Radio Swiss Classic

Radio Swiss Classic
"MUSIC. PURE."
Radio station ( public service )
reception	Cable , DAB + , internet and satellite
Reception area	Switzerland
Start of transmission	1998
owner	SRG SSR
Intendant	Gilles Marchand
Program director	Denise Bolle
Range	118,950 listeners (2nd half of 2019, Mon-Sun, D-CH, F-CH and I-CH, 15+)
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Logo in 2008

Radio Swiss Classic (formerly Classic ) is a music station of Swiss Satellite Radio , a division of SRG SSR , the public broadcaster in Switzerland. The program reaches almost 120,000 people every day across Switzerland. From 1956 to 1998 it was a special program of the existing Swiss telephone slogan . Radio Swiss Classic's sister programs are Radio Swiss Pop and Radio Swiss Jazz .

Music program

There is a non-stop offer of classical music. There are no verbal contributions and no messages, the pieces are announced in German, French and Italian. At night, Notturno , the joint night program from Radio SRF 2 Kultur and Rete Due , in which Espace 2 was also involved in the past, is taken over . The share of Swiss music averages 50 percent. The program is ad-free.

reception

The program can be received in Switzerland via cable, DAB + , throughout Europe via the Eutelsat Hotbird satellite in DVB mode and worldwide as a stream via the Internet. The previous broadcast on Astra Digital Radio has been discontinued. In South Tyrol , Radio Swiss Classic is broadcast by the Südtirol broadcasting company in the DAB + standard.

Listeners

Radio Swiss Classic is heard by 118,950 people throughout Switzerland every day ( Mediapulse, figures for the 2nd semester 2019) . The average listening time is around 63 minutes.

The figures broken down by region (rounded figures)

	German Switzerland	French-speaking Switzerland	Italian Switzerland
Number of listeners	86,510	28,810	4,230
Average listening time	72 minutes	75 minutes	43 minutes

Web links

• Radio Swiss Classic website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ About us - Radio Swiss Classic. Retrieved January 15, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Number of listeners Mediapulse D-CH. Retrieved January 15, 2020 . 
3. ↑ Number of listeners Mediapulse F-CH. Retrieved January 15, 2020 (French). 
4. ↑ Number of listeners Mediapulse IT-CH. Retrieved January 15, 2020 (Italian).