Dispute over overlaps between DRS 1 and 3
DRS 1 is increasingly encroaching on the territory of its younger sister station. Radio producers and musicians are protesting; the SRG sees no problem.
Today, the Aargauer Zeitung sheds light on
SRG's media landscape on a whole page. Special emphasis placed on
is referred to the dispute between the radio stations DRS1 and DRS 3.
feels disadvantaged because DRS 1 receives much more funding,
secondly, since a change in strategy last year, we have increasingly invested in the
the realm of the actual pop and rock station. The AZ has heard from
Insiders have told us that DRS 1 makes around twice as much money as DRS 3.
and DRS 2 - with a market share of just 4.6 %
still get a third more than DRS 3. According to the program director
Bendicht Luginbühl, however, said that DRS 3 needed more resources "to be able to
to stabilize the basic substance".
Criticism of the new orientation
of DRS 1 also comes from the ranks of the former target clientele,
of folk music. Singer and producer Vic Eugster complains in the AZ,
that folk music had been shunted off to the Musigwälle station and
would be virtually ghettoized there. He drastically demands that the Musigwälle
should be abolished immediately, because "it sounds like a permanent
Congratulatory program for 95 to 100-year-olds." The station offers
hardly any room for the young, active scene in folk music and come
completely outdated. But SR DRS doesn't want any of that
know: "We have not received any negative signals from the folk music industry.
the program director of DRS 1 and DRS-"Musigwälle",
Christoph Gebel, to the AZ via the communications office.
The duplications within the DRS family are also recognized by
criticized from other sides, for example by the managing director of "Action
Swiss Music", Bruno Marty: "The rapprochement of DRS 1 with DRS 3 jeopardizes
the basis of DRS 3's existence." Tomislav Mustac argues similarly,
the producer of pop singer Francine Jordi, who has a sharper
Profile and less overlap between the individual channels
demands. Bruno Marty takes the same line and says that the
DRS radio stations earn their license fee money through diversity and not simplicity
should legitimize. A different view of the situation has
Here, too, SRG: According to Head of Communications Simon Meyer, all 16
radio programs "are approved by the federal government and correspond to the overall and
individual of the overall strategy of SRG SSR". The "intersections" are
"quite intentional" and "remain within narrow limits".
SRG's media landscape on a whole page. Special emphasis placed on
is referred to the dispute between the radio stations DRS1 and DRS 3.
feels disadvantaged because DRS 1 receives much more funding,
secondly, since a change in strategy last year, we have increasingly invested in the
the realm of the actual pop and rock station. The AZ has heard from
Insiders have told us that DRS 1 makes around twice as much money as DRS 3.
and DRS 2 - with a market share of just 4.6 %
still get a third more than DRS 3. According to the program director
Bendicht Luginbühl, however, said that DRS 3 needed more resources "to be able to
to stabilize the basic substance".
Criticism of the new orientation
of DRS 1 also comes from the ranks of the former target clientele,
of folk music. Singer and producer Vic Eugster complains in the AZ,
that folk music had been shunted off to the Musigwälle station and
would be virtually ghettoized there. He drastically demands that the Musigwälle
should be abolished immediately, because "it sounds like a permanent
Congratulatory program for 95 to 100-year-olds." The station offers
hardly any room for the young, active scene in folk music and come
completely outdated. But SR DRS doesn't want any of that
know: "We have not received any negative signals from the folk music industry.
the program director of DRS 1 and DRS-"Musigwälle",
Christoph Gebel, to the AZ via the communications office.
The duplications within the DRS family are also recognized by
criticized from other sides, for example by the managing director of "Action
Swiss Music", Bruno Marty: "The rapprochement of DRS 1 with DRS 3 jeopardizes
the basis of DRS 3's existence." Tomislav Mustac argues similarly,
the producer of pop singer Francine Jordi, who has a sharper
Profile and less overlap between the individual channels
demands. Bruno Marty takes the same line and says that the
DRS radio stations earn their license fee money through diversity and not simplicity
should legitimize. A different view of the situation has
Here, too, SRG: According to Head of Communications Simon Meyer, all 16
radio programs "are approved by the federal government and correspond to the overall and
individual of the overall strategy of SRG SSR". The "intersections" are
"quite intentional" and "remain within narrow limits".
