So, whats up with World Radio Switzerland?
On November 1st, World Radio Geneva will become World Radio Switzerland. For many years, World Radio Geneva has served yours truly as the “official sound track”. This site has linked to their live audio stream and my better bits of code have all been written under the influence of “88.4 FM WRG”. Over the past years, WRG has been operating as a privat local radio station. With the change to WRS, it will become a national public radio station. The new WRS station will have had a turbulent history, if you count all the different bits together. The swiss public service broadcaster SRG SSR has statutes very similar to Britain’s BBC and originally applied for an FM license for WRG with the intention of mainly re-using content produced by Swiss Radio International. However, the license it finally received from the federal government mandated that the station had to be commercial, limiting the ability to re-use Swiss Radio International content. Swiss Radio International was later forced to fo
