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Nelonen is a Finnish
Finland

Finland , officially the Republic of Finland , is a Nordic countries situated in the Fennoscandian region of northern Europe. It borders Sweden on the west, Russia on the east, and Norway on the north, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland....
 commercial TV channel. It started out as Helsinki's local television channel PTV
Paikallistelevisio

PTV4 was a Finland television channel which operated from 1989 to 1997. It was originally launched on the HTV cable network under the name of PTV, which was later changed to PTV4 in 1996 when it was bought by SanomaWSOY group....
 in 1989 on the HTV cable network, which name was changed first to PTV4 and then to Nelonen. It started on the 1 June 1997. Nelonen, in Finnish
Finnish language

Finnish is the language spoken by the majority of the population in Finland and by Finnish people outside of Finland. It is one of the official languages of Finland and an official minority language in Sweden....
, means the glyph
Glyph

A glyph is an element of writing. Two or more glyphs representing the same symbol, whether interchangeable or context-dependent, are called allographs; the abstract unit they are variants of is called a grapheme or character ....
 of the number four. The channel is mostly owned by SanomaWSOY
SanomaWSOY

Sanoma Oyj is the leading Mass media group in the Nordic countries with operations in 20 European countries, based in Helsinki. The group is also among the top five European magazine publishers and has a strong position, in addition to its native Finland, in Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, L...
 Oyj, which owns the Helsingin Sanomat
Helsingin Sanomat

Helsingin Sanomat is the biggest subscription newspaper in Finland. Except after certain holidays, it is published daily. In 2006, its daily circulation was 426,117 on weekdays and 476,211 on Sundays ....
 and Ilta-Sanomat
Ilta-Sanomat

Ilta-Sanomat is one of Finland's two prominent tabloids and the second largest newspaper in the country. Its counterpart and biggest rival is Iltalehti....
 newspapers. Its largest owner is Aatos Erkko
Aatos Erkko

Aatos Juho Michel Erkko is a Finland journalist and the main owner of SanomaWSOY and the Helsingin Sanomat newspaper. He has a Master of Science degree in Journalism from the Columbia College of Columbia University....
. Much of its programming is American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 (50%) and Europe
Europe

Europe is, conventionally, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural , the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains to the southeast....
an imports (20%), with Finnish
Finnish language

Finnish is the language spoken by the majority of the population in Finland and by Finnish people outside of Finland. It is one of the official languages of Finland and an official minority language in Sweden....
 subtitle
Subtitle

A subtitle can refer to:* Subtitle , an explanatory or alternate title of a book, play, film, musical work, etc., in addition to its main title...
s.






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Nelonen is a Finnish
Finland

Finland , officially the Republic of Finland , is a Nordic countries situated in the Fennoscandian region of northern Europe. It borders Sweden on the west, Russia on the east, and Norway on the north, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland....
 commercial TV channel. It started out as Helsinki's local television channel PTV
Paikallistelevisio

PTV4 was a Finland television channel which operated from 1989 to 1997. It was originally launched on the HTV cable network under the name of PTV, which was later changed to PTV4 in 1996 when it was bought by SanomaWSOY group....
 in 1989 on the HTV cable network, which name was changed first to PTV4 and then to Nelonen. It started on the 1 June 1997. Nelonen, in Finnish
Finnish language

Finnish is the language spoken by the majority of the population in Finland and by Finnish people outside of Finland. It is one of the official languages of Finland and an official minority language in Sweden....
, means the glyph
Glyph

A glyph is an element of writing. Two or more glyphs representing the same symbol, whether interchangeable or context-dependent, are called allographs; the abstract unit they are variants of is called a grapheme or character ....
 of the number four. The channel is mostly owned by SanomaWSOY
SanomaWSOY

Sanoma Oyj is the leading Mass media group in the Nordic countries with operations in 20 European countries, based in Helsinki. The group is also among the top five European magazine publishers and has a strong position, in addition to its native Finland, in Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, L...
 Oyj, which owns the Helsingin Sanomat
Helsingin Sanomat

Helsingin Sanomat is the biggest subscription newspaper in Finland. Except after certain holidays, it is published daily. In 2006, its daily circulation was 426,117 on weekdays and 476,211 on Sundays ....
 and Ilta-Sanomat
Ilta-Sanomat

Ilta-Sanomat is one of Finland's two prominent tabloids and the second largest newspaper in the country. Its counterpart and biggest rival is Iltalehti....
 newspapers. Its largest owner is Aatos Erkko
Aatos Erkko

Aatos Juho Michel Erkko is a Finland journalist and the main owner of SanomaWSOY and the Helsingin Sanomat newspaper. He has a Master of Science degree in Journalism from the Columbia College of Columbia University....
. Much of its programming is American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 (50%) and Europe
Europe

Europe is, conventionally, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural , the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains to the southeast....
an imports (20%), with Finnish
Finnish language

Finnish is the language spoken by the majority of the population in Finland and by Finnish people outside of Finland. It is one of the official languages of Finland and an official minority language in Sweden....
 subtitle
Subtitle

A subtitle can refer to:* Subtitle , an explanatory or alternate title of a book, play, film, musical work, etc., in addition to its main title...
s. Its main market is the 25-44 demographic. Nelonen has a sister channel JIM
Jim

Jim is a diminutive form of the forename "James ". For individuals named Jim, see...
.

Programmes


List of past/current programs.

  • 90210
    90210 (TV series)

    '90210' is a teen drama developed by Rob Thomas , Jeff Judah and Gabe Sachs. It is the fourth series in the Beverly Hills, 90210 franchise created by Darren Star....
  • Alias
    Alias (TV series)

    Alias is an United States action movie Television program created by J. J. Abrams which was broadcast on American Broadcasting Company for five seasons, from September 30, 2001 to May 22, 2006....
  • All in the Family
    All in the Family

    All in the Family is an United States situation comedy that was originally broadcast on the CBS television network from January 12, 1971 to April 8, 1979....
  • America's Next Top Model
    America's Next Top Model

    America's Next Top Model is a reality television show in which a number of women compete for the title of America's Next Top Model and a chance to start their career in the Model industry....
  • American Chopper
    American Chopper

    American Chopper is a reality television Television program on TLC_ and is produced by Pilgrim Films & Television. The popular series is based around the founder of the company, Paul Teutul, Sr., and his son, Paul Teutul, Jr., also known as Paulie or simply Junior, as the two run a business creating custom motorcycle motorcycles...
  • The Bachelor
  • Bad Girls
    Bad Girls

    Bad Girls may refer to:* Bad Girls , a 1979 Donna Summer album* Bad Girls , a song from the Donna Summer album of the same name* "Bad Girls", a 2006 song by Vanilla Ninja from the album Love Is War...
  • Battlestar Galactica
    Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series)

    Battlestar Galactica is an Emmy Award and Peabody Award-winning Serial television program created by Ronald D. Moore that first aired in a Battlestar Galactica in December 2003, on Sci Fi Channel ....
  • Big Love
    Big Love

    Big Love is an American television drama on HBO about a fundamentalist Mormon family in Utah that practices polygamy. Big Love stars Bill Paxton, Chlo? Sevigny, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Ginnifer Goodwin, Harry Dean Stanton, Amanda Seyfried, Douglas Smith , Grace Zabriskie, and Matt Ross....
  • Brainiac
    Brainiac: Science Abuse

    Brainiac: Science Abuse is a United Kingdom entertainment TV show with a science motif. Numerous experiments are carried out in each show, often to verify whether common conceptions are true or simply to create impressive explosions....
  • Brotherhood
  • Carnivāle
    Carnivāle

    Carniv?le is an American television series set in the United States during the Great Depression. In tracing the lives of two disparate groups of people, its overarching story depicts the battle between good and evil and the struggle between free will and destiny; the storyline mixes Christianity theology with gnosticism and Freemasonry l...
  • Charmed
    Charmed

    Charmed is an award-winning, Television in the United States cult television series that originally aired from October 7, 1998 until May 21, 2006, when its network, The WB Television Network, ceased operation....
  • Commander in Chief
    Commander in Chief (TV series)

    Commander in Chief was an United States drama television series that focused on the fictional administration and family of Mackenzie Allen , the first female President of the United States, who ascended to the role after the previous chief executive, Teddy Bridges , died in office from a sudden cerebral aneurysm....
  • Days of our Lives
    Days of our Lives

    Days of our Lives is an United States soap opera, which has aired nearly every weekday since November 8, 1965 on the NBC network in the United States, and has since been syndicated to many countries around the world....
  • Damages
    Damages (TV series)

    Damages is an United States television drama series created by the writing and production trio of Daniel Zelman and brothers Glenn Kessler and Todd A....
  • Deadwood
    Deadwood (TV series)

    Deadwood is an United States Western –drama television series created, produced and almost entirely written by David Milch. The series aired on the premium television cable television HBO from 21 March 2004 to 27 August 2006, spanning List of Deadwood episodes....
  • Desperate Housewives
    Desperate Housewives

    Desperate Housewives is an American television comedy-drama series, created by Marc Cherry, who also serves as show runner, and produced by ABC Studios and Marc Cherry....
  • Dexter
    Dexter (TV series)

    Dexter is an American television drama series that airs on American pay TV Showtime. It is based on the novel Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay and adapted for television by Emmy Award-winning screenwriter James Manos, Jr., who wrote the pilot episode....
  • Dirt (TV Series)
    Dirt (TV series)

    Dirt is an United States television series Serial that was broadcast on the FX . It premiered on January 2, 2007 and starred Courteney Cox as Lucy Spiller, the editor-in-chief of the first-of-its-kind "glossy Supermarket tabloid" magazine DirtNow, which was previously two separate publications: D!rt! and Now ....
  • Dirty Sexy Money
    Dirty Sexy Money

    Dirty Sexy Money is an United States serial created by Craig Wright , which premiered on the American Broadcasting Company on September 26, 2007....
  • Discovery Channel
    Discovery Channel

    The Discovery Channel is an United States satellite and cable TV channel , founded by John Hendricks and distributed by Discovery Communications....
     documentaries
  • Dr. Phil
    Dr. Phil (TV series)

    'Dr. Phil' is an United States talk show hosted by Phil McGraw. After McGraw's success with his segments on The Oprah Winfrey Show, Dr....
  • Everybody Loves Raymond
    Everybody Loves Raymond

    Everybody Loves Raymond is an Emmy Award-winning Television in the United States television sitcom that originally ran on CBS from September 13, 1996 to May 16, 2005....
  • Extreme Duudsonit
    Extreme Duudsonit

    The Dudesons is a Finland television series, which originally started in January 2001 under the Finnish name Extreme Duudsonit. A combination of extreme stunts, comedy and reality, the show has become the most wide-spread Finnish TV-series of all time....
  • Fear Factor
    Fear factor

    The fear factor in occupational terminology refers to the increased per-worker productivity resulting from the threat of impending downsizing. The resultant productivity boost is almost always temporary, since health-related reasons dictate that workers cannot maintain this level of increased output....
  • Footballer's Wives
  • Frasier
    Frasier

    Frasier is an American situation comedy broadcast on National Broadcasting Company for eleven seasons, from September 16, 1993 to May 13, 2004....
  • Ghost Whisperer
    Ghost Whisperer

    Ghost Whisperer is an United States Television drama series-Fantasy television-Thriller that premiered on CBS September 23, 2005. The show was developed by medium James Van Praagh and created by John Gray ....
  • Grey's Anatomy
    Grey's Anatomy

    Grey?s Anatomy is an American primetime medical drama. It debuted on American Broadcasting Company as a mid-season replacement for Boston Legal on March 27, 2005, immediately following Desperate Housewives....
  • Jericho
    Jericho (TV series)

    Jericho is an United States serial drama that centers on the residents of the fictional town of Jericho, Kansas in the aftermath of nuclear attacks on 23 major cities in the contiguous United States....
  • Judging Amy
    Judging Amy

    Judging Amy is an United States television program drama that aired from September 19, 1999 until May 3, 2005 on CBS. The show stars Amy Brenneman and Tyne Daly ....
  • Las Vegas
    Las Vegas (TV series)

    Las Vegas was an American television series that aired on NBC from September 22, 2003 to February 15, 2008. The show focuses on a team of people working in the fictional Montecito Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada—dealing with issues that arise within the working environment, ranging from valet parking and restaurant management to casino...
  • Less Than Perfect
    Less Than Perfect

    Less than Perfect is an United States sitcom that aired on American Broadcasting Company from October 1, 2002 to August 1, 2006. The show was about a young female office employee and her co-workers....
  • Lost
    Lost (TV series)

    Lost is an American Serial television program. It follows the lives of plane crash survivors on a mysterious tropical island, after a commercial Oceanic Flight 815 flying between Sydney, Australia and Los Angeles, United States crashes somewhere in the Oceania....
  • Mad Men
    Mad Men

    Mad Men is an United States television drama series created and Executive producer#Television by Matthew Weiner. It is broadcast in the United States and Canada on the cable network AMC , and is produced by Lionsgate Television....
  • Married... with Children
    Married... with Children

    Married...with Children or Married with Children is a Golden Globe and Emmy Award-nominated American situation comedy about a dysfunctional family living in a Chicagoland suburb that lasted 11 seasons....
  • Medium
    Medium (TV series)

    Medium is an American supernatural and dramatic television series which premiered on NBC on January 3, 2005. The series is about Allison DuBois who acts as a research medium for the Phoenix, Arizona, district attorney's office....
  • Men Behaving Badly
    Men Behaving Badly

    Men Behaving Badly is a British comedy that was created and written by Simon Nye. It follows the lives of beer-guzzling flatmates Gary and Tony, and was first broadcast on ITV in 1992....
  • Newlyweds: Nick and Jessica
  • NCIS
    NCIS (TV series)

    NCIS , aka Navy NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Service or NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Service, is an American police procedural television series revolving around a fictional team of special agents from the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, which conducts criminal investigations involving the United Stat...
  • The Oprah Winfrey Show
    The Oprah Winfrey Show

    The Oprah Winfrey Show is a United States Television syndication talk show, hosted and produced by its namesake Oprah Winfrey, and is the highest-rated talk show in American television history....
  • Oz
    Oz (TV series)

    Oz was an United States television drama series created by Tom Fontana, who also wrote or co-wrote all of the series' 56 episodes. It was the first one-hour dramatic television series to be produced by Home Box Office....
  • Pimp My Ride
    Pimp My Ride

    Pimp My Ride is a Television show produced by MTV. Each episode consists of taking one automobile in poor condition and restoring it, as well as custom car it....
  • Punk'd
    Punk'd

    Punk'd was an United States hidden camera practical joke television series on MTV, produced and hosted by Ashton Kutcher, which first aired in 2003....
  • Rescue Me
    Rescue Me (TV series)

    Rescue Me is an United States television drama series created by Denis Leary and Peter Tolan. It premiered on the FX Networks in 2004. It is produced by the Cloudland Company, Apostle , DreamWorks Television and Sony Pictures Television....
  • Rome
    Rome (TV series)

    Rome is a British Academy Television Awards, Golden Globe-nominated and Primetime Emmy Award-winning historical drama film television series co-created by John Milius, William J....
  • Scrubs
    Scrubs (TV series)

    Scrubs is an Emmy Award and Peabody Award-winning American comedy-drama that premiered on October 2, 2001, on NBC. It was created by Bill Lawrence and is produced by ABC Studios ....
  • Seinfeld
    Seinfeld

    Seinfeld is an Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award-winning Television in the United States Situation comedy that originally aired on NBC from July 5, 1989, to May 14, 1998, lasting nine seasons, and is now in Broadcast syndication....
  • The 4400
    The 4400

    The 4400 is a science fiction TV series produced by CBS Paramount Network Television in association with British Sky Broadcasting, Renegade 83 and American Zoetrope for USA Network....
  • The Comeback
    The Comeback (TV series)

    The Comeback is a Television program produced by HBO that stars actress Lisa Kudrow as sitcom actress Valerie Cherish in modern-day Los Angeles, California....
  • The Game (TV series)
    The Game (TV series)

    The Game was an Australian television show that aired in 2000 and 2001 on the Seven Network.It was hosted by Dermott Brereton, who defected from the Nine Network to Seven amid much controversy....
  • The Shield
    The Shield

    The Shield was an United States drama television series which aired on FX in the U.S. and other networks internationally. Known for its controversial portrayal of corrupt police officers, it was originally advertised as "Rampart, Los Angeles, California" in reference to the true life Rampart Scandal, which the show's Strike Team was loos...
  • The Sopranos
    The Sopranos

    The Sopranos was an United States television drama series created and Executive producer#Television by David Chase. It was originally broadcast in the United States on the premium television cable television HBO from January 10, 1999 to June 10, 2007, spanning List of The Sopranos episodes....
  • South Park
    South Park

    South Park is an United Statesn animation situation comedy, notorious for its toilet humour, surrealism, and often black comedy, which satirizes Subject matter in South Park including religion, politics, violence, abuse, sexuality, and mental disorder....
  • So You Think You Can Dance
  • Starsky and Hutch
    Starsky and Hutch

    Starsky and Hutch is a 1970s United States television series that consisted of a 90-minute television pilot movie and 92 episodes of 60 minutes each; created by William Blinn, produced by Spelling-Goldberg Productions, and broadcast between April 30 1975 and May 15 1979 on the American Broadcasting Company network; distributed by Sony P...
  • Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye
    Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye

    Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye is a Canada-United States co-produced television police drama. It premiered in the United States in 2002, and in Canada in 2003 and ended in May 2005 as it was slated for non-renewal by ION Television....
  • That '70s Show
    That '70s Show

    That '70s Show is an American television program situation comedy that centers on the lives of a group of teenagers living in the fictional town of Point Place, Wisconsin from May 17, 1976 to December 31, 1979....
  • The Cut
  • The Golden Girls
    The Golden Girls

    The Golden Girls is an United States situation comedy that originally aired on NBC from September 14, 1985, to May 9, 1992. Starring Bea Arthur, Betty White, Rue McClanahan and Estelle Getty, the show centers on four older women sharing a Miami, Florida home....
  • The West Wing
    The West Wing (TV series)

    The West Wing is an American television serial drama created by Aaron Sorkin that was originally broadcast from 1999 to 2006. It was produced/written by Sorkin and also produced by Thomas Schlamme....
  • Threshold
    Threshold (TV series)

    Threshold is a science fiction drama television series that first aired on CBS in September 2005. Produced by Brannon Braga, David S. Goyer and David Heyman, the series focuses on a secret government project investigating the first contact with an extraterrestrial life species....
  • Trading Spouses
    Trading Spouses

    Trading Spouses is a Fox Broadcasting Company reality show in which two families, usually of different social classes, swap wives or husbands for a week....
  • Tsunami: The Aftermath
  • Ugly Betty
    Ugly Betty

    Ugly Betty is an Emmy, Golden Globe, SAG and Peabody Award winning American television program comedy-drama series starring America Ferrera in the title role, along with Eric Mabius, Vanessa L....
  • Weeds
    Weeds (TV series)

    Weeds is an United States dark comedy television series created by Jenji Kohan, produced by Lionsgate Television for the Showtime network....
  • What About Brian
    What About Brian

    What About Brian was an United States dramatic television series created by Dana Stevens and co-produced by J.J. Abrams' company Bad Robot Productions....
  • Wildfire (TV series)
    Wildfire (TV series)

    Wildfire is an United States television series that aired on ABC Family. The show premiered June 20, 2005; its fourth and final season ended on May 26, 2008....
  • Wife Swap
    Wife Swap

    Wife Swap is a reality television programme, produced by United Kingdom independent television production company RDF Media and created by Stephen Lambert ....
     (Finnish, British and American versions)


Criticism


Nelonen was launched quickly and in an unprepared state. It has been sometimes criticized for importing "trash shows", especially in during its first years. Mostly the subject of criticism have been related to its weekly imported "4D documentaries" concentrating on entertainment value and on highly emotive issues instead of artistic or other deeper values. On the other hand, these "trash shows" makes only a small portion of Nelonen's prime time
Prime time

Prime time or primetime is the block of television program during the middle of the evening.The term prime time is often defined in terms of a fixed time period, for example, from 8:00 p.m....
 programming, which mostly consists of entertainment shows and many award-winning drama series.

Controversy


During the fall of 2007, a day after the Jokela school shooting
Jokela school shooting

The Jokela school shooting occurred on 7 November, 2007, at Jokela High School , a public secondary school in the town of Jokela , part of the municipality of Tuusula, Finland....
, Nelonen decided not to air a scheduled episode of the TV series Dexter
Dexter (TV series)

Dexter is an American television drama series that airs on American pay TV Showtime. It is based on the novel Darkly Dreaming Dexter by Jeff Lindsay and adapted for television by Emmy Award-winning screenwriter James Manos, Jr., who wrote the pilot episode....
. The TV series depicts a fictional serial killer
Serial killer

A serial killer is a person who murders usually three or more people"One of the most famous [geographically stable] serial killers is Wayne Williams....
 Dexter Morgan
Dexter Morgan

Dexter Morgan is a fictional character in a series of novels by Jeff Lindsay , including Darkly Dreaming Dexter , Dearly Devoted Dexter , Dexter in the Dark and Dexter by Design ....
 and it was said to be inappropriate after such dramatic and nationwide turn of events. The episode was instead shown a week later.

See also

  • JIM
    Jim

    Jim is a diminutive form of the forename "James ". For individuals named Jim, see...
  • LIV
    LIV

    LIV may refer to:* 54 in Roman numerals* The Law Institute of Victoria* The Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben* Line-item veto* Liverpool Lime Street railway station, England; National Rail station code LIV....


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