Federal Act on Radio and Television (RTVA) (RTVA)
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Art. 1 Scope
1 This Act regulates the broadcasting, processing, transmission and reception of radio and television programme services. Unless this Act provides to the contrary, the transmission of programme services using telecommunications techniques is based on the Telecommunications Act of 30 April 1997 (TCA). 2 Programming of minor editorial importance does not fall under this Act. The Federal Council shall determine the criteria.
Para. 1 — SR 784.10
Art. 2 Definitions
In this Act: a. programme service means sequence of programmes which are offered continuously, defined in time and transmitted using telecommunications techniques and which are intended for the public; b. programme means part of a programme service which is self-contained in terms of form and content; c. editorial programme means a programme which is not advertising; cbis. editorial publication means an editorial programme in a Swiss broadcaster‘s programme service or a contribution produced by the editorial staff as part of the other journalistic services of the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation (SRG SSR) (Art. 25 para. 3 let. b); d. broadcaster means the natural or legal person bearing responsibility for the creation of programmes or for the compilation thereof into a programme service; e. Swiss programme service means a programme service which is subject to Swiss sovereignty in accordance with the provisions of the European Convention on Transfrontier Television of 5 May 1989; these pr
let. cbis — Inserted by No I of the Federal Act of 26 Sept. 2014, in force since 1 July 2016 (AS 2016 2131; BBl 2013 4975). let. e — SR 0.784.405 let. f — SR 784.10 let. p — Inserted by No I of the Federal Act of 26 Sept. 2014, in force since 1 July 2016 (AS 2016 2131; BBl 2013 4975).