Schweizer Radio: Radio der deutschen und rätoromanischen Schweiz (SR DRS; "Swiss Radio: Radio of the German and Romansh Switzerland") was a company of

SRG SSR The Swiss Broadcasting Corporation (; ; ; ; SRG SSR) is the Swiss public broadcasting association, founded in 1931, the holding company of 24 radio and television channels. Headquartered in Bern, the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation is a non-pro ...

which operated the public German-language radio stations of Switzerland from 1931 until 2012. On 1 January 2011,

Schweizer Fernsehen Schweizer Fernsehen (SF; "Swiss Television") was the German-language division of SRG SSR, in charge of production and distribution of television programmes in Switzerland for German-speaking Switzerland. It had its head office in Zürich.

(SF) and Schweizer Radio DRS began the process of merging the two entities into

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). On 16 December 2012, the merger was complete, with SF and SR DRS adopting the Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (SRF) name.

Broadcasting

SR DRS operated six radio stations which had a market share of over 60% in

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 ...

Radio stations

* DRS 1 (now

SRF 1 SRF 1 (''SRF eins'') is a German-language Swiss television channel, one of three produced by the SRG SSR public-service broadcasting group (the others being SRF zwei and SRF info). The channel, formerly known as SF1, was renamed on 16 Decemb ...

) * DRS 2 Kultur (now SRF 2 Kultur) * DRS 3 (now SRF 3) * DRS Musikwelle (now SRF Musikwelle) * DRS Virus (now SRF Virus) * DRS 4 News (now SRF 4 News)

External links

Official website
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