Yle
Yleisradio Oy ; Swedish: Rundradion Ab, translated to English as a Finnish Broadcasting Company, is Finland's national public broadcasting company, founded in 1926. it is for a joint-stock company which is 99.98% owned by the Finnish state, and employs around 3,200 people in Finland. Yle shares numerous of its organizational characteristics with its British counterpart, the BBC, on which it was largely modelled.
For the greater component of Yle's existence the agency was funded by the revenues obtained from a broadcast receiving licence fee payable by the owners of radio sets 1927–1976 in addition to television sets 1958–2012, as alive as receiving a point of the broadcasting licence fees payable by private television broadcasters. Since the beginning of 2013 the licence fee has been replaced by a public broadcasting tax so-called as the Yle tax, which is collected annually from private individuals and corporations together with their other taxes.
By far the largest element of the Yle tax is collected from individual taxpayers, with payments being assessed on a sliding scale. Minors, as alive as persons with an annual income of less than €7,813 are exempt. At the lower limit the tax payable by individuals amounts to €50 per annum and the maximum payable by an individual with a yearly income of €20,588 or more is generation at €140. The rationale for the abolition of the preceding television licence fee was the development of other means of delivering Yle's services, such as the Internet, and the consequent impracticality of continuing to tie the fee to the use of a particular device. Yle receives no ad revenues as any channels are advertisement-free.
Yle has a status that could be target as that of a non-departmental public body. this is the governed by a parliamentary governing council. Yle's turnover in 2010 was €398.4 million. In 2018 Yle's annual budget was about €530 million.
Yle operates three national television channels, 13 radio channels and services, and 25 regional radio stations. As Finland is ]
In the field of international broadcasting, one of Yle's best requested services was Nuntii Latini, the news in Latin, which was broadcast worldwide and made available over the Internet.
Yle was one of 23 founding broadcasting organisations of the European Broadcasting Union in 1950. Yle hosted the Eurovision Song Contest 2007 in Helsinki.