Country | Finland |
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Broadcast area | Finland |
Headquarters | Helsinki |
Programming | |
Picture format | 16:9 576i (SDTV) 16:9 1080i (HDTV) |
Ownership | |
Owner | Sanoma Media Finland (Nelonen Media) |
Sister channels | Jim Liv Hero |
History | |
Launched | 1 June 1997 |
Former names | PTV (Paikallistelevisio) PTV4 (1990-1997) |
Links | |
Website | www |
Availability | |
Terrestrial | |
Digital terrestrial | Channel 4 |
Nelonen (Finnish for 'Number Four') is a Finnish commercial television channel. It started out as Helsinki's local television channel PTV in 1990 on the HTV cable network (now part of DNA Welho), and changed its name first to PTV4. On June 1, 1997, the channel expanded to national coverage and changed its name to Nelonen, the Finnish name of the number four. Nelonen is mostly owned by Sanoma Corporation, which owns the Helsingin Sanomat and Ilta-Sanomat newspapers. Its largest owner was Aatos Erkko. Much of its programming is imported Australian, American, British, and European programs with Finnish captions. Its main market is the 25-44 demographic.