Obama makes history again appearing on late night TV
GenevaLunch News US President Barack Obama has become the first American sitting president to appear on a late night talk show, on the Jay Leno show Thursday 19 March. Obama used the talk show in order...
View ArticleDon Hewitt, “father” of American broadcast journalism, dies
GenevaLunch News Don Hewitt, who died in New York at age 86, is a name who might not be known to households across the US, but he’s known to media people as a journalist who had a major impact on the...
View ArticleSwiss radio and TV advertising likely to increase
GenevaLunch News Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - European TV and radio without borders will soon change listening and viewing habits in Switzerland as well, with the federal government proposing...
View ArticleComputer and cell phone users targeted for radio, TV license fees
GenevaLunch News Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Switzerland’s federal communications office (Ofcom) director, Martin Dumermuth, told the Berner Zeitung newspaper Thursday that he plans to propose in...
View ArticleVaud and Geneva put conditions on RSR, TSR merger
GenevaLunch News Geneva / Lausanne, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – The merger of TSR, public television in French-speaking Switzerland, and RSR, public radio, is meeting some resistance from cantonal...
View ArticleFrench-language Swiss radio and TV merger goes ahead
GenevaLunch News Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - RSR radio and TSR television will be reborn as RTS, Radio Télévision Suisse in January, when the regional media will merge. The two are part of the...
View ArticleSwiss to get TV, radio ads increase in summer 2010
GenevaLunch News Wine and beer now allowed on radio, TV Bern, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Ofcom, the Swiss federal communications supervisor, will issue directives during the summer of 2010 for more...
View ArticleSyrian president says he’s not stepping aside
GenevaLunch News GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said in a Sunday night television address to the country’s citizens that he has no intention of stepping aside under pressure...
View ArticleAndy Rooney retires from TV after six decades
GenevaLunch News GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – TV writer and commentator Andy Rooney, possibly the longest-serving television personality around, has ended his TV career at age 92. His final “60 Minutes” show...
View ArticleIt’s HD day!
GenevaLunch News ZURICH, SWITZERLAND – Swiss television and radio stations owned by the public broadcasting company SSR all have new logos 29 February to mark the convergence of radio and television...
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