Yleisradio Oy (
Finnish), also known as
Rundradion (
Swedish) or the
Finnish Broadcasting Company (
English), abbreviated to
Yle (pronounced ; previously stylised as
YLE before March 2012 corporate rebrand), is
Finland's national
public-broadcasting company, founded in 1926. It is a
public limited company which is 99.98% owned by the Finnish state, and employs around 3,200 people in Finland. Yle shares many of its organizational characteristics with its UK counterpart, the
BBC, on which it was largely modelled.