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The '''Finnish Broadcasting Company''' (Finnish: Yleisradio Oy/Swedish: Rundradion Ab, officially abbreviated to Yle) is the name of the state-owned Finnish radio and television agency, which was founded in Helsinki on May 29, 1926. Originally named as "O.Y. Suomen Yleisradio – A.B. Finlands Rundradio", the company started as a radio broadcaster, but during 1957, Yleisradio tested broadcasting on television. Suomen Televisio was launched with regular broadcasting, beginning next year on January 1, 1958. The first television newscast from Yleisradio aired on September 1, 1959. Following the acquisition of [[Tesvisio]] and [[Tamvisio]] in 1964, Yleisradio renamed its Suomen Televisio channel to TV-ohjelma 1 and launched its new second channel, TV-ohjelma 2. Both of these channels were later renamed simply to [[Yle TV1|TV1]] and [[Yle TV2|TV2]] respectively in 1971, and again to Yle TV1 and Yle TV2 since 2000. Both channels had separate programming blocks over the years (MTV and FST) and additional channels such as [[Yle Teema & Fem]] and TV Finland were created alongside the two channels. For three decades, Yleisradio was the sole television monopoly in Finland until the Finnish TV channel reforming happened in 1993, with [[Finland]] becoming its own commercial television station. In 1994, the company was renamed to Yleisradio Oy or simply Yle, while in 2012, the company's brand was revamped. Prior to January 1992, Yle didn't use their company logo in any of their television channels.

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