Swissinfo

Swissinfo/Radio Switzerland Internationale (SRI) is a unit of company of SRG Swiss SR idea (Swiss Company of radiotélédiffusion). It has the role of informing the Swiss women and the Swiss ones living abroad on the events which proceed in their country, like increasing the degree of notoriety of the Suisse abroad.

Swissinfo/SRI exploits for this purpose the multi-media platform of news of information www.swissinfo.org, available in nine languages on Internet. Swissinfo/SRI delivers also various products televised and multi-media, as well as the three radio programs sets of themes Swiss Pop, Swiss Classic and Swiss Jazz.

Swissinfo/SRI has its principal seat with Bern, as well as offices with Geneva and Zurich.

Short history

The Swiss Service of the short waves , which became thereafter Radio Switzerland international , worked towards a double end: more narrowly to attach with their abroad remaining country the Swiss ones and to contribute to the promotion of Switzerland in the world. The transmitter with short waves of Schwarzenburg is inaugurated in 1939. Starting from 1941, it daily diffuses emissions in direction of North America and South.

The programs develop and are soon diffused regularly emissions in German, French, Italian, English, Spanish, Portuguese and Arabic, like occasionally in Esperanto and romanche. They are addressed to a public scattered on the five continents.

The voice of Switzerland on Internet

At the end of the years 1990, the economic situation obliges swissinfo/SRI to reorientate its strategy. It is necessary for him to produce less expensive and with more effectiveness. Walk triumphing over the Internet falls at named point, marking the one new era advent for the producing journalists and the public.

1999 see the setting on line of the pages in German, French, English and Portuguese. After the Japanese sites, Italian, and Spanish, activated during the year 2000, the launching of the site Arabic-speaking person takes place on February 1st, 2001 and the Chinese version appears in September of the same year. In the two years space, platform Internet is better known the Swiss ones from abroad than the radio operator programs on short waves.

March 21st, 2005, the Board of directors of SRG SR decided to reduce swissinfo/SRI massively. This decision is not final, but must still be endorsed by the authorities of monitoring, namely the federal Office of the communication (OFCOM) and the Federal council, which will decide with the autumn 2005. The intention of SRG SR to reduce swissinfo/SRI to a minimum caused violent reactions among the users, who are not explained it. The Commission of foreign policy of the National council is it also expressed aloud against a dismantling of swissinfo/SRI.
The idea of SRG SR is to reduce the future offer to a production limited in English language and to attach this service to SR DRS. In the national languages, only of the files to the specific use of Swiss from abroad would be still realized. Entrusted to a journalist by language, these files would be produced near the units of company. The sites in Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic, Chinese and Japanese are thus dedicated to disappear, according to SRG SR.

External bonds

Swissinfo
Swiipolitics, information on the Swiss policy
Swisshelpdesk, questions and answers on Switzerland

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