TeleBielingue is a Swiss private television channel transmitted in the Biel/Bienne

Biel/Bienne

Biel/Bienne is a city in the district of the Biel/Bienne administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.It is located on the language boundary and is throughout bilingual. Biel is the German name for the town, Bienne its French counterpart. The town is often referred to in both...

 area. It transmits alternately in German and French language. The name is a portmanteau of Biel, the German name of the city, and bilingue, meaning bilingual in French. The channels claims to have 210,000 potential listeners, making it an important part of the local media market

Media market

A media market, broadcast market, media region, designated market area , Television Market Area , or simply market is a region where the population can receive the same television and radio station offerings, and may also include other types of media including newspapers and Internet content...

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Histoiry

TeleBielingue began broadcasts on 15 March 1999, over a year and half after receiving the broadcast licence from the Swiss OFCOM

Ofcom

Ofcom is the government-approved regulatory authority for the broadcasting and telecommunications industries in the United Kingdom. Ofcom was initially established by the Office of Communications Act 2002. It received its full authority from the Communications Act 2003...

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The channel was created as a partnership among some of the most important media groups in the region: Radio Canal 3, Bureau Cortesi and the publisher of the two most important newspapers in the region, both in French and German (Le Journal du Jura and Bieler Tagblatt

Bieler Tagblatt

Bieler Tagblatt is a daily newspaper published in Biel/Bienne, Switzerland by Gassmann AG. With a distribution of 28,745, its estimated readership is 67,000 ....

respectively): W. Gassmann SA.

Today, Radio Canal 3 is no longer a shareholder.