A fairly neutral and informative video. It’s in French (sorry), but auto-generated English subtitles are available. Hope it’s useful for anyone still undecided. And no, I’m not the author, although I like the channel :).
Despite room for improvement, I still want to live in a country with a rich ecosystem of informative, neutral media. And public media is definitely a core pillar of that ecosystem.
Posted by jenthis
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This person frequently receives money from SRG to make humoristic content for them. He may speak for his beliefs. But he also has a financial stake in the matter.
I don’t mind paying even CHF 350.-, but it needs to focus much more on international, national, and regional neutral information and less on entertainment… More budget on science, politics, economy, social… Covering anything not covered by billionaires’ news outlets and commercial stuff.
At the beginning of the campaign, I thought I would vote ‘yes’, but I changed my mind. The licence fee costs around CHF 28 per month for a wide variety of content covering news, sport, culture and entertainment, both nationally and regionally. On top of that, I pay CHF 29 per month just to watch Swiss ice hockey. If I want to watch Swiss and European football, it’s more than CHF 30 per month. Netflix? Between CHF 15 and CHF 30 per month, depending on the subscription. Paying CHF 28 per month for everything RTS has to offer is fine, especially since the licence fee is going to be reduced to CHF 300 in 2029.
I find it hard to believe people who claim they never use any RTS services. Don’t you sometimes watch the Olympics, football matches, series or regional programmes, for example? Don’t you ever check SRG Info, Swissinfo or TXT ((okay, TXT is my old-school side ;D)?
Above all, I am a defender of Swiss federalism and therefore of small regions and the countryside. I hear the argument that RTS defends a viewpoint that is too focused on the Lake Geneva region and SRG too focused on Zurich, but lowering the licence fee will further accentuate the focus on the viewpoint of these two ‘metropolises’, to the detriment of the peripheral regions.