SF switches off forum for the Olympic Games

 During the Olympic Games, HD Suisse is showing daytime sports broadcasts from Beijing without commentary, which Swiss television explains with "logistical and financial reasons" (see ). The lack of commentary now seems to have annoyed some viewers. They let off steam in the SF forum, as reported by Tagesanzeiger.ch and Blick am Abend. Viewer Martin Loepfe, for example, expressed the unflattering words "This is taking the viewers for a ride". SRG says that HD Suisse is deliberately concentrating on prime time for the commentated programs. For technical, personnel and financial reasons, commentaries on the event broadcasts on HD Suisse have been dispensed with. The forum in which the negative comments about HD Suisse were made has now been removed, as reported by the Newsnetz portals. "We have deliberately switched off the forum," SF spokesperson David Affentranger told Tagesanzeiger.ch. "The planned exchange between the forum and the program did not take place. Apparently there was no need." This had nothing to do with the public criticism of HD Suisse. "We have nothing to hide. And criticism reaches us anyway - even without this forum," says Affentranger.