Federal Act
on Radio and Television
(RTVA)

¹ Time-delayed tele­vi­sion view­ing is defined as the tele­vi­sion pro­gramme ser­vice of a broad­caster that is trans­mit­ted and re­cor­ded by a tele­com­mu­nic­a­tions ser­vice pro­vider and which the tele­com­mu­nic­a­tions ser­vice pro­vider makes avail­able to its end cus­tom­ers for view­ing in its en­tirety for a lim­ited peri­od of time in com­pli­ance with the pro­vi­sions on copy­right.

² Tele­com­mu­nic­a­tions ser­vice pro­viders that of­fer time-delayed tele­vi­sion view­ing may not make any modi­fic­a­tions to the lin­ear tele­vi­sion pro­gramme ser­vices that they trans­mit and re­cord without the con­sent of the broad­caster. The rules on ad­vert­ising and spon­sor­ship ap­ply by ana­logy to time-delayed tele­vi­sion view­ing.

³ In or­der to guar­an­tee the pro­tec­tion of young people, the Fed­er­al Coun­cil may is­sue pro­vi­sions on the ac­cess­ib­il­ity of tele­vi­sion pro­gramme ser­vices by means of time-delayed tele­vi­sion view­ing. In do­ing so, it shall take ac­count of the age rat­ing sys­tems re­cog­nised in Switzer­land.