Arvi Lind received a memorial broadcast.
Arvi Lind had a long and respectable career at Yle. MATTI MATIKAINEN
Yle Radio Suomi organized a memorial broadcast for Yle’s long-time news anchor Arvi Lindi. Lind died on Sunday at the age of 85.
Arvi Lind in our memories – broadcast included Eva Polttila, Matti Rönkä and who worked together with Lindi Petri Jauhiainen. They talked about their shared memories with Lind.
Rönkä says that he met Lindi for the first time at Helsingin Sanomat’s journalism school. Lind hosts the visit of journalism school students to Yle. Rönkä says that Lindi described his appearance as that of a tank sergeant.
Lind’s age group was figuring out how to make TV news. They created something that didn’t exist yet.
Matti Rönkä worked for a long time with Arvi Lindi. Jussi Saarinen
Jauhiainen met Lind for the first time when he came to work for the summer in 1992. Lind taught the new summer journalists how to make news cables. He immediately asked where you are from.
Rönkä says that Lind always asked new employees where they came from. After that, we found out about family roots and education.
Jauhiainen says that Lindi always practiced before going to the studio. Everything had to be in top condition when going to the studio. With Lind, you didn’t have to think about what was going to happen.
According to Rönkä, Lind was a good storyteller and joker outside the broadcast.
Lind said that he liked choirs and had made his own choir song called that Dog poop. The song was performed for her at Lindi’s homecoming. Lind wanted to lead the student union singers’ performance of the song on May Day at Ullanlinnanmäki. According to Jauhiainen, the performance was unique.
Jauhiainen had the honor of participating as a news manager in Lindi’s last broadcast. According to him, the broadcast symbolizes a certain end of a unified culture.
It was a pity about Polttila that no one started doing a grappling program with Lindi after her retirement.
– Nobody else can tell Arvi Lind’s stories but Arvi Lind, Polttila says.
Listeners could send their thoughts and memories of Lindi’s career to the program. The program also included Lindi’s favorite songs and clips from her shows during her career.