Finnish television Finnish television C More Entertainment is a premium pay-TV Network, targeting the Nordic Countries. ...more on Wikipedia about "C More Entertainment"
Canal Digital was founded in March 1997 as a joint venture between the French pay-TV company CANAL+ and the Norwegian state-telecommunications operator Telenor. Since 2003, Canal Digital is 100% owned by Telenor. ...more on Wikipedia about "Canal Digital"
Finlands Svenska Television (FST) is the Finnish Broadcasting Company YLE's Swedish department which provides television programmes in the Swedish language for the Swedish minority in Finland. Programmes are broadcast in segments on YLE's two main channels, TV1 and TV2, including YLE's main Swedish-language daily news bulletin TV-nytt at 18:15 on TV1. FST also operates its own digital television channel. Many FST programmes are subtitled in Finnish. ...more on Wikipedia about "Finlands Svenska Television"
Kari Grandi (played by Eeki Mantere) is a fictional character, the main protagonist in the Finnish TV advertisements for Grandi, a brand of ready-to-drink juice. ...more on Wikipedia about "Kari Grandi"
Kummeli is the name of a Finnish comedy-crew formed by three musician-actors Heikki Silvennoinen, Timo Kahilainen and Heikki Hela from Tampere. They are also the heads of the Porkkana Ryhmä, the crew's production company. Other famous members have included Olli Keskinen, better know for his on-screen persona Eero Kakko, and Heikki Vihinen who replaced Keskinen in the mid-90s is also the head of the Tampere Theatre. Kummeli appeared on television between 1991 and 1995. After a successful three-part pilot aired they were give their own show on YLE's channel-2 with a completely new look. The Kummeli-TV show was primarily composed of sketches with some insane characters but sometimes shows would also feature musical-guests as the core-crew of the team were actually musicians rather than professional actors (with the exception of Hela who ironically ended up behind the camera during the early episodes of the show). Some episodes would also have a running-set of skits that would reach a conclusion at the end of the episode (such as a father and son visiting an exhibit where the wax-dummies are actually the caretakers in various costumes). ...more on Wikipedia about "Kummeli"
This is a list of television channels broadcasting to Finnish- and Swedish-language audiences in Finland. Typically, foreign-language content is subtitled, retaining the original language soundtrack. Foreign programming intended for children is, however, usually dubbed into one of the national languages. Regardless of the intended audience, many shows receive a Finnish and/or Swedish title which is used in programme schedules. ...more on Wikipedia about "List of television channels in Finland"
Mennen Tullen is a four-part parody mini-series created by Studio Julmahuvi. It aired on YLE between 2000 and -01. Though created in a form of a serious murder-mystery it is in fact a dark comedy with occasional absurd elements, technology and conventions (including a Deus Ex Machina). The series is set in a type of alternate reality where the events of television-series constantly clash with real-life, though there appear to be no exact rules or borders as some shows are clearly staged while others take place in real life. ...more on Wikipedia about "Mennen Tullen"
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MoonTV was a free Finnish cable-network channel which started off as a simply a channel for video- and computer-game related programmes but later grew in to a channel covering several areas of youth-culture. The channel is noted for bringing forth youth-icon and political representative "Wallu Valpio" former member of the music-group "Arto Muna ja Millenium Orkesteri". Since mid-2003 the channel was shut down after the company that owned it filed for bankruptcy. ...more on Wikipedia about "MoonTV"
MTV3 is a Finnish commercial television station owned by Bonnier and Proventus, and currently has the biggest audience share of all Finnish TV channels. The letters MTV stand for Mainos-TV (commercial TV), due to the channel being the first privately owned in Finland (and thus getting it's revenue from running commercials). Number 3 was later added, because it was the third nation-wide television channel and generally known as "the third channel", Finnish Broadcasting Company's YLE TV1 and YLE TV2 being the first two. The symbol of the channel is a stylized owl, changed to an owl's eye after an image renewal in 2003. ...more on Wikipedia about "MTV3"
Nelonen is Finland's fourth TV channel. It serves most of Finland, bar Lapland (except on digital). It started out as Helsinki's local television channel PTV in 1989 on the HTV cable network, which name was changed first to PTV4 and then to Nelonen. It started on the 1st June 1997. Nelonen in Finnish means the glyph of the number four. The channel is mostly owned by the SanomaWSOY Oyj, which owns the Helsingin Sanomat and Ilta-Sanomat newspapers. Much of its programming is American(50%) and European imports (20%), with Finnish subtitles. Its main market is the 15-30 demographic. It owns the digital channel NelonenPlus. ...more on Wikipedia about "Nelonen"
Rölli-Peikko (Rölli the Troll) is a character from Finnish Television portrayed by Rauli Allan "Allu" Tuppurainen. The character originally appeared in segments on the children's TV-show Pikku Kakkonen on YLE's channel-2. In these segments Rölli would tell stories of his amazing adventures while often criticising and questioning public norm or the activities of people (especially humans). Rölli has also appeared in two feature-length films. The first made in 1991 titled Rölli - hirmuisia tarinoita (Rölli - Terrible Stories) was much truer to the TV-character where as the 2001 Rölli ja Metsänhenki (Rölli and the Forest Spirit) was more a traditional fantasy/adventure movie. Rölli is also expected to appear in an animated movie in the near-future. ...more on Wikipedia about "Rölli"
Star! Scandinavia is a television channel devoted to entertainment. The channel is available in Denmark, Norway, Iceland, Sweden and Finland. The channel is fashioned after Star! (a Canadian entertainment channel) and is licensed from CHUM Limited. Programming is a mix of several CHUM television channels such as, Star!, FashionTelevisionChannel, MuchMoreMusic and more. Programs are not interrupted by commercials. The channel is operated by NonStop Television, which also operates Showtime Scandinavia. ...more on Wikipedia about "Star! Scandinavia"
Studio Julmahuvi or sometimes just Julmahuvi (julma = cruel; hupi = fun) is the name of a group of comedic actors which created several comical TV-series and mockumentaries for the Finnish TV-channels YLE and MTV3. Julmahuvi collectively are Tommi Karpela, Janne Reinikainen, Petteri Summanen and Jani Volanen. ...more on Wikipedia about "Studio Julmahuvi"
SubTV is a popular TV channel in Finland. It is owned by Bonnier and Proventus. Alma Media sold SubTV and its sister channels ( MTV3, MTV3+, Urheilukanava, Radio Nova) to Swedish Bonnier and Proventus in 2005. ...more on Wikipedia about "SubTV"
Viasat is a DTH distributor and a television network, founded by Jan Stenbeck and owned by Modern Times Group. Broadcasting from London the target markets are in the Nordic countries and the Baltic states. Viasat’s main competitor on DTH distribution in the Nordic countries is Canal Digital. Their broadcasts can be received from the Sirius 2/3 satellites at 5°E with any DVB receiver equipped with a NDS descrambling module. ...more on Wikipedia about "Viasat"
YLE (Yleisradio in Finnish, Rundradion in Swedish), Finland's National Broadcasting Company, was founded in 1926. YLE is a public-broadcasting organization which shares many of its characteristics with its British counterpart, the BBC, on which it was largely modelled. ...more on Wikipedia about "Yleisradio"
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