Eino S. Repo

Who was Eino S. Repo?

Eino Sakari Repo was the president of Finnish state broadcaster Yleisradio from 1965 to 1969 and head of the radio from 1969 to 1974. His time as president was known as Repo era or Repo's Radio.

Eino S. Repo took part in the Winter and Continuation War, and left the field in 1944 as captain.

In 1948 he graduated as a Candidate of Philosophy from the University of Helsinki, his main subject was literature.

Repo was a free literary critic and wrote criticisms to the Uusi Suomi and Parnasso newspapers. Repo was known as a radical, and so Uusi Suomi didn't like his writing any more, and also he didn't have a very good relationship with the main critic Veikko Antero Koskenniemi.

From 1958 to 1964 Repo was a reporter for Apu magazine, and then became a program manager at MTV3. When Yleisradio's president Einar Sundström retired in 1965, Repo became his successor as candidate of Agrarian Party. One of his supporters as Yleisradio's known president was Urho Kekkonen, then the President of Finland.

During the Repo presidency, big reforms were made at Yleisradio. During the Repo era left-wing student radicalism was growing also in Yleisradio.