https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Switzerland in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Swiss voters look set to reject a motion to scrap the country’s compulsory radio and television licence fee in the upcoming March 4th referendum, poll results show. https://www.thelocal.ch/20180221/media-referendum-swiss-set-to-stand-behind-embattled-public-broadcaster-sbc Wed, 21 Feb 2018 11:52:23 +0100 media-referendum-swiss-set-to-stand-behind-embattled-public-broadcaster-sbc A man has been fined for threatening to blow up Swiss broadcaster SRF after the television programme he intended to watch didn’t air on time. https://www.thelocal.ch/20160708/angry-viewer-threatens-to-bomb-swiss-tv-station Fri, 08 Jul 2016 12:26:18 +0200 angry-viewer-threatens-to-bomb-swiss-tv-station Average Swiss residents are glued to their TV sets for more than 14 hours a week but those living in French- and Italian-speaking cantons watch even more, a new survey shows. https://www.thelocal.ch/20150709/swiss-residents Thu, 09 Jul 2015 23:13:33 +0200 swiss-residents Swiss model and French reality TV star Nabilla Benattia left a women’s prison in Versailles, France on Thursday on conditional release while facing charges of attempted murder after stabbing her boyfriend. https://www.thelocal.ch/20141218/suspected-stabber-nabilla-released-from-prison Thu, 18 Dec 2014 22:31:00 +0100 suspected-stabber-nabilla-released-from-prison Swiss model and French reality TV personality Nabilla Benattia remains in jail after a judge charged her for the "attempted voluntary homicide" of her boyfriend, who was found stabbed in the chest at a hotel in Boulogne-Billancourt near Paris on Friday. https://www.thelocal.ch/20141109/judge-orders-nabilla-held-for-attempted-murder Sun, 09 Nov 2014 23:28:00 +0100 judge-orders-nabilla-held-for-attempted-murder Swiss model and former French reality TV star Nabilla Benattia was held for questioning in Paris after she was suspected of stabbing her boyfriend several times with a knife early on Friday. https://www.thelocal.ch/20141107/nabilla-arrested-for-allegedly-stabbing-boyfriend Fri, 07 Nov 2014 10:57:00 +0100 nabilla-arrested-for-allegedly-stabbing-boyfriend Nabilla Benattia, the Swiss television personality and freelance model in France, is set to get her own TV reality show, inspired by her American idol, Kim Kardashian, a French magazine is reporting. https://www.thelocal.ch/20130701/swiss-bimbo-to-get-french-reality-tv-show Mon, 01 Jul 2013 14:06:00 +0200 swiss-bimbo-to-get-french-reality-tv-show Nabilla Benattia may not yet be considered “interesting” enough to be listed on Wikipedia but her latest role in an international fraud case may earn her a place in legal history. https://www.thelocal.ch/20130502/reality-tv-star-helps-to-topple-fraud-network Thu, 02 May 2013 23:00:00 +0200 reality-tv-star-helps-to-topple-fraud-network Tennis star Roger Federer was named Swiss male athlete of the year at the 2012 Credit Suisse Sports Awards on Sunday in Zurich. https://www.thelocal.ch/20121217/federer-and-spirig-named-top-swiss-athletes Mon, 17 Dec 2012 13:15:00 +0100 federer-and-spirig-named-top-swiss-athletes Switzerland’s national TV network, SF, received an earful of complaints after the broadcaster pulled the plug on coverage of the closing ceremonies of the London 2012 Olympic Games before the event ended. https://www.thelocal.ch/20120813/swiss-tv-pulls-plug-on-closing-olympic-ceremonies Mon, 13 Aug 2012 12:35:00 +0200 swiss-tv-pulls-plug-on-closing-olympic-ceremonies