Media of Switzerland

The following article in the print media handled the media in Switzerland (Press), radio and television.

Print media

The emergence of Swiss daily newspapers was limited to culturally, geographically and politically confined spaces. It was only with the view of 1959 appeared a newspaper for the entire German-speaking Switzerland. To date, this pattern is unchanged, although there are now several national newspapers. Some of the national newspapers such as the Neue Zürcher Zeitung are known for their detailed and in-depth coverage, particularly of international events. The most read daily newspaper is the free commuter newspaper 20 minutes, with over 1 million readers ( March 2006). This is followed by the tabloid view with 736'000 readers and the Tages-Anzeiger with 573'000 readers. Other well-known newspapers Basler Zeitung, Aargau newspaper, Der Bund, Berner Zeitung, New Lucerne newspaper St. Galler Tageblatt and southeastern Switzerland. In the French-speaking Le Temps is the national daily newspaper. The largest-circulation daily newspapers in western Switzerland are but Le Matin, followed by 24 Heures and La Liberté.

Known weekly magazines or newspapers are the conservative world week and the leftist WoZ from 1995 to 2007, which is now set news magazine Facts. For economic news there is balance, trade and newspaper Finanz und Wirtschaft, while the weekly Cash (1989-2007) as well as the free daily newspaper CASHdaily (2006-2009) have now been set. The most important agricultural publication is the twice -weekly newspaper Swiss farmer. An arts and culture magazine is the gossip du In the area there are among others Swiss family, Swiss Illustrated and happiness post. Other weeklies are the Migros magazine and newspaper Coop, both in newspaper format and as such each of the most widely circulated press organs throughout Switzerland. They are issued free of charge by the two largest Swiss retail company and sent to all members of the cooperatives. Furthermore, there are numerous consumer magazines, including The Swiss observer, balance and K- Tip.

Well-known French-language magazines are accounting (business), L' Hebdo and L' illustré (both weekly magazines ).

Political orientation

A 2011 study carried out by Roger Blum at the Institute for Media Studies at the University of Bern shares the views of the Swiss press as follows political camps:

• Law ( in the sense of preservation of old values ​​, SVP ): The World Week, Swiss time, Il Mattino della Domenica.
• Legal Liberal ( economically reformist in the sense of laws, FDP and SVP temperate, for state breakdown): NZZ, NZZ am Sonntag, Basler Zeitung, View, 20 Minutes, New Lucerne newspaper, Corriere del Ticino.
• Center ( the same large distance to all sides, moderate or even meinungslos, for compensation ), Sunday, Sunday newspaper, Aargau newspaper St. Galler Tageblatt, Berner Zeitung, Der Bund, Le Matin, Le Matin Dimanche, Le Temps, Le Nouvel list Basellandschaftliche newspaper.
• Links Liberal ( socio-political reformist, social action, the State): Tages-Anzeiger, The Southeast Switzerland, Sunday view, 24 heures, Tribune de Genève, La Liberté, L' Hebdo, La Regione Ticino.
• Links (in the sense of a " counter-public " for radical emancipation of addicts ): The weekly newspaper, Le Courrier.

A 2011 conducted for a thesis survey to which 350 of 1428 is signed Swiss journalists in all media responded indicated that they felt represented by the following parties most:

• SP: 37.1 % ( share of the vote in 2011: 18.7%)
• Glp: 21.9 % ( share of the vote in 2011: 5,4 %)
• FDP: 17.6 % ( share of the vote in 2011: 15.1%)
• CVP: 8.3% ( share of the vote in 2011: 12.3%)
• SVP: 6.1% ( share of the vote in 2011: 26.6%)

Radio

The public SRG SSR operates six German -language channels: Radio 1 SRF, SRF Radio 2 and Radio SRF Culture 3 (via FM, cable, satellite, Internet); Radio SRF virus, Radio 4 News and Radio SRF SRF music wave (via cable, DAB, satellite, internet). In addition, it introduces three specialty stations: Radio Swiss Pop, Radio Swiss Jazz and Radio Swiss Classic ( satellite, cable, DAB, Internet).

There are four French-language stations operated by Radio Télévision Suisse (La Première, Espace 2, Couleur 3 and Option Musique ), three Italian -language radio svizzera di lingua italiana ( Rete Uno, Rete Due and Rete Tre ), as well as a Rätoromanischsprachiger (Radio Romansh ).

Private regional station can be operated in each region, such as: Radio 1, Energy Zurich, Lake Zurich and Radio Radio 24 ( Zurich ); Radio Basel 1 and Radio Basilisk (Basel ); Radio BeO and Capital FM ( Bern ); Radio Pilatus and Radio Sunshine ( Lucerne); Radio Top (Eastern ); Radio Argovia ( Aargau ); Radio 32 ( Solothurn ); Radio Rottu ( Wallis ); Radio Emme ( Emmental ). There are also non-commercial regional stations, which mainly provide a wide range of cultural and music program as alternatives to the more one-sided content of private broadcasters. In the UNIKOM ( Union non- commercialism oriented local radio stations ) are represented: Radio 3x ( Lucerne), Fréquence banana ( Lausanne), Radio Blind Power ( Zollikofen ), Radio Cité (Geneva), Iischers Radio ( Wallis ), radio industry ( train ), radio Kaiseregg ( Schwarzsee ) channel K ( Aargau ), radio LoRa ( Zurich ), Radio RaBe (Bern), Radio Rasa (Schaffhausen), Radio city filter (Winterthur), toxic.fm (St. Gallen), vibration 108 (Sion ) and Radio X (Basel).

TV

The national television SRG SSR includes six channels with full program, two large for the three language regions. Information programs of the German Swiss TV to be repeated on the info channel SRF info. For Romansh is calculated daily on the first program of German Switzerland a short news program and other information programs broadcast once a week ( with German subtitles).

Private channels are usually only regionally and not be received via satellite. In large parts of German Switzerland the Star TV channels and U1 TV ( thematic channels ) are fed into the cable network (but not everywhere, as the cable network is privatized ). In the years 2000 and 2001, there were 24 with telephoto and TV3 for a short time private language regional television programs in German Switzerland, but the lack of profitability had to be adjusted again. Since 2009, the Swiss Sports Television niche channels (SSF ) exudes his program via the analogue cable network Cablecom.

The most important and successful local station TeleZüri. Also of importance are Telebasel (Region North West Switzerland ), TeleBärn ( in Bern ), TeleBielingue ( Biel and vicinity), Tele M1 ( Midlands), Tele 1 (central Switzerland ), Teletop (Winterthur, Canton of Thurgau, Eastern Switzerland ), TVO (Eastern Switzerland ) and TSO (Tele -East Switzerland ).

Also popular are channels from neighboring countries. The German broadcaster RTL, VOX, Sat.1, ProSieben, kabel eins and send their programs in the German-speaking Switzerland with special advertising windows and a few specially designed for Switzerland produced broadcasts (eg Swiss football ). With the exception of regional and individual " third party programs " one receives in Switzerland almost all German and Austrian channels as well as several French and Italian channels.

Swiss News Agency ( sda )

The Swiss News Agency AG ( sda ) is the national news agency of Switzerland. The shareholders are mostly media companies.