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=== Background ===  

Yle TV1 is a Finnish television channel owned and operated by [[Yle|Yle]], Finland's public TV broadcaster. The channel was launched in January 1, 1958 under the name Suomen Televisio and to this day, it is the oldest operating channel in the country. After the acquisition of both [[Tesvisio|Tesvisio]] and [[Tamvisio|Tamvisio]] in 1964, Suomen Televisio was renamed TV-ohjelma 1 alongside with the new TV-ohjelma 2 next year, and soon it was renamed again simply TV1 in 1971. Circa 2001, the channel was renamed YLE TV1 and yet again more simply Yle TV1 during the company's rebranding in 2012. The channel covers generally news, documentaries and educational programmes.

=== 1st Logo (January 1, 1958-February 28, 1965) ===  

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'''Logo:''' On a black and white background, we see four stylized whooper swans, who are half black and half white, flying towards each other from all four sides of the screen. However, these swans only fly past each other in the center of the screen as the stacked text "SUOMEN TELEVISIO" fades in and starts zooming in on the middle of the screen. The swans leave a square-shaped space for the company name and stop at one place for a short amount of time until they continue flying straight ahead and the background fades into a {{color|gray}} one, while the text zooms in towards the screen before the logo fades out.

'''Trivia:''' The ident was designed by E.Räty, who would also create the 4th logo on this page.

'''Variant:''' The short variant has the text zooming in towards the camera on a cloudy sky background.

'''Technique:''' Primitive animation.

'''Music/Sounds:''' A long orchestral piece composed by Lauri Saikkola and played by the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra with the lead of Nils-Eric Fougstedt. It consists of a xylophone musical piece, which is followed by a bombastic variant of the piece. Another xylophone tune plays, which followed by another orchestral version. Brass instruments then play out a different tune loosely based on the YLE analog tones, finished by 2 long notes. It continues with more brass instruments with drums before capping off with a final gong hit.

'''Music/Sounds Trivia:''' The extended rendition of the orchestral piece was recorded in 1958.

'''Availability:''' Extinct on TV. The main ident can be found on many Finnish television retrospective programs, such as ''Suomalainen rapsodia'' from 1974 and ''Sinun tarinasi - Yle 90'' from 2016. The short variant was featured at the beginning of the ''Kamerakierros'' newscast program and it could be spotted on ''Studio 500000'' program from 1964.

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'''Logo:''' We see a picture featuring a series of multiple straight white lines (even darker lines can be barely seen on the background) and a black oval circle on the center, with the following text in a stack inside it:

<center>YLEISRADIO<br>tv-ohjelma 1<br>("BROADCAST TV-program 1" in Finnish)</center>

'''Technique:''' None.

'''Music/Sounds:''' A seven-note jingle played with a glockenspiel.

'''Availability:''' Completely extinct. This ident was in temporary use in 1965, before the fourth logo described here premiered at the end of the year. The existence of this one is shown on a document aired originally on November 19, 1965. While the document displays the arrival of television on local town, the off-screen footage of television screen features the logo at the end of transmission. No recorded on-screen footage of the logo is known to exist. The document is available on the public broadcaster's web archive.

=== 3rd Logo (December 24, 1965-December 31, 1991) ===  

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'''Logo:''' On a {{color|dodgerblue|blue}} background with a bright light at the center, four stylized swans, colored {{color|darkblue|dark blue }}and white, are "flying" towards each other from all four corners, as they stop at one place in the center of the screen, creating a diamond-like shape. The word "{{color|lightskyblue|'''YLEISRADIO'''}}" then appears in the middle gaps with "{{color|lightskyblue|'''TV1'''}}" appearing on the lower gap.

'''Variant:''' The Swedish variant features the word "{{color|lightskyblue|'''RUNDRADION'''}}" on the center of the screen. The text "{{color|lightskyblue|'''TV1'''}}" is also centered.

'''Technique:''' The swans sliding in. Pretty primitive and simplistic animation.

'''Music/Sounds:''' A small-scaled, yet loud orchestral fanfare, ending with an rendition of the YLE analog notes.

'''Availability:''' Extinct on TV. Beginning on Christmas Eve 1965, this was used as a startup and closedown ident through its long run, but it could also be spotted before and after the MTV programming block. The Swedish variant was featured when the day's broadcasting begins or ends with a Swedish program.

=== 4th Logo (1972-1987) ===  

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'''Logo:''' A logo, in the form of a wide "'''1'''" with a transparent background and "tv" placed in the middle of it, is placed on a random spot in one of many photos.

'''Variants:'''

* Dated in July 26, 1987, we see a European beaver eating on the surface of water. The logo can be seen on the top right corner.

* An anniversary variant seen in 1986 has a black background with bright, {{color|gold|yellow}} letters moving from different directions to the center to form "{{color|#FFD900|yle6o}}" with the font color changing to white. The black background also transitions into a {{color|blue}} one with a embossed "yle6o" on it. The text then emits a short, bright flash, leaving a stable bright aura around it. The channel logo then appears on the top left corner.

'''Technique:''' None for the regular variants. The anniversary variant has primitively animated letters with bright flashing.

'''Music/Sounds:''' The last eight notes of the tune used in the previous startup/closedown ident played slowly with a glockenspiel. This was redone on a synthesizer for the anniversary variant.

'''Availability:''' Extinct on TV. Each variant could be spotted prior and after the MTV programming block. There could be more of these to be discovered.

=== 5th Logo (August 31, 1987-December 31, 1992) ===  

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'''Logo:''' On a black background, six thin transparent plates with different sizes and gradient colors ({{color|gold|yellow}}-{{color|orange}}, {{color|hotpink|hot pink}}-{{color|red}}, {{color|deepskyblue|light}}-{{color|darkblue|dark blue}}, {{color|green}}, {{color|violet|light violet}} and {{color|indigo|indigo}}) gather together from multiple directions, as the camera zooms out and rotates from the side of the structure. As we get a better view, the thin plates connect together with bright flashing seen between each one, forming a large outline of a "'''1'''" as a {{color|darkblue|dark blue}} glow appears on the bottom part of the background. The camera then zooms in, while also rotating to another side of the number, as the thin plates start disconnecting with brief flashing seen again between them, and move away from the same direction where they came from, leaving the black background.

'''Variants:'''

* In the late 1980s and early 1990s, an additional ad bumper features both the TV1 and MTV logos on a black and {{color|darkblue|dark blue}} background.

* In late 1992, a simple image of the channel logo on a {{color|lightskyblue|pale blue}} background was used as a transition variant between program promos.

'''Technique:''' Standard CGI of the thin plates, and the brief flashing between the connecting plates.

'''Music/Sounds:''' A series of decreasing pings repeated twice that are immediately followed by a synthesized fanfare.

'''Music/Sounds Variant:''' An alternate theme with different instruments and different ending, was featured on the promotional transition variant.

'''Availability:''' Extinct on TV. It could be spotted prior and after the MTV or FST programming block at the time. The prototype variant with a black background is known to exist and it was used since its debut in late 1987 before it was changed to main ident in early 1988. The rare ad bumper variant was used, when the public broadcaster had sponsored commercial breaks during each live airings of sport programs on TV1 channel. The simple transition image in late 1992 was most likely in temporary use before the channel's look was changed in 1993 with more active transition idents (see an example here).

=== 6th Logo (January 1, 1992-2000) ===

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'''Note:''' The first variant can be seen [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HB7OwNswK5s&t=756s here].

'''Logo:''' For the regular ident, same as the 1st Yle logo.

'''Variants:'''

* Between 1998 and 1999, when the weekend's broadcasting begins with the children program ''Veturi'', the ending of the startup ident features a traditionally animated fat {{color|red}} bird falling in front of either one of the two aforementioned logo variants. We then follow the yawning bird walking on right off the startup ident, as this transitions to the opening of the children program.

* Between 1999 and 2000, another version of the third variant was used after the children program ''Veturi'' received a new opening sequence. Before the opening, the {{color|red}} TV1 logo gains {{color|red}} and white wheels and moves to the left of the screen.

'''Technique:''' Same as the 1st Yle logo.

'''Music/Sounds:''' Same as the 1st Yle logo.

'''Availability:''' Extinct on TV. Each one of the three variants could be spotted as a startup ident for the channel at that time. However between 1993 and 1998, it was possible to the second variant being spotted as a closedown ident before the teletext service comes to the screen.

'''Legacy:''' Same as the 1st Yle logo.

=== 7th Logo (January 1, 1993-1998) ===  

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'''Logo:''' On a complex background, there is a transparent cube rotating around, with each side having a different-colored version of the TV1 logo at the time. The logo is almost invisible, with various images warping around the screen.

'''Trivia:''' The logo was also integrated into the 1993-1995 ''TV-uutiset ja sää'' title sequence as the middle cube before it faded to a plain white cube.

'''Variants:'''

* At the start of the 1993 European Figure Skating Championships program, the logo was made without any kind of distortion, revealing that the cube has a strange moving texture on the entire translucent area of the cube, and that the edges of the cube and logos shine as well. The background shows a cloud-like wall, mostly darkened out with black and the reflections of the cube on the wall. The text "YLE" is on the bottom left side, and "TV1" in {{color|gray}} lettering is on the bottom right. The logo eventually fades out to leave the cloud background.  

* The closing logo has the logo with solid white fillings situated on the bottom of the screen, with the background being a concrete wall with a small spotlight shining on it (whose position seems to shift). Below the cube is a multicolored gradient line spanning the entire screen, as well as the program name (or none) and "YLE-(year)" or "YLE TV1-(year)" below that. Originally in 1993, the cube rotates around to a specific colored side depending on the program. There were five color variations for the cube sides used: {{color|blue}} (news and current affairs programs), {{color|green}} (documents), {{color|gold|yellow}} (educational programs), {{color|darkorange|dark orange}} (children's and youth programs) and {{color|mediumvioletred|violet}} (fiction-based programs). Since 1994, all closing logo variations ended with the {{color|red}} logo on the front side of the cube.   

'''Technique:''' The CGI cube logo in rotation, the complex background leaving waves of colorful after images.

'''Music/Sounds:''' Part of the peaceful theme heard generally during the program schedule listing. For the variants, the start of the program for the 1st variant and either the end of the program or none for the 2nd variant.

'''Availability:''' Extinct on TV. Used as a transition ident, it is known to be seen between the program announcement and the channel's last program of the day (usually being Euronews newscast program). This transition ident is also used prior and after the FST programming block. The closing logo appeared at the end of programming at the time and may be kept on reruns.

=== 9th Logo (January 1, 2001-October 2002) ===  

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'''Logo:''' We see a business woman entering an elevator with the door closing, as she presses the top "1" button with "'''|YLE| TV1'''" written above the elevator buttons. On the mirror reflection, we see sunflowers growing in front of the amused woman, who starts spinning at one place with her hair floating while the elevator is going up. The elevator room's grassy floor now has sunflowers and strawberries conveniently placed on it, as the woman picks up one strawberry and joyously eats it. "'''|YLE|''' TV1" then appears at the bottom right corner of the screen.

'''Variants:'''

* A woman dressed in overalls is climbing down a ladder as the elevator door is closing down. She then presses the top button and the mirror reflection shows {{color|red}} wallpapers rolling down to the woman's surprise. As the elevator is going up, she turns around in front of the camera to give a smile.

* Another one features a young boy with a balloon and a birthday present, pressing the top elevator button. As the elevator moves up, the balloon on the kid's hand starts rising up, lifting the boy with it. On the close-up shot, we see the boy looking towards the camera with a smile on his face.

'''Technique:''' Live action footage with minor practical effects.

'''Music/Sounds:''' We hear a steady elevator-like sound and a crisp three-note chime with a deep impact sound when the person presses the elevator button. Then a music box rendition of the previous logo's tune can be heard, ending with the sound descending down and fading off.

'''Availability:''' Extinct on TV. These transition idents could be spotted between aired programs and channel promos or upcoming program announcements. It's uncertain if more variants were used.

=== 10th Logo (January 1, 2001-October 2002) ===  

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'''Logo:''' On the Yle TV1 2001-2002 program board background, we see a countdown from 7 with numbers having grey lines and the inside transparent. We see also a small white ball rolling after the countdown. The logo fades out.

'''Technique:''' TBA.

'''Music/Sounds:''' TBA.

'''Availability:''' Seen before the program is about to start.

=== 11th Logo (March 30, 2007-April 1, 2010) ===  

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'''Note''': In the first video, two variants can be seen starting at 0:33.

'''Logo:''' On a {{color|dodgerblue|blue}} background with {{color|darkblue|darker blue}} hues on the corners, half of the stylized swan from the 3rd logo appears in the center of the screen and animates differently depending on the variant. When it stops, the half-cropped swan's wing part remains horizontal, while the head part is leaning in a steep incline. Below the cropped swan, we see "|'''YLE'''| TV1" fading in.

'''Variants:'''

* We see the half-cropped swan slowly coming into its solid form via a reversed wave warp effect.

* The closedown variant has the half-cropped swan wiping in to the center of the screen with the text "|'''YLE'''| TV1" already seen below. Right then, the swan morphs into a white leaf and flies away. As the background gets darker with white dots floating around, the words "{{Font|Times New Roman|'''Hyvää yötä'''}}" ("Good night") appear above the text one by one.

'''Technique:''' The computer generated half-cropped swan, the small glowing aura on "|YLE| TV1".

'''Music/Sounds:''' Four piano notes, followed by a slowly rising, reversed sound. Right after that, a small chime can be then heard.

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'''Logo:''' It's the same half-cropped swan emblem with "|'''YLE'''| TV1" below, except with new, expanded animations and background assets seen around it.

'''Variants:'''

* On a {{color|blue}} background, we see numerous winter-themed assets twirling into solid objects, while the swan turns into a white round vortex and eventually quickly becomes solid as well, with the text wiping in below. In the clear shot, we see snowy trees, bushes and a forest at a far distance.

* We see another complex warping effect, with various background assets stretching back into their original position. We can briefly see a {{color|green}} bush at the right side as the camera zooms in. We see the half-cropped swan wiping in, rotating and going into its original position with the text wiping in below. In the final shot, we can clearly see summer-themed assets of bushes, sunflowers and an old, traditional cottage building.

'''Technique:''' Same as the previous logo with extra amount background assets and warping effects.

'''Music/Sounds:''' Same as the previous logo.

''' Music/Sounds Variants''':

* Mostly same variants heard in the previous logo.

* In the winter variant, we can hear the two piano notes, followed by another two synth notes with Christmas tinkling.

'''Availability:''' Extinct on TV. There are most likely more of these to be found.

=== 13th Logo (March 6-December 13, 2012) === <!--T:126-->

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'''Logo:''' In a bright background, we see an extreme close up shot of what appears to be a series of {{color|blue}} half-cropped swans densely placed in a line formulation. These swan lines are smoothly or rapidly moving in different patterns. After a short amount of time, a small rounded square with "yle" inside and "TV1" next to it appears to the center of the screen.

'''Variants:'''

'''Availability:''' Extinct on TV.

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