YLE FST5 (Finlands Svenska Television) is YLE's Finland-Swedish digital television channel, providing television programmes in the Swedish language in Finland. YLE (Full name Finnish: Yleisradio Oy, Swedish: Rundradion Ab) is Finland 's national broadcasting company founded Finland Swedish is a general term for the closely related cluster of Dialects of Swedish spoken in Finland by Swedish-speaking Finns as their Swedish ( is a North Germanic language spoken by more than nine million people predominantly in Sweden and parts of Finland, especially along the Finland, officially the Republic of Finland ( is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of northern Europe. It is a public-service channel principally intended for Finland's Swedish-speaking minority, although – since most of its programmes are subtitled in Finnish – a large proportion of its viewers are in fact Finnish-speakers. Finnish ( or suomen kieli) is the language spoken by the majority of the population in Finland (92% As of 2006) and by ethnic Finns outside
Finlands Svenska Television's output was formerly included in the programming of YLE's two main television channels, TV1 and TV2. However, since 1 September 2007, all of YLE's Swedish-language television programmes are now broadcast exclusively on digital channel FST5. Events 462 - Possible start of first Byzantine indiction cycle. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century.
