Nelonen

Nelonen
Launched	June 1, 1997
Owned by	Nelonen Media, part of Sanoma Television Oy, a subsidiary of the electronic media business division Sanoma Entertainment of Sanoma
Audience share	9.3% (2010, )
Country	Finland
Broadcast area	Finland
Formerly called	PTV (Paikallistelevisio) PTV4 (1989-1997)
Sister channel(s)	Nelonen HD Nelonen Kino Nelonen Perhe Nelonen Maailma JIM LIV Nelonen Pro 1 Nelonen Pro 2
Website	www.nelonen.fi
Availability
Terrestrial
Digital	Channel 4
Satellite
Canal Digital	Channel 4
Cable
Elisa	Channel 4
DNA	Channel 4
Welho	Channel 4

Nelonen is a Finnish commercial TV channel. It started out as Helsinki's local television channel PTV in 1989 on the HTV cable network, which name was changed first to PTV4 and then to Nelonen. It started on June 1, 1997. Nelonen, in Finnish, means the glyph of the number four. The channel is mostly owned by Sanoma Corporation, which owns the Helsingin Sanomat and Ilta-Sanomat newspapers. Its largest owner is Aatos Erkko. Much of its programming is Australian, American, British, and European shows, with Finnish captions. Its main market is the 25-44 demographic. Nelonen has 8 sister channels: Nelonen HD, JIM, Nelonen Kino, Nelonen Perhe, Nelonen Maailma, Nelonen Pro 1, Nelonen Pro 2 and Liv.

Programming

• 90210
• Alias
• America's Got Talent
• America's Next Top Model
• American Chopper
• Avatar: The Last Airbender
• Bad Girls
• Battlestar Galactica
• Big Love
• Brainiac: Science Abuse
• Breaking Bad
• Britain's Next Top Model
• Brotherhood
• Californication
• Castle
• Canada's Next Top Model
• Charmed
• Commander in Chief
• Criminal Minds
• Dawson's Creek
• Days of our Lives
• Damages
• Deadwood
• Desperate Housewives
• Detroit 1-8-7
• Dexter
• Dirt
• Dirty Sexy Money
• Dr. Phil
• Drop Dead Diva
• Everybody Loves Raymond
• Fear Factor
• FlashFoward
• Footballer's Wives
• Frasier
• Fashion File
• FashionTelevision
• Ghost Whisperer
• Grey's Anatomy
• Harper's Island
• Jericho
• Jerseylicious
• Judging Amy
• Kyle XY
• Las Vegas
• Less Than Perfect
• Lost
• Mad Men
• Married... with Children
• MasterChef Australia
• Medium
• MythBusters
• Newlyweds: Nick and Jessica
• NCIS
• NCIS: Los Angeles
• Nurse Jackie
• Oz
• Pimp My Ride
• Punk'd
• Rescue Me
• Rome
• RSPCA Animal Rescue
• Robson Arms
• Samantha Who?
• Scrubs
• Seinfeld
• South Park
• So You Think You Can Dance
• So You Think You Can Dance Canada
• That '70s Show
• The 4400
• The Bachelor
• The Comeback
• The Cut
• The Game
• The Good Wife
• The Oprah Winfrey Show
• The Shield
• The Sopranos
• The West Wing
• Threshold
• Total Wipeout
• Total Wipeout USA
• Trailer Park Boys
• Ugly Betty
• Weeds
• What About Brian
• Wife Swap
• Wildfire
• Wizards of Waverly Place

Local

• Brain Wall (Finnish version)
• Talent Suomi
• The Dudesons

Criticism

Nelonen was launched quickly and in an unprepared state. It has been criticized for importing "trash shows", especially 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. The channel's entertainment output also consists of many other programmes which may be considered to be poor quality - imported game shows or Finnish versions of them (such as Reikä seinässä, a Finnish version of the Japanese 'Human Tetris' game) and reality TV shows dominate the scheduling. On the other hand, Nelonen's scheduling also contains several award-winning drama series.

Controversy

During the fall of 2007, a day after the Jokela school shooting, Nelonen decided not to air a scheduled episode of the TV series Dexter. The TV series depicts a fictional serial killer Dexter Morgan and it was said to be inappropriate after such dramatic and nationwide turn of events. The episode was instead shown a week later.

External links

• Nelonen
• JIM
• LIV
• KinoTV