Publishers file complaint against SF website
The Swiss Press Association is calling for the separation of SRG's online activities from the license fee fund and wants to be allowed to use SRG content online for free.
The Swiss Press Association has applied to the
Federal Office of Communications (OFCOM) complaint against the
SRG's Internet projects. At the same time, he calls in a submission
to the Federal Department of the Environment, Transport and Communications
(Uvek) that the SRG will not be granted a fee increase for so long.
how they "spend millions of francs in fees on the inadmissible and
unnecessary competition with private media companies". With
the news portal launched at the beginning of December by the Swiss
television (SF), the semi-state-owned SRG is once again interfering in the
core business of the private media companies, according to a
Message from the association. The association welcomes any form of
competition, but strongly protest against the fact that the SRG is using
risks associated with such projects exclusively through
"compulsorily levied fees".
The publishers are demanding that OFCOM "include SRG in its licensing rights".
and to examine how their Internet activities can be prevented from
from the fee-financed area and transferred to the normal
can be exposed to entrepreneurial competition. At the Uvek
It has also suggested that the ongoing review of SRG's finances should also include the
Financing of new ventures that are not financed by their
public service mandate are covered. The supervisory authority
should ensure that the SRG does not compete with the commercial
Exploitation of productions and rights acquired with concession money
into the "free competition for protected content"
can intervene. As a "minimum requirement", the publishers put forward the idea of
to the discussion of granting free access to private Internet providers.
to SRG content for streamlining films, original soundtracks etc. to
as the production of this content is already covered by fees.
and was therefore financed by the general public.
Federal Office of Communications (OFCOM) complaint against the
SRG's Internet projects. At the same time, he calls in a submission
to the Federal Department of the Environment, Transport and Communications
(Uvek) that the SRG will not be granted a fee increase for so long.
how they "spend millions of francs in fees on the inadmissible and
unnecessary competition with private media companies". With
the news portal launched at the beginning of December by the Swiss
television (SF), the semi-state-owned SRG is once again interfering in the
core business of the private media companies, according to a
Message from the association. The association welcomes any form of
competition, but strongly protest against the fact that the SRG is using
risks associated with such projects exclusively through
"compulsorily levied fees".
The publishers are demanding that OFCOM "include SRG in its licensing rights".
and to examine how their Internet activities can be prevented from
from the fee-financed area and transferred to the normal
can be exposed to entrepreneurial competition. At the Uvek
It has also suggested that the ongoing review of SRG's finances should also include the
Financing of new ventures that are not financed by their
public service mandate are covered. The supervisory authority
should ensure that the SRG does not compete with the commercial
Exploitation of productions and rights acquired with concession money
into the "free competition for protected content"
can intervene. As a "minimum requirement", the publishers put forward the idea of
to the discussion of granting free access to private Internet providers.
to SRG content for streamlining films, original soundtracks etc. to
as the production of this content is already covered by fees.
and was therefore financed by the general public.
