Urheiluruutu is a daily sport

Sport

A Sport is all forms of physical activity which, through casual or organised participation, aim to use, maintain or improve physical fitness and provide entertainment to participants. Sport may be competitive, where a winner or winners can be identified by objective means, and may require a degree...

 news television programme in Finland's National Broadcasting Company YLE.

The programme originally launched on August 18, 1962. The sportsreader was Anssi Kukkonen and the programme was gathered up by Seppo Kannas. Kukkonen is also the father of the name Urheiluruutu ("sports square") which was inspired by Swedish Sportspegeln. Before Urheiluutu the sports news was read in the end of normal news broadcast. In the beginning Urheiluruutu was broadcast only once in a week: 15 minutes at Sunday evenings. Later it was broadcast also at Thursdays and Saturdays. In 1993 the daily broadcasting began.

The audiovisual appearance of Urheiluruutu has changed many times during the years. The first opening sequence included an animated rooster

Rooster

A rooster, also known as a cockerel, cock or chanticleer, is a male chicken with the female being called a hen. Immature male chickens of less than a year's age are called cockerels...

. Maybe the most well-known theme music is the Leevi and the Leavings

Leevi and the Leavings

Leevi and the Leavings was a Finnish rock band that operated from 1978 to 2003.The band consisted of Gösta Sundqvist, Risto Paananen, Juha Karastie and Niklas Nylund. Sundqvist was the leader of the band, he composed and wrote all the band's songs as well as being the vocalist...

 song Tuhannen markan seteli.

Nowadays the broadcasting times of Urheiluruutu are 7:10 p.m. in YLE TV2

YLE TV2

YLE TV2 is a Finnish television channel owned and operated by YLE.TV2 launched in 1964, and broadcasts public service programming, children's, youth, sport and music programmes.-Own Productions:* Ajankohtainen kakkonen* Akuutti* Jopet Show* Kummeli...

 and 8:55 p.m. in YLE TV1

YLE TV1

YLE TV1 is a Finnish television channel owned and operated by Finnish public broadcaster Yleisradio. It is the first and oldest Television channel in Finland. More than 70% of channel's programs are documentaries, news or educative programmes...

 (the main broadcast). Also a short sports segment is included in the end of the 21:45 general news bulletin of YLE TV2.

Current

• Kristiina Heikkinen
• Inka Henelius
• Hannu-Pekka Hänninen
  Hannu-Pekka Hänninen
  Hannu-Pekka "Hoopi" Hänninen is a Finnish sports commentator who works for Finland's National Broadcasting Company YLE. He works both as the real-time play-by-play commentator and the sporstreader in YLE's sports news Urheiluruutu. His career as a sportscaster started in 1977. Before that he had a...
  
  
• Marko Terva-aho

Former

• Juha Jokinen
• Ville Klinga
  Ville Klinga
  Ville Klinga is a Finnish sportsman and TV presenter.Klinga has been a supplier of radio and worked for the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona. He is married and has children....
  
  
• Anssi Kukkonen
• Riku Riihilahti
• Laura Ruohola
• Tapio Suominen
• Bror-Erik Wallenius
  Bror-Erik Wallenius
  Bror-Erik "Bubi" Wallenius is a Finnish sports commentator who works for Finland's National Broadcasting Company YLE.Wallenius had a great passion for sports since his childhood. When he was a little boy he organized sports competition in Kruununhaka, Helsinki, the neighbourhood he lived, and...