Television in Finland

Typically, foreign-language content is subtitled, retaining the original language soundtrack.

Regardless of the intended audience or original language, many shows receive a Finnish and/or Swedish title which is used in programme schedules.

[5] The project eventually developed into TES-TV (later Tesvisio), the first television channel in Finland that began regular broadcasts on 21 March 1956.

Yleisradio acquired Tesvisio in 1964 and reorganized its assets into a second TV channel (now Yle TV2).

The analogue networks continued its broadcasts alongside the digital ones until 1 September 2007, when they were shut down nationwide.

In addition the free-to-air broadcasts, two companies are providing encryption cards for pay television: Canal Digital and PlusTV.

[citation needed] September 2007 also saw the launch of the SveaTV package in Ostrobothnia which broadcasts channels from Sweden.

Competing pay television Viasat and Yle's channel TV Finland started digital broadcasts in 1999.

In Ostrobothnia and Åland there is an extra multiplex available which provides encrypted channels from Sweden, along with respective local stations,[11] and of course due to overlapping signals, Russian, Swedish, Norwegian and Estonian stations are able to be seen near the border areas and vice versa.