Station output

There was a five-minute long weekly broadcast of recent world news and human interest.^[3] The program was eventually made available on the Internet and had about 40,000 listeners according to RTÉ in 2019,^[3] compared to 75,000 reported by the BBC in 2006.^[4] Articles were usually alternately read by a male and female announcer, in Latin. Pronunciation was, for the most part, "classical" and listeners could follow a written transcript of news items. A "Glossarium programmatis" was provided for each program translating 6 to 10 of the key Latin terms into Finnish, English, and German.

The program was founded by Tuomo Pekkanen, a professor of Latin.^[1] As of 2013, Laura Nissinen was one of the announcers.^[5] The program has been described as one of several ways in which Finland has been a bastion of Latin, such as the translation of the works of Elvis Presley into Latin by Finnish academic Jukka Ammondt.^[3]

Shutdown

In November 2017, Yle announced that they would be shutting down the broadcast in December of that year.^[6] Yle cited the availability of other Latin-language media on the internet as one of the reasons for the shutdown.^[7] Another reason was the difficulty in finding suitable replacements for the programme's ageing producers.^[3] The announcement resulted in a public campaign to save the program.^[2] More than 3,000 listeners wrote to the station in protest, resulting in the show being extended through 2019.^[8] The final broadcast was on 14 June 2019.^[9]