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Country | Finland |
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Broadcast area | Finland |
Headquarters | Helsinki |
Programming | |
Picture format | PAL 480i (4:3 SDTV) |
Ownership | |
Owner | Oy Kolmostelevisio Ab (Joint venture between MTV Oy, Yle and Nokia) |
History | |
Founded | 25 November 1985 |
Launched | 1 December 1986 |
Closed | 31 December 1992 |
Replaced by | MTV3 |
Kolmoskanava (also known as TV3 and informally as Kolmonen) was a Finnish free-to-air television station owned and operated by Oy Kolmostelevisio Ab, a joint venture between MTV Oy, Yle and Nokia. The channel was launched on December 1, 1986, and closed on the New Year's Eve night of December 31, 1992 with MTV3 starting its broadcasts simultaneously. Being the first nationwide commercial channel in Finland, Kolmoskanava did not produce any of its programmes themselves, instead relying on imported programmes (mostly TV shows and movies from North America), sports and a small number of Finnish programmes, most notably the bingo game show Megavisa, which aired from 1991 until 1992 on Kolmoskanava, and from 1993 until 1995 on its successor channel MTV3.
Yleisradio had financed its television operations, which began in the late 1950s, with license fees and by renting airtime to Oy Mainos-TV-Reklam Ab (since 1982 MTV Oy), which obtained its income by selling advertising time. [1] [2] At the beginning of the 1980s, the changes that took place in the media field, such as the entry of various cable and sky channels and video recorders into the market, were feared to take viewers away from Yleisradio and MTV. Local radio stations that started in 1985 were also feared to threaten MTV's advertising sales. [3] [4] [5] [6] Oy Kolmostelevisioni Ab was founded in November 1985 to secure Yleisradio's and MTV's position and advertising revenue and to prevent the press from entering the industry. [5] [7] [8]
On 1 December 1986, Kolmoskanava made its first broadcast from the Espoo transmitter; the first program broadcast was the feature film The Sound of Music. [9]
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