Svenska Yle

Svenska Yle (English: Swedish Yle) is the Swedish-language department of Yle, Finland's public service broadcaster for TV, radio and the web.^[1] As Finland is constitutionally bilingual—around 5.5% of the population speaks Swedish as their native language—Yle provides radio and TV programming in Swedish. Svenska Yle consists of svenska.yle.fi,^[2] Yle X3M, Yle Vega, and Yle Fem.

Logo of Yle

Svenska.yle.fi is Finland's largest Swedish-language media site, which in February 2014 was visited by an average of 199,000 unique browsers per week.^[3] The web content includes five regional websites, in Ostrobothnia, Western Uusimaa, Åboland, the Capital Region and Eastern Uusimaa.^{[4][5][6][7][8]}

Swedish TV programs are shown on Yle Fem, which shares a channel with Finnish speaking Yle Teema.^[9][10] The channel was originally launched as FST (Finlands svenska television, English: Finlands Swedish Television) in 2001.^[11]

The radio channel Yle Vega is aimed at an adult audience,^[12][13] and Yle X3M is aimed at Finland Swede youth and young adults.^[14]