The youth should send from Beromünster

 
 
The Swiss Heritage Society would like to place the Beromünster land transmitter under protection as a monument of national importance. In an ideas exchange, it looked for a future form of use. The result was a youth radio station. The Beromünster radio station is to be closed down in 2009. The Heritage Society would like to keep the transmitter as it is a monument of national importance. For this reason, it is calling for Beromünster to be placed under protection and for the transmitter to be repurposed. In an invitation to tender issued in June, it looked for new possibilities for its use. According to the Neue Luzerner Zeitung, the idea of a youth radio station was the best suggestion. The initiator, Cornelia Burkhard, envisioned a station where school classes could produce a radio program under professional guidance during project weeks. This would give the young people an insight into the radio trade and they could produce their own contributions, which could then be broadcast on the station. The station is also to be converted into a museum where old audio documents, techniques and other archive material can be viewed.
The Swiss Heritage Society has forwarded the proposals to Swisscom Broadcast. However, what exactly will happen to the transmitter from 2008 is still up in the air.