Swiss Family: Success with Slow TV
The Swiss family is now also available on television. It is broadcast from Goldau Zoo, more precisely from the nests of two pairs of birds.
Bearded Vulture" is on the first channel. The live cam of the bearded vulture couple Masha and Hans has already been clicked on almost 200,000 times since it went live in February. Viewers were there to see them hatch their egg, how the chick hatched and how it has been growing every day since. On May 29, the Swiss family therefore launched a second channel, broadcasting from the nest of the Northern Bald Ibis.
Successful Slow TV
Swiss Family Television is designed to make the invisible visible. If a bird breeds for three hours in a row, viewers see the bird breed for three hours. The phenomenon is called slow TV, nothing is sped up and everything happens in real time. Michael Solomicky, deputy editor-in-chief of Schweizer Familie: "Slow TV allows an unobstructed view of nature. And changes our relationship with it. There is a difference between watching a bird brooding for a few minutes in a documentary and watching it tenderly raise its chicks over days and weeks. Over time, we develop a relationship with the animal." The Swiss family, whose core journalistic competencies include nature and animal reports, is planning further Slow TV contributions from the world of nature.
