Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (SRF; "Swiss Radio and Television") is a
Swiss
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broadcasting company created on 1 January 2011 through the merger of radio company
Schweizer Radio DRS
Schweizer Radio: Radio der deutschen und rätoromanischen Schweiz (SR DRS; "Swiss Radio: Radio of the German and Romansh Switzerland") was a company of SRG SSR which operated the public German-language radio stations of Switzerland from 1931 u ...
(SR DRS) and television company
Schweizer Fernsehen
Schweizer Fernsehen (SF; "Swiss Television") is the German-language division of SRG SSR, in charge of production and distribution of television programmes in Switzerland for German-speaking Switzerland. It has its head office in Zürich. (SF). The new business unit of
SRG SSR became the largest electronic media house of
German-speaking Switzerland
The German-speaking part of Switzerland (german: Deutschschweiz, french: Suisse alémanique, it, Svizzera tedesca, rm, Svizra tudestga) comprises about 65 percent of Switzerland (North Western Switzerland, Eastern Switzerland, Central Switz ...
. About 2,150 employees work for SRF in the four main studios in
Basel
, french: link=no, Bâlois(e), it, Basilese
, neighboring_municipalities= Allschwil (BL), Hégenheim (FR-68), Binningen (BL), Birsfelden (BL), Bottmingen (BL), Huningue (FR-68), Münchenstein (BL), Muttenz (BL), Reinach (BL), Riehen (BS ...
,
Bern
german: Berner(in)french: Bernois(e) it, bernese
, neighboring_municipalities = Bremgarten bei Bern, Frauenkappelen, Ittigen, Kirchlindach, Köniz, Mühleberg, Muri bei Bern, Neuenegg, Ostermundigen, Wohlen bei Bern, Zollikofen
, website ...
, and
Zürich
Zürich () is the list of cities in Switzerland, largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zürich. It is located in north-central Switzerland, at the northwestern tip of Lake Zürich. As of January 2020, the municipality has 43 ...
.
Broadcasting
Radio
Among the radio programmes, ''Radio SRF Musikwelle'' has the longest history, as it was originally the flagship frequency on the
medium wave
Medium wave (MW) is the part of the medium frequency (MF) radio band used mainly for AM radio broadcasting. The spectrum provides about 120 channels with more limited sound quality than FM stations on the FM broadcast band. During the daytime ...
frequency 529 kHz, broadcasting news from its central antenna near
Beromünster
Beromünster is a municipality in the district of Sursee in the canton of Lucerne in Switzerland. On 1 January 2004 the former municipality of Schwarzenbach merged into the municipality of Beromünster.[World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...]
, together with the British
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...
, one of the few independent radio programmes that could be received in large parts of Western Europe.
, 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 1960ies, the service on 529 kHz was transformed into the “Musikwelle” music service. The
mandated the frequency shift to 531 kHz. In 2008, the Beromünster antenna was deactivated.
*
– alternative music to Radio SRF 3
*online:
**Radio Swiss Jazz – non-stop Jazz programming
**Radio Swiss Pop – non-stop