Radio SRF 3 is the third
radio station
Radio broadcasting is transmission of audio (sound), sometimes with related metadata, by radio waves to radio receivers belonging to a public audience. In terrestrial radio broadcasting the radio waves are broadcast by a land-based radio ...
from
Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen
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 ne ...
(SRF). The station was launched on 1 November 1983 at 00:01 hours (as DRS 3) in response to the licensing of private radio stations in
Switzerland
). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel ...
that was directed primarily for music to a younger audience, and was later repositioned to a "generalist young-adults" station in 1999 following the launch of
DRS Virus
Radio SRF Virus is a radio station from Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (SRF). The station was launched in 1999 (as DRS Virus) and is broadcast on cable and DAB+ in German-speaking Switzerland as well as throughout Europe on satellite and worldwi ...
that same year.
Former logos
File:DRS 3.svg, 2001–2007
File:DRS 3 (2007).svg, 2007–2012
External links
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1983 establishments in Switzerland
Radio stations established in 1983
German-language radio stations in Switzerland