About us
Radio Swiss Jazz is SRG SSR’s premier radio station for jazz. Every day, we offer our listeners a colourful mix of music – comprising JAZZ, SOUL and BLUES – around the clock. Our music programmers attach a great deal of importance to home-grown output. Swiss productions and works recorded by Swiss musicians account for a very high percentage of our music repertoire (see below for figures).
Our format
Designing a radio station to satisfy the wishes of each and every listener is like trying to square a circle – and that applies all the more to music programming. In creating its schedule, Radio Swiss Classic therefore pays very close attention to audience research:
- Every listener to our station can sign up for the Radio Swiss Jazz music jury. Jury members are sent a dozen tracks each week for them to listen to and rate.
- In addition, every single track played on the station can be rated via the playlist.
- Radio Swiss Jazz also stages regular auditorium tests where several hundred tracks are played to a group of around 120 jazz fans to gauge their opinion.
These surveys repeatedly show that our listeners are not especially fond of older jazz styles, which is why these play a marginal role in our programming and are included only with the greatest of care. Wherever possible, more modern versions of older jazz standards are aired. In other respects, Radio Swiss Jazz listeners are very tolerant, although they show a preference for melodic jazz, blues, soul and Latin rhythms.
Our music archive
Current schedule
| Number of active titles in the schedule |
7621 |
| Number of new titles (last 4 weeks) |
57 |
| Current proportion of Swiss music in the schedule |
30.1% |
CD archive
| Number of CDs |
363653 |
| Total individual tracks |
3364509 |
Listener interest continues to grow
Some 65’000 Swiss people listen to Radio Swiss Jazz every day via cable, satellite or digital radio. In December 2009, over 20’000 people a day listened to the live stream via the internet.
Internet
Music queries via the Radio Swiss Jazz website are also growing year by year:
