Radio SRF Virus is a

radio station Radio broadcasting is the broadcasting of audio (sound), sometimes with related metadata, by radio waves to radio receivers belonging to a public audience. In terrestrial radio broadcasting the radio waves are broadcast by a land-based rad ...

from

Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen ("Swiss Radio and Television"), shortened to SRF, is a subsidiary of the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation (SRG SSR), operating in German-speaking Switzerland. SRF was created on 1 January 2011 through the merger of r ...

(SRF). The station was launched in 1999 (as DRS Virus) and is broadcast on

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and

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German-speaking Switzerland The German-speaking part of Switzerland ( ; ; ; ) comprises about 65 percent of Switzerland (North Western Switzerland, Eastern Switzerland, Central Switzerland, most of the Swiss Plateau and the greater part of the Swiss Alps). The variety ...

as well as throughout Europe on

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and worldwide via the

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. The station serves to provide an alternative music choice to

Radio SRF 3 Radio SRF 3 is the third radio station from Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (SRF). History The station was launched on 1 November 1983 at 00:01 hours (as DRS 3) in response to the licensing of private radio stations in Switzerland. During its ear ...

Former logos

VIRUS srgssrideesuisse.svg, 1999–2007 DRS Virus (2007).svg, 2007–2012 Radio SRF Virus.svg, 2012–2020 Radio SRF Virus Logo 2020.svg, 2020–2022

External links

* 1999 establishments in Switzerland Radio stations established in 1999 German-language radio stations in Switzerland {{Switzerland-radio-station-stub