[1] The closure was linked to the financial austerity measures taken by the Finnish Broadcasting Corporation.

According to Yle, the channel's audience figures were not good enough.

The channel was handed over to YLE TV1+ due to persistent subtitling problems.

YLE TV1 had subsequently been shown on two channels, with Extra's channel slot having been subtitled by burning in the picture instead of the previous digital subtitling, so that the problems had ceased to arise.

[2] Today, the Extra channel is showing Liv.