Radio Télévision Suisse

French-language branch of the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation

RTS 1
RTS 2
RTS Info

Radio stations

La 1ère
Espace 2
Couleur 3
Option Musique

HeadquartersGeneva

Broadcast area

Switzerland
(eastern) FranceParentSRG SSR

Key people

Gilles Marchand and Gilles Pache

Official website

www.rts.chReplacedRadio Suisse Romande (RSR)
Télévision Suisse Romande (TSR)

The Radio Télévision Suisse (RTS) is a Swiss public broadcasting organisation. Part of SRG SSR, RTS handles production and broadcasting of radio and television programming in French for Switzerland. It was created on 1 January 2010 by a merger of Radio suisse romande and Télévision suisse romande.

History

The first evening programme to be broadcast in colour on Télévision suisse romande was broadcast in 1968.^[1]

The station has been accused of multiple cases of sexual harassment in recent years, including news personality Darius Rochebin.^[2]^[3]

Future

While keeping its headquarters in Geneva, Radio Télévision Suisse moved its Lausanne-based radio headquarters to a new building on the Lausanne campus in 2020.^[4]^[5]

Broadcasting

Radio

Radio Suisse Romande (RSR) is the area of RTS in charge of production and broadcasting of radio programming in French for Switzerland:

La 1ère — general programming
Espace 2 — cultural and intellectual programming; classical and jazz music
Couleur 3 — youth programming
Option Musique — music and variety programming

Television

Télévision Suisse Romande (TSR) is the area of RTS in charge of production and distribution of television programming in French for Switzerland:

RTS 1
RTS 2
RTS Info

References

^ (in French) Sonia Arnal, "C'est l'autre (la vraie ?) révolution de 1968 : la TV couleur débarque en Suisse" Archived 12 October 2013 at the Wayback Machine, Allez savoir !, no. 42, September 2008.
^ Swiss public broadcaster examines cases of sexual harassment
^ "Public broadcaster shaken by sexual harassment probe".
^ (in French) Nicolas Dufour, "La RTS a des vues sur le campus lausannois", Le Temps, 15 June 2013, accessed 29 June 2013.
^ (in French) "Vers un transfert des activités de la RTS à Lausanne sur le site de l'EPFL", RTS, 17 December 2013, accessed 17 December 2013.

External links

Media related to Radio Television Suisse at Wikimedia Commons

Official website (in French)

Swiss Broadcasting Corporation (SRG SSR)

German
(SRF)

Radio	Radio SRF 1 Radio SRF 2 Kultur Radio SRF 3 Radio SRF 4 News Radio SRF Virus Radio SRF Musikwelle
Television	SRF 1 SRF zwei SRF info
Historical	SR DRS SF

French
(RTS)

Radio	La Première Espace 2 Couleur 3 Option Musique
Television	RTS 1 RTS 2 RTS Info
Historical	RSR TSR

Italian
(RSI)

Radio	Rete Uno Rete Due Rete Tre
Television	La 1 La 2

Romansh
(RTR)

Radio	Radio RTR
Television	Televisiun Rumantscha (production unit)

Satellite Radio
(SSatR)

Swiss Satellite Radio [Wikidata]

Radio Swiss Pop [Wikidata]

Radio Swiss Classic [Wikidata]

Radio Swiss Jazz [Wikidata]

Partnerships

Subsidiaries

Publisuisse [de]

Publica Data

TPC [de]

Telvetia SA

Former/defunct

Radio stations	Swiss Radio International (defunct) World Radio Switzerland (sold)
Television channels	SRG Sportkette – SSR Chaine Sportive – SSR Canale Sportivo [Wikidata] Schweiz – Suisse – Svizzera – Svizra 4 HD suisse