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| Country |  Finland |
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| Founded | |
| Owner | Nelonen Media, part of SW Television Oy, a subsidiary of the electronic media business unit SWelcom of SanomaWSOY |
| Former names | PTV PTV4 (1989-1997) |
| Digital channel | Channel 4 |
| Website www.nelonen.fi |
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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 the 1 June 1997. Nelonen, in Finnish, means the glyph of the number four. The channel is mostly owned by SanomaWSOY Oyj, which owns the Helsingin Sanomat and Ilta-Sanomat newspapers. Its largest owner is Aatos Erkko. Much of its programming is American (50%) and European imports (20%), with Finnish subtitles. Its main market is the 25-44 demographic. Nelonen has a sister channel JIM.
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Programmes
Some programmes may not air as of 2008[update].
- Alias
- All in the Family
- America's Next Top Model
- American Chopper
- The Bachelor
- Bad Girls
- Battlestar Galactica
- Big Love
- Brainiac
- Brotherhood
- Carnivàle
- Charmed
- Commander in Chief
- Days of our Lives
- Damages
- Deadwood
- Desperate Housewives
- Dexter
- Dirty Sexy Money
- Discovery Channel documentaries
- Dr. Phil
- Extreme Duudsonit
- Fear Factor
- Footballer's Wives
- Ghost Whisperer
- Grey's Anatomy
- Jericho
- Judging Amy
- Las Vegas
- Less Than Perfect
- Lost
- Married... with Children
- Medium
- Men Behaving Badly
- Newlyweds: Nick and Jessica
- NCIS
- The Oprah Winfrey Show
- Oz
- Pimp My Ride
- Punk'd
- Rescue Me
- Rome
- Scrubs
- Seinfeld
- The 4400
- The Comeback
- The Shield
- The Sopranos
- South Park
- So You Think You Can Dance
- Starsky and Hutch
- Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye
- That '70s Show
- The Cut
- The Golden Girls
- The West Wing
- Threshold
- Trading Spouses
- Tsunami: The Aftermath
- Ugly Betty
- Weeds
- What About Brian
- Wife Swap (Finnish, British and American versions)
Criticism
Nelonen was launched quickly and in an unprepared state. It has been sometimes criticized for importing "trash shows", especially in 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. On the other hand, these "trash shows" makes only a small portion of Nelonen's prime time programming, which mostly consists of entertainment shows and many 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.