Regional Council is satisfied with SF and SR DRS

The Regional Council approved the annual report of SRG idée suisse Deutschschweiz on Wednesday evening. As announced in a communiqué on Thursday, the Board of Directors and management of Swiss television and radio consider themselves to be "on the right track". Despite strong competition, the market shares are 33.4 percent for Swiss television and a very high 62.8 percent for Radio DRS. Both media were also financially convincing last year: SR DRS closed with a profit of CHF 2 million, SF with a loss of CHF 0.9 million. Both companies closed their 2005 annual accounts CHF 2 million better than budgeted. However, SF's market share of 33.4 percent, which is 1.2 percent below the previous year's average, is not a cause for concern. According to SF Director Ingrid Deltenre, the figures have been on the rise again since September. The Board of Directors of SRG Deutschschweiz presented a newly designed annual report this year. This contains over 80 pages of the company's annual report, the accounts of the two business units and information on corporate governance. In addition to the annual report, SR DRS and SF each present a program and performance report, which document in detail the fulfillment of the public service mandate.