Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen

You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in German. (September 2018) Click [show] for important translation instructions. Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia. Consider adding a topic to this template: there are already 2,058 articles in the main category, and specifying|topic= will aid in categorization. Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article. You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing German Wikipedia article at [[:de:Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen]]; see its history for attribution. You may also add the template {{Translated|de|Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen}} to the talk page. For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.

SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen

Type	Broadcast, radio, television and online
Country	Switzerland
Availability	Switzerland, online
TV stations	SRF1 SRF zwei SRF info
Radio stations	SRF 1 SRF 2 Kultur SRF 3 SRF 4 News SRF Musikwelle SRF Virus
Headquarters	Zürich
Broadcast area	Switzerland Germany Austria Liechtenstein
Parent	SRG SSR
Key people	Nathalie Wappler
Launch date	1 January 2011; 13 years ago (2011-01-01)
Official website	www.srf.ch
Replaced	Schweizer Fernsehen (SF) (television) Schweizer Radio DRS (SR DRS) (radio)

Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (SRF; "Swiss Radio and Television") is a Swiss broadcasting company created on 1 January 2011 through the merger of radio company Schweizer Radio DRS (SR DRS) and television company Schweizer Fernsehen (SF). The new business unit of SRG SSR became the largest electronic media house of German-speaking Switzerland. About 2,150 employees work for SRF in the four main studios in Basel, Bern, and Zürich.^[1]

Among the radio programmes, Radio SRF Musikwelle has the longest history, as it was originally the flagship frequency on the medium wave frequency 529 kHz, broadcasting news from its central antenna near Beromünster. "Radio Beromünster" was, during World War II, together with the British BBC, one of the few independent radio programmes that could be received in large parts of Western Europe. Jean Rudolf von Salis, a Swiss historian, commented in his weekly "Weltchronik" ("world chronicle") on the development of the war and other international events.

With the introduction of VHF radio in the 1960s, the service on 529 kHz was transformed into the "Musikwelle" music service. The Geneva Frequency Plan of 1975 mandated the frequency shift to 531 kHz. In 2008, the Beromünster antenna was deactivated.

• FM, DAB and online:
  • Radio SRF 1 – general programming
  • Radio SRF 2 Kultur – cultural, intellectual programming, classical and jazz music
  • Radio SRF 3 – youth programming
• DAB and online:
  • Radio SRF 4 News – news, documentaries
  • Radio SRF Musikwelle – pop music, chansons, folk music and schlager
  • Radio SRF Virus – alternative music to Radio SRF 3
• online:
  • Radio Swiss Jazz – non-stop Jazz programming
  • Radio Swiss Pop – non-stop pop music

• SRF 1
• SRF zwei
• SRF info

• Television in Switzerland

Media related to Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen at Wikimedia Commons

• Official website (in German)