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SRG launches streaming service Play Suisse

October 22, 2020 10.39 Europe/London By Jörn Krieger

Swiss public broadcaster SRG SSR will launch its streaming platform Play Suisse on November 7, 2020.

Filed Under: Newsline, OTT, Platforms, Streaming Tagged With: Play Suisse, SRG, Swisscom blue TV Edited: October 22, 2020 10:39

DVB-T reloaded: Lampert brings SRG channels back to cable

July 9, 2020 22.42 Europe/London By Jörn Krieger

Austrian cable operator Lampert has set up a DVB-T transmitter in neighbouring Switzerland in order to be able to distribute the popular TV channels of Swiss public broadcaster SRG on its network again.

Filed Under: Cable, Channels, Distribution, Editor's Choice, Newsline, Platforms, Terrestrial Tagged With: Christoph Schmid, DTT, DVB-T, Hoher Kasten, Lampert, SRF 1, SRF 2, SRG, Swisscom Edited: July 13, 2020 12:45

SRG postpones transition to HEVC/H.265 on satellite

June 17, 2020 23.23 Europe/London By Jörn Krieger

The Corona crisis has put a damper on Swiss public broadcaster SRG’s plan to move its satellite channels to the new HEVC/H.265 compression standard in 2021.

Filed Under: Channels, Distribution, DTH, Newsline, Platforms, Satellite, Satellite, Set-Top Boxes, Standards, Technology, Ultra HD Tagged With: Eutelsat Hotbird, H.264, HEVC/H.265, MPEG-4, SRG Edited: June 17, 2020 23:31

Swiss pubcaster SRG launches national streaming platform

June 8, 2020 11.23 Europe/London By Julian Clover

Swiss public TV and radio broadcaster SRG is launching its national streaming platform under the name Play Suisse.

Filed Under: Channels, Editor's Choice, Newsline, Top Story Tagged With: Play Suisse, SRG Edited: June 9, 2020 13:10

SRG to move to HEVC/H.265 on satellite

January 30, 2020 23.52 Europe/London By Jörn Krieger

In the course of 2021, Swiss public broadcaster SRG plans to migrate the DTH satellite broadcast of its TV channels on Eutelsat Hotbird (13° East) to HEVC/H.265 in preparation for the introduction of Ultra HD.

Filed Under: Channels, Distribution, DTH, Newsline, Platforms, Satellite, Satellite, Standards, Technology, Ultra HD Tagged With: Eutelsat, HEVC/H.265, Hotbird, ITU, SRG Edited: January 30, 2020 23:52

Swiss TXT becomes SRG SSR’s competence centre for ICT

December 12, 2019 11.00 Europe/London By Robert Briel

Biel/Bienne-based Swiss TXT AG is to merge with SRG’s internal IT and infrastructure unit, INIT, forming the new competence centre for SRG’s infrastructure, digital and distribution services.

Filed Under: Newsline Tagged With: SRG, Swiss TXT, Switzerland Edited: December 12, 2019 11:00

SRG returns on DTT in Switzerland and Austria

November 24, 2019 22.40 Europe/London By Jörn Krieger

Half a year after DTT switch-off in Switzerland, the channels of public broadcaster SRG can soon be received terrestrially via DVB-T in parts of Switzerland and Austria again.

Filed Under: Cable, Channels, Distribution, Editor's Choice, Newsline, Platforms, Terrestrial, Top Story Tagged With: Austria, BAKOM, Christoph Schmid, DTT, DVB-T, Edi Estermann, Francis Meier, Hoher Kasten, Kabel-TV Lampert, Lampert, Rita Schwarzelühr-Sutter, SRF 1, SRF 2, SRG, Switzerland Edited: November 26, 2019 10:15

SRF 1 HD and SRF 2 HD leave simpliTV

July 24, 2019 13.34 Europe/London By Jörn Krieger

Swiss public TV channels SRF 1 HD and SRF 2 HD can no longer be received on Austrian DVB-T2 platform simpliTV.

Filed Under: Channels, Newsline, Platforms, Terrestrial Tagged With: ARD, DVB-T2, NDR Fernsehen, One, simpliTV, SRF 1 HD, SRF 2 HD, SRG Edited: July 24, 2019 13:34

tpc gears up Swiss SRG for UHD with Nevion

February 26, 2019 13.40 Europe/London By Jörn Krieger

Swiss broadcast service provider tpc has selected the VideoIPath orchestration and SDN control solution developed by Norwegian media production solutions provider Nevion for a new IP-based facility for Swiss public broadcaster SRG.

Filed Under: Newsline, Platforms, Technology, Ultra HD Tagged With: Andreas Lattmann, Nevion, SRF+, SRG, tpc, VideoIPath Edited: February 26, 2019 13:43

Switzerland to switch off DTT on June 3, 2019

December 6, 2018 22.11 Europe/London By Jörn Krieger

Swiss public broadcaster SRG will terminate the digital terrestrial distribution of its TV channels (DTT) via DVB-T nationwide on June 3, 2019.

Filed Under: Distribution, Editor's Choice, Newsline, Platforms, Standards, Technology, Terrestrial, Top Story Tagged With: DTT, DVB-T, DVB-T2, SRG, switch-off Edited: December 10, 2018 15:03

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