Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen

Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (SRF; "Swiss Radio and Television") is a Swiss broadcasting company created on 1 January 2011 through the merger of radio company Schweizer Radio DRS (SR DRS) and television company Schweizer Fernsehen (SF). The new business unit of SRG SSR became the largest electronic media house of German-speaking Switzerland. About 2,150 employees work for SRF in the four main studios in Basel, Bern, and Zürich.

Radio
Among the radio programmes, Radio SRF Musikwelle has the longest history, as it was originally the flagship frequency on the medium wave frequency 529 kHz, broadcasting news from its central antenna near Beromünster. "Radio Beromünster" was, during World War II, together with the British BBC, one of the few independent radio programmes that could be received in large parts of Western Europe. Jean Rudolf von Salis, a Swiss historian, commented in his weekly "Weltchronik" ("world chronicle") on the development of the war and other international events.

With the introduction of VHF radio in the 1960s, the service on 529 kHz was transformed into the "Musikwelle" music service. The Geneva Frequency Plan of 1975 mandated the frequency shift to 531 kHz. In 2008, the Beromünster antenna was deactivated.


 * FM, DAB and online:
 * Radio SRF 1 – general programming
 * Radio SRF 2 Kultur – cultural, intellectual programming, classical and jazz music
 * Radio SRF 3 – youth programming
 * DAB and online:
 * Radio SRF 4 News – news, documentaries
 * Radio SRF Musikwelle – pop music, chansons, folk music and schlager
 * Radio SRF Virus – alternative music to Radio SRF 3
 * online:
 * Radio Swiss Jazz – non-stop Jazz programming
 * Radio Swiss Pop – non-stop pop music

Television

 * SRF 1
 * SRF zwei
 * SRF info