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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,...

Between the end of the advertising block and the TSR (Télévision Suisse Romande) television news broadcast, SSR (Société Suisse de Radiodiffusion) broadcast a sequence lasting approximately 20 seconds showing a sailing boat with the Omega logo on its sail, the same logo in the bottom left-hand corner of the screen and figures showing the time in the bottom right-hand corner, to a background of classical music. A similar sequence had been broadcast on SF DRS (Schweizer Fernsehen DRS) before the "10 vor 10" information broadcast, using the "Swatch Timing" brand-name. The Federal Communications Office...

On 17 December 1997 the Governmental Council of the Canton of Berne adopted a Media Support Bill which had been proposed by the Canton Parliament. This follows the instructions contained in the Canton's Constitution to uphold `the independence and plurality of information'. Its 14 articles describe the targets for media support in the Canton and the criteria for granting such support. A single media concern (electronic media as well as printed media) may not use either the Constitutional condition or the Media Support Act to create a legal precedent in respect of support. The purpose is more to...