Swiss Music Radio surprised by rejection of DAB license
Disappointment is spreading at Swiss Music Radio, as it has not been granted a license for digital broadcasting by DETEC. With the help of its partner Radio Sunshine, the Zug-based station wanted to expand its program. A total of 18 applications were submitted, 10 of which were rejected.
Disappointment is spreading at Swiss Music Radio, as it has not been granted a license for digital broadcasting by DETEC. With the help of its partner Radio Sunshine, the Zug-based station wanted to expand its program. A total of 18 applications were submitted, 10 of which were rejected. The rejection of the radio license application has left Rotkreuz stunned. In its press release, Swiss Music Radio expresses its surprise at the rejection of the digital radio license (DAB+) application, which would have allowed wireless terrestrial broadcasting in digital quality throughout German-speaking Switzerland.
The Federal Department of the Environment, Transport, Energy and Communications (DETEC) justifies the decision only indirectly by the lack of contribution to increasing the attractiveness of DAB technology and refers unspecifically to all rejected stations. The fact that Swiss Music Radio mainly wants to broadcast music by Swiss artists such as Polo Hofer or apparently does not arouse enough interest in the Federal Council to cause a license to be granted.
The plan was to expand the DAB+ Swiss Music Radio program with the help of its partner Radio Sunshine. Swiss Music Radio had therefore applied for the license together with Radio Sunshine. This expansion will now come to nothing for the time being. The boards of directors of the two companies will now have to decide on how to proceed at their next meetings.
Radio Sunshine will now participate in the DAB+ operating company to be founded instead of Swiss Music Radio. Whether Swiss Musc Radio or Radio Sunshine is to be transmitted on DAB+ as a notifiable station, or even both, will only be decided at a later date once the broadcasting modalities have been clarified.
The Federal Department of the Environment, Transport, Energy and Communications (DETEC) justifies the decision only indirectly by the lack of contribution to increasing the attractiveness of DAB technology and refers unspecifically to all rejected stations. The fact that Swiss Music Radio mainly wants to broadcast music by Swiss artists such as Polo Hofer or apparently does not arouse enough interest in the Federal Council to cause a license to be granted.
The plan was to expand the DAB+ Swiss Music Radio program with the help of its partner Radio Sunshine. Swiss Music Radio had therefore applied for the license together with Radio Sunshine. This expansion will now come to nothing for the time being. The boards of directors of the two companies will now have to decide on how to proceed at their next meetings.
Radio Sunshine will now participate in the DAB+ operating company to be founded instead of Swiss Music Radio. Whether Swiss Musc Radio or Radio Sunshine is to be transmitted on DAB+ as a notifiable station, or even both, will only be decided at a later date once the broadcasting modalities have been clarified.
