| Yle Fem | |
| Launch Date: | 1988 (programming block) 27 August 2001 (channel) |
| Closed Date: | 24 April 2017 (merged with Yle Teema to form YLE Teema and Fem) |
| Picture Format: | 1080i HDTV |
| Owner: | Yle |
| Country: | Finland |
| Language: | Swedish |
| Area: | Finland |
| Former Names: | YLE FST (1988 - August 2006) YLE FST5 (August 2006 - March 2012) |
| Sister Channels: | Yle Fem HD Yle TV1 Yle TV2 Yle Teema Yle TV1 HD Yle TV2 HD Yle Teema HD |
| Website: | svenska.yle.fi/fem |
| Terr Serv 1: | Digital terrestrial television |
| Terr Chan 1: | Channel 5 (SD) Channel 35 (HD) |
Yle Fem (Yle Five) was Yle's Finland-Swedish national television channel, providing television programmes in the Swedish language in Finland. It was a public-service channel principally intended for Finland's Swedish-speaking minority. Creating understanding over the language and culture border was also one of the channel's recognized objectives.[1]
Yle Fem was launched in 1988 as a late-evening programming block called FST (Finlands Svenska Television, literally "Finland's Swedish Television") which was broadcast on Monday nights on Yle TV2 and on Tuesday nights on Yle TV1, after the conclusion of MTV3's Kymmenen Uutiset (10pm evening news) on either channel. It was relaunched as its own dedicated channel called YLE FST on 27 August 2001, and was called YLE FST5 from 2006 to 2012,[2] but the name was changed because the viewers thought the name was only a combination of letters (Fem is Swedish for five.). Initially, Finlands Svenska Television's output was formerly included in the programming of Yle's two main television channels, TV1 and TV2. Yle Fem and Yle Teema were merged into one network on 24 April 2017, as Yle Teema & Fem.
In addition, Yle Fem simulcasts a significant amount of programming from SVT World, the international channel of Sweden's Public Broadcaster SVT.