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Switzerland - Current situation - History

14.10.2008

Swiss DAB coverage reached around 90% of the population in June 2008. 

The latest survey conducted by the Swiss research company Mediapulse in mid-2008 indicated that a total of about 120,000 receivers had been sold.

There are currently 35 DAB services and 13 DAB+ services on air (incorporating 19 different brands on four multiplexes).  A new DAB-only channel, DRS 4 News, has made good progress since its launch in November 2007 and now reaches over 300,000 listeners. The latest multiplex was launched by the Swiss public broadcaster SRG SSR idée suisse on October 13th in Grisons (Eastern Switzerland) with 13 DAB+ and 2 DAB services.

The first commercial DAB+ multiplex is expected to launch in mid-2009 and the network operators have recently opened calls for tender for spaces on these multiplexes.

01.07.2008

Swiss DAB coverage reached around 90% of the population in June 2008 and shortly before then a survey conducted by Mediapulse indicated that a total of 80,000 to 100,000 receivers had been sold.

There are 33 DAB services on air (incorporating 19 different brands on three multiplexes).  A new DAB-only channel, DRS 4 News, has made good progress since its launch in November 2007 and now reaches over 300,000 listeners.

The first commercial DAB+ multiplexes are expected to launch in early 2008 and the network operators have recently opened calls for tender for spaces on these multiplexes.

19.01.2008

Two new DAB only channels were introduced on the 3rd of November 2007:

  • a 24-hour-news channel by the Schweizer Radio DRS (the German-speaking fraction of the Swiss public broadcaster SRG SSR idée suisse), which is broadcast on DAB in the German-speaking part of Switzerland
  • an English radio called World Radio Switzerland, which is broadcast on DAB in the French- and Italian-speaking parts of Switzerland and is produced by SRG and the BBC.

 The first channel to be launched exclusively on DAB digital radio, an italian classical channel called Radio Svizzera Classica, had been announced in May.