This date was chosen deliberately
Posted: Thu Jan 30, 2025 10:45 am
Without the petition launched by Radio 1 last year, all of SRG's FM transmitters would have been switched off this month of August. This would have led to a huge protest from large sections of the population. Fearing this flood of negative reactions, SRG, Bakom and Uvek have abandoned their long-ago plan by reluctantly postponing the switch-off date to the end of 2024. This is exactly when the licenses of all private radio stations expire. Now they want to abuse this date to austria rcs data withdraw their FM license, even though there is no logical connection between the expiry of the licenses, which have been continuously extended since 2008, and the use of individual broadcasting technologies.
What is particularly grotesque is Bakom's plan to continue awarding FM licences for short events, such as festival radio, after 2024. "There are good reasons to continue this low-threshold and inexpensive radio access from 2025," says Bakom boss Maissen, explaining his astonishing plea for a technology that he wants to ban in daily use under threat of punishment.
In 1979, I climbed Pizzo Groppera to break the SRG radio monopoly with Radio 24. In 2025, the situation will be very similar again. Foreign stations will be able to broadcast freely into Switzerland via FM - and after the destruction of the domestic frequency network, they will be able to do so even more easily than before. Millions of FM receivers will become electronic waste. Hundreds of thousands will no longer be able to receive Swiss stations in their cars. The fact that all of this is happening under the aegis of the long-standing former consumer advocate Simonetta Sommaruga is the crowning glory of this villainous act.
What is particularly grotesque is Bakom's plan to continue awarding FM licences for short events, such as festival radio, after 2024. "There are good reasons to continue this low-threshold and inexpensive radio access from 2025," says Bakom boss Maissen, explaining his astonishing plea for a technology that he wants to ban in daily use under threat of punishment.
In 1979, I climbed Pizzo Groppera to break the SRG radio monopoly with Radio 24. In 2025, the situation will be very similar again. Foreign stations will be able to broadcast freely into Switzerland via FM - and after the destruction of the domestic frequency network, they will be able to do so even more easily than before. Millions of FM receivers will become electronic waste. Hundreds of thousands will no longer be able to receive Swiss stations in their cars. The fact that all of this is happening under the aegis of the long-standing former consumer advocate Simonetta Sommaruga is the crowning glory of this villainous act.