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Yle TV1 (Finnish: Yle TV Yksi, Swedish: Yle TV Ett) is a Finnish television channel owned and operated by Finnish public broadcaster Yle. It is the second-oldest television channel in Finland, after TES-TV, and is the oldest currently existing television channel in the country. More than 70% of the channel's programs are documentaries, news, or educational programmes. It is commonly referred to as Ykkönen, deriving from Yle's ownership of channels Spots 1 and 2 by default in Finland, with the other channel spot being Yle TV2.
History
The channel started test transmissions on 13 August 1957 and began regular broadcasts on 1 January 1958 as Suomen Televisio, then the second television channel to operate in Finland. When Yleisradio took over the Tampere-based[1]Tamvisio in 1964, Suomen Televisio was renamed TV-ohjelma 1, and Tamvisio became TV-ohjelma 2, and when they started broadcasting in colour in the 1970s, they were rebranded again, as TV1 and TV2.
Logos and identities
Yle TV1 logo bug from 2005 to 2007
Yle TV1's seventh and previous logo used from April 2007 to 4 March 2012
Yle TV1's eighth and current logo since 5 March 2012
HD logo since 2012
Alternate design of the current logo
Notable programming
Experimenting with using television in education at Lapinlahti primary school in Helsinki, 1957
