Reactions to the proposal of the Swiss Press Association

The distribution key for fee splitting under the new RTVA, which the Swiss Press Association presented on Monday, has been negatively received and criticized from many sides. According to Günter Heuberger, Managing Director of Tele Top, independent private TV operators have criticized the proposal. The publishers' concept was neither appropriate nor in line with the federal government's previous media policy. The newspaper publishers would once again be seeking to eliminate competition in their monopoly areas. The new RTVA is also sharply criticized. After Radio Zürisee and Jean-Frey Ag lamented "the missed opportunity for a modern media policy" in a communiqué on Friday, the new Radio and Television Act (RTVA) is described in a press release from private broadcaster U1 as a "law from the Middle Ages. Made for feudal lords and robber barons". Guiseppe Scaglione from Radio 105 also sent a sarcastic greeting to the SRG, saying that their "years of outrageous lobbying financed by our fees have paid off: the new Radio and Television Act secures the state broadcaster's monopoly for the next 10-15 years." The Medien-Forum, the interest group of Swiss media consumers, is also disappointed. In a press release, it speaks of a failed revision. With the fee-splitting, the future of other electronic media would be on a state drip and thus in problematic dependence on the public sector, it criticizes. Unfortunately, there will be no real competition in the electronic media sector in Switzerland in the future either.