How Yle’s regional radio broadcasts will change – Editor-in-Chief Panu Pokkinen explains why and how

The programming times and content of Yle Radio Finland’s regional broadcasts will change in the autumn. Soon, Tampere will be broadcasting to the whole of Finland.

Yle’s regional radio broadcasting schedules will change next autumn. The changes have already raised concerns in advance, as it is feared that regionalism will suffer.

The changes to the provincial editions will have a particular impact on Radio Finland’s transmission schedule.

The previous model was to have ten regional live radio broadcasts in the mornings and afternoons.

From the autumn, the regions’ own \”presenter sounds\” will disappear and the plot is done centrally from Tampere. However, local journalists will have access to Radio Finland several times during the day.

– Provincial news reporters are on the field where it is happening. They are among the people, and they report from the news, Pokkinen says.

In the mornings, the whole of Finland is heard

The current morning broadcasts of the areas will end at the end of August.

In the new chart, the mornings begin the current program number one mornings that moves to Radio Finland.

In the morning from 9am to 12pm, the broadcasting stream will be hosted from Tampere, but during this time there are several connections to local deliveries around Finland. These reports are nationwide. That is, the listener living in Turku learns what is happening in Rovaniemi.

– Morning could be characterized by the words Finland belongs to everyone because the broadcast is nationwide, says Panu Pokkinen.

With the reform, the Radio Finland Day program will end in the fall. The program has been heard on weekdays from 10am to 1pm in Radio in Finland.

Localism comes to the fore in the afternoon

At noon, Radio in Finland is heard a familiar music program place in the sun.

After an hour’s music program, a broadcasting stream from Tampere, where the provinces are present, will begin at 4 pm.

Most of the broadcast consists of a provincial broadcast, which is heard on the radio only in its own area. That is, in the afternoons in Turku, you will not hear a report from Rovaniemi, but the content coming from the Turku area.

– The idea of \u200b\u200bthe afternoons is Radio Finland near you. They include the voice of 18 provinces. The lion’s part of the approach is in the provinces.

All in all, the aim is to change Radio Finland’s morning and afternoon programs in a more reactive and newsable direction. The proportion of music is also slightly reduced.

Local news transmitted every hour remain almost unchanged.

There will be no changes to regional television news. The five-minute regional news is seen on weekdays on TV1.

The transition period is already underway

Yle will have to change its policies due to the savings required by the Parliamentary Working Party. The general radio must save a total of EUR 66 million by 2027.

Changes in the regional shipment stream will save.

– Without this major reform on the broadcasting radio, we would not have been able to maintain local news at a level that the parliamentary team requires.

The changes are already in Radio Finland’s software. In the afternoons, regional broadcasts have already switched to a \”summer chart\ meaning that the broadcast is common to all areas.

In mid -May, there will also be a temporary arrangement in the mornings, where four regional broadcasts are available during the summer. The broadcasts will hear content from each region.

*Jutta corrected 26.3. 10.49am: The Radio Finland Day program has been heard from 10am to 13, not 10-12, as read earlier.*