YLE FST5 is YLE's Finland-Swedish

Finland-Swedish

Finland Swedish is a general term for the closely related cluster of dialects of Swedish spoken in Finland by Swedish-speaking Finns as their mother tongue...

 national television channel, providing television programmes in the Swedish language

Swedish language

Swedish is a North Germanic language, spoken by approximately 10 million people, predominantly in Sweden and parts of Finland, especially along its coast and on the Åland islands. It is largely mutually intelligible with Norwegian and Danish...

 in Finland

Finland

Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...

. It is a public-service channel principally intended for Finland's Swedish-speaking minority, although – since a large part of the Finnish-speaking majority understand Swedish and most of the programmes are subtitled in Finnish

Finnish language

Finnish is the language spoken by the majority of the population in Finland Primarily for use by restaurant menus and by ethnic Finns outside Finland. It is one of the two official languages of Finland and an official minority language in Sweden. In Sweden, both standard Finnish and Meänkieli, a...

 – a large proportion of its viewers are in fact Finnish-speakers. Creating understanding over the language and culture border is also one of the channel's recognized objectives.

Finlands Svenska Television's output was formerly included in the programming of YLE's two main television channels, TV1

YLE TV1

YLE TV1 is a Finnish television channel owned and operated by Finnish public broadcaster Yleisradio. It is the first and oldest Television channel in Finland. More than 70% of channel's programs are documentaries, news or educative programmes...

 and TV2

YLE TV2

YLE TV2 is a Finnish television channel owned and operated by YLE.TV2 launched in 1964, and broadcasts public service programming, children's, youth, sport and music programmes.-Own Productions:* Ajankohtainen kakkonen* Akuutti* Jopet Show* Kummeli...

. However, since 1 September 2007, all of YLE's Swedish-language television programmes are now broadcast exclusively on digital channel FST5.

TV programmes

• 360 grader
• Bettina S.
  Bettina S.
  Bettina S. is a Finnish talk show, hosted by Bettina Sågbom and produced by Finlands Svenska Television. The show is also broadcast on YLE2...
  
  
• Buu-klubben
• D-Dax
• Enigma
• Falkenswärds möbler
• Fribby
• Idrottsbiten
• JOX
• Kortnytt
• Melodifestivalen
  Melodifestivalen
  Melodifestivalen is an annual music competition organised by Swedish public broadcasters Sveriges Television and Sveriges Radio . It determines the country's representative for the Eurovision Song Contest, and has been staged almost every year since 1959...
  
  
• Neon
• Nordiska videolistan
• Närbild Svenskfinland
• OBS
• Oppåner å hitådit
• Pussel
• Ratatosk
• Scen
• Schlager på lager
• Sicsac
• Solarplexus
• Solo
• Sportnytt
• Spotlight
• Strömsö
  Strömsö
  Strömsö is a Finnish television program which premiered in 2002 on FST and YLE1, hosted by Matias Jungar and Susanna Ström-Wilkinson. The show concentrates on various household subjects, such as cooking and gardening. Its fifth season started on January 29, 2006...
  
  
• TV-Nytt
  TV-nytt
  TV-nytt is the name of the daily television news programmes on the Swedish-speaking Finnish TV channel FST5, at the Finnish Broadcasting Company . The programme is also broadcast on TV Finland....
  
  
• Tärningen
• Vad gör Petra?
• X-tra
  X-tra
  X-tra is a private label brand used by Coop Norden on their low-price produce. The products offered with the brand cover a wide range of products, including but not limited to canned food, coffee, cereal, juice, jam, light bulbs, cooking oil, shampoo, pasta, eggs and meat. The products are produced...
  
  

External links

• Finlands Svenska Television - Official site