Graubünden receives Italian-language regional journal
After years of disputes over reporting from Graubünden, the Italian-language radio and television broadcaster RSI and the canton of Graubünden have reached an agreement. RSI will launch a regional news program in Italian on the radio for the Alpine canton.
The VHF station Rete Uno will report on events in the canton in a five to ten-minute program from Monday to Friday evenings, as RSI director Dino Balestra explained in Chur on Wednesday, according to SDA. The new news journal will be aimed at the approximately 20,000 Italian-speaking inhabitants of Graubünden from next February and will only be broadcast in the canton.
RSI is increasing its team of editors for Graubünden from four to a maximum of 6.5 full-time positions. In doing so, the broadcaster is fulfilling the canton's long-standing request to provide the Italian-speaking part of Graubünden with more information on current affairs from the whole of the canton. In return, the canton is dropping a supervisory complaint submitted to the Federal Office of Communications (Bakom) in September 2009, said Cantonal Councillor Claudio Lardi. Graubünden complained that RSI was not fulfilling its concession mandate as it was providing insufficient information to the Italian-speaking people of Graubünden.
The agreement between RSI and the canton was only reached after Bakom Director Martin Dumermuth took the lead in negotiations between the parties. Federal Councillor Doris Leuthard granted approval for the new regional journal on November 3.
RSI is increasing its team of editors for Graubünden from four to a maximum of 6.5 full-time positions. In doing so, the broadcaster is fulfilling the canton's long-standing request to provide the Italian-speaking part of Graubünden with more information on current affairs from the whole of the canton. In return, the canton is dropping a supervisory complaint submitted to the Federal Office of Communications (Bakom) in September 2009, said Cantonal Councillor Claudio Lardi. Graubünden complained that RSI was not fulfilling its concession mandate as it was providing insufficient information to the Italian-speaking people of Graubünden.
The agreement between RSI and the canton was only reached after Bakom Director Martin Dumermuth took the lead in negotiations between the parties. Federal Councillor Doris Leuthard granted approval for the new regional journal on November 3.
