Nelonen is a Finnish

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...

 commercial TV channel. It started out as Helsinki's local television channel PTV

Paikallistelevisio

PTV4 was a Finnish television channel which operated from 1990 to 1997. It was originally launched on the HTV cable network under the name of PTV, which was later changed to PTV4 in 1996 when it was bought by the Sanoma Group...

 in 1989 on the HTV cable network, which name was changed first to PTV4 and then to Nelonen. It started on June 1, 1997. Nelonen, 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...

, means the glyph

Glyph

A glyph is an element of writing: an individual mark on a written medium that contributes to the meaning of what is written. A glyph is made up of one or more graphemes....

 of the number four. The channel is mostly owned by Sanoma Corporation, which owns the Helsingin Sanomat

Helsingin Sanomat

Helsingin Sanomat is the largest subscription newspaper in Finland and the Nordic countries, owned by Sanoma. Except after certain holidays, it is published daily. In 2008, its daily circulation was 412,421 on weekdays and 468,505 on Sundays...

 and Ilta-Sanomat

Ilta-Sanomat

Ilta-Sanomat is one of Finland's two prominent tabloid size evening dailys and the second largest newspaper in the country...

 newspapers. Its largest owner is Aatos Erkko

Aatos Erkko

Aatos Juho Michel Erkko is a Finnish journalist and the main owner of Sanoma Corporation and the Helsingin Sanomat newspaper. He has a Master of Science degree in Journalism from the Columbia College of Columbia University. Erkko is married to Mrs. Jane Erkko...

. Much of its programming is Australian, American, British, and European shows, with 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...

 captions. Its main market is the 25-44 demographic. Nelonen has 8 sister channels: Nelonen HD, JIM

JIM

JIM is a Finnish national television channel that replaced Nelonen Plus on February 26, 2007....

, Nelonen Kino, Nelonen Perhe, Nelonen Maailma, Nelonen Pro 1, Nelonen Pro 2 and Liv

Liv (TV channel)

Liv is a Finnish television owned and operated by Nelonen. Liv started broadcasting in 14 February 2009 and it is especially designed for women viewers.-External links:*...

.

Programming

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• America's Got Talent
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• America's Next Top Model
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• American Chopper
  American Chopper
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• Avatar: The Last Airbender
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• Bad Girls
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• Battlestar Galactica
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• Big Love
  Big Love
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• Brainiac: Science Abuse
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• Breaking Bad
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• Britain's Next Top Model
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• Brotherhood
• Californication
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• Castle
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• Charmed
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• Commander in Chief
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• Criminal Minds
  Criminal Minds
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• Dawson's Creek
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• Days of our Lives
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• Damages
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• Deadwood
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  Deadwood is an American Western drama television series created, produced and largely written by David Milch. The series aired on the premium cable network HBO from March 21, 2004, to August 27, 2006, spanning three 12-episode seasons. The show is set in the 1870s in Deadwood, South Dakota, before...
  
  
• Desperate Housewives
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• Detroit 1-8-7
  Detroit 1-8-7
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• Dexter
  Dexter (TV series)
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• Dirt
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• Dirty Sexy Money
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• Dr. Phil
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• Drop Dead Diva
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• Everybody Loves Raymond
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  Everybody Loves Raymond is an American television sitcom that originally ran on CBS from September 13, 1996, to May 16, 2005. Many of the situations from the show are based on the real-life experiences of lead actor Ray Romano, creator/producer Phil Rosenthal and the show's writing staff...
  
  
• Fear Factor
  Fear Factor
  Fear Factor is an American stunt/dare reality game show. The original Dutch version was called Now or Neverland. When Endemol USA and NBC adapted it to the American market in 2001, they changed the name to Fear Factor. The show pits contestants against each other in a variety of stunts for a...
  
  
• FlashFoward
• Footballer's Wives
• Frasier
  Frasier
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• Ghost Whisperer
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• Grey's Anatomy
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• Harper's Island
• Jericho
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• Judging Amy
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  Judging Amy is an American television drama that was telecast from September 19, 1999, through May 3, 2005, on CBS-TV. This TV series starred Amy Brenneman and Tyne Daly...
  
  
• Kyle XY
  Kyle XY
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• Las Vegas
  Las Vegas (TV series)
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• Less Than Perfect
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• Lost
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• Mad Men
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• Married... with Children
  Married... with Children
  Married... with Children is an American surrealistic sitcom that aired for 11 seasons that featured a dysfunctional family living in Chicago, Illinois. The show, notable for being the first prime time television series to air on Fox, ran from April 5, 1987, to June 9, 1997. The series was created...
  
  
• MasterChef Australia
  Masterchef Australia
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• Medium
  Medium (TV series)
  Medium is an American television drama series that premiered on NBC on January 3, 2005, and ended on CBS on January 21, 2011. Themed on supernatural gifts, its lead character, Allison DuBois , is a medium employed as a consultant for the Phoenix, Arizona district attorney's office...
  
  
• MythBusters
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• Newlyweds: Nick and Jessica
• NCIS
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• NCIS: Los Angeles
• Nurse Jackie
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• Oz
  Oz (TV series)
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• Pimp My Ride
  Pimp My Ride
  Pimp My Ride is a TV show produced by MTV. Each episode consists of taking one car in poor condition and restoring it and customizing it.The original United States version was hosted by rapper Xzibit...
  
  
• Punk'd
  Punk'd
  Punk'd is an American hidden camera/practical joke reality television series that first aired on MTV in 2003 and was created by Ashton Kutcher and Jason Goldberg, produced and hosted by Ashton Kutcher. It bore a resemblance to both the classic hidden camera show Candid Camera and to TV's Bloopers...
  
  
• Rescue Me
  Rescue Me (TV series)
  Rescue Me is an American television drama series that premiered on the FX Network on July 21, 2004, and concluded on September 7, 2011. The series focuses on the professional and personal lives of a group of New York City firefighters in the fictitious Ladder 62 / Engine 99 firehouse.The show...
  
  
• Rome
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• RSPCA Animal Rescue
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• Samantha Who?
  Samantha Who?
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• Scrubs
  Scrubs (TV series)
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• Seinfeld
  Seinfeld
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• South Park
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• So You Think You Can Dance
• That '70s Show
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• The 4400
  The 4400
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• The Bachelor
• The Comeback
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• The Cut
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• The Good Wife
• The Oprah Winfrey Show
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• The Shield
  The Shield
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• The Sopranos
  The Sopranos
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• The West Wing
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• Threshold
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• Total Wipeout
  Total Wipeout
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• Total Wipeout USA
• Trailer Park Boys
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• Ugly Betty
  Ugly Betty
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• Weeds
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• What About Brian
  What About Brian
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• Wife Swap
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• Wildfire
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• Wizards of Waverly Place
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Criticism

Nelonen was launched quickly and in an unprepared state. It has been criticized for importing "trash shows", especially during its first years. Mostly the subject of criticism have been related to its weekly imported "4D documentaries" concentrating on entertainment value and on highly emotive issues instead of artistic or other deeper values. The channel's entertainment output also consists of many other programmes which may be considered to be poor quality - imported game shows or Finnish versions of them (such as Reikä seinässä, a Finnish version of the Japanese 'Human Tetris' game) and reality TV shows dominate the scheduling. On the other hand, Nelonen's scheduling also contains several award-winning drama series.

Controversy

During the fall of 2007, a day after the Jokela school shooting

Jokela school shooting

The Jokela school massacre was a school shooting that occurred on November 7, 2007, at Jokela High School in Jokela, a town in the municipality of Tuusula, Finland. The gunman, 18-year-old student Pekka-Eric Auvinen, entered the school on that morning armed with a semi-automatic pistol. He killed...

, Nelonen decided not to air a scheduled episode of the TV series Dexter

Dexter (TV series)

Dexter is an American television drama series, which debuted on Showtime on October 1, 2006. The sixth season premiered on October 2, 2011. The series centers on Dexter Morgan , a bloodstain pattern analyst for the Miami Metro Police Department who moonlights as a serial killer...

. The TV series depicts a fictional serial killer

Serial killer

A serial killer, as typically defined, is an individual who has murdered three or more people over a period of more than a month, with down time between the murders, and whose motivation for killing is usually based on psychological gratification...

 Dexter Morgan

Dexter Morgan

Dexter Morgan is a fictional character in a series of novels by Jeff Lindsay, including Darkly Dreaming Dexter , Dearly Devoted Dexter , Dexter in the Dark , Dexter by Design , Dexter is Delicious and Double Dexter...

and it was said to be inappropriate after such dramatic and nationwide turn of events. The episode was instead shown a week later.

External links

• Nelonen
• JIM
• LIV
• KinoTV