Federal Act
on Radio and Television
(RTVA)

¹ Li­cences are awar­ded by DE­TEC. As a rule, OF­COM puts the li­cences out to tender; it may con­sult in­ter­ested parties.

^1bisLi­cences may be ex­ten­ded with a pub­lic ten­der­ing pro­cess, in par­tic­u­lar where the situ­ation in the cov­er­age areas or tech­no­lo­gic­al changes pose sig­ni­fic­ant chal­lenges to broad­casters. In reach­ing a de­cision, ac­count is taken of pre­vi­ous ful­fil­ment of the per­form­ance man­date.⁴⁹

² The Fed­er­al Coun­cil may provide for a spe­cial pro­ced­ure for the award of short-term li­cences.

³ If there are sev­er­al can­did­ates for one li­cence, pref­er­ence is giv­en to the can­did­ate that is best able to ful­fil the per­form­ance man­date. If sev­er­al can­did­ates are es­sen­tially equi­val­ent from this view­point, pref­er­ence is giv­en to the can­did­ate which best en­hances to the di­versity of opin­ion and the di­versity of pro­gram­ming.

⁴ Li­cences for wire­less ter­restri­al trans­mis­sion of pro­gramme ser­vices are as a rule awar­ded be­fore the in­vit­a­tion to tender for the cor­res­pond­ing ra­diocom­mu­nic­a­tion li­cences in ac­cord­ance with Art­icle 22a TCA⁵⁰.⁵¹