The station's main focus is on music and sport, but it carries a variety of other programmes, including news and phone-ins, as well as up to eight hours a day of regional programming on weekdays (six hours on Saturdays).
Yle Radio Suomi was established on 1 June 1990 – as part of Yle's restructuring of its radio channels – to be a national network bringing together the country's 20 regional stations.
It is the legal successor of the former Rinnakkaisohjelma [fi] radio channel, originally established in 1960 as Yle's second national radio channel; later renamed Kakkosverkko (lit.
In 2003, the channel's music policy was shifted with the aim of attracting a younger audience.
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