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No question of extending FM, warns the Federal Council

27.08.2025 - Switzerland Switzerland

The Federal Council is turning a deaf ear to the National Council's Transport and Telecommunications Committee. On 1 July, the committee submitted a motion asking the government to abandon plans to switch off FM radio on 31 December 2026 and instead extend the current licences or even launch a new call for tenders for 2027. Bern has just responded with a resounding ‘no’. It points out that the industry itself is behind the planned end of FM. " More than ten years ago, private radio stations agreed on a migration plan with the SSR and decided to abandon FM by the end of 2024 at the latest,‘ it points out. It emphasises that it has already extended FM until the end of 2026. ’Between now and then, broadcasters have the opportunity to find individual solutions to successfully migrate to digital."

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