Yle Fem

Yle Fem (Yle Five) was Yle's Finland-Swedish national television channel, providing television programmes in the Swedish language in Finland. It was a public-service channel principally intended for Finland's Swedish-speaking minority. Creating understanding over the language and culture border was also one of the channel's recognized objectives.[1]

Yle Fem

Country	Finland
Broadcast area	Finland
Programming
Language(s)	Swedish
Picture format	1080i HDTV (downscaled to 16:9 576i for the SDTV feed)
Ownership
Owner	Yle
Sister channels	Yle Fem HD Yle TV1 Yle TV2 Yle Teema Yle TV1 HD Yle TV2 HD Yle Teema HD
History
Launched	1988 (programming block) 27 August 2001 (channel)
Closed	24 April 2017 (merged with Yle Teema to form YLE Teema and Fem)
Former names	YLE FST (1988 - August 2006) YLE FST5 (August 2006 - March 2012)
Links
Website	svenska.yle.fi/fem
Availability
Terrestrial
Digital terrestrial television	Channel 5 (SD) Channel 35 (HD)
Cable
Elisa	Channel 5
dna Welho	Channel 5 Channel 25 (HD)
Satellite
Thor 3	12.054 GHz H
Canal Digital	Channel 6

Yle Fem was launched in 1988 as a late-evening programming block called FST (Finlands Svenska Television, literally "Finland's Swedish Television") which was broadcast on Monday nights on Yle TV2 and on Tuesday nights on Yle TV1, after the conclusion of MTV3's Kymmenen Uutiset (10pm evening news) on either channel. It was relaunched as its own dedicated channel called YLE FST on 27 August 2001, and was called YLE FST5 from 2006-2012[2] but the name was changed because the viewers thought the name was only a combination of letters (Fem is Swedish for five.). Initially, Finlands Svenska Television's output was formerly included in the programming of Yle's two main television channels, TV1 and TV2. Yle Fem and Yle Teema were merged into one network on 24 April 2017, as Yle Teema & Fem.