[1] It is operated by Finland's national public service broadcaster Yle, and broadcast news, current affairs, culture and music targeting mature audiences, complements Yle's other Swedish-speaking service, Yle X3M which targets youth-audiences.

[2][3] It was launched in 1997, replacing Yle's previous full-network service for Swedish-speakers, Riksradion which was founded in 1961.

[2] As of 2012[update], Yle Vega had a technical reach of 83 % of Finns older than 9 years old.

[4] The daily reach of it and Yle X3M together was 3 % of the population over age 9 in 2010, making them together the 10th largest radio "channel" in Finland at the time.

Much of the playlist is, however, taken by larger Swedish acts rather than smaller Finnish-Swedish artists.