Yle Radio Vega
Yle Radio Vega is a Finnish radio channel broadcasting in the Swedish language. It is operated by Finland's national public-service broadcaster Yle (known in Swedish as Rundradion), which has its headquarters in Helsinki.
The channel provides a wide-ranging service containing both speech and music-based programming. It aims to keep Finland-Swedes informed about the society they live in – with news coverage and discussion of events not only in Swedish-speaking Finland and its localities but also in Finland as a whole as well as the wider world – while, musically, it pays particular attention to Swedish-language songs produced and performed in Finland.
Regional stations
There are five Radio Vega regions, each of which provides distinctive programming for its own area at certain times of the day. These regions are:
Yle
Yleisradio Oy (Finnish), also known as Rundradion (Swedish) or the Finnish Broadcasting Company (English), abbreviated to Yle (pronounced /yle/; previously stylised as YLE before March 2012 corporate rebrand), is Finland's national public-broadcasting company, founded in 1926. It is a public limited company which is 99.98% owned by the Finnish state, and employs around 3,200 people in Finland. Yle shares many of its organizational characteristics with its UK counterpart, the BBC, on which it was largely modelled.
For the greater part of Yle's existence the company was funded by the revenues obtained from a broadcast receiving licence fee payable by the owners of radio sets (1927-1976) and television sets (1958-2012), as well as receiving a portion 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 Since the beginning of 2013 the licence fee has been replaced by a public broadcasting tax (known as the "Yle tax"), which is collected annually from private individuals together with their other taxes, and also from corporations.
Yle (disambiguation)
Yle may also refer to:
Other uses
Thyle
A Thyle (OE Þyle, ON Þulr) was a member of the court associated with Scandinavian and Anglo-Saxon royalty and chieftains in the Early Middle Ages with the duty of determining truth of public statements. Most literary references are found in Icelandic and Old English literature like the Hávamál, where Odin himself is called "the great thul", and Beowulf. It also appears on the runic inscription of the Snoldelev Stone.Frederiksbergs original name was Tulehøj (Thylehill).
The Old English term is glossed as Latin histrio "orator" and curra "jester"; þylcræft means "elocution". Zoega's Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic defines Þulr as "wise-man, sage," cognate to Old Norse þula (verb) "to speak" and þula (noun) "list in poetic form". The Rundata project translates Þulr as "reciter". From this it appears that the office of thyle was connected to the keeping and reproducing of orally transmitted lore like the Rígsþula "Lay of Rígr".
The thyle may further have served the function of challenging those who would make unwise boasts or oaths and possibly hurt the luck of the community, and consequentially the reputation of the king. Unferð holds the role of thyle in the poem Beowulf; his questioning of Beowulf's statements may have been part of his office, rather than motivated by petty antagonism.
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