Federal Act
on Radio and Television
(RTVA)

¹ All ra­dio or tele­vi­sion pro­grammes must re­spect fun­da­ment­al rights. In par­tic­u­lar, pro­grammes must re­spect hu­man dig­nity, must be neither dis­crim­in­at­ory nor con­trib­ute to ra­cial hatred, nor en­danger pub­lic mor­als nor glor­i­fy or trivi­al­ise vi­ol­ence.

² Ed­it­or­i­al pro­grammes with in­form­a­tion con­tent must present facts and events fairly, so that the audi­ence can form its own opin­ion. Per­son­al views and com­ment­ar­ies must be iden­ti­fi­able as such.

³ The pro­grammes must not jeop­ard­ise the in­tern­al or ex­tern­al se­cur­ity of the Con­fed­er­a­tion or can­tons, their con­sti­tu­tion­al or­der or the ob­serv­ance of Switzer­land’s ob­lig­a­tions un­der in­ter­na­tion­al law.

⁴ Li­censed pro­gramme ser­vices must ap­pro­pri­ately ex­press the vari­ety of events and opin­ions in the to­tal­ity of their ed­it­or­i­al pro­grammes. If a cov­er­age area is served by an ad­equate num­ber of pro­gramme ser­vices, the li­cens­ing au­thor­ity may re­lease one or more broad­casters in the li­cence from the vari­ety ob­lig­a­tion.