Federal Act
on Radio and Television
(RTVA)

¹ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall en­sure that suf­fi­cient fre­quen­cies are made avail­able to ful­fil the con­sti­tu­tion­al per­form­ance man­date of ra­dio and tele­vi­sion (Art. 93 para. 2 FC). In par­tic­u­lar, it shall en­sure that ac­cess-en­titled pro­gramme ser­vices can be trans­mit­ted us­ing wire­less ter­restri­al tech­no­logy in the in­ten­ded cov­er­age area and shall spe­cify the rel­ev­ant prin­ciples.

² For fre­quen­cies or fre­quency blocks which are used in ac­cord­ance with the na­tion­al fre­quency al­loc­a­tion plan (Art. 25 TCA⁵²) for the broad­cast­ing of ra­dio and tele­vi­sion pro­gramme ser­vices, it de­term­ines:

a.

the broad­cast­ing area;

b.

the num­ber of ra­dio or tele­vi­sion pro­gramme ser­vices which are to be broad­cast, or the trans­mis­sion ca­pa­cit­ies which are to be re­served for the broad­cast­ing of pro­gramme ser­vices.

³ In ac­cord­ance with the re­quire­ments spe­cified by the Fed­er­al Coun­cil, DE­TEC shall en­sure that suf­fi­cient broad­cast­ing of pro­gramme ser­vices can be as­sured to serve the pop­u­la­tion in ex­traordin­ary situ­ations.