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The second channel of the Swiss television company DRS (SF2) broadcast a large number of matches in the football World Cup held in France in special programme blocks. During the commercial breaks, SF2 regularly showed an advertising spot for the company " Feldschlösschen ". This commercial showed two football teams going to the dressing rooms at the end of a match. The players of the winning team, together with one member of the losing team, were seen gathered round a crate of beer. The complainant claimed that the advertisement breached the ban on advertising of alcoholic beverages as provided...

On 15 March 1999 the Federal Council ( Bundesrat ) issued new licences for private TV broadcasters in Switzerland. TV3 is to broadcast a full Swiss programme while the RTL/ProSieben programme window is to show Swiss programmes on two German channels. TV3 is planning to broadcast a full Swiss programme including news bulletins, talk shows and light entertainment as well as purchased series and films. It sees its role as supplementing the information and entertainment services offered by the Swiss Radio and Television Corporation ( Schweizerische Radio- und Fernsehgesellschaft - SRG ). Initially,...

The Swiss Radio and Television Corporation (SRG) has been authorised and commissioned to establish and operate a new broadcasting network for digital radio (DAB- Digital Audio Broadcasting). The Federal Council ( Bundesrat ) approved the corresponding extension of the SRG's licence on 17 February 1999, thereby launching the start of the new broadcasting technology. In entrusting the SRG with the establishment and operation of the network, the Swiss Government is indirectly promoting the market introduction of DAB through radio and television reception fees. As a national public service provider,...

On 1 September 1992, the Swiss Radio and Television Corporation (SRG) began broadcasting time signals on its original three (and now four) channels after concluding sponsoring agreements with different sponsors. The time signals were broadcast directly before the start of the daily editions of the news, and later also before the start of the information programme " 10 vor 10", depending on the content of the different agreements. The time signal sequence was composed of two elements, the one consisting in a grey band in the lower half of the screen, taking up approximately 1/8 of the screen's surface,...

The High Court of the Zurich Canton, in a revolutionary judgement concerning the dissemination of pornography via the Internet, has established a legal precedent. The operator of a mailbox was fined for giving unrestricted access to pornographic material to any user, including children under the age of 16. After viewing the material, which was transferred into the mailbox not by the defendant himself but by other users, he had moved it to the appropriate section, created by himself, and had failed to delete it, leaving it on file sometimes over a period of years. Under the terms of Art. 197.1 of...