''Schweiz aktuell'' (literally "Switzerland Today") is the title of a current affairs show on German-language
Swiss
Swiss may refer to:
* the adjectival form of Switzerland
* Swiss people
Places
* Swiss, Missouri
* Swiss, North Carolina
*Swiss, West Virginia
* Swiss, Wisconsin
Other uses
*Swiss-system tournament, in various games and sports
*Swiss Internation ...
public television channel
SRF 1
SRF 1 (''SRF eins'') is a German-language Swiss television channel, one of three produced by the SRG SSR public-service broadcasting group (the others being SRF zwei and SRF info). The channel, formerly known as SF1, was renamed on 16 Decemb ...
. It started in 1981 as ''DRS aktuell'', ''Schweiz aktuell''.
Background and contents
''Schweiz aktuell'' reports on major cantonal, regional and local issues and events, covering all parts of the country. Editors consider regional diversity, i.e. regional news and stories that are significant and are of national interest. In addition to the usual news forms, the broadcast includes live reports and interviews, usually in Swiss German, with domestic correspondents.
Features are produced daily; for instance, in August 2014 a historical
documentary series
Television documentaries are televised media productions that screen documentaries.
Television documentaries exist either as a television documentary series or as a television documentary film.
*Television documentary series, sometimes called d ...
focussed on a fictional family and their weaving company, living in summer 1914 in the
Tösstal valley. Another documentary depicted cadets' life in a Swiss police academy in October 2014, while another offered background information about the
Wauwilermoos internment camp during World War II.
Only a few Swiss television programs of the national
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 broadcast in
Swiss German
Swiss German (Standard German: , gsw, Schwiizerdütsch, Schwyzerdütsch, Schwiizertüütsch, Schwizertitsch Mundart,Because of the many different dialects, and because there is no defined orthography for any of them, many different spelling ...
instead of the
Swiss Standard German
Swiss Standard German (german: Schweizer Standarddeutsch), or Swiss High German (german: Schweizer Hochdeutsch or ''Schweizerhochdeutsch''), referred to by the Swiss as ''Schriftdeutsch'', or ''Hochdeutsch'', is the written form of one of four o ...
language, among them ''Schweiz aktuell'', and partially ''
10vor10
''10vor10'' (''10 to 10'') is a current affairs programme broadcast at 21.50 every Monday to Friday evening on the German-language Swiss public television channel SRF 1.
Profile
According to Christian Dütschler, editorial director of ''10vor10 ...
''.
References
External links
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Swiss television shows
Current affairs shows
1981 Swiss television series debuts
1980s Swiss television series
1990s Swiss television series
2000s Swiss television series
2010s Swiss television series
2020s Swiss television series
German-language television shows
Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen original programming
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