RTVV: Joint statement by VSP and Telesuisse

The Swiss Regional Television Association Telesuisse and the Swiss Private Radio Association (VSP) have submitted their joint statement to the Federal Office of Communications (OFCOM).
Time is of the essence As the two associations emphasized in a press release on Monday, the time factor in particular has top priority. The new law and the new ordinance should therefore come into force as planned on April 1, 2007. This is because the new licenses for local and regional providers with a service mandate would only be put out to tender and distributed after this date. The framework conditions for public service in the local area should be created immediately.

Both associations agree with the asymmetrical advertising regulations between private broadcasters and SRG, the press release continues. However, the proposed new regulation of short reporting is open to criticism if exclusivity contracts exist.

In addition, both associations demand that the regulation offers broadcasters the right to signal integrity. The integral and unaltered distribution of a program should be regulated and protected by the regulation. This is because in the technical area, too, the aim is to maintain the media policy role of broadcasting in the digitalized future in the service of the public.