History of origins

The broadcasting corporation South Tyrol was created in the year 1975 as public broadcasting service of the country South Tyrol and has as such a non-profit order to fulfil. First task is it to spread within South Tyrol the radio and television programs from german- and also the ladin culture area. The public broadcasting corporations of Austria, Germany and Switzerland make their programs available free of charge. The television programs ORF1, ORF2 and ZDF are radiated country-wide, in the western national half and in the ladin valleys you can find SF1 and in the rest of the country ARD. The ORF radio broadcasting programs OE1, OE2, and OE3 are transmitted country-wide, Radio Rumantsch of the SRG in the ladin valleys and spreads in the Obervinschgau. Already in digital technology (DAB = digital audio Broadcasting) the radio broadcasting programs of the Bavarian broadcast B1, B2, B3, B4 and B5, the radio programs of ORF OE1, OE2, OE3 and FM4 and the radio programs of SRG Radio Rumantsch and SwissJazz are radiated likewise country-wide.

The future places RAS in front of further technical challenges. In addition transferred belonged in particular from the similar to the digital transmission technology - which digital television DVB and digital sound broadcasting DAB will find increasingly spreading during the next years. Besides it is an interest of the country to advance the development by common transmitting stations which of RAS, RAI, private broadcast, national radio services and mobile operators could be useful; this is to work against the uncontrolled growth of transmitting stations.

An important basis of the activity of RAS was and is a constant corporation with the public broadcasting corporations ORF, ZDF, SRG and ARD, as well as the RAI and the communication Ministry, in addition, a constructional dialogue with the private program organisers.