Tesvisio

Background
Tekniikan edistämissäätiö – Stiftelsen för teknikens frä (TES) did the first wireless TV transmission in Finland on April 20, 1955 and the first public cable broadcasting in May 24th. TES-TV was launched as the first television channel in Finland and the regular broadcasting began on March 1956. Thoughts of commercializing the channel were in consideration, as the limited liability company called Oy Tesvisio Ab was founded in May 1959 and the channel was renamed as Tesvisio. Originally, the coverage area was limited on areas of Helsinki, but it was later expanded on Turku and Tampere in 1963. Before that, a sister channel Tamvisio was founded in 1957, as it did aired its programs in Tampere. Due the financial issues, Yleisradio bought both Tesvisio and Tamvisio in 1964. Tesvisio did aired regularly until March 1, 1965, when the channel was replaced by Yleisradio's TV-Ohjelma 2.

(1959-February 28, 1965)
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Nicknames: "tesVısıo", "Forming Vision", "Wide Letters"

Logo: On a black background, we see a white line moving across the screen from right to left. Another vertical line moves down on the left side and curves on the bottom left corner and ends in the middle of bottom part of the screen. Above the line's end point, another one forms from top of the screen and does sharp tip point and moves up and off the screen. Rest of letters, including dotless i letters, slowly wipe in below the long, horizontal line from left to right. All of these lines and letters form tesVısıo, that we see on its stable form for couple of seconds.

FX/SFX: Primitive animation.

Music/Sounds: A few chimes, leading into a proud fanfare, that is in fact an opening piece of finnish national flag anthem called Lippulaulu (Siniristilippumme) composed by V. A. Koskenniemi.

Availability: Extinct on TV. The archive footage could be spotted on Finnish television documentaries, such in Suomalainen rapsodia retrospective program in 1974. The clip from the program can be found in Yle Elävä Arkisto archive website.

Editor's Note: None.