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Broadcasters

SWISSPERFORM represents broadcasters. This category includes companies broadcasting radio or TV programmes that are subject to an obligation to notify and obtain a licence pursuant to Art. 3 of the Swiss Federal Act on Radio and Television (RTVA).

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How it works

1Become a member

Broadcasters headquartered in Switzerland can obtain individual membership. SWISSPERFORM membership is free.

2Remuneration

You will receive your remuneration from the IRF, the association representing the interests of the radio and TV broadcasters.

Become a member

SWISSPERFORM administers the rights of the broadcasters’ which are subject to mandatory collective management. These are the main usage types concerned:

  • re-transmission of radio and TV broadcasts via cable networks (Art. 22 and 38 CopA);
  • communication to the public of radio and TV broadcasts (Art. 22 and 38 CopA);
  • private copying of radio and TV broadcasts (Art. 19, 20 and 38 CopA);
  • certain types of educational usage and office or workplace-related usage of radio and TV broadcasts (Art. 19, 20 and 38 CopA).

SWISSPERFORM has concluded a rights administration agreement with the association IRF Interessengemeinschaft Radio und Fernsehen. If a broadcasting organization has concluded a corresponding mandate agreement with the IRF in addition to the membership agreement with SWISSPERFORM, the assertion of rights and remuneration claims and the collection and distribution of remunerations by the IRF shall be carried out in accordance with the corresponding mandate agreement. The statutory membership rights in SWISSPERFORM shall in any case be exercised by the member (broadcasting organization) itself.

Please contact the IRF directly for further details on this subject.

The IRF Interessengemeinschaft Radio und Fernsehen is an association of national and international radio and TV broadcasters whose programmes are trans­mitted in Switzerland and/or the Principality of Liechtenstein.

Its membership includes many international broad­casters such as ARD, ZDF, ORF, RAI, France Télévisions, M6, ARTE, broadcasters from the media group RTL, ProSiebenSat.1 Group; furthermore national Swiss broad­caster SRG, Swiss private broad­casters and the associations Telesuisse, the Association of Swiss Private Radios VSP, Radio Régionales Romandes RRR and Unikom.

In case of any questions regarding to the distribution to broadcasters, please contact:

Association for radio and television IRF
Andrea Werder-Stern
Rämistrasse 5
P.O. Box
8024 Zurich

irf-radiotv.ch

T +41 43 244 84  80
E-mail

Radios régionales Romandes (RRR)

Route de Delémont 15
2842 Rossemaison

radiosregionales.ch
T +41 32 421 70 70
info@radiosregionales.ch

Association for radio and television IRF

Rämistrasse 5
P.O. Box
8024 Zurich

irf-radiotv.ch
T +41 43 244 84 80
office@irf-radiotv.ch

TELESUISSE Verband Schweizer Privatfernsehen

Steinenschanze 2
4051 Basel

telesuisse.ch
T+ 41 79 653 22 21 (Marc Friedli)
marc.friedli@telesuisse.ch

Union nicht-kommerzorientierter Lokalradios (UNIKOM)

Renggerstrasse 31
8038 Zurich

unikomradios.ch
vorstand@unikomradios.ch

Verband Schweizer Privatradios (VSP)

Speichergasse 37
3011 Bern

vsp-asrp.ch
T +41 79 600 32 62 (Jürg Bachmann)
juerg.bachmann@privatradios.ch

The IRF is an association in which domestic and foreign broadcasters (SRG, ARD, ZDF, ORF, RAI a.o.) affiliated/joined forces to represent the radio and TV broadcasters’ interests.

SWISSPERFORM has concluded a rights administration agreement with the association IRF Interessengemeinschaft Radio und Fernsehen. If a broadcasting organization has concluded a corresponding mandate agreement with the IRF in addition to the membership agreement with SWISSPERFORM, the assertion of rights and remuneration claims and the collection and distribution of remunerations by the IRF shall be carried out in accordance with the corresponding mandate agreement. The statutory membership rights in SWISSPERFORM shall in any case be exercised by the member (broadcasting organization) itself.

Please contact the IRF directly for further details on this subject.

SWISSPERFORM manages broadcasters’ claims, mainly for the following usage types:

  • re-transmission of radio and TV broadcasts via cable networks (Art. 22 and 38 CopA);
  • communication to the public of radio and TV broadcasts (Art. 22 and 38 CopA);
  • private copying of radio and TV broadcasts (Art. 19, 20 and 38 CopA);
  • certain types of educational usage and office or workplace-related usage of radio and TV broadcasts (Art. 19, 20 and 38 CopA).