Rapperswil wants Tele Züri and Tele Ostschweiz

 The town council of Rapperswil-Jona has commented on the TV concessions put out to tender. It once again criticizes the division of the TV coverage areas and would like to see two areas overlap. The Federal Office of Communications (Bakom) has allocated Rapperswil-Jona to the Eastern Switzerland coverage area. However, as Tele Züri, a popular station in the region, is applying for the Zurich-North-Eastern Switzerland area, the people of Rapperswil would no longer be able to watch the station if it is awarded the license. This does not suit the city council, as the city has strong ties to Zurich. The council had already made representations to the Federal Council on this matter last year and has now reiterated its concerns in its statement to Bakom. It is calling for an overlapping solution: Rapperswil-Jona should be assigned to the two areas of Zurich-North-Eastern Switzerland and Eastern Switzerland. The city government favors Tele Züri for the former area and Tele Ostschweiz for the latter.
According to Bakom, changes to the TV coverage areas will only be considered after the new licenses come into force. It will therefore still take a while if the adjustment requested by Rapperswil-Jona is implemented at all.