How we checked YleX
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. Nothing needed correcting. We also found 6 things we could have published and decided not to.
What we publish, and where each part came from
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Description
YleX is Yle's youth channel, described in Yle's own words as "YleX - Suomen seuratuin musiikkimedia. Eniten uutta kotimaista musiikkia ja parhaat kansainvaliset uutuudet", the most-followed music medium in Finland, playing the most new Finnish music and the best international new releases, with all programmes and videos on Yle Areena around the clock. Its channel page carries its own listen-live control, its own up-next panel, its own contact and frequency pages and its own feedback route. Yle publishes its autumn 2026 grid, presenter by presenter, in its own announcement.
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Ylen tiedotteet, Yle's own press-release section on yle.fi (the autumn 2026 YleX lineup); channel page read at https://areena.yle.fi/podcastit/ohjelmat/57-JAprnp7W2 | 2026 |
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Artists
Finnish new music is what the channel says it plays most of, and the artists it names itself are the four it put at the top of its own YleX Lapimurto 2026 list: Minttu, the jury winner, with the track "Everest"; Helmi Marleena second with "Kotivideoissa"; Louna0nline third with "Red Dragon"; and Jokrates the audience-vote winner with "Kukkahattuseta Freestyle". Its 2025 list was won by the rap group Good Boys, and Hugo was its 2025 "kesakumiartisti".
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Ylen tiedotteet, Yle's own press-release section on yle.fi (the autumn 2026 YleX lineup); channel page read at https://areena.yle.fi/podcastit/ohjelmat/57-JAprnp7W2 | 2026 |
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Contact route
A YleX-specific contact page listing named staff with roles, a stated firstname.surname email pattern for reaching any of them, a postal address for the newsroom, a WhatsApp number, a link to Yle's customer-service feedback form, and the channel's own Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Instagram accounts.
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Ylen tiedotteet, Yle's own press-release section on yle.fi (the autumn 2026 YleX lineup); channel page read at https://areena.yle.fi/podcastit/ohjelmat/57-JAprnp7W2 | 2026 |
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Contact page
https://yle.fi/aihe/s/ylex/ylexn-yhteystiedot
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Ylen tiedotteet, Yle's own press-release section on yle.fi (the autumn 2026 YleX lineup); channel page read at https://areena.yle.fi/podcastit/ohjelmat/57-JAprnp7W2 | 2026 |
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Era
Partly the point: one strand, YleX Throwback, is built on older music, Friday evenings 17:00-20:00, while the channel's own description puts its weight on new releases.
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Ylen tiedotteet, Yle's own press-release section on yle.fi (the autumn 2026 YleX lineup); channel page read at https://areena.yle.fi/podcastit/ohjelmat/57-JAprnp7W2 | 2026 |
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Music
New music and youth speech radio, weighted to new Finnish releases, with specialist evening strands for alternative, heavy and throwback music.
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Ylen tiedotteet, Yle's own press-release section on yle.fi (the autumn 2026 YleX lineup); channel page read at https://areena.yle.fi/podcastit/ohjelmat/57-JAprnp7W2 | 2026 |
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Language
Finnish; the channel page, its frequency and contact pages, its programme titles and its editorial articles are all Finnish, and Yle runs its Swedish-language youth channel separately as Yle X3M.
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Ylen tiedotteet, Yle's own press-release section on yle.fi (the autumn 2026 YleX lineup); channel page read at https://areena.yle.fi/podcastit/ohjelmat/57-JAprnp7W2 | 2026 |
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Kind
Live presenter-led national channel. Yle states that the Viki ja Kopi Show is the first time one of its streaming programmes has moved across to radio unchanged, and that during its two hours the channel plays only one song, because the programme keeps its own format rather than a radio one.
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Ylen tiedotteet, Yle's own press-release section on yle.fi (the autumn 2026 YleX lineup); channel page read at https://areena.yle.fi/podcastit/ohjelmat/57-JAprnp7W2 | 2026 |
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Worth knowing
Its own contact page publishes the whole editorial and production team by name and role with a stated email pattern, and gives a postal address and a WhatsApp line for listeners, which is an unusually open contact posture for a national channel.
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Ylen tiedotteet, Yle's own press-release section on yle.fi (the autumn 2026 YleX lineup); channel page read at https://areena.yle.fi/podcastit/ohjelmat/57-JAprnp7W2 | 2026 |
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Where
Helsinki, Finland, on FM per YleX's own frequency page "YleX:n taajuudet": Helsinki 91,9, Turku 92,6, Tampere 93,7, Oulu 93,2, Jyvaskyla 87,6, Joensuu 94,9, Vaasa 89,6, Rovaniemi 94,0, Inari 92,8, Seinajoki 90,1
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Yle's own site (yle.fi); correction to the briefing, the stored Areena address is YleX's own page, yle.fi/ylex and yle.fi/aihe/ylex both redirect to it, Yle's own footer lists it as YleX, and that page itself carries the "Taajuudet" link to the frequency page above | 2026 |
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On air
Siiriliina "Sikke" Kantola and Womma Seppala on breakfast; Ville "Viki" Eerikkila and Juuso "Kopi" Kallio on the Viki ja Kopi Show; Sonny Kyla-Liuhala; Aikku and Mellu; Linne Kivela; Mika Parikka and Riina Lehtola; Raine Laaksonen; Ella Ossi; Rony Rex; Kjell Simosas; Sini Laitinen, who presents as Papananaama; DJ Orion; Anne Lainto. Hanne Kautto is named as the channel's vastaava tuottaja, its executive producer.
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Ylen tiedotteet, Yle's own press-release section on yle.fi (the autumn 2026 YleX lineup); channel page read at https://areena.yle.fi/podcastit/ohjelmat/57-JAprnp7W2 | 2026 |
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Programmes
Yle's own autumn 2026 lineup, published 17 August and corrected 18 August. Uusi YleX Aamu with Sikke and Womma, Monday to Thursday 6:00-8:00 and Friday 6:00-10:00. Viki ja Kopi Show, Monday to Thursday 8:00-10:00. Uuden musiikin X with Sonny Kyla-Liuhala, weekdays 10:00-13:00. YleX Iltapaiva with Aikku and Mellu, weekdays 13:00-17:00. YleX Ilta with Linne Kivela, Monday to Thursday 17:00-20:00. YleX Viikonloppu with Mika Parikka and Riina Lehtola, Saturday and Sunday 13:00-17:00. Music strands: YleX Vaihtoehto with Raine Laaksonen Mondays 20:00-22:00; YleX Sessarit with Ella Ossi Tuesdays 20:00-22:00; Rony Rex Wednesdays 20:00-22:00; "Raskain terveisin, Kjell" Thursdays 20:00-22:00; YleX Throwback with Papananaama Fridays 17:00-20:00; DJ Orion Fridays 20:00-22:00; Lyomattomat Saturdays 17:00-20:00; "Anne Lainto <3 Rock" Sundays 20:00-22:00.
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Ylen tiedotteet, Yle's own press-release section on yle.fi (the autumn 2026 YleX lineup); channel page read at https://areena.yle.fi/podcastit/ohjelmat/57-JAprnp7W2 | 2026 |
What we corrected
Nothing. This station's entry matched what its own site says, which is worth recording: a clean check is a result, not an absence of one.
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 suspicion that the stored address is merely a podcast page | It is not. Yle's own vanity address yle.fi/ylex 301-redirects to it, the page sets it as its own rel=canonical and og:url, its title and og:title are "YleX", and its internal pointer is yleareena://services/ylex, a channel service rather than a podcast series. I have therefore proposed no homepage change and am recording why.
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| Yle's whole news output, which appears in the sidebar of every YleX article page and in a channel list in every footer | Those footers name Yle Radio 1, Yle Radio Suomi, Yle Vega, Yle X3M, Yle Klassinen, Yle Mondo, Yle Sami Radio and more, and the sidebars carry unrelated national news, so I took only items Yle tags to YleX.
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| The channel's most-played songs and artists of 2025 | Yle publishes those lists only as graphics, six image blocks credited to a YleX photographer with no text equivalent, so I could not read a single title from them.
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| An earlier grid from Yle's February 2026 announcement, including YleX Etusivu and the "Poikelus, Pehkonen ja Parikka" strand | Yle's own later articles record that Etusivu ended and that PPP had its last broadcast on 29 May 2026, so that grid is superseded and only the autumn lineup counts.
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| Staff email addresses and the listener WhatsApp number | Published on the contact page, but I do not copy addresses or numbers into this file.
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| nothing on this station | the frequency page is the channel's own and names no other channel
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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: YleX — listed via Radio Browser · https://www.ylex.fi/