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Swiss Germans to have TV, radio in French

Ellen Wallace — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 10:43:42 +0000

GenevaLunch.com BERN, SWITZERLAND – The Swiss Federal Council agreed Tuesday 11 October to allow SSR, Switzerland’s public broadcast corporation, to start broadcasting in French in the country’s German-speaking regions. Programmes picked up from TSR and RSR, in French, will be sub-titled for German language audiences. Italian-language programmes from Radiotelevisione Svizzera (RSI) are also covered by the [...]

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RTS public radio-TV tower evacuated: bomb threat (update)

Ellen Wallace — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 10:55:45 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - The RTS (Television Suisse Romande) tower on Boulevard Ansermat in Geneva was evacuated at 10:50 Thursday morning 13 January for an hour, following what police are calling a “credible” bomb threat. Some 1,000 employees were gathered nearby 10 minutes later, as police began to search the building. TSR public television remained [...]

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Former TSR presenter tapped as pedophile in Pays de Gex

Ellen Wallace — Mon, 20 Dec 2010 13:52:28 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - A popular presenter of rock music programmes for Swiss public television TSR in the 1980s, who lives in France, was placed under house arrest 13 December, by French police in Gex. The man, who cannot be named publicly in Switzerland, although he is named in France, is accused of committing sexual [...]

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Swiss public broadcasting streamlines administration

Ellen Wallace — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 12:36:40 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Swiss Public Broadcasting Corporation, SSR, will be tightening its belt in January by streamlining its administrative structure. The company will be acting on the advice of Roger de Weck, who takes over in January as chief executive officer, to reduce the senior management team from nine members with four “paticipants” to [...]

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Annual TV, radio license fee to boost SSR revenues

Ellen Wallace — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 12:57:28 +0000

GenevaLunch.com SSR cost-cutting part of the deal Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Billag, the company that charges households a Swiss television and license fee which forms a key component in the budget of SSR, Swiss public broadcasting, will bill only once a year starting in 2011, the Swiss government has decided. The annual fee for private households [...]

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Swiss public media in red, seeks right to run more ads

Ellen Wallace — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 10:28:06 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Deficit for 2010 expected to soar due to sports coverage Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - SSR, Swiss public broadcasting, is seeking the right to raise more funds through advertising and license fees, saying its funding situation is “critical” with a third annual deficit of CHF75 million expected for 2010. The figure was put forward Tuesday 27 [...]

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Swiss public media to cut 100 jobs

Ellen Wallace — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 18:16:12 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Journalists will be spared but 100 of their colleagues in support services at SSR, Swiss Public Broadcasting Corporation, will lose their jobs between now and 2014. Support services, with 735 employees, include: computer services, real estate, logistics, human resources, training, communications, marketing, and accounting. SSR owns TSR television, RSR radio and [...]

Roth to head Swiss joint TV-radio news team

Ellen Wallace — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 15:22:27 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Lausanne, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - Jean-Jacques Roth, who has just resigned as editor in chief of Le Temps newspaper, has been named to head the joint television-radio news team at the recently created Radio Television Suisse Romande (RTSR). The new entity is the result of the merger of public radio and television stations RSR and TSR, [...]

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French-language Swiss radio and TV merger goes ahead

Ellen Wallace — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 07:28:13 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - RSR radio and TSR television will be reborn as RTS, Radio Télévision Suisse in January, when the regional media will merge. The two are part of the SSR group, Switzerland’s public media company. The merger was announced Wednesday 25 November to staff at the two stations in Lausanne and Geneva. A [...]

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Vaud and Geneva put conditions on RSR, TSR merger

Ellen Wallace — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 09:18:10 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Geneva / Lausanne, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The merger of TSR, public television in French-speaking Switzerland, and RSR, public radio, is meeting some resistance from cantonal governments, which insist the two editorial teams must remain separate and independent. Vaud and Geneva, in a joint statement released Monday 23 November, say they would also like to see [...]

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