Urheiluruutu

Urheiluruutu is a daily sport news television programme in Finland's National Broadcasting Company YLE.

The programme originally launched on August 18 1962. The sportsreader was Anssi Kukkonen and the programme was gathered up by Seppo Kannas. Kukkonen is also the father of the name "Urheiluruutu" ("sports square") which was inspired by Swedish "Sportspegeln". Before Urheiluutu the sports news was read in the end of normal news broadcast. In the beginning Urheiluruutu was broadcasted only once in a week: 15 minutes at Sunday evenings. Later it was broadcasted also at Thursdays and Saturdays. In 1993 the daily broadcastings begun.

The audiovisual appearance of Urheiluruutu has changed many times during the years. The first opening sequence included an animated rooster. Maybe the most well-known theme music is the Leevi and the Leavings song "Tuhannen markan seteli".

Nowadays the broadcasting times of Urheiluruutu are 7:10 p.m. in YLE TV2 and 8:55 p.m. in YLE TV1 (the main broadcast). Also a short sports segment is included in the end of the 21:45 general news bulletin of YLE TV2.

portreaders

Current

* Kristiina Heikkinen
* Inka Henelius
* Hannu-Pekka Hänninen
* Marko Terva-aho

Former

* Juha Jokinen
* Ville Klinga
* Anssi Kukkonen
* Riku Riihilahti
* Laura Ruohola
* Tapio Suominen
* Bror-Erik Wallenius