No preferred channel position for Swiss TV stations
Licensed Swiss television broadcasters are not to be given a preferred channel slot in the digital age. The Committee for Transport and Telecommunications of the Council of States (KVF) has rejected a motion by Claude Janiak.
Janiak (SP/BL) considers it questionable that cablecom is moving them down the channel scale behind non-licensed broadcasters with "mostly purely commercial, shallow TV content". The "must carry rule" also applies in the digital age. However, with up to 500 channels, the question of survival for a channel is not whether it will be broadcast, but in which slot. The Federal Council had rejected the motion, citing, among other things, the rapid pace of technological development. In addition, TV consumers could sort the offer themselves. The KVF also believes that additional regulation is not necessary at the moment, as stated in the press release. (SDA)
