Federal Act
on Radio and Television
(RTVA)

¹ DE­TEC may award oth­er broad­casters a li­cence for wire­less ter­restri­al broad­cast­ing of a pro­gramme ser­vice if this pro­gramme ser­vice:

a.

takes ac­count of loc­al or re­gion­al par­tic­u­lar­it­ies in an area by means of com­pre­hens­ive in­form­a­tion, par­tic­u­larly con­cern­ing polit­ic­al, eco­nom­ic and so­cial mat­ters and con­trib­utes to the de­vel­op­ment of cul­tur­al life in the cov­er­age area;

b.

con­trib­utes to a sig­ni­fic­ant ex­tent in a lin­guist­ic re­gion to the ful­fil­ment of the per­form­ance man­date provided for by the Con­sti­tu­tion.

² The li­cence defines the scope of ac­cess to tech­nic­al means of broad­cast­ing and the per­form­ance man­date with re­gard to pro­gramme ser­vices. DE­TEC may im­pose oth­er ob­lig­a­tions in or­der to en­sure the ful­fil­ment of the per­form­ance man­date and the in­de­pend­ence of pro­gramme pro­duc­tion.