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SRG SSR produces and broadcasts programmes and has a complex infrastructure in place to ensure that it can fulfil its broadcasting remit at all times.

There are five ways to receive SRG SSR’s television programmes. This guarantees almost 100% coverage of households in Switzerland.

Terrestrial	DVB-T (Digital Video Broadcasting – Terrestrial), nationwide digital reception: for both SRG SSR channels within the respective language region, the first channel for each of the other language regions and the repeats channel SF info in German-speaking Switzerland. DVB-H (Digital Video Broadcasting – Handhelds): for all eight SRG SSR channels (SF 1, SF zwei, TSR 1, TSR 2, LA 1, LA 2, SF info and HD Suisse).
Cable	SF 1, SF zwei, TSR 1, TSR 2, LA 1, LA 2, SF info (in German-speaking Switzerland) and HD suisse.
Satellite	Reception of eight SRG SSR channels (SF 1, SF zwei, TSR 1, TSR 2, LA 1, LA 2, SF info and HD Suisse) via Hotbird 8 from Eutelsat. This form of reception is becoming increasingly popular. Since television channels have to be broadcast via satellite in encrypted form for licensing and copyright reasons, a SatAccess card is needed to receive the SRG SSR television channels.
Internet	A number of programmes can be viewed on demand as streams on the websites of the individual SRG SSR television channels. Various providers such as Wilmaa and Zattoo bring SRG SSR to viewers’ computer screens using software players.
IPTV	Internet Protocol Television: the television signal is sent using Internet Protocol (IP) technology. At the moment, this is restricted to Bluewin TV, which includes all SRG SSR channels. Various digital channel packages are also available, depending on the language region.