Télévision Suisse Romande

Télévision Suisse Romande (TSR)
Type	Broadcast radio and television
Country	Switzerland
Founded	1 November 1954; 70 years ago
TV stations	RTS 1; RTS 2; RTS Info;
Headquarters	Geneva
Parent	SRG SSR
Dissolved	28 February 2010; 15 years ago
Official website	www.rts.ch/tv
Replaced	Radio Télévision Suisse (RTS)

Télévision Suisse Romande (French pronunciation: [televizjɔ̃ sɥis ʁɔmɑ̃d], "Swiss Television Romandy") was the French-language division of SRG SSR, in charge of production and distribution of television programmes in Switzerland for French-speaking Switzerland.

TSR operated two main French-language channels: TSR 1 and TSR 2, which became RTS Un and RTS Deux respectively after 2012, and provided content for TV5Monde. Radio Suisse Romande and Télévision Suisse Romande merged on 1 January 2010 to create Radio Télévision Suisse.

History

The first evening programme in colour was broadcast on Télévision Suisse Romande in 1968,^[1] which was also the first year in which more than one million Swiss households had a television.^[1]

Programmes

The station can be received throughout Switzerland, and also in some neighboring countries.

Some of the popular programmes on TSR are:

le 12:45, le 19:00 and le 19:30 – news broadcasts
À Bon Entendeur – a consumer magazine programme (French)
Temps Présent – a recent events programme (French)
Passe-moi les jumelles – a travel programme (French)
Nouvo – a news magazine about new technologies, media and communications (French)
Infrarouge – a debating programme (French)
Todas as Taxas Incluídas (TTC) – a weekly programme that explains or talks about a financial aspect (French)
Magellan – educational show about science, society and technology (French)
Mise Au Point – news (French)