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YLE (Yleisradio in Finnish, Rundradion in Swedish), Finland's National Broadcasting Company, was 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.

A public limited company, owned by the Finnish state (with a 99.98 % share) and funded through a television fee and private television broadcasting license fees allocated by the cabinet, YLE has a status that could be described as that of a non-departmental public body. It is governed by a parliamentary governing council. Today YLE operates five national television channels, 13 radio channels and services, and 25 regional radio stations. Finland being a bilingual country – around 6% 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.

In the field of international broadcasting, one of YLE's best known services is Nuntii Latini, the news in Latin, which is broadcast worldwide as well as being made available over the internet.

YLE will be hosting the Eurovision Song Contest 2007 in Helsinki, Finland. - from Wikipedia