The self-professed Arte fan Moritz Leuenberger has clearly defined TV preferences as a private individual. That would not really be worth mentioning. But since he also shaped our media landscape for fifteen years, his preferences were given particular weight, especially because as a Federal Councilor he often and happily commented on the quality of individual programs. It therefore makes sense to measure the reality he created against his own standards.
The result is... well, first an overview. Leuenberger's radio south africa rcs data and television law produced a large number of highly subsidized regional mini-TV stations that offer shallow programs with no real income and few viewers. That was also the declared aim of SRG boss Armin Walpen, who wanted to prevent real national language competition with all its impressive means. In order to gain the political support required for this, he stopped at nothing. He lured the French-speaking Swiss broadcasters with the promise of giving them production contracts worth several million euros if they supported his concept politically.
And with that, the prospect of a dual TV landscape was dead. Tele 24, which I founded and which wanted to be the only private broadcaster to offer journalistic resistance to the SRG, had to throw in the towel. Tamedia, which mothballed its entertainment steamer TV 3 after huge losses, didn't know what to do with the acquired TeleZüri for ten years. The broadcaster was eventually passed on to Aargau. TeleZüri is, after all, the only regional broadcaster that covers its costs. But Moritz Leuenberger's expensive regional TV concept failed miserably.