Money talks. The result is a weak private regional TV landscape, plus a few insignificant mini-channels such as Star TV and 3+ and the new Swiss sports television for the final use of leftovers. In the radio sector, the SRG continues to exclusively control all important transmitter locations at high altitudes such as Rigi and Säntis and also occupies another 700 (!) frequencies. the private radio stations. 2. Armin Walpen coined the term “idée suisse” without seriously filling it with content.
With this advertising slogan for ever more license fee money, he has been pulling the wool over the politicians' eyes for years. The entertainment programs produced by the uae rcs data companies Endemol and Ufa ("Deal or no Deal" and many others), which are shown almost exclusively on private channels abroad, are the outward sign of this consistent departure from public service. At the same time, for example, the cultural programs were hidden in the time shortly before midnight.
Today, SF is at best a semi-private hybrid product, but by no means a consistently programmed public broadcaster for which the millions in license fees alone would justify - more "idée blabla" than "idée suisse". 3.Walpen saw himself primarily as a lobbyist. For a long time, his greatest shortcoming seemed to be that he was never really interested in the actual core business - the program.