Organizations Yleisradio Oy

Yle

Yleisradio Oy (Finnish), literally General Radio Ltd. or General Broadcast Ltd.; Swedish: Rundradion Ab; English: Finnish Broadcasting Company; abbr. Yle (Finnish: [ˈyle]), is Finland's national public broadcasting company, founded in 1926. It is a joint-stock company which is 99.98% owned by the Finnish state, and employs around 3,200 people in Finland. Yle shares many of its organizational characteristics with its UK counterpart, the BBC, on which it was largely modelled. For the greater part of Yle's existence the company was funded by the revenues obtained from a broadcast receiving licence fee payable by the owners of radio sets (1927–1976) and television sets (1958–2012), as well as receiving a portion of the broadcasting licence fees payable by private television broadcasters. Since the beginning of 2013 the licence fee has been replaced by a public broadcasting tax (known as the Yle tax), which is collected annually from private individuals and corporations together with their other taxes. Read more at Wikipedia...

Inception: 1925

Alternate Names: YLE, Finnish Broadcasting Company, O.Y. Suomen Yleisradio – A.B. Finlands Rundradio, Oy Suomen Yleisradio Ab, Oy Yleisradio Ab, Oy. Yleisradio Ab., Rundradion, Yle, the Finnish Broadcasting Company, Yleisradio Oy
Website:  https://yle.fi/ 
Associated Place(s): Finland

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