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In April, the Swiss Federal Council ( Schweizerische Bundesrat) licensed the private television channel, Tele 24, broadcasting in German and owned by media mogul Roger Schawinsky, to operate a language-region TV service. In its media policy statement of 25 February 1988, the Council had already decided to give Swiss private broadcasters a bigger stake in the market, and to allow more television channels to offer programmes alongside the SRG (Schweizerische Radio- und Fernsehgesellschaft), particularly at language-region level. The aim is to achieve greater variety, and an increase in the electronic...

On 22 June 1998, the Swiss Government licensed SAT.1 Schweiz AG to broadcast a language regional television programme. This will be shown in window form on Sat.1's German programme and will mainly feature live transmission of Swiss national league A football matches, and also - at a later time - entertainment, such as game shows. The licence expires at the end of June 2008. In addition to broadcasting in German, SAT.1 Schweiz will be required to provide live coverage of football matches, for which it holds national rights, in French and Italian in the language regions concerned. It must also cover...

In response to a proposal by the Federal Department for Environment, Transport, Energy and Communications ( Eidgenössischen Departements für Umwelt, Verkehr, Energie und Kommunikation - UVEK), the Swiss Government adopted principles for future licensing practice on 25 February 1998, setting its media policy on a new and more liberal basis. In its report, the Government assumes that, as licensing authority, it enjoys a wide measure of discretion, since no one apart from Swiss Radio and Television (Schweizerische Radio- und Fernsehgesellschaft - SRG) is in principle entitled to a licence. It is...

The Swiss Radio and Television Corporation (Schweizerische Radio- und Fernsehgesellschaft - SRG), must pay 480,000 SF in damages to the manufacturers of Contra Schmerz, a proprietary pain-killer. The Federal Court (Bundesgericht) has found that the producers of the programme Kassensturz broke the law on unfair competition (Gesetz gegen den unlauteren Wettbewerb - UWG) by singling out one product as a representative target for attack. Kassensturz was originally forbidden by court decision to mention Contra Schmerz in a filmed report on the harmful effects of certain pain-killers, in which it was...

Following large-scale complaints, the independent radio and television authority (Autorité indépendante en matière de radio-télévision - AIEP) looked into the TSR (Télévision Suisse Romande) broadcast entitled "Switzerland's Lost Honour" shown on 6 and 11 March 1997 in the series "Temps Présent". The programme portrayed Switzerland during the Second World War as a country prepared to come to an arrangement with Nazi Germany in the interests of its banks and its economy, the opposite of the traditional view of a neutral Switzerland resisting Hitler's advances. In its decision on 24 October 1997,...