Radiomafia

Last updated March 17, 2025

Radiomafia was a Finnish radio station owned by Yle and mainly directed to teenagers and young adults. It was established on 1 June 1990 and decommissioned on 12 January 2003.^[1] It was followed by YleX, with some of the programmes moved to other channels, such as YleQ, Yle Radio Suomi and Yle Radio 1.^{[ citation needed ]}

One of the programmes aired on Radiomafia in the 1990s was a drum and bass music programme hosted by Dizzy, the alias of Juha Ponteva.^[2]

References

↑ "Radiomafia näytteinä – naamafilmissä mafiakasvoja vuosien varrelta". yle.fi (in Finnish). 2010-05-31. Retrieved 2024-01-12.
↑ Jenkins, Dave (10 August 2020). "The Past, Present, and Future of Drum & Bass in Finland". Bandcamp Daily . "I'm not usually a huge fan of dwelling in the past," says Juha Ponteva from his Helsinki home. But any fan of Finnish electronic music who grew up listening to his Radiomafia broadcasts during the '90s would forgive him if he was. After all, it was Ponteva, under the alias Dizzy, who turned an entire country on to drum & bass. A little bit of celebratory nostalgia would be understandable.

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[1] "Radiomafia näytteinä – naamafilmissä mafiakasvoja vuosien varrelta". yle.fi (in Finnish). 2010-05-31. Retrieved 2024-01-12.

[2] Jenkins, Dave (10 August 2020). "The Past, Present, and Future of Drum & Bass in Finland". Bandcamp Daily . "I'm not usually a huge fan of dwelling in the past," says Juha Ponteva from his Helsinki home. But any fan of Finnish electronic music who grew up listening to his Radiomafia broadcasts during the '90s would forgive him if he was. After all, it was Ponteva, under the alias Dizzy, who turned an entire country on to drum & bass. A little bit of celebratory nostalgia would be understandable.

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