SRG SSR

SRG SSR operates a public-service media model mandated to provide TV, radio and digital content across Switzerland’s four language regions. It creates value by producing and aggregating national audiovisual content, distributing it through linear channels and free digital streaming platforms, and ensuring accessibility via subtitles, sign language and audio description. The organisation is structured as a non-profit association; most funding is centrally collected as a compulsory licence fee and then allocated to the group and its regional units to fulfil the public-service remit.

Alongside this core funding, SRG SSR engages in constrained commercial activities such as selling advertising, entering distribution partnerships with TV/telecom operators, offering some paid services and licensing content or co-productions. Its subsidiary SWISS TXT acts as an internal multimedia and ICT competence centre and also provides paid accessibility, streaming and infrastructure services to external broadcasters and institutions, creating additional but secondary revenue streams while supporting the group’s own operations.

SRG SSR is Switzerland’s public-service broadcasting organisation, operating multi-language TV, radio and digital streaming services nationwide. It runs regional online players for each language region and a national, login-based streaming platform aggregating Swiss-produced content, with a future plan to consolidate these into a single unified live and on-demand platform.

SRG SSR is legally a non-profit association and finances itself primarily through a compulsory, device-independent radio and television licence fee collected from Swiss households, supplemented by limited commercial activities (advertising, services and partnerships). Its core “customers” are Swiss licence fee payers and audiences across all four national languages, while internal SRG units and some external institutions purchase ICT and accessibility services from its subsidiary SWISS TXT.