Schweizer Fernsehen (SF; "Swiss Television") was the German-language division 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 ...

, in charge of production and distribution of television programmes in Switzerland for

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 ...

. It had its head office in

Zürich Zurich (; ) is the list of cities in Switzerland, largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zurich. It is in north-central Switzerland, at the northwestern tip of Lake Zurich. , the municipality had 448,664 inhabitants. The ...

.Kontakt
. Schweizer Fernsehen. Retrieved on 1 November 2009. Its most viewed programme was ''Tagesschau'' (news), daily at 7:30 pm. It was formerly called SF DRS (''Schweizer Fernsehen der deutschen und rätoromanischen Schweiz''; "Swiss television of German and Romansh Switzerland") until 2005. On 1 January 2011, Schweizer Fernsehen and

Schweizer Radio DRS 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 which operated the public German-language radio stations of Switzerland from 1931 u ...

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 SRF name to their television and radio stations.

History

* 1939: First test transmissions of television * 1964: Introduction of advertising * 1968: Colour transmissions begin * 1984: Introduction of

teletext Teletext, or broadcast teletext, is a standard for displaying text and rudimentary graphics on suitably equipped television sets. Teletext sends data in the broadcast signal, hidden in the invisible vertical blanking interval area at the to ...

* 1984: Launch of

3sat 3sat (, ''Dreisat'') is a free-to-air German-language public service television channel. It is a generalist channel with a cultural focus and is jointly operated by public broadcasters from Germany ( ZDF, ARD), Austria ( ORF) and Switzerlan ...

, in collaboration with

ZDF ZDF (), short for (; ), is a German public-service television broadcaster based in Mainz, Rhineland-Palatinate. Launched on 1 April 1963, it is run as an independent nonprofit institution, and was founded by all federal states of Germany ( ...

in Germany and

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in Austria * 1997: Launch of SF zwei * 1999: Launch of SF info in the Zürich region * 2001: SF info begins broadcasting to the whole of German-speaking Switzerland * 2005: SF DRS becomes SF, accompanying a major re-brand of the network. * 2007: Launch of

HD suisse HD suisse is a former Swiss high-definition television channel operated by the public service broadcaster SRG SSR. This was the 8th channel launched by SRG SSR, and the first Swiss television channel available in high definition. The channel ...

720p 720p (720 lines progressive) is a progressive HD signal format with 720 horizontal lines/1280 columns and an aspect ratio (AR) of 16:9, normally known as widescreen HD (1.78:1). All major HD broadcasting standards (such as SMPTE 292M) includ ...

quality (in co-operation with TSR and RSI) * 2012:

HDTV High-definition television (HDTV) describes a television or video system which provides a substantially higher image resolution than the previous generation of technologies. The term has been used since at least 1933; in more recent times, it ref ...

transmission (not all programmes yet) of SF 1, SF zwei and SF info; HD suisse was closed in return

Television channels

* SF 1 * SF zwei * SF info

References

External links

www.srf.ch
{{Portal bar, Companies, Television, Switzerland Swiss Broadcasting Corporation Defunct television channels in Switzerland Mass media companies of Switzerland Television networks in Switzerland German-language television networks German-language television in Switzerland Television channels and stations established in 1958 Television channels and stations disestablished in 2012 1958 establishments in Switzerland 2012 disestablishments in Switzerland

History

Television channels

See also

References

External links