{"id":27749,"date":"2026-03-08T19:02:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T19:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/27749\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T19:02:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T19:02:08","slug":"reactions-to-sbc-initiative-no-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/27749\/","title":{"rendered":"Reactions to SBC initiative &#8216;no&#8217; vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        Following Sunday\u2019s clear rejection of the SBC initiative, Swissinfo spoke with both its backers and opponents to gauge how they interpreted the result.\n<\/p>\n<p>        This content was published on    <\/p>\n<p>        March 8, 2026 &#8211; 19:18\n<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bk.admin.ch\/ch\/d\/pore\/vi\/vis528t.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">SBC\u00a0initiativeExternal link<\/a>\u201d, backed by the right-wing Swiss People\u2019s Party, the Swiss Union of Arts and Crafts and the youth wing of the centre-right Radical-Liberal Party,\u00a0had sought to cut the annual media licence fee from CHF335 ($431) to CHF200 and exempt all businesses. On Sunday, it was rejected by 62% of voters.<\/p>\n<p>        More    <\/p>\n<p>        Swiss voters reject cuts to licence fee    <\/p>\n<p>    <img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1772996528_768_697898659_highres.jpg\" width=\"1300\" height=\"867\" alt=\"The SBC initiative seeks to reduce the annual licence fee for the national broadcaster from CHF335 ($431) to CHF200 and exempt all businesses.\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"auto\" fetchpriority=\"auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"teaser-hero__excerpt\">\n<p>                        This content was published on                    <\/p>\n<p>                        Mar 8, 2026                    <\/p>\n<p>                The Swiss have clearly rejected a proposal to reduce funding for Swissinfo\u2019s parent company.            <\/p>\n<p>        <a class=\"teaser-hero__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.swissinfo.ch\/eng\/swiss-politics\/swiss-vote-on-licence-fee-tax-reform-cash-and-climate\/91045322\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>            Read more: Swiss voters reject cuts to licence fee<br \/>\n    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>See our interactive map for detailed results:<\/p>\n<p>\n    More<\/p>\n<p>    <img src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1772996528_500_1e384033e4c091a13041301ad929f587-vote-results-teaser-png-data.png\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" alt=\"Vote results\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"auto\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        More    <\/p>\n<p>        Swiss Politics\n        <\/p>\n<p>        March 8, 2026 vote: the result from across Switzerland    <\/p>\n<p class=\"teaser-wide-card__excerpt\">\n<p>                        This content was published on                    <\/p>\n<p>                        Mar 8, 2026                    <\/p>\n<p>                Use our map to explore the detailed results of Sunday\u2019s ballots on cash initiative, Swiss Broadcasting Corporation (SBC), climate fund and and individual taxation.            <\/p>\n<p>    <a class=\"teaser-wide-card__link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.swissinfo.ch\/eng\/swiss-politics\/march-8-2026-vote-the-result-from-across-switzerland\/90932419\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><\/p>\n<p>            Read more: March 8, 2026 vote: the result from across Switzerland<br \/>\n    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>        Articles in this story    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following Sunday\u2019s clear rejection of the SBC initiative, Swissinfo spoke with both its backers and opponents to gauge&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27750,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[326,331,334,41,17,335,332,330,329],"class_list":{"0":"post-27749","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-switzerland","8":"tag-beat-swiss-politics","9":"tag-explain-it-to-me","10":"tag-production-type-adaptation","11":"tag-swiss","12":"tag-switzerland","13":"tag-type-video","14":"tag-vertical-video-9x16","15":"tag-video","16":"tag-votes"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116195108055353873","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}