How we checked Finest FM
Everything published about this station was read from the station's own website or its own stream, and every fact below names the page it came from and the year it was read. We changed 3 things about this entry. We also found 2 things we could have published and decided not to.
What we publish, and where each part came from
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Description
Branded on air as Finest FM, this is Finland's only Estonian-language radio station, set up by the Estonian DJ and sound engineer Argo Lepik for the large Estonian community living around Helsinki. It started as an internet stream in November 2013 and moved onto FM in early 2020, reaching Helsinki on 98.5 MHz and Hyvinkää and the Kanta-Häme region on 94.4 MHz from a studio on Uutiskatu in Helsinki. The music is a mix of international dance and pop with Estonian hits, including a 100 percent Estonian music slot on Saturdays and a dedicated Estonian Music Hour. Between the records come news from both Finland and Estonia and Estonian-language talk about expatriate life.
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Finest FM official site | 2026 |
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Contact route
Own Kontakt page publishes a freephone studio number that it says doubles as a WhatsApp number for on-air use, a separate editorial and advertising telephone, an email address and the studio street address in Helsinki; the homepage and the same page link the station's own Facebook page and its Instagram account.
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Finest radio | 2026 |
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Contact page
https://finestfm.fi/page/kontakt-7
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Finest radio | 2026 |
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Era
1980s to present
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Finest FM official site | 2026 |
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Music
Dance, pop and electronic with Estonian hits
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Finest FM official site | 2026 |
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Language
Estonian
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Finest FM official site | 2026 |
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Kind
studio recordings
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Finest FM official site | 2026 |
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Where
Helsinki, Finland; 98.5 MHz Helsinki and 94.4 MHz Hyvinkää
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Finest FM official site | 2026 |
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Programmes
Estonian Music Hour, plus a 100 percent Estonian music slot on Saturdays.
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Finest FM official site | 2026 |
What we corrected
Each of these changed a field in our own entry. The reasoning is the researcher's own, recorded when the change was made.
| Field | Change | Why |
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| title |
Finest FM
what it said before was not recorded; the
reasoning usually states it
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Station's own site, its Finnish Wikipedia entry and press coverage all name it Finest FM; no source uses FinEst Radio |
| country code |
FI
what it said before was not recorded; the
reasoning usually states it
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Broadcasts from Helsinki, Finland on 98.5 MHz and Hyvinkaa on 94.4 MHz; it is Finland's Estonian-language station, not an Estonian one. Filed under EE |
| language code |
et
what it said before was not recorded; the
reasoning usually states it
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Broadcasts in Estonian, filed as English |
What we found and did not publish
Material that would have made this page fuller, and was refused. A page with five named presenters looks better than a page with none even when the five are a website theme's demonstration content, and the difference is invisible to a reader. So it is recorded here instead.
| What we could have said | Why we did not |
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| The freephone/WhatsApp on-air number, the editorial telephone, the Helsinki studio address and the email address | no telephone numbers, street addresses or email addresses go in this file.
source |
| That the published mailbox sits on a third-party personal domain rather than finestfm.fi | provenance: the station publishes it itself, on its own Kontakt page, under the heading covering studio and advertising, so it is treated as the station's route.
source |
If you think something here is wrong
Tell us which fact and what you found instead. Everything above names its source and its date, so a disagreement can be settled by looking rather than argued. Where another site disagrees with us, it is usually because it is repeating a radio directory, and occasionally because we got it wrong. We would like to know which.
Read from the station's own material; this page is generated from the
catalogue as it stands now, so it changes when the research does. Research
current as at 2026.
This entry began as: FinEst Radio — listed via Radio Browser · https://finestfm.fi/