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75th anniversary variant
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4:3
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16:9
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Open matte
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B/W
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Stretched
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Superimposed variant
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Promotional variant (Docpoint)
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Promotional variant (blue background, "Yksi sana. Tuhat tarinaa.")
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Promotional variant (blue background, "Enemmän sisältöä.")
Logo: On a black background, we see the text "YLE" in a dark and glossy-textured font with vertical lines on both sides, fading in on the background. Then a bright light reflects in the logo and moves from the bottom to the top right corner. As the logo takes on a brighter tone, a small shimmer can be seen on top of the right vertical line, while a oblique light sweep goes through the logo.
Variants:
- Usually, a small year mark appears below the logo, when the lighting has reflected on it.
- Since 2003, the widescreen variant for both the regular and the one with year marks has the logo zoomed in a little bit closer. Prior to 2003, these 16:9 variants with year marks had the text about the same size as in the regular ones with 4:3 ratio.
- Black and white variants are known to exist.
- On the talk show Lauantaiseura, the logo is either superimposed or is pasted on a moving detailed background.
- An anniversary variant was used in 2001 when it premiered. It has the logo wiping in on a black background with a somewhat darker texture. As the lightning is about to reflect in the logo, it suddenly oscillates and disappears around the logo, while the following words appear on the top and bottom parts of the logo for a short amount of time until it wipes out on a black background:
lYLEl
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- A promotional variant exclusively for the 2002 DocPoint festival events was made to promote said event. The logo added the additional texts "DocPoint" and "Helsingin dokumenttielokuvafestivaali" in blue.
- A rare variant was made for promotional purposes in 2003. The logo started from the bright light flashing, the background was blue, and some additional text saying "Yksi sana. Tuhat tarinaa." (translated to "One word. Thousand stories.") was added below. Another blue background vaiant from an YLE Extra promo features the text "Enemmän sisältöä." (roughly translated as "Lots of content.").
- An open matte variant was spotted on an episode of Tarinateltta and early episodes of Rajankäyntiä from 2009.
- On the tourism program Maailmanmatkaaja arkkitehtuuriretkillä, the logo explodes onto thin air after the light reflection.
- A stretched version exists.
Technique: Superimposed live-action effects.
Music/Sounds: A rumbling, Deep Note-like sound, that ends with a soft one-note chime. After that, we hear short two piano notes.
Music/Sounds Variants:
- Often, the logo's silent or the closing theme of the show plays over it.
- The anniversary variant has a longer Deep Note-like sound at the beginning. After the one-note chime, we then hear a re-arranged version of the logo with the first four notes of the old interval signal heard in Yle's radio broadcasts played with a droning synth.
- The DocPoint festival version has a woman announcer that said "DocPoint-festivaaleilla mukana Yleisradion TV1 uusi kino ja TV2 dokumenttiprojekti." ("Yleisradio TV1's new kino and TV2's document projects are in the DocPoint festivals").
Availability: Common.
- Probably the most common closing logo in Finnish television, as it is featured at the end of almost every program (excluding news broadcasts and minor programs) on the Yle channels during that time and it could be easily spotted during re-airings. The first program known to have this logo at the end was Vuosi vaihtuu, which ended right after the turn of the new year.
- The regular variant without the year mark can be spotted at the end of import shows or re-aired programs prior 2001. It is also used as the opening logo in DVD/VHS releases distributed by Yle Tallennemyynti.
- The ones with year marks are featured at the end of Finnish television programs aired for the first time. These year marked variants can also be spotted at the starting point of each DVD release for Jefferson Anderson (Pasila) animated sitcoms.
- Since 2003, both the original and widescreen variants were used depending on the aspect ratio of the program.
- Re-airings of some Finnish shows (for example, pilot episodes in the Kummeli sketch show from 1991) had either old Yle TV1 or Yle TV2 closing logos being plastered by the regular variant or played after the old closing logo.
- The anniversary variant is extremely rare and was unusually seen as an opening or ending logo for certain programs in 2001, such as the Ykkösdokumentti: Nainen ja valta documentary.