Schaffhausen wants to keep windows on Tele Top
The Schaffhausen Cantonal Government opposes the federal government's plan to eliminate daily programming blocks for regional TV stations. It argues that the federal government's proposed measure would have a negative impact on regional news coverage.
With an amendment to the Radio and Television Ordinance, the Federal Office of Communications (OFCOM) wants to set the course for hybrid television. This will allow television broadcasters to display information from the internet on the television screen at the same time. SRG intends to offer this type of television as early as January 1, 2015. With the amendment to the ordinance, OFCOM also wants to remove the requirement for some radio and television stations to broadcast a daily program window for a specific area. Broadcasters will be free to decide whether to offer regional information as a window or integrated into the main program in future
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In the Schaffhausen region, the licensed broadcaster Tele Top is obliged to broadcast a daily program window with regional contributions, writes the cantonal government in a statement on Tuesday. In return, Tele Top receives contributions from the license fee. This Tele Top program window is of great importance for the canton of Schaffhausen. The private broadcaster in Winterthur is the only national TV broadcaster that reports daily on the canton in its own channel. If the regional information services were to be integrated into the broadcaster's main program, as planned by Bakom, the government council believes that the peripheral cantons and regions would certainly no longer receive the same information services as with the program windows. "Doing without this would basically mean a reduction in journalistic capacity, which cannot be accepted," writes the government. (SDA)
