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The TV Tower exhibition presents photographs and artefacts from the early years of Estonian broadcasting, including material related to the country\u2019s first radio reporter and presenter Felix Moor<\/b>, as well as the first \u201cradio auntie\u201d of children\u2019s programming, Pilvi \u00dcllaste<\/b>. An authentic radio-listening corner has also been recreated, the sort that could once be found in many Estonian homes of the 1930s. Visitors can view radio receivers from different eras, some of which became status symbols because of their design and price.<\/p>\n
The exhibition also explores the later history of television broadcasting. Visitors can learn about presenters and news anchors of ETV, or Eesti Televisioon, see examples of memorable moments in sports commentary, and examine objects belonging to commentators, including accreditation passes, souvenirs, and handwritten notes.<\/p>\n
Technology also plays a major role in the exhibition. In the interactive section, visitors can tune antennas, direct and transmit signals, listen to radio stations from around the world, learn Morse code and send messages, play early television games, and experience how wind affects the 314-metre TV Tower and how engineers have accounted for this in the structure of the tower and antenna masts.<\/p>\n
A special theme titled \u201cFrom Tower to Pocket\u201d explores the evolution of communication from radio and television towers to today\u2019s smart devices. Visitors can examine a broad collection of mobile phones, ranging from the large radiophones of earlier decades to unusually designed keypad phones and early smartphones. Also on display are an 1980s coin-operated public telephone and its successor, the card phone complete with phone cards.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n From Finland, the exhibition includes items connected to the children\u2019s programme \u201cPikku Kakkonen\u201d, which helped many Estonians learn Finnish. Among the objects displayed are Riku Karvakuono, companion to the dog character Ransu, and the programme\u2019s near-iconic logo in puzzle form. Also exhibited is a NAGRA IV-AL reporter\u2019s tape recorder used by YLE during the 1970s and 1980s, the same type used early in the journalistic career of Hannele Valkeeniemi<\/b>, current director of the Finnish Institute in Estonia, who assisted in compiling the exhibition.<\/p>\n \u201cI am pleased that the TV Tower wanted to highlight Finland as part of the centenary exhibition. The connection created by radio and television waves between Finland and Estonia has always been special. Obtaining exhibition items was not entirely easy, because there is currently strong demand for them in Finland as well. YLE is celebrating its own centenary, and next year Pikku Kakkonen, which turns fifty, is preparing for a major anniversary exhibition in Tampere. I would like to thank my former colleagues for their help. I considered the role of Pikku Kakkonen essential because today\u2019s active generation of Estonians grew up watching it. Many Estonians, including more than one former prime minister, have said they learned Finnish specifically from Pikku Kakkonen. It is a generational experience in Estonia as well,\u201d Valkeeniemi commented.<\/p>\n The exhibition \u201cHere Tallinn! A Century on the Airwaves\u201d is open during the normal opening hours of the Tallinn TV Tower and can be visited with a standard admission ticket.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n A new exhibition has opened at the Tallinn TV Tower to celebrate the centenary of Estonian radio broadcasting as … Read more<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":158260,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[291,309,13819,25236,27423,27424,27425],"class_list":["post-158313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","tag-events","tag-tallinn","tag-exhibition","tag-tv-tower","tag-public-broadcasting","tag-etv","tag-radio-broadcasting"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/balticguide.ee\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/teletorn-naitus-sajand-eetris-soome-instituut-1-1024x768.jpg\")
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