{"id":27755,"date":"2026-03-08T19:19:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T19:19:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/27755\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T19:19:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T19:19:20","slug":"swiss-voters-reject-media-funding-cuts-a-victory-for-public-broadcasting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/27755\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiss Voters Reject Media Funding Cuts: A Victory for Public Broadcasting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>In a decisive move, Swiss voters rejected a referendum to cut funding for public broadcaster SRG, with 62% opposing the measure.<\/p>\n<p>The plan, primarily supported by right-wing factions like the Swiss People&#8217;s Party (SVP), aimed to lower the annual licence fee from 335 Swiss francs to 200 francs.<\/p>\n<p>Critics warned that such cuts could weaken media output, potentially paving the way for increased disinformation, a concern echoed by SRG&#8217;s leadership.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>(With inputs from agencies.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; In a decisive move, Swiss voters rejected a referendum to cut funding for public broadcaster SRG, with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":27616,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[16716,16715,16796,4970,16797,2878,16795,16774,41,5636,3537,17],"class_list":["post-27755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-switzerland","tag-disinformation","tag-licence-fee","tag-media-independence","tag-public-broadcaster","tag-public-information","tag-referendum","tag-right-wing-media","tag-srg-funding","tag-swiss","tag-swiss-peoples-party","tag-swiss-voters","tag-switzerland"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116195174836643197","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27755","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=27755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}