Media in Finland

On the Yle website, you can read news in Finnish, Swedish, English, Russian and Ukrainian. Yle also releases news in simplified Finnish.  Yle also offers news broadcast about Finland in Arabic and Somali. The broadcast and clips of it can be viewed on Yle’s free streaming service Areena. 

You can read most Finnish newspapers online, some of the content is free of charge. The majority of the newspapers are in Finnish. One English-language newspaper published in Finland is the newspaper Helsinki Times.  Helsingin Sanomat is the largest subscription newspaper in Finland. The most popular news site in Finland is Ilta-Sanomat. 

If you have an old television set, you also need to have a digital set-top box in order to watch television programmes. New televisions sold in Finland already include a digital receiver.

Several channels are available free of charge. Yle’s channels and many of the commercial channels are free of charge. You can also purchase channels subject to a fee.

You will find a lot of news and TV programmes online in different languages. You can watch Yle and commercial TV channels not only on TV but also online. Many television programmes are in Finnish. In Finland, foreign programmes have Finnish subtitles, so they can be watched in their original language.

There are several radio channels in Finland. Most of the channels are also available online. Most radio channels are in Finnish.

Yle also provides radio programmes in languages such as English.