels in Yle Areena.

Yle Archive Sales

Yle Archive Sales offers collection of Finnish content.

In need of Finnish content? Yle Archive Sales offers a collection of almost half a million TV programmes and films.

Open data resources available in Yle

Explore our open data sets available for everyone.

Yle brand, visual image and logos

Instructions for using the Yle brand and logos

Detailed instructions for using the Yle brand and logos. You may also download logos through the links.

Our internet vision

Developing the online services starts from the customer.

Visual data to give Yle better understanding of users

Understanding of online users helps Yle to serve the public.

Yle's Smart Data and Audience Insight team has come up with a new and unique way of predicting the age and gender distribution of online users. This helps Yle to serve the public better.

Yle's Code of Conduct

Guidelines for everyone who works or operates for Yle.

Guidelines for everyone who works or operates for Yle. The Code of Conduct crystallises the principles with which we will achieve and retain reliability and independence and will appreciate people.

Ethical Guidelines for the Production of Programmes and Content

They bind all who work in Yle's programme productions.

Yle's Ethical Guidelines for the Production of Programmes and Content are binding to all who participate in the production of programmes or contents at or for Yle.

2016–2017

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Yle's annual reports

In Yle's annual reports you can find more information about the company's economic state, Yle's meaning to the Finns and Yle's position in the media field.