Federal Act
on Radio and Television
(RTVA)

¹ Any per­son ac­quir­ing a ra­diocom­mu­nic­a­tion li­cence for the util­isa­tion of a fre­quency which is in­ten­ded for the broad­cast­ing of an ac­cess-en­titled pro­gramme ser­vice must broad­cast the lat­ter in ad­equate qual­ity and re­spect the pro­vi­sions of the li­cence with re­gard to pro­gramme ser­vices and of the ra­diocom­mu­nic­a­tion li­cence with re­gard to tele­com­mu­nic­a­tions law.

² Broad­casters pay the own­er of a ra­diocom­mu­nic­a­tion li­cence cost-based com­pens­a­tion for the broad­cast­ing of ac­cess-en­titled pro­gramme ser­vices. The Fed­er­al Coun­cil de­term­ines the chargeable costs. If the ra­diocom­mu­nic­a­tion li­cence is awar­ded in a bid­ding pro­ced­ure, the award price as men­tioned in Art­icle 39 para­graph 4 TCA⁵⁶ is not in­cluded in the chargeable costs.

³ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil may ex­tend the trans­mis­sion ob­lig­a­tion to ser­vices which are coupled with ac­cess-en­titled pro­gramme ser­vices.