Federal Act
on Radio and Television
(RTVA)

¹ The ra­dio and tele­vi­sion pro­gramme ser­vices of the SRG SSR shall be broad­cast at least over the en­tire lin­guist­ic re­gion con­cerned. At least one SRG SSR ra­dio and tele­vi­sion pro­gramme ser­vice shall be broad­cast throughout Switzer­land in Ger­man, French and Itali­an. The Fed­er­al Coun­cil may provide for ex­cep­tions. It also takes in­to con­sid­er­a­tion the needs of the Ro­man­sh-speak­ing pop­u­la­tion in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 24 para­graph 2. In do­ing so, it en­sures that fre­quen­cies and chan­nels are made avail­able to the oth­er broad­casters for each means of broad­cast­ing.

² For each pro­gramme ser­vice, the Fed­er­al Coun­cil de­term­ines the cov­er­age area and tech­nic­al means of broad­cast­ing.