RTVG: Publishers want to have a say in the Swiss television landscape

The new distribution formula for the 28 million francs to 10 to 12 private television stations that will receive a license from receive a license from Bakom is giving the Swiss Press Association Press Association for new ideas.

The new distribution key for the 28 million
francs to 10 to 12 private television stations that are operated by the
Bakom will be granted a license, the Swiss Association of Telecommunications
Press for new ideas. According to information from the
Tages-Anzeiger will soon be publishing a 50-page discussion paper on the
present the reorganization of the Swiss television landscape. This would include the
publishers mark their channel wishes and the television landscape to
in their favor, writes the Tages-Anzeiger. Competition should
eliminated and fee money in German-speaking Switzerland is to be distributed among the
stations belonging to publishers. Especially in the Zurich area
and Eastern Switzerland, the publishers' initiative is causing outrage. The
only station with a large broadcasting area and without a strong publisher in the
back, Tele Top, should not receive any fee money according to the press association.
get. Its territory partly coincides with that of Tele Ostschweiz,
which belongs to the St. Galler Tagblatt, and Tamedia's Tele Züri. How
Tele-Top boss Günter Heuberger is quoted in the Tages-Anzeiger, could
the association does not pretend to "take responsibility for a pioneering
future media order in Switzerland", if only he could keep his
own interests. If what the
publishers' association has in mind, "Tele Top would no longer exist".

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