La Première (Switzerland)

La Première ( " First ") is a French-speaking public law radio program of Radio Télévision Suisse ( RTS) and thus also part of the SRG SSR.

The program of La Première corresponds to the French concept of " radio généraliste ", a full program with a large proportion of text. The station reached in 2012, according to the SRG SSR average 586'000 people a day. The market share was 39.2 percent in the same year. This La Première is by far the most listened to radio station of Romandie, but has lost compared to the previous handset.

The studios are located in Lausanne.

Reception

La Première is broadcast as the only French -language program not only in western Switzerland, but also in the other language regions. During the reception in Ticino is everywhere possible, there is in German Switzerland are still a few frequencies. Large parts of the German-speaking Switzerland reached the powerful transmitter on the Santis (99.9 MHz). At this frequency, La Première is also to receive in border areas such as the German and Austrian Allgaeu, Upper Swabia and Lake Constance region and Vorarlberg. Full coverage is the transmitter in Switzerland on DAB and listen via Internet stream around the world.