SRG is restructuring under the mandate of the SRG board of directors and within the framework of the company-wide transformation project Enavant to secure the company's future viability. This responds to the profound transformation of the media landscape. With Enavant, SRG is becoming more digital, agile, and efficient. At the same time, it must save 270 million Swiss francs by 2029, partly due to the media levy reduction decided by the Federal Council. For this reason, SRG has specified the necessary saving measures for 2027 within the framework of the company-wide transformation project Enavant in recent months, as announced last summer (see press release: SRG restructures and brings closer together) with the aim of saving primarily in structures and processes to protect the programme in the audience's best interest.
How SRG implements the saving measures:
Against this background, SRG achieves the required savings by 2029 primarily through adjustments in structures, processes, production methods, and partnerships. Based on this, SRG implements the saving measures for 2027 specifically as follows:
- Among other things, SRG simplifies management structures and reduces duplications thanks to the new SRG organisational model with SRG-wide managed areas and regionally anchored specialist teams (see press release: SRG specifies transformation plans and the planned job cuts) and optimises property areas for production and administration. This results in savings of 35.2 million Swiss francs by 2027. Optimising property areas also includes relocating in Bern, while maintaining regional anchoring in SRG's DNA. Accordingly, SRG is committed to the locations in the regions.
- More efficient processes, the reduction of committees, the bundling of production planning and control, or the consistent use of shared content across regions allow savings of 9.1 million Swiss francs by 2027.
- Adjusted and more efficient production methods of the programme with a comparable result as much as possible lead to savings of 13.2 million Swiss francs.
- Reviewing and adjusting SRG's partnerships contributes additional savings of 2.7 million for 2027 - for example, the Swiss Film Award will be newly oriented in collaboration with partners.
- Further savings of around 3.7 million Swiss francs by 2027 are achieved by SRG through adjustments in the programme offering: for example, through the focus on sports production (Ice Hockey National League and UEFA Club Competitions, see press release: Focus on sports production) already communicated in 2025, the conscious decision not to bid for the broadcasting rights of the UEFA Champions League from the 2027/28 season, a stronger focus on primetime on second TV channels, or a stronger emphasis on impactful radio weeks while increasing repeats of weekly broadcasts.
The difference to the saving target of 80 million Swiss francs by 2027 is explained by additional measures at the SRG level and by effects that are effective once only.
By fundamentally restructuring itself, SRG saves 95 per cent in structures and processes.
General Director Susanne Wille says, 'By fundamentally restructuring our company, we ensure that SRG remains strong and continues to reach people in Switzerland in the future. We are consistently pushing forward with the transformation and creating the prerequisites for a modern, agile, and digital SRG. Saving measures are unavoidable due to political directives. As we said last summer: We save primarily in structures and processes to protect our programme in the best interest of the audience. Because we are committed to the audience,' says Wille.
Regarding the importance of the company-wide transformation Enavant, she adds, 'With Enavant, we create the prerequisites for a modern, strong, and digital SRG. By simplifying structures, bundling forces, and working closer together, we gain the necessary space to achieve 95 per cent of the savings via structures, processes, and production methods. With the previous, decentralised structures, the impact on the programme would have been significantly greater. At the same time, we are advancing SRG - and changes in the programme will also be noticeable.'
The saving measures will be further detailed in the coming months and prepared for implementation in SRG's regional units and areas. At the same time, SRG specifies the further savings for 2028 and 2029.
SRG must save around 270 million by 2029:
SRG must save around 270 million Swiss francs by 2029, partly because of the Federal Council's decision to reduce the media levy. The first reduction will come into effect in January 2027. Accordingly, SRG must achieve substantial savings by then.
Thomas Egger, Director of Finance at SRG, comments: 'The current calculations show that the ongoing saving programs unfold their effect more strongly after intensifying these in light of the 270 million saving mandate. This includes, for example, the restrictive replacement of open positions. At the same time, some assumptions have slightly improved - for instance, in commercial income. This has stabilized slightly recently, partly due to major events, but is generally still declining. We also see some short-term relief in cost increases, but the medium- and long-term pressure remains unchanged. Additionally, we are taking new, opposing developments into account in our planning. Overall, this allows us to distribute the savings more evenly over the years - at the current time, nothing changes regarding the overall goal of 270 million Swiss francs by 2029.'
Against this background, the required savings of 270 million Swiss francs can be distributed more evenly over time. The necessary saving contribution in 2027 is thereby reduced to around 80 million Swiss francs compared to the previously communicated 125 million.
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