| Network Name: | SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen |
| Network Logo: | Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen Logo.svg |
| Country: | Switzerland |
| Network Type: | Broadcast, radio, television and online |
| Available: | Switzerland, online |
| Parent: | SRG SSR |
| Key People: | Nathalie Wappler |
| Headquarters: | Zürich |
| Replaced: | Schweizer Fernsehen (SF) (television) Schweizer Radio DRS (SR DRS) (radio) |
Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (SRF; "Swiss Radio and Television") is a Swiss broadcasting company created on 1 January 2011 through the merger of radio company Schweizer Radio DRS (SR DRS) and television company Schweizer Fernsehen (SF). The new business unit of SRG SSR became the largest electronic media house of German-speaking Switzerland. About 2,150 employees work for SRF in the four main studios in Basel, Bern, and Zürich.[1]
Among the radio programmes, Radio SRF Musikwelle has the longest history, as it was originally the flagship frequency on the medium wave frequency 529 kHz, broadcasting news from its central antenna near Beromünster. "Radio Beromünster" was, during World War II, together with the British BBC, one of the few independent radio programmes that could be received in large parts of Western Europe. Jean Rudolf von Salis, a Swiss historian, commented in his weekly "Weltchronik" ("world chronicle") on the development of the war and other international events.
With the introduction of VHF radio in the 1960s, the service on 529 kHz was transformed into the "Musikwelle" music service. The Geneva Frequency Plan of 1975 mandated the frequency shift to 531 kHz. In 2008, the Beromünster antenna was deactivated.