SRF info

SRF Info
TV station ( under private law on behalf of the federal government )
Program type	News channel
reception	Cable , satellite , live stream , digital
Start of transmission	May 3, 1999
Broadcaster	Swiss radio and television
Intendant	Nathalie Wappler
Program director	Hansruedi Schoch
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SRF info (formerly: SF i ) is the information program of Swiss Radio and Television (SRF), a corporate unit of SRG SSR . SRF info has been on the Swiss cable network since 2001 and can be received unencrypted via the Eutelsat Hot Bird 13B satellite (formerly: Hot Bird 8) at 13 ° East. In the case of sports broadcasts , however, the satellite program is temporarily encrypted for copyright reasons or is interrupted via Zattoo outside of Switzerland.

Since December 16, 2012, the station has been called SRF info. In contrast to SRF 1 and SRF Zwei, which were switched to HD quality in February 2012, SRF info was initially still broadcast exclusively in SD quality. Since March 23, 2015, SRF info can be received in parallel in HD quality via satellite.

Historical logos

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  Logo of SF i from 2001 to December 5, 2005

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  Logo of SF info from December 6, 2005 to February 29, 2012

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  Logo of SF info from March 1st, 2012 to December 15th, 2012

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  Logo of the HD branch from March 2015

program

The station mainly shows its own productions on Swiss radio and television . Most of the time, the first two Swiss channels SRF 1 and SRF two are repeated. PresseTV has its own broadcasting license for its programs on SRF info . In the evenings and at night, the news program “ Tagesschau ” and the news magazine “ 10vor10 ” are repeated every hour on the hour , as well as individual in-house productions, for example Arena , the knowledge magazine Einstein and Kulturplatz , and the main edition of the Tagesschau will be in German-speaking Switzerland at 7:30 p.m. Sign language interpreted .

Magazine programs are broadcast every half hour. SRF info has also been used for exclusive special programs, such as B. the broadcast of the World Economic Forum in Davos .

In addition, SRF info can be used as an alternative channel for sporting events broadcast in parallel as soon as SRF Zwei is already broadcasting sports. So runs example, SRF zwei the Olympic program at SRF info the Champions League; At soccer world championships, one game is shown on SRF two and the other on SRF info.

Web links

• Official website

Individual evidence

1. ^ Association. srgssr.ch
2. ↑ New names for SRG channels , Sandro Brotz , Patrik Müller , Der Sonntag , September 3, 2011
3. ↑ HDTV ( Memento of the original from September 28, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . SRG SSR (accessed April 6, 2013)