A last-minute pledge from the Finnish Athletics Association (SUL) and its partner organisations has injected enough cash into EBU for it to produce coverage of the games.
The Finnish Broadcasting Company has repeatedly said it cannot afford to pick up the tab for producing the televising of the event. As a compromise, YLE plans to send 20 employees to EBU to help produce international broadcasts of the sports event.
YLE’s editor-in-chief Atte Jääskeläinen say he is pleased with the outcome because it changes a longstanding practice that would have called for YLE footing the bill alone.
The European Championships will take place from June 27 until July 1, 2012. Finland previously hosted the games in 1971 and 1994.
