is a Finnish commercial television channel. It started out as Helsinki's local television channel PTV in 1990 on the HTV cable network (now part of DNA), and changed its name first to PTV4. On June 1, 1997, the channel expanded to national coverage and changed its name to Nelonen, the Finnish name of the number four. Nelonen is mostly owned by Sanoma Corporation, which owns the Helsingin Sanomat and Ilta-Sanomat newspapers. Its largest owner was Aatos Erkko. Much of its programming is imported Australian, American, British, and European programs with Finnish captions. Its main market is the 25-44 demographic.
Programming Finnish series and shows Amazing Race Suomi Big Brother Extreme Duudsonit Haluatko miljonääriksi?
Hyvät Herrat (reruns) Koskinen Mysteerilaulajat Reikä seinässä Selviytyjät Suomi Talent Suomi
The Voice of Finland Vain elämää
Imported series, telenovelas and animated shows 33 Square Meters 90210 Accidentally on Purpose Alias All in the Family American Chopper America's Got Talent America's Next Top Model Animatunes Au Pays Des Tetes A Claques Autogol Cartoon Avatar: The Last Airbender Bad Girls Basme Românești Battlestar Galactica Big Brother Australia (series 12 onwards) Big City Greens Big Love Blue Bloods BoBoiBoy Bob the Builder Brainiac: Science Abuse Breaking Bad Britain's Next Top Model Brotherhood Californication Calciatoons Camp Lazlo Canada's Next Top Model Cashmere Mafia Castle Charmed Commander in Chief Criminal Minds Constructor Cyborg 009 Dawson's Creek Days of Our Lives Damages Deadwood Dennis the Menace Desperate Housewives Detroit 1-8-7 Dexter Digimon (Digimon Adventure, Digimon Adventure 02, Digimon Tamers) Dirt Dirty Sexy Money Dr. Phil Drop Dead Diva DuckTales Early Edition Economic War Elementary El Club De Los Famosos Everybody Hates Chris Everybody Loves Raymond Extreme Makeover Fear Factor Felicity FlashForward Footballer's Wives Frasier FashionTelevision Ghost Whisperer GleepTV Greek Gravity Falls Grey's Anatomy Hanniibal Harper's Island Hawaii Five-0 How to Get Away with Murder Inspector Rex Jericho Jerseylicious Judging Amy Jung Rhythm Kung Faux Kyle XY La Usurpadora Las Vegas LazyTown Less than Perfect Life as We Know It Little Einsteins Lost Mad Men Marcatoons 2D Marcatoons 3D Married... with Children MasterChef Australia Medical Investigation Medium Men Behaving Badly Mobobo Games Mult Lichnosti My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic My Little Pony: Pony Life MythBusters Newlyweds: Nick and Jessica NCIS NCIS: Los Angeles Nurse Jackie Oggy and the Cockroaches Once Upon a Time OSP Comedy Quest OSP Studio Parobrod Srbija Phineas and Ferb Pimp My Ride Pranksterz: Off Your Boss Pranksterz: No Rest For The Wicked Pretty Little Liars Pochemuchka Punk'd Quantico Queer as Folk Relic Hunter Rescue Me Rome RSPCA Animal Rescue Robson Arms Saloon Gier Samantha Who? Santa Barbara Scrubs Secret Diary of a Call Girl Seinfeld Sex and the City South Park So You Think You Can Dance So You Think You Can Dance Canada Space: Above and Beyond Special Agent Oso Star vs. the Forces of Evil Starsky & Hutch Street Wars: Constructor Underworld Students from Hell: Alarm in the Hostel Sunset Beach Tetes A Claques Timesplitters Timesplitters 2 Timesplitters: Future Perfect That '70s Show The 4400 The Bachelor The Cleaner The Comeback The Cut The Emperor's New School The Game The Good Wife The King of Queens The Nanny The Office The Oprah Winfrey Show The Shield The Silver Brumby The Sopranos The Untouchables of Elliot Mouse The Voice The West Wing Threshold Total Wipeout Total Wipeout USA Trailer Park Boys Ugly Betty Under the Dome VeggieTales Wander Over Yonder Weeds What About Brian Wife Swap Wildfire Wizards of Waverly Place Yeralash Zapovednik
Logos and identities
Criticism Nelonen was launched quickly and in an unprepared state. It has been criticized for importing "trash shows", especially 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. The channel's entertainment output also consists of many other programmes which may be considered to be poor quality - imported game shows or Finnish versions of them (such as Reikä seinässä, a Finnish version of the Japanese 'Human Tetris' game) and reality TV shows dominate the scheduling. On the other hand, Nelonen's scheduling also contains several 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.
External links Nelonen Jim Liv Hero