Federal Council does not want a new multilingual TV channel
The Federal Council is against the creation of a Swiss television channel that broadcasts in all national languages. In its opinion, such a channel would be too expensive and would meet with too little acceptance from the public. Instead, the Federal Council believes that the SRG has a duty.
The SRG's television and radio stations should, among other things, contribute to cohesion between the language areas. This is the result of a Federal Council response to two similar motions published on Thursday, according to SDA. It thus recalls the SRG's legal mandate. The motion authors rightly criticized the SRG for not fulfilling this mandate well enough, the Federal Council stated. A study had shown that the SRG's television programmes focused significantly less on the other language regions compared to its own region.
SRG must fulfill this performance mandate better in future. It will have to submit a report to the responsible Department of the Environment, Transport, Energy and Communications on how and by what means it intends to fulfill its mandate.
SRG must fulfill this performance mandate better in future. It will have to submit a report to the responsible Department of the Environment, Transport, Energy and Communications on how and by what means it intends to fulfill its mandate.
