SRG meets the online requirements of the concession
The analysis of online content commissioned by Bakom shows that SRG largely complies with the requirements of its license on its news portals. Only 3.3 percent of all text articles have no clear connection to its programming.
The SRG license stipulates that online text contributions without a broadcast reference must be limited to a maximum of 1,000 characters in the news, sports and local/regional sections. In addition, text contributions with a broadcast reference must contain the information to which broadcast they refer. The "Conformity Monitor," an analysis of SRG's online content, gives the company a good report card: 97 percent of all text articles on SRG's news portals (SRF, RTS, RSI and RTR) fully comply with the regulations and are classified as correct, according to an SRG SSR statement. In 3.3 percent of all articles, there was a lack of clear information about which program they refer to; in the study, these are referred to as "gray zone 1." Not a single complaint is in "gray zone 2" - text articles with a non-transparent broadcast reference. Thanks to consistent and recurring training measures by SRG with the responsible editorial staff, identified deficiencies have been and will continue to be corrected in the future. The "Conformity Monitor" examines parts of the SRG online offering (including the linking structure) with regard to selected requirements of the new SRG license, which came into force in June 2013. The analysis is commissioned by Bakom and conducted by the Department of Media Change & Innovation of the IPMZ at the University of Zurich.
