FINLAND

YLE (Full name, Finnish: Yleisradio Oy, Swedish: Rundradion Ab) is
Finland's national broadcasting company, 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. It is known as the "Finnish Broadcasting Corporation" in English.
YLE is a public limited company, owned by the Finnish state (with a 99.98 % share). It is funded primarily (90%) through a television fee, allocated by the cabinet, which is between €208.15 and €215.4 per year, as well as through private television broadcasting license fees. YLE has a status that could be described as that of a non-departmental public body. It is governed by a parliamentary governing council. YLE's turnover in 2006 was 383.5 million euro.
Today YLE operates four national television channels, 13 radio channels and services, and 25 regional radio stations. Finland being an officially bilingual country – around 5.5% of the population have Swedish as their mother-tongue – YLE provides radio and TV programming in Swedish through two departments: Finlands Svenska Television and Finlands Svenska Radio. As is customary in Finnish television and cinemas, foreign films and shows are generally subtitled on YLE's channels.