Federal Act
on Radio and Television
(RTVA)

¹ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil may re­quire tele­vi­sion broad­casters, with­in a frame­work of prac­tic­al feas­ib­il­ity and with ap­pro­pri­ate re­sources:

a.

to re­serve a sub­stan­tial pro­por­tion of the rel­ev­ant broad­cast­ing time for Swiss and oth­er European works;

b.

to re­serve an ap­pro­pri­ate amount of broad­cast­ing time or pro­gramme costs in their tele­vi­sion pro­gramme ser­vices for the broad­cast­ing of Swiss and European works by in­de­pend­ent pro­du­cers.

² Tele­vi­sion broad­casters with a na­tion­al or re­gion­al-lan­guage pro­gramme ser­vice which broad­cast films in their pro­gramme ser­vice must spend at least 4 per cent of their gross rev­en­ue on the pur­chase, pro­duc­tion or co-pro­duc­tion of Swiss films or pay a cor­res­pond­ing sup­port fee not ex­ceed­ing 4 per cent. This ob­lig­a­tion also ap­plies to broad­casters of a na­tion­al or re­gion­al-lan­guage pro­gramme ser­vice win­dow in a for­eign tele­vi­sion pro­gramme ser­vice which broad­casts films. However, it does not ap­ply to the SRG SSR.¹⁴

³ Tele­vi­sion broad­casters with a na­tion­al or re­gion­al-lan­guage pro­gramme ser­vice must pre­pare an ap­pro­pri­ate pro­por­tion of pro­grammes in a form suit­able for the hard of hear­ing and the visu­ally im­paired.

⁴ Li­censed re­gion­al tele­vi­sion broad­casters shall sub­title their main in­form­a­tion pro­grammes. The Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall de­term­ine the ex­tent of this ob­lig­a­tion. The cost of pro­cessing pro­grammes for per­sons hard of hear­ing is fun­ded in full from the ra­dio and tele­vi­sion fee (Art. 68a).¹⁵