Around 13,000 people against radio license decision in Graubünden
Published: Wednesday, May 29th 2024, 15:40
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A Graubünden committee handed over a petition with 12,907 signatures to the federal government in Bern on Wednesday. The radio license decision for Graubünden and Glarus made at the beginning of the year is to be corrected. As of 2025, Radio Südostschweiz (RSO) will lose its license to a new station owned by media entrepreneur Roger Schawinski.
The committee with the name "RSO ds Radio vu do blibt do" has been collecting signatures against the decision since the end of January, the committee wrote in a press release on Wednesday. "Many people in the cantons of Graubünden, Glarus and St. Gallen want the decision to award the radio license for the years 2025-2034 to be reconsidered and go back to Radio Südostschweiz."
At the beginning of the year, the Graubünden-based broadcaster Radio Südostschweiz of the Somedia Group lost its license after 35 years when the Federal Office of Communications (Bakom) awarded radio licenses. The contract was awarded to Zurich media entrepreneur Roger Schawinski, who submitted an application for a new radio station under the name "Radio Alpin".
At the end of April, Schawinski also announced that he wanted to use the name "Radio Grischa" for his new Graubünden radio station. Until 2015, the current "Radio Südostschweiz" from Chur broadcast under the name "Radio Grischa". The station was then renamed.
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