Jump to content
Main menu
Main menu
move to sidebar
hide
Navigation
Main page
Recent changes
Random page
Help about MediaWiki
Special pages
Niidae Wiki
Search
Search
Appearance
Create account
Log in
Personal tools
Create account
Log in
Pages for logged out editors
learn more
Contributions
Talk
Editing
Digital Audio Broadcasting
(section)
Page
Discussion
English
Read
Edit
View history
Tools
Tools
move to sidebar
hide
Actions
Read
Edit
View history
General
What links here
Related changes
Page information
Appearance
move to sidebar
hide
Warning:
You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you
log in
or
create an account
, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.
Anti-spam check. Do
not
fill this in!
====Switzerland==== [[SRG SSR]], Switzerland's public-service broadcaster, had shut down its FM transmission infrastructure on 31 December 2024. The corporation concluded that maintaining FM broadcasts along with DAB+ and Internet streaming was no longer cost-effective, as due to widespread adoption of DAB+ the share of the public relying exclusively on FM was under ten percent and decreasing.<ref>{{cite web |title=News SRG schaltet UKW per Ende Jahr ab |url=https://www.srgssr.ch/de/news-medien/news/srg-schaltet-ukw-per-ende-jahr-ab |website=Broadcast.ch}}</ref> All other FM broadcasters in the country must shut down or convert to DAB+ by 31 December 2026.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Last extension of FM licenses by two years |url=https://www.admin.ch/gov/en/start/documentation/media-releases.msg-id-98326.html |access-date=2023-11-03 |website=www.admin.ch}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.worlddab.org/countries/switzerland |title=Switzerland FM switch off end 2024 |date=23 October 2022 |access-date=21 October 2022 |archive-date=21 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221021213222/https://www.worlddab.org/countries/switzerland/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bakom.admin.ch/bakom/en/homepage/electronic-media/technology/vhf-transmission/switzerland-goes-digital.html#:~:text=Swiss%20radio%20broadcasters%20have%20decided,time%20to%20upgrade%20their%20radios. |title=Radio industry to switch off FM transmitters at the end of 2024 as originally planned |date=23 October 2022 |access-date=1 July 2023 |archive-date=22 June 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230622005351/https://www.bakom.admin.ch/bakom/en/homepage/electronic-media/technology/vhf-transmission/switzerland-goes-digital.html#:~:text=Swiss%20radio%20broadcasters%20have%20decided,time%20to%20upgrade%20their%20radios. |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.radioworld.com/global/swiss-fm-shutdown-reverts-to-original-2024-date |title=Swiss FM Shutdown Reverts to Original 2024 Date |date=23 October 2022 |access-date=1 July 2023 |archive-date=23 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221023165018/https://www.radioworld.com/global/swiss-fm-shutdown-reverts-to-original-2024-date |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="auto1"/><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.redtech.pro/switzerland-prepares-to-cut-fm/ |title=Switzerland prepares to cut FM |date=28 December 2022 |access-date=1 July 2023 |archive-date=7 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230207020610/https://www.redtech.pro/switzerland-prepares-to-cut-fm/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
Summary:
Please note that all contributions to Niidae Wiki may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here.
You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see
Encyclopedia:Copyrights
for details).
Do not submit copyrighted work without permission!
Cancel
Editing help
(opens in new window)
Search
Search
Editing
Digital Audio Broadcasting
(section)
Add topic