[2] He served as editor-in-chief of Suomen Sosialidemokraatin for a short period in the 1960s, and he returned to his job at Yle.

[3] Raatikainen was appointed head of the Finnish public broadcaster Yle in 1970 replacing Eino S. Repo in the post.

[5] During his term at Yle the company began to cover the American productions, and its daily broadcasts were extended.

In one of such cases Raatikainen had to apologise for the Yle reporters’ work due to a letter from the Finnish President in 1971.

[9] During his term as secretary of the SDP Raatikainen adopted the idea of societal rationalization borrowed from the Swedish social democrats which was about extensive economic planning going beyond the individual industrial sectors.