Tele Top launches new television project Tele Säntis
Tele Top wants to make television in Eastern Switzerland with a new brand called Tele Säntis and has submitted a license application to the Federal Office of Communications for the coverage area of Eastern Switzerland. Tele Top boss Günter Heuberger is thus competing with Tele Ostschweiz, which has applied for the same coverage area.
Tele Top wants to make television in Eastern Switzerland with a new brand called Tele Säntis and has submitted a license application to the Federal Office of Communications for the coverage area of Eastern Switzerland. This area includes the cantons of St. Gallen, Appenzell Ausserrhoden, Appenzell Innerrhoden and parts of the canton of Thurgau. The application for Tele Säntis includes a program window for the cantons of Appenzell Ausserrhoden and Appenzell Innerrhoden. The main studio is to be built in St. Gallen. A second studio will also be built in Buchs or Sargans.
A separate company will be founded for Tele Säntis, as Tele-Top boss Günter Heuberger told Werbewoche. He will not be managing director there.
Tele Säntis wants to produce professional regional television. Until now, Tele Top has been broadcast in the northern part of the canton of St. Gallen, in parts of the canton of Zurich, in the cantons of Thurgau, Appenzell Ausserrhoden, Appenzell Innerrhoden and Schaffhausen.
With this application, Tele-Top boss Günter Heuberger is competing with Tele Ostschweiz, which has applied for the same coverage area (see
). Tele Top has also submitted an application for the Zurich-North-Eastern Switzerland coverage area. As a separate company is being set up for Tele Säntis, both stations could theoretically receive a license. According to information from Bakom, a broadcaster may only hold one license. Heuberger believes that the chances of Tele Säntis being granted a license are intact. The two areas of Schaffhausen and St. Gallen would each be dominated by a media company with a newspaper, radio and television. "The RTVA has established a clear rule for multiple applicants: The independent applicant is preferred if the performance mandate is largely equivalent. Therefore, the chances are intact, especially after it became known on Friday that Tele Züri wants to make the Schaffhausen program window with Schaffhauser Fernsehen, which in turn is controlled by the monopoly newspaper Schaffhauser Nachrichten," says Heuberger.
A separate company will be founded for Tele Säntis, as Tele-Top boss Günter Heuberger told Werbewoche. He will not be managing director there.
Tele Säntis wants to produce professional regional television. Until now, Tele Top has been broadcast in the northern part of the canton of St. Gallen, in parts of the canton of Zurich, in the cantons of Thurgau, Appenzell Ausserrhoden, Appenzell Innerrhoden and Schaffhausen.
With this application, Tele-Top boss Günter Heuberger is competing with Tele Ostschweiz, which has applied for the same coverage area (see
). Tele Top has also submitted an application for the Zurich-North-Eastern Switzerland coverage area. As a separate company is being set up for Tele Säntis, both stations could theoretically receive a license. According to information from Bakom, a broadcaster may only hold one license. Heuberger believes that the chances of Tele Säntis being granted a license are intact. The two areas of Schaffhausen and St. Gallen would each be dominated by a media company with a newspaper, radio and television. "The RTVA has established a clear rule for multiple applicants: The independent applicant is preferred if the performance mandate is largely equivalent. Therefore, the chances are intact, especially after it became known on Friday that Tele Züri wants to make the Schaffhausen program window with Schaffhauser Fernsehen, which in turn is controlled by the monopoly newspaper Schaffhauser Nachrichten," says Heuberger.
