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Jyrki (TV show)
Jyrki (sometimes stylised as JYRK:.) was a Finnish TV show Goes Movies and the live music show Live@Jyrki. Also the
shown on the MTV3 channel from 1995 to 2001. Jyrki was traditional Finnish rock’n’roll championship was re-
an afternoon show about popular music for youths. The named "Jyrki Hit Challenge". The Jyrki Video Awards cel-
idea for the show came from the Canadian MuchMusic ebration rewarded the best music artists and music
show by the CHUM network, whose material Jyrki bor- videos from 1997 to 2001.
rowed and cooperated with to improve the concept. Jyrki The show brought many new faces to publicity. Hosts
was produced by Funny-Films Oy. included Mikko Silvennoinen, Marika Makaroff, Ray-
The first episode of Jyrki was on 1 September 1995, mond Ebanks, Vera Olsson, Jaana Pelkonen, Mikko "Pelt-
and the live broadcast from the Lasipalatsi in central si" Peltola, Kaija Ståhl, Micaela Metso, Veeti Kallio, Olli
Helsinki was sent five days a week one and a half hours "Molli-Olli" Oikarinen, Minna O (Ojala/Ottavainen),
at a time. When the Lasipalatsi was under renovation the Joonas Hytönen, Tiina Kylmälä, Heta Hyttinen, Tea Khal-
show was broadcast from Kalevankatu. The show consist- ifa, Jussi Heikelä, and the editor-in-chief Antti "Pizza"
ed mostly of music videos and artist interviews. The last Pekkarinen.
episode of Jyrki was on 21 December 2001. There were From December 2005 Pan Vision started publicising
a total of 2901 episodes and they showed approximately the best interviews and live performances of Jyrki on DVD
four thousand music videos. The first music video shown under the title of Jyrki: Lost Tapes. The series was planned
on Jyrki was Veikko Lavi’s Löysin rantein. In the final years to consist of six episodes, but it was stopped after the
from 2000 to 2001 the show was also broadcast on the third episode, which consisted of live performances from
TVTV! channel (currently known as Sub). autum 1997 to spring 1998.
Side shows of Jyrki included the dance music oriented
Jyrki Electric Circus, the one-artist spotlight show Intimate
& Interactive, the video list Jyrki Countdown, Jyrki Spotlight
External links
containing foreign artist interviews, Jyrki+ containing • Jyrki at the Internet Movie Database
older music videos and interviews, the movie show Jyrki • Jyrki at archive.org
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Categories:
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